Once More Unto the Breach!

[Lycurgus]

Playing the English against Russians, Persians, Americans, French, Germans, Romans and Greeks. Large Map. Three continents, large western continent contained Myself, French, Russians and Germans, smaller eastern continent had the rest.

In the year our Lord 1010 A.D. Queen Elisebeth called together her noble advisors to discuss a matter of the utmost concern to her realm. Once the advisors were assemble din her privy chamber she informed them that spies had spotted a huge horde of Russian troops moving through the massive forests to the north of York. The ministers were shocked, surely the Russians, long time friends of the English, weren't mounting an attack.
After showing the ministers the reports it was decided that the nation must be prepared for war. The Queen hurriedly sent out orders demanding every city in the realm to train more soldiers as quickly as they could.
The order was too late to save York, after a heavy siege the city feel, but not without claiming the lives of many Russian archers and swordsmen. The citizens of York paid dearly for their desire as the Russian troops sacked the city before installing a new Governor to enforce Russian rule.
All across England people grew scared as tales reached them of Russian atrocities, attacking undefended English colonies and ripping up roads and fields. The northern cities in the path of the advancing Russians began to panic.
The Queen desperately sent out emissaries to her nieghbours in France and Germany, as news reached her that another town had been taken by the Russians. This time it was Coventry.
The Germans sent out their emissary to meet with the english Queen in London. He promised that germany would proudly send troops into battle against the Russians. The Russians were at that very moment crossing into the Fatherland too. The Queen relieved issued a declaration informing her subjects of the news. Jubilation was evident on the streets and the people of London rejoiced at the news that their German brothers would fight alongside them, for it was widely known that Germany had one of the finest military forces in the world.
France also sent an emissary, but in according witht he pacifistic nature of French society they refused to commit their troops to the battle. Instead they willing shared their territory with the brave English forces, allowing the Queen's loyal troops to pass safely through France towards the front lines.

More coming ...

[Lycurgus]

The war dragged on for many years with both sides taking mass casualties. The German forces, however, proved decisive in assuring that no more English cities fell to the advancing hordes of Russians.
The English were soon sick of the constant warfare which greeted them every day and thoughts were running high at ending the war. However the Rusiians refused and new Russian units of Cossacks charged onto the battlefield. The English forces, somewhat primitive in technological terms to the Russians bravely put up resistance but it wa sno use. Not even the valiant english knights, sacraficing themselve sin droves could do much against the fierce Russian warriors. Germany too ha dbeen bled dry by the centurie slong war and eventually made peace with the Russians.
England now stood alone!
With the death of so many noble knights England was without most of her ruling calsses, revolution was inevitable. The peasants, sick of being use din the war rose up against the Queen and after mass riots in London the Queen was deposed. She was paraded through the streets of London before having her head cut from her body in front of a baying crowd.
Now a council of merchants formed the government. They issued a decree proclaiming a republic! All across England people cheered at the thought the new government might end the war.
The Republicans swiftly proposed a peace settlement with the Russians and only after empying the English treasury would the Russians agree to stop their advance.
So England managed to live in peace for many years, greatly prospering and advancing in technology. But the Russians were greedy, they constantly issued demands over the centuries, calling for money, technology and even cities they claimed were in Imperial Russian territory.
Finally as the English Republic entered the twentieth century, they made contact with a new nation many leagues across the Great Eastern Ocean, calling themselves Romans.
The Russians also knew of the Romans at this time and as the Romans were hostile towards Russia, they did not want England gaining a new ally.
The Russians decided to attack immediately! Waves of infantry and tanks rolled across the hills deviding Russia from England. The English army though comparable in technological terms with the Russians, was no match in terms of numbers. The fighting was swift and bloody and soon the Republic was on it's knees.
Advance elements of the Russian army were battle the brave defenders of Cambridge, just 50 miles from london itself. Overhead Russian bombers swept the skies clear of English fighters.
Cambridge came under heavy bombardment night after night. The populace was subjected to constant fear and terror as the Russian bombers swept through the skies and pounded their homes. Russian tanks pounded the outskirts of the city, smashing their way through buildings and people.
Finally the Russians entered the city itself, the fighting was fierce indeed. The city officials broke open the armoury and issued any able bodies citizen with a rifle, huge numbers of men and women were immediately conscripted into the army. After three wekes of relentless street battles the Russians succeeded in pushing the last few remaing defenders into the fields and villages surrounding Cambridge.
The Russian General Zhukov had the local English commander brought before him. Swaggerring like a great Russian bear he informed the commander that unless England immediately surrendered then every last person in london would be crushed beneath the wheels of his tanks. The terrorised commander fled back to London to tell the government of Zhukov's demands.
The commander found the government missing from London. Cambrdige, being cut off from the rest of England by the Russians for so long had not realised the Republic had been overthrown. The commander was introduced to Comrade Churchill, the new Chairman of the English Communist Party!
Churchill declared to the citizens of London and too all of England that there would be no surrender. H ecalled upon all Englishmen to rise and join the army for one last stand at London. He declared that at london the final battle would be waged and that the victor of this long struggle would finally emerge.
As the people of London switche doff their radios after listening to the speech, they heard the screech of the air raid siren warning of imminent danger from the hordes of Russian bombers at that very moment descending upon London...

[Infanteer]

Ouch....

[jdd2007]

i think the "we will fight on the beaches..." speech will come to be literal...

[Lycurgus]

The stalwart defenders of London held on for months against the furious onslought unleashed by the Russians. Night after night Russian bombers would pound the city, destroying everyhting in their path. The few lone fighter squadrons the English managed to muster were quickly swept from the sky.
Finally after months of bombardment the English were on the verge of collapse. In his underground war room, Comrade Churchill paced the floor, anciouslly looking at his commanders, praying for a miracle. Suddenly the door burst open and a young lieutenent stood in the doorway holding in his hand a piece of paper. Churchill immediately grabbed it. A smile soon spread across the war leader's face, the telegram was quickly passed around the room. In turn each of the assembled commanders and generals took turn sto read it's message, and each in turn broke out smiling.

As the Russian tanks charged across the flat plain on the outskirts of the city they ha dlittle reason to fear anything was wrong. Indeed only nights before they had heard that the English were so deperate that they had armed their citizens in london. Wholesale panic wa sin progress with many in the city attempting to flee.
As the Russian troops and tanks marched forwards they were greeted with a salvo of artillery fire, shells pounding the landscpae around them but inflicting few casulaties. Finally they reached the city itself. The fighting was long and hard, with thousands dying on each side. The Russians didn't seem to care, they had almost unlimited reserves of manpower.
The fighting dragged on until the new year by which time the brave defenders had been pushed back to the old city walls. The morning of January 6th was like any other, at least for a while. As noon approached the Russian radios began to buzz withy activity. The Russian High Command was desperately informing them that a massive Roman armada had been tracked entering English waters. The Russian commanders at London knew this could mena only one thing, the Romans ha formed an alliance with the English and were coming to aid their allies!
Churchill was barking out orders over the telephone, he was instructing his top commander, Field Marshall Montgomery to bring his newly formed 8th army to London and catch the Russian in a pincer movement with the Roman forces about to arrive.
The Russians intensified their efforts over the next few days, but still they could not take the city. Finally they could se eon the horizon a mighty Roman army approaching. As the dispatched a force to defend against the Romans, a forward unti spotted an English force marching from the other side.
It took only three days of fighting to pulverise the Russian army. The English were merciless, many Russian troops had their throats slit in examples to the assembled crowds of the dangers of capitalism. Churchill proclaimed a communist victory, the red rose of England flew high that day.

[jdd2007]

YAY!!!!

nice story

alternate ending-the romans and russians ally and beat the crap outta you.

[Lycurgus]

The story ain't quite finished yet, even though the AI mysteriously pulled back it's forces from my cities, despite the fact theys till had a large army facing me, they weren't finished yet.
Those Rusky are tenacious fighters. A couple of years later I came under this MASSIVE attack, and I mean MASSIVE!!! The Russians through everything they had at me, but thankfully I managed to hold London again. The Romans were very helpful, they battered the Russians like nothing else, their navy was a lot more powerful than the Russian fleet, so the Russians found themselves taking all sorts of crap.
It was like another thirty years before I managed to actually drive the Russians inside their borders and attack their cities. They are soooooo stubborn, they wouldn't give up at all. I kept trying to make peace with them, but they must have been fascists or something coz they sure didn't like me for that Communism heh heh!
I got really bothered with the war and eventually I just started destroying their cities completely. That taught them.