alanschu

That's old enough. I believe it's pretty much what they start with. Given the hugeness of the Seleucid Empire, I'd say they may have taken a good chunk of that. In the mean time, Gaul is dead, Germania has two provinces left, one of which is 1 turn away from surrendering in a siege (which usually means a fight against a battered and weakened army inside. My Emperor just recently died too, at the tender age of 89! I thought he was never going to die. He lived for another 24 years after the death of his wife. Too bad too, because he had amazing traits (decreased build costs, decreased squalor...I could have Rome at max tax with 30k people and still have it growing!). Fortunately, before he died, I had queued up a whole bunch of build orders, so I snuck out the cheaper construction. I just got a new Coming of Age, and while he doesn't have any stars, I'm going to turn him into a general. He's already a "Good Defender," and happens to have a trait that states how he can't stand Carthaginians. Since I just declared war on Carthage, I figured what the hey. It's not like he'd be any worse than the lack of general I would probably be using. The rest of his attributes are all good for morale, although that doesn't seem to be a problem with Legionaries anyways. I also kind of like having a pet project like this and see how long it takes for him to become a badass military leader. He's only 16...plenty of time to go Figure I might as well get him started against the very people he hates so much.

You are referring to the game as a burden?

I don't know why Print Screen wasn't working earlier, but it is now. In any case, here's my status update of the campaign. Gaul is about to fall and is currently under seige. A large stack inside, so I'm hoping to starve them out a bit and let them come to me. Germania is also about to die. Which will leave some easy mopping up to be done for some of those rebel places nearby. The Illyrians are hanging on by a thread, as I have diverted much of the Macedonian army to trying to stave off my advances. Though I'm a bit concerned, as the Selecuids are running away in total score. Looks like they are beating up on the Ptolemic Empire. I'm in preliminary stages of attacking Sicily. This will greatly help out my trade network (cash cash cash), and be a huge blow against Carthage as well. As it stands, they currently have minimal garrisons on Sicilian lands. With the Macedonian campaign going so well, I should be able to divert less reinforcements there, and build up some armies for a quad-pronged attack throughout sicily.

It might be CTRL-Right Click. It's one combination of the others. Just don't use it as a cheap tactic to save your units when they are about to be encircled!

Ding Ding. Though seriously, she didn't hold a candle to Tamika. When Tamika went by, everyone (men, women, children) stopped to take notice.

I think SHIFT-Right Click lets you do a strategic redeploy, which is good for those looooooooooong treks.

Guess which one is me.

I'm curious what the heck happened at the beginning. Especially if you didn't make much of an impact (unless maybe you sent a ton of planes). Normally you get the standard Phony War in the West, until German DOWs the low countries and then pile drives France. Probably led to a somewhat disinteresting game however

Why wouldn't it be? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Furthermore, why would that be their last PC game?

Heh, I have never seen that happen before.

Well, I didn't til I was able to get an X Box under $100. That is the magic price for me to spend the money on a console. Anything more than that I will spend on my PC. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that their roots extend beyond you.

I think the explanation is that god created stuff like the light from stars millions of light years away, already en route. I remember reading a debate transcript between two scholars on the topic, and that's pretty much what the creationist said. The (dis)advantage of having an all powerful god is that you can explain any contradictions or inconsistencies simply on acts of this god (I'm pretty sure this is what Pidesco talked about). Though I tend to abstain from conversations such as this because I have my beliefs and other people have theirs, and when it comes to stuff such as this no one is going to give up any ground (which is why I avoided the topic when you wanted to bring it up in a different thread Blank). In any case, I'll return to the shadows.

Too bad nothing similar to that happened to me when delivering pizzas " If porn has taught me one thing, is that sex is an acceptable payment for pizza

The biggest problem with HOI2 is the fact that our foresight lets us all metagame. Though the fact that you were able to crunch Germany in the 1939 scenario (which means you don't get the huge buildup advantage) is still impressive. What difficulty level an AI level were you playing at? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> actually it was AI vs AI. I was britan <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You didn't do anything to help France though? If that's the case, that would be the first time I have ever heard of France holding off Germany on their own in that game. How far into 1940 did you get? Where exactly did France end up?

This assumes that many of their "roots" didn't follow them over to the consoles to begin with.

Heh, I thought you were talking about Falcon's Eye for a minute there.

I'm conquering Gaul (and now Germania) for fun's sake. The only other war I have is with Macedonia (I have heard they are unbalanced, but in my first RTR game, they got waxed by Thrace and the Greek Cities). As for public support in Gaul, it's not too bad actually. They have such low populations that squalor is a non-issue, and I just keep the tax rate at low. They help fund my army and are relatively easy to conquer. Besides, I'm planning on total conquest anyways. Plus, I need to conquer Central Gaul (Aleria) as part of the Roman winning condition anyways. Since Carthage hasn't declared war on me, I'm going to leave them until I finish conquering Western Europe, and sweep down and crush them and the Numidians along a large front. I don't know how to take a screenshot from the campaign screen though. I have just been using print screen for the battle shots, but that's not working from the campaign screen.

Yes, I have found all that. Fortunately, your absence taught me to be more self-sufficient Though I'm not sure how you played as the Scipii in RTR, unless there was an older one! As a small update, sure enough, the very next turn I played the Germans declared war on me, so I counter attacked with a small stack and took one of their towns. They have a very large army nearby, so I'm a bit worried of an impending offensive from them, but so far nothing. But I now have access to the English Channel. But I see a ton of huge Rebel Brigand stacks nearby. Should be "interesting" to say the least. The war against the Gauls is going pretty well, took two more towns near the Iberian border. The Macedonians took heavy casualties in two fights, but still seem to be growing faster than me from a military perspective (thank god I did those two fights....what would be the case otherwise! ). Though I have taken the rest of the settlements surrounding the Adriatic Sea (which has resulted in a nice increase in trade income to boot!.

I don't know. Have you SEEN the CS community?

This is why Roman Conquest is a good thing. If you look closely, you see he is not proposing anything. Just saying "Accept or be attacked!!111!1" I told him to piss off, I just killed half of his army! It's too bad that the diplomacy is so poor in a game so great.

The biggest problem with HOI2 is the fact that our foresight lets us all metagame. Though the fact that you were able to crunch Germany in the 1939 scenario (which means you don't get the huge buildup advantage) is still impressive. What difficulty level an AI level were you playing at?

Feed the addiction....feed the addiction. I keep telling myself that one more turn in Rome is okay

The few times I've seen Nash live up here in Edmonton he was usually far and away the most threatening player on the ice for Columbus. I remember one barn burner where it went 8-5 or something silly and he chipped in with 4 points, including 3 goals in the losing effort.

Did people actually think the Earth was flat? Pythagoras felt the Earth was round in 600 BC, and I think Aristotle proved it. EDIT: In fact, according to good ol' Wikipedia, the circumference was measured in 240 BC. There were people that refused to believe it, but by the middle ages it was widely accepted as being true. EDIT 2: My good friends Eldar and Hurlshot are Johnny on the Spot with this one