Dogue de Bordeaux

Epoch IV

Empire Selection

Epoch IV

GEGS:  Plays Empire Revives.  Armies Ganges Delta, Ganges Valley, East Indies.  Plays Disaster (Volcano) in Persian Plateau.  Monument eliminated.  GUPTAS:  Army and Capital Eastern Deccan (Maurya army retreats to Eastern Ghats), fleet Bay of Bengal, army Western Deccan (vs. Maurya; G: 4, 1; M: 2, wins), Lower Indus (vs. Sassanids; G: 3, 2; S: 5; loses), Lower Indus (vs. Sassanids; G: 6, 1; S: 4; wins), Persian Salt Desert (vs. Sassanids; G:  1, 1; S: 4, 2; loses), Persian Salt Desert (vs. Sassanids; G: 4, 2; S: 4, 1; G: 5, 1; S: 5, 4; G: 6, 4; S: 2, 1; wins), Zagros (vs. Sassanids; G: 6, 2; S: 1; wins, Capital reduced to city).  Builds Monument Eastern Deccan.  Points:  Dominance in Middle East (6), India (6), Southeast Asia (4), Presence in Southern Europe (3), 3 Capitals (6), 3 cities (3), 2 Seas (2), and 4 Monuments (4) for 34 points.

Republic of Texas:  Plays the Anglo-Saxons.  Army Baltic Seaboard (Celt army retreats to Central Europe), army North European Plain, fleet North Sea.  Plays Empires Revive.  Army Nile Delta, Southern Iberia, Upper Indus, Tarim Basin.  GOTHS:  Army Danubia, Dalmatia (vs. Celts; G: 3, 1; C: 5, 4; loses), Dalmatia (vs. Celts; G: 5, 1; C: 5, 3; G: 5, 3; C: 4, 3; wins), Dniepr, Central Europe (vs. Celts; G: 6, 5; C: 4; G: 3, 2; C: 3; G: 3, 2; C: 2; wins), Lower Rhien, Albion, Highlands, Ireland, Balkans (vs. Greek City States; Go: 5, 1; Gr: 5, 2; Go: 5, 5; Gr: 3, 2; wins, fleet Black Sea unsupported).  Builds Monument Central Europe.  Points:  Dominance in North Africa (4), Northern Europe (4), Presence in Middle East (3), China (3), India (3), Southern Europe (3), 1 Capital (2), 3 Seas (3), and 4 Monuments (4) for 29 points.

HUNS are absent.

Unorganized Chaos:  BYZANTINES:  Army and Capital Balkans (Goth army retreats to Danubia), army Dalmatia (vs. Goths; plays Treachery, automatic victory), Northern Appenines (vs. Celts; B: 4, 1; C: 4; B: 6, 6; C: 5; wins), Southern Appenines (vs. Celts; B: 2, 2; C: 4; loses), Southern Appenines (vs. Celts; B: 5, 4; C: 4; wins), fleet Black Sea, army Danubia (vs. Goths; B: 6, 4; G: 4; B: 5, 2; G: 2; wins), Western Anatolia (vs. Babylonia; By: 6, 5; Ba: 5; wins), Levant (vs. Phoenicia; B: 6, 3; P: 6, 1; B: 6, 3; P: 4, 3; wins, Capital reduced to city), Upper Tigris (vs. Babylonia; By: 6, 3; Ba: 4; wins), Middle Tigris (vs. Babylonia; By: 6, 5; Ba: 2; wins, Capital reduced to city), Zagros (vs. Guptas; B: 5, 1; G: 5, 3; B: 3, 3; G: 2, 1; wins, city eliminated), plays Engineering, fort Balkans, Dalmatia.  Builds Monument Balkans.  Points:  Dominance in Middle East (6), China (6), Southern Europe (6), Presence in India (3), Northern Europe (2), 2 Capitals (4), 2 cities (2), 2 Seas (2), and 2 Monuments (2) for 33 points.

The Greenies:  Plays Empires Fortifiy.  Fort Crete, Ceylon, Sumatra.  Plays Empire Fortifies.  Forts in Ceylon and Sumatra upgraded to Fortresses.  T'ANG DYNASTY:  Army and Capital Yangtse Kian (Hsuing-nu army retreats to Chekiang), army Chekiang (vs. Hsuing-nu; T: 4, 2; H: 6, 5; loses), Chekiang (vs. Hsiung-nu; T: 6, 1; H: 6, 3; T: 2, 2; H: 3, 1; loses), Chekiang (vs. Hsuing-nu; T: 3, 1; H: 6, 3; loses), Chekiang (vs. Hsuing-nu; T: 4, 2; H: 4, 3; T: 3, 2; H: 3, 1; T: 4, 2; H: 4, 4; T: 4, 2; H: 6, 4; loses), Chekiang (vs. Hsuing-nu; T: 5, 1; H: 5, 5; T: 6, 2; H: 4, 1; T: 5, 3; H: 5, 2; T: 5, 3; H: 6, 5; loses), Chekiang (vs. Hsuing-nu; T: 4, 2; H: 4, 1; T: 4, 2; H: 6, 1; loses), Chekiang (vs. Hsuing-nu; T: 6, 2; H: 6, 3; T: 5, 3; H: 6, 5; loses), Chekiang (vs. Hsuing-nu; T: 6, 6; H: 5, 4; wins), Wei River (vs . Persia; T: 5, 1; P: 6; loses), Wei River (vs. Persia; T:  4, 2; P: 3 wins).  Points:  Presence in China (3), India (3), Southern Europe (3), 1 Capital (2), and 1 city (1) for 12 points.

Royal Manticoran Historical Society:  Plays Kingdom in the Malayan Peninsula.  Army, city, and fort Malayan Peninsula.  Han Dynasty army retreats to Mekong.  ARABS:  Plays Leader.  Army and Capital Arabian Peninsula (Carthaginian army retreats to Nile Delta), fleet Red Sea (vs. Republic of Texas; RMHS:  6, 5, 4; RoT: 5; wins), army Upper Nile, Nubia (vs. Egypt; A: 5, 5, 2; E: 4; wins), Palestine (vs. Jews; automatic victory), Levant (vs. Byzantines; A: 5, 4, 4; B: 1; wins, city eliminated), Eastern Anatolia (vs. Sassanids; A: 6, 5, 5; S: 3, 1; wins), Zagros (vs. Byzantines; A: 6, 4, 1; B: 2; wins), Persian Salt Desert (vs. Guptas; A: 6, 5, 2; G: 6; A: 5, 4, 3; G: 2; wins), Lower Indus (vs. Guptas; A; 6, 3, 2; G: 6; A: 6, 4, 1; G: 1; wins), Upper Indus (vs. Sassanids; A: 4, 3, 2; S: 1; A: 5, 2, 1; S: 1; wins), Ganges Valley (vs. Han Dynasty; A: 6, 5, 1; H: 3; A: 3, 1, 1; H: 6; loses), Ganges Valley (vs. Han Dynasty; A: 3, 2, 1; H: 3; A: 4, 3, 2; H: 1; wins), Eastern Deccan (vs. Guptas; A: 5, 4, 1; G: 5, 5; A: 6, 4, 1; G: 6, 6; A: 6, 4, 1; G: 5, 4; wins, Capital reduced to city), Ganges Delta (vs. Han Dynasty; A: 2, 1, 1; H: 5; loses), Ganges Delta (vs. Han Dynasty; A: 4, 1, 1; H: 6; loses), Ganges Delta (vs. Han Dynasty; A: 6, 3, 2; H: 4; A: 6, 4, 3; H: 1; wins, city eliminated, fleet Bay of Bengal unsupported), Nile Delta (vs. Carthaginia; A: 6, 3, 2; C: 6; A: 5, 3, 3; C: 2; A: 5, 3, 2; C: 1; A: 6, 4, 2; C: 6; A: 5, 5, 4; C: 1; wins).  Builds Monuments Arabian Peninsula and Nubia.  Points:  Dominance in North Africa (4), Middle East (6), India (6), Presence in Southern Europe (3), Northern Europe (2), Southeast Asia (2), 1 Capital (2), 2 cities (2), 1 Sea (1), and 8 Monuments (8) for 36 points.

KHMERS are absent.

Players

GEGS is Glorious Empirical Growth Spurt.

Positions

SUMERIANS:  Three armies and Capital Lower Tirgirs.

Republic of Texas:  Fleets Western Mediterranean, North Sea.  CARTHAGINIA:  Army and Capital Shatts Plateau, two armies Southern Iberia, armies Pyrenees, Central Massif, Libya.  NORTH AMERICAN MIGRANTS:  Armies West Indies, Pacific Seaboard.  SASSANIDS:  Two armies and Monuemnt Tarim Basin, armies Persian Plateau, Turanian Plain.  ANGLO-SAXONS:  Armies Baltic Seaboard, North European Plain.  GOTHS:  Army and Monument Central Europe, armies Dniepr, Lower Rhein, Albion, Highlands, Ireland.

Unorganized Chaos:  Fleets Eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea.  PERSIA:  Armies Hindu Kush, Szechuan, Pindus.  MAYANS:  Army, Capital, and fort Central America.  HSUING-NU:  Armies Great Plain of China, Mongolia, Yellow River, Si-Kyang.  BYZANTINES:  Army, Capital, Monument, and fort Balkans, army and city Middle Tigris, army and fort Dalmatia, armies Danubia, Northern Appenines, Southern Appenines, Western Anatolia, Upper Tigris.

Royal Manticoran Historical Society:  Fleet Red Sea.  CELTS:  Armies Scandinavia, Central Massif, Pyrenees.  MALAYAN KINGDOM:  Army, city, and fort Malayan Peninsula.  ARABS:  Army, Capital, and Monuemnt Arabian Peninsula, army, city, and monument Eastern Deccan, army and Monument Nubia, Eastern Anatolia, Zagros, Lower Indus, Upper Indus, Ganges Delta, armies Upper Nile, Nile Delta, Palestine, Levant, Persian Salt Desert, Ganges Valley.

GEGS:  Fleet South China Sea.  PHOENICIA:  Army and city Morea.  HAN DYNASTY:  Two armies East Indies, Mekong.  GUPTAS:  Army Western Deccan.

The Greenies:  GREEK CITY STATES:  Army, city, and Fort Crete.  MAURYA:  Two armies Eastern Ghats, army and Fortress Ceylon, Sumatra, army Irrawaddy.