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^^DROUGHTS. STARVATION. CIVIL WAR.
^^THE CRYING GODS. AND EARTH QUAKES RISE.
^^TSUNAMIS COME. TO CLEAN THE SHORE.
^^TO CLEAN ALL THAT UNHOLY PARADIZE.
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^^VASSALS REVOLT. AND CRIME AND BRAND.
^^THE BLEEDING GODS. MARAUDERS TAKE YOUR LIFE.
^^FIRE COMES. TO CLEAN THE LAND.
^^THE TEMPLES BURN. A BRAVE NEW WORLD.
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^^TO DIE OR TO SURVIVE.
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A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE HEARTLAND.SCN:
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The Free Peoples plus six playable Empires are:
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Great King Galibli of the Free Peoples
Great King Agamemnon of the Achaeans
Great King Salmanassar of the Assyrians
Great King Saustatar of the Mitanni
Great King Tarhuntaradu of the Arzawa
Pharao Ramesses of the Egyptians
Great King Hattusili of the Hittites
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That were hard Times surely, 1200 BC. As my sweet little Poem told.
The Hittites, in my Opinion, were a Continental Empire, enough Work
and War for them to control their Continental Vassals, and not enough
Harbours and Ships to consolidate Shortages of Foods and Trades.
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Droughts. Starvation. Then Civil Wars. Then Earthquakes destroying
Troy, Crete, Greek Towns, Anatolian Towns. Then the Sea Peoples.
Then the revolting Vassals and War after War. No Wonder, that the
more... static and inflexible Empires came to their Death.
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The Temples burned, the Elites massacred, the Gods bleeding.
And the Hittites in the Middle of a dry Anatolian Continental Empire.
The Scenario begins 1600 BC, a Turn a Year, to expand til these most
interesting "End-Times". The Scenario provides six playable Empires.
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All of them need great Care and Love, to survive, and to march on.
And the Hittites, damned difficult to play, damned difficult to survive.
Created so-called Heartlands, and their Minor Provinces to conquer and
to have Fun, to pack all these Wars into these Times of Curse and Death.
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And now. Have Fun.
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