Eventually, most shots of the Arabian peninsula were of the strange territory of Batticaloa, a Sri Lankan-founded city that turned surprisingly Finnish (and remained so against all odds for most of history). Instead, Arabia warred with the Ayyubids and Israel, neither to much effect. Their first foray into global relevance was losing Baghdad to Persia, a loss that most people predicted would eventually be reversed - and never was. “Some civs seem really boring until you look into them in more detail, and can chart their journey more thoroughly. Perhaps in a distant mark, we can see the other Afghanistan take a shot at it, and maybe we can get the Afghani domination that we had all been seeking. Even later on, Afghanistan was still a large enough power to contend with its rivals, like Persia.Ī secret fan favourite, Afghanistan will live on in our hearts as a civilization that could have done so much more, but did too little for it to matter. They grew beyond their means, reaching every mountainous region of Asia and becoming one of the largest civilizations in the early game.
Regardless, we cannot help but be impressed by this civilization. Although Afghanistan held in Kabul with two other cities protecting it from a meatgrinder of different civs, it was not until the Sibirian Hordes and the Vietnamese descended on what was originally a top 10 civilization that the Graveyard of Empires became its own Graveyard. 1 was so phenomenal, that is just what it was. The impressive showing of Mirwais Hotak in Mk. “The Zamburaks of Afghanistan were sadly not enough in Mk. Written by the CBR community under incredibly tight time restraints, the final eulogies. Now now, instead of talking about how Brazil defied the odds and challenged a God and won, we need to talk about those who fought valiantly for their cause and failed their quest. Each and every citizen of Brazil was sacrificed for the greater good. And like a sword, his units swayed by the unwavering influence of their leader, marched onwards to their death. There were so many units wasting away in pointless wars, while Pedro just sat and waited until his army choked the life out of his neighbors, and executed his decree that all cities are Brazilian territory. And now that the world is on fire and no one is left, they have the audacity to ask for mercy? Memes aside, it was this reason the game was over. While Sibir and Vietnam wasted the turns away in the mountains in pursuit of a large empire, you cultivated units. While the Boers and Vietnam were fighting each other, you amassed more soldiers. As Buccaneers partied on their flotilla of carriers, you amassed soldiers. The reason, as demonstrated by /u/edse1991, was your desire to build units over all.
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