[ WP ] Narrate a game of Civilization as though it were excerpted from a history textbook .

On July 7, 1480 the IndoRoman war took a dramatic turn. Their lines broken, Indian troops withdrew from occupied Roman territories. Roman tanks overtook and decimated the retreating armies. Ghandi's atomic gamble seemed certain to doom the entire Indian civilization. 
 
 The advancing Romans converged on Thermopylae. The city straddled the isthmus that was the only land route into the heart of Ghandi's industrial corridor. With the defending armies crushed, all that stood between Caesar and victory was a ragtag, forgotten division of spearmen that had occupied the city since the Indians conquered Greece a millennia before. 
 
 Expecting an easy victory, the Roman tanks approached the city. Time after time, the Indian spearmen drove them back. It was said that Caesar roared in frustration as the tenth division of tanks was left in tatters while the spearmen held their ground. They won the time needed for reinforcements to arrive. The Roman tanks were driven back at great cost to the Indian army, but their defense held and a stalemate was achieved. 
 
 On October 12, 1484, Pompeii was the first city to be devastated by an atomic weapon. Rome followed in 1485, and Caesar officially surrendered and ceded the western cities to Ghandi after Neapolis, Setia, and Arretium were all destroyed in 1486.
