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History of the Suleyman Turks...
This is the story of the Suleyman Turks, the game is being played with all 16 civs on a huge archepelago map.
Rise of the Suleyman Turks
In myth, around 4000 BC the first of the Great Sultans, Suleyman the Magnificent, led the smallest of the Turkish Tribes out of the North Tundra to plains underneath the Great Mountain Dao. Twice along the way the Great Suleyman saved his tribe, first by defeating a Seldjuk Turk Chieftan in battle, and second by leading the great hunt of Deer, when his people were on the verge of starvation.
In 3950 BC if the legends are true, the Great City of Ilkinstanbul was found along the river that bears its name. With tribes to the north a constant worry three military forces were established by the Great Sultan. One to defend the new city, a second to explore the plains to the south and the third to bring peace to the lands north of Ilkinstanbul.
The Turkish force headed south travelled through a wide plain which was crisscrossed by rivers and dotted with forests. Several small tribes were met and knowledge exchanged. The Great Sultan Suleyman the Terribly Good decided that Turkish cities should be found to secure the south for generations to come. So settlers were sent out to follow the path of the southern expedition.
New came back from the north that Turkish force had met destruction just south of the Great Northern Tundra. The force of warriors met their destruction at the hands of Parthians as their warriors ambushed the Turks at night. The Great Sultan grew angry when he heard the news and sent two groups of warriors north to deal with the Parthians.
In the south two new cities were discovered, Ordu and Nikea. Ordu was directly south of the Turkish Capital in the fertile lands of the Southern Plains. Nikea on the other hand was built a little farther south and to the east of Ordu on the South Sea. At Ordu a military barracks was built to protect from Empire from excursions of the barbarians in the south.
Settlers were also sent out to the North to help consolidate the gains against the Parthians by the second northern expedition. The cities of Konya and Adana were found and roads quickly built to connect them to the Capital.
When Turkish wisemen found the miracle metal of Iron in the time of Suleyman the Doubley Wonderful, the Great Sultan understood its importance. It was three times as strong as bronze and that finding and securing a souce of the metal would be vital to his Empire. Luckily in the South a source was discovered, and at the same time the southern expedition uncovered a tribe of Hittites whom wanted to join the Turkish Empire. So the Great Sultan granted them citizenship if they would promise to settle in the hills south of Ordu and mine iron for his people. The Hittites agreed and the city of Demir was found.
The Japanese
It came to the ears of Great Sultan Suleyman the Stunning, that a great civilivation called Japonya was located south of the city of Demir. Eager to find Japonya, Suleyman the Stunning issued scouts to search for their cities. As the scouts travelled farther south, the tales they heard of the brutality of the Japonaly filled their hearts with terror. These tales were reported to the Great Sultan, whom in fear sent troops south to protected Demir and establish a defensive frontier against the Japonaly.
When the two civilizations met, they peacefully traded knowledge and goods. Despite peaceful nature of the Japanese at these first meetings, the Great Sultan had his worries and ordered his generals to move his troops to the hills just north of Japonya. His emissaries told the Japonaly that all the land north of the hills was Turkish lands and that any attempts to settle these lands would be met with force. The Japonaly leader Tokugawa laughed.
At first the Japonaly settled in other spots, but they were land hungry and they sent there settlers into the lands claimed by the Suleyman Turks. When the Japonaly settled at Edo just south of the Turkish demarcation line, the Great Sultan had no choice, but to send his forces south to teach the Japonaly a lesson.
The First Japo-Turkish War
When a second group of settlers tried to slip past the Turkish troops in the hills just north of Edo, war was declared against the Japonaly. Six thousand warriors and archers attacked the city of Edo and the Japonaly settlers. The attacks on Edo were repulsed, but the settlers were captured and sent back to Ilkinstanbul to work the fertile soil for the Suleyman Turks.
The Japonaly warriors mounted a counter attack against the forces around Edo, but in open battle the Turks under General Ottoturk the Brave easily handled the Japonaly armies, twice defeating them in battle. But the seige of Edo wasn't as successful. The Turkish warriors and arches threw themselves at the Japonaly spearmen, only be to be turned away again and again.
The war seemed to be a stalemate. The Turkish armies managed to contain the Japonaly, but after several years of fighting this was no longer the Great Sultan's intent. He wanted to conquer parts of Japonay and weaken the Japonaly to the point they would no longer threaten the Suleyman Empire. It looked like the war would go on without a victory until the Great Sultan Suleyman the Stunningly Wonderful created the Janissaries.
The Janissaries
The Great Sultan Suleyman the Stunningly Wonderful created a new fighting force from newly conquered barbarians from the north. He took away their children and trained them in the arts of fighting with Iron, military tactics and athletics. The new units were as strong as spearmen in defence and four times stronger than warriors in attack.
The Janissaries were trained in two different places, Ilkinstanbul and Ordu and soon units were heading south to face the Japonaly.
The Japonaly asked the Great Sultan to grant them peace at terms that were humiliating to the Turks and the Great Sultan refused to grant the Japonaly peace, instead he told the Japonaly to get ready to taste Janissary Iron. The Japonaly leader did not know what Iron was so he laughed at the Great Sultan's emissaries and called the Great Sultan a lunatic. Weeks later he was no longer laughing as one calamity after another befell his forces. First Edo was destroyed, then Tokyo captured, followed by the destruction of Saitama, and finally the horns and drums of the Janissary were playing their music of conquest in front of the walls of Kyoto.
It is said that the Japonaly leader pissed his pants at the fearsome sight of the Turkish army in front of his capital, it is not known if this is true or not, but it is known two days later when the Janissary stormed Kyoto, Tokugawa had cowardly fleed to Satsuma. Tokugawa sued for peace, but the terms the Great Sultan was asking harsh and the Japonaly leader baulked at them. Suleyman the Gracefully Wonderful issued the Janissary to destroy the newly re-established city of Edo to show the Japonaly that destruction was the alternative. Tokugawa was far from stupid and he quickly agreed to the terms of all his gold and all the knowledge that the Turks did not possess.
Coming soon the Second Japo-Turkish War, the expansion to the former Japonaly lands and meeting the Chinese.
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