Silence had fallen over the field. The artillery had ceased firing, leaving an eery silence to descend over the battlefield. Other artillery could be heard firing in the distance, on other fronts. All about the trench, men dressed in drab khaki of the Peoples Army of Mongolia were putting on gas masks and checking their equipment. Then the order came to fix bayonets. With trembling hands the men complied, fixing the long thin pieces of metal to the ends of their assault rifles. They all knew what came next. They were ordered to take a pace forward. Then the whistles blew all along the line. Men climbed over ladders out into the blasted hellscape between their trenches and those of their enemies. Many were gunned down before they even took a step off the ladder and fell back into the mass of their comrades waiting their turn to climb the ladder. Still they came on, still the enemy guns roared. They charged towards the enemy lines and were mown down like targets on a firing range. Those of the wounded who could dragged themselves back tp their trenches. Those who couldn't were quickly silenced by enemy gunfire or their own artillery which began rake across the battlefield once more. And then silence fell again.
So, I was in history class when, as my teacher was talking about the Russian revolution, I remembered a civ game I played and believe I have somewhere amongst the vast mess of saved games. It's so far one of the longest(and bloodiest) civ IV revolution games I have ever played, so I thought that it might make an amusing AAR for you guys.
Right, now that the intro is out of the way I can get on with describing what the world is like. At the moment, the year is 2294 on Earth and my civ, Mongolia, has been locked in a war with the Aztecs and the Greeks for the past 3-400 years(I've lost count) and recently the demands on my military have increased as the Americans and Russians both joined the war against me in the past 100 years. As the Mongols, I'm a Communist state and have by far the largest population in the world(nearly 1 billion people). However, the war has so far proved to be a deadlock, with my armour, artillery and massive amounts of infantry being unable to make any headway against my enemies and vice versa(and even when I do make gains in a sector, my gains take up so much of my army that it weakens my front enough for the enemy to break through somewhere else). However, my army has come under increasing pressure in recent years as more nations declare war on me and I need to crank out more men and material for the war effort and by this point my entire nation is focussed on producing units to keep the front going. Because of this, I imagine that the whole world is very backwards for the time, with the nations focussing on producing equipment that works rather than pioneering new tech. While I haven't done much since I resumed play, I can tell you that I'm building up for a large offensive against the Greeks