The Conquest of Nineveh

Nineveh is the eighth and last scenario of the Voices of Babylon campaign in Age of Empires. The goal is to destroy the Wonder that is being built by an enemy team.

Scenario Instructions
The Assyrians have been pushed back from Babylon and now the tide has turned. The Assyrians have fallen back behind the mighty walls of their capital at Nineveh. Destroy Nineveh's Wonder to break the power of the Assyrians forever. If necessary, destroy any Assyrian allies that stand in your way.

Objective

 * Destroy Nineveh's Wonder.

Strategy
Babylonia (Blue, Egyptians) start off at the southern end of the map, with a sizable town, but no Villagers. Ninevah immediately starts building a Wonder.

There are six enemy teams on this map, but four of them are only represented by a handful of units or buildings, and represent no strategic threat. The other two are the red Ninevah (Greeks, and the yellow Enemy (Babylonians).

You don't have any Villagers, so start training a few Priests to convert some, and some Hoplites and Stone Throwers to protect them. As the units train, some enemy ships might get too close for comfort. If this happens, send your navy to deal with them, and train some new ships in case you lose any.

Send your units to the yellow island. Destroy all towers with the Stone Throwers, and use the Hoplites against soldiers. Convert any Villagers you come across. Ship some of them back to your base, to build a Town Center and gather resources, and keep others to build military buildings on the yellow island.

Keep destroying troop-producing buildings and towers until you feel in control of the yellow island. Start gathering resources for your final assault.

Ship units across to the red island - the south side is a good landing site. Destroy anything that represents a threat, apart from those soldiers you convert (Elephant Archers and Phalanxes are particular good conversion targets). Once you find the Wonder, destroy it to win the map.

Historical Result
"The combined assault of the New Babylon army and the Median forces newly arrived from the East got the conquest of Nineveh in 612 BC ending forever with Assyrian power. In just a few decades the mighty Assyrians went from capturing Babylon (648 BC) and Susa (639 BC) to cease to exist as an empire.

''Babylon entered in the last period of glory. Its king Nebuchadnezzar II, more remembered for the capture of Jerusalem, capital of Judea, in 597 BC. after the rebellions of Jerusalem in 587 and 586 BC numerous citizens were taken as prisioners to Babylon and kept there for several generations. This was the Exile in Babylon that describes the Bible.''

''The Babylon of this period was perhaps the most important city in the world. The richness of trade and the wealth of empire was invested in monuments, ziggurats and palaces. Herodotus describes in detail the gigantic walls and the Ishtar's Gate, one of the wonders of the ancient world. The famous Hanging Gardens were designed to simulate a green mountain that would remember her homeland to Nebuchadnezzar's wife.''

''The last Babylonian Empire lasted until 539 BC. In that year the people of Babylon surrendered the city to Cyrus the Great King of Persia. Tired of incompetent ruler, they were willing to accept the wise of the powerful Persian King."''