Chapter 1 - Ages of Empires

Ages of EmpiresAges of Empires
 
Raging battles engageagain and again,
Unceasingand undaunted by the march of time.
What started withsimple movements of infantry
Haserupted into all out war.
Castles hastened todefend their land
Fall before they’refinished, their defenders
Slaughtereden masse.
Before a blockingforce can come,
The enemy takes holdof the grounds.
Cavalry charge in,hooves thund’ring down the line,
Hopingto stem the tide of the rising foe.
Militia comes at theenemy from behind, trying their patience,
As the kingdom’s weakdefense forms a front-line.
 
Infantry falls intoline, rank-and-file,
The guns ofconquistadores to their north,
Hoping to keep thepeople safe
Andtheir land their own.
Upon the field, inpurple and white,
The enemy’s paladinsadvance.
To the south of them,their cannons and guns
Readyto break the futile defense.
The first assault,the cavalry charge,
So noble and hopeful,
Having fought hard tothe last man,
Lay strewn across thefield.
 
If we were to talk innumbers,
And so we shall fornow,
The defenders tallyover 80 lost,
Theattackers at least 60.
However, none of thatmatters right now,
Nobody spares athought.
Personal survival isall that is thought,
And all that countsright now.
As the industries ofthe kingdom, behind their fortified walls,
Continues on asplanned,
The army falls intheir readiness.
 
The attackers chargetheir cavalry straight into a blaze of guns.
The conquistadoresdefend bravely, but they are closed and beaten back.
The skirmishersdefending the South move up West and North
But get few shots in.
Their lives cut downlike all the rest,
Destroyedby the crash of cannonade.
More militia pullsforward, from all corners of the land.
Their one goal, tokeep the keep out of their
Enemy’sforceful grasp.
Like a tumbling,growing, ever rising
Wave from the sea,
Hundreds of people,
Most armed withnothing,
Come to the defenseof their land.
 
Once again numbers
Appear upon thefield.
Where once a proudarmed force stood,
Laysnow a ruin of pain.
On the defense, now,there fell at least
300 souls dispelled.
However, there was ashortcoming
In the enemy’sassault;
The heavy cavalrylost in the second bout.
This leaves theadversary,
Who began with 400+,
Only a few divisionsof gunmen, and a handful
Of falt’ring knights.
 
The battle thatfollows has been lost
To the centuries, itsfighters fallen in time.
However, my friend, Ican tell you this,
It ended in a draw.
After the defense ofthe fortress had failed,
The inhabitants andcitizens all slaughtered like lambs,
The triumphant army,only 27 soldiers strong,
Paradedinto the plaza.
But from the rooftopsand towers that were not felled,
A barrage of arrowsfell
Uponthe men.
 
Again with thenumbers,
(The last time, Iswear!)
It all broke evenwith zero.
With the soldiers inthe towers forever stuck within,
And no citizens tore-build,
The defense wasdefeated.
 
But the offense hadconscripted every citizen,
Those who refusedwere killed.
Their population alsoat zero, their resources all exhausted,
There was no comingback!
 
It was now that wecalled a truce.
For it was time forme to leave.
So we saved the game,for
Posterity’s sake,
And I returned to myden.
 
Now…I am all the wiser,
With my knowledgeexpanded.
I know I CAN beat myfriend at Age of Empires,
And that, next time,I’ll be ready…

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