Walsingham

As a matter of fact in the UK we take the trouble to teach our serving men and women what the law actually says. Which can be ambitious given the average reading age of our infantrymen is around that of an eleven year old. I can't speak for the US, but I'd imagine they try too. Returning to your original point, I'm a little aggrieved that you've ignored the third option. Should I write it again inbig red letters? As for point two, your response is correct. Yes, in my opinion the duty of the security council was clearly to mandate military action given Iraqi noncompliance. However, as I've said on on numerous occasions Russian, French and Chinese oil/military interests dictated that they did not. *shrugs* That's just realpolitik. It's also why the UN isn't what I would call a uniformly fair judge of what is or isn't moral.

What? No 'zone of cabbages'? How about 'suspicious sandwich'? Or 'stupendous woodlouse'?

That goofy headdress would have to have some kind of magic whatsit on it.

Yeah, just in case you meet some Roman exchange students...

May I draw your attention to points 2 and 3? POint 2 coud be argued within reasonable doubt using the failure to comply with the earlier ceasefire. Point three cannot be argued with. EDIT: Any ONE of the circumstances must be met. You don't need all three at once.

I regarded merely not having to play the game any more as ample ending for NWN1 OC.

Thanks for taking the trouble to explain that, Wist.

I'll launch YOU into space!

I don't like that either, although it's probably due to the fact that I am completely incapable of floating. You may find it helpful to avoid wearing Doctor Marten boots. I generally avoid the sea on principle that there's plenty of land and sky. And the land and sky have a less frequent propensity to smash you to pieces.

The default setting is that orders are correct and legal. An order being 'questionable' as you put it, does not equal illegality. For the record, the attorney general has ruled that there are three circumstances under which invading a country is legal. 1) Direct imminent threat of attack by that country. 2) UN mandate 3) Intervention to prevent a humanitarian disaster - as was used quite cheerfully in the Balkans. * Of these three, for some reason your president chose the first. Probably so he could invoke the 'clear and present danger' argument with Congress. It has subsequently proven stickier than anticipated. Does this answer your question? *By some strange coincidence Russia, France, and China didn't object to the Balkan intervention nearly so strenuously. Which I'm sure had nothing at all to do with economics.

I can't remember who she is. This is good, as I can hope to stumble across her when I replay it. The next time I am crippled in bed for three weeks.

Make no mistake, BG is not as complex or varied in classes and monsters as BG2. But BG and its expansion gives you some fantastic characters, and interesting tales. The bad guy is definitely inferior.

Don't be afraid to run away when playing the Russians. Your troops need to gain experience before you try to do anything clever. Also, pack at least one or two completely expendable units for flushing out enemy AT and other ambuscades. Great game, though. I wonder where my copy has gone...

Cool!

It is indeed real audio. I don't understand why, but the beeb swear by it, rather than at it like the rest of us. The link is to teh radioplay. But you could read the books if you were inclined to do so. On teh other hand you'd then miss the accents.

Obviously you suffered a zombie related incident as a child and have since repressed the memory. I was attacked by a wild dog... I still have the scars on my forehead. "Braainssss!..." Isn't there a professional term for the event, where your mind swaps part of your memory with something that it feels more comfortable with? Like Zombie -> Dog I think the term is transference. Ingenious, really, if you think about it.

I think the fact that I gave that german scientist my foot YEARS ago should be taken into consideration.

I was wondering when we would get to that. I believe it would depend on the circumstances of the conscription. I suppose that, legally speaking, if an act of the people's legislature were to bind by law certain individuals to adhere to military discipline that would be as binding as a personal subscription. However, some sort of Plymouth knock on the head and waking up at sea would not. In the non-legal sense I would suggest that a conscript is far less bound to adhere to mliitary discipline. Which is exactly what we find. In either case, committing war crimes is against international law. However, as we perhaps need to reiterate, an act of war, duly constituted by the elected head of state is NOT ILLEGAL in any domestic sense. Thus noone in military service can object.

Really?!

Obviously you suffered a zombie related incident as a child and have since repressed the memory. I was attacked by a wild dog... I still have the scars on my forehead.

I'm just sitting here in rapt admiration for the intellectual calibre of the forum.

Judging by that sound effect of crickets chirruping I'd say it wasn't very popular.

Well, naturally. These are foreigners, and they don't feel pain and suffering do they? <_<

At the time having someone so refreshingly vicious was a novelty. Plus he was so very useful in his role as thief fighter. I was immensely looking forward tro putting him back in the team with Xzar.

My own view was that I was just choosing six characters for myself. That's just bananas. Maybe I should play it again.