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Greece and Serbia Join Austria! In a bold move of the country, ArchDuke Franz FerdinAllan has convinced the states of Serbia and Greece to join the Austrian Empire. Expect further updates as this exciting news comes to the forefront! FerdinAllan poses for a brief moment after a long day of negotiations

I think you're grossly overestimating the "diplomacy" and "actually playing the game" aspects. By knowing strategies, you'll put yourself a leg up on anyone that's never even seen the game before. You'll know before hand which alliances do and do not work. The diplomacy aspect for the most part is just "d00d, attax0rs deez guys and I'll helpz0rs j00 OK!!!111?one?" with replies of "OK, r0x0rs onz0rs d00d" that are either the truth or the lie. I still find it wierd that someone can have such extensive knowledge of the game, how it's played, with familiarity of strategies and common alliances, yet has never actually played the game before. I am a big Axis and Allies fan, and read up on the manual and learned strategies and whatnot, but not before actually playing the game. Why would you read up on something and study it so intently, having a game you have no experience with and for all you know could actually be a flat out, boring, stupid game?

Spending it on silly things like social services is just silly though :D The Chinese Type 98 is supposedly rated to have similar armor effectiveness of the M1A2. I would suspect most of the "tank advantage" would come from crews, not the tanks themselves.

Rebuttal: It would be odd if the people overwhelmingly preferred skill-based systems to class based systems, and for most games to utilize a class-based system. Supporters of skill-based systems are a vocal minority IMO.

They could. Although I would think that the textures would require the bump-mapping features on them themselves. Speaking from a position of ignorance, I would think that they would have to actually spend time creating new textures to take advantage of the pixel shading and bumpmapping effects.

Meh, I consider movies like Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Terminator 2 and whatnot to be movies that have quality and are successful. What movies would be considered "quality?"

Some guy was trying to tell me that any player that hits a player with his head down should get an automatic suspension for 20 games. And a repeat offense should get full season suspensions. He considered Stevens a dirty hitter for hitting people with their head down. Felt that Stevens only really tried to crunch people when they had their head down. I disagree of course I think Stevens always tried to crunch people....just that those with their head down aren't anticipating or preparing for the contact. I wouldn't be surprised about Stevens' retirement. He is getting pretty up there in age as well.

Maybe we'll get lucky and the Blue Shift addon will do so, and improve Half-Life: Source. Clearly there are people that are disappointed with the character models of HL: Source, so maybe they'll try to rectify the problem.

It's because of the software piracy! (huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge inside joke that Ender might get, and maybe some of the other old skool guys). On a side note, leave to Roshan to state that he misses the old days of RPG gaming, while complaining about an RPG that came out before PS:T (in fact, the engine was used by Planescape: Torment).

Sure it can. Can it fix itself though? Can it fix itself after being blown to bits? Right. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As long as the Hard Drive survives, probably. They should have HK-47 with a slower, underclocked processor, which makes him a less agile, less accurate killing machine. And have it so that that pisses him off more!!!

Then I suspect you've never played one. Would I be engaged in this discussion if I didn't know what the hell am I talking about? I don't know about you, but I don't usually do that. ) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It would be presumptous for me to think otherwise. Most people it seems have an opinion on anything and everything. It wouldn't be the first time that someone said they didn't like something before trying it.

Might as well just list all the adjacent provinces then.

I knew that it was from Barney's perspective. Just like how Opposing Forces was from Sheppard's perspective. I'm kind of hoping for an Opposing Forces 2 addon as well, but Opp Forces wasn't a Valve game, so I'm not holding my breath.

You can't dislodge your own unit. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No no you misunderstood. Saying that I've been dislodged, can I "dislodge" myself (as in use my dislodging move) to move into another country? In which case Archmonarch said yes.

Did you have someone to play with?

Overrated: Spamming Threads Underrated: Turn Based Strategy Games

Which one did you play?

Overrated: Individuality Underrated: Athlon processors

I can see the paramedics waiting outside from here! :D

Well thanks to Archmonarch for telling me about this before it was too late. EDIT: Are there illegal moves with dislodgement? I imagine I can't "trade places" with the invading army, but could I dislodge myself into another nation's province?

HK-47 FPS? Sign me up!

So you'd rather that everyone had access to every skill of their class? Why is 8 too few?

Woah, how have these boards survived without your witty (and still ever so informative) comments? You try to keep your PC running for the next 4000 years and then tell me. Not to mention that your PC doesn't get shot at regularly (I hope). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My PC can always be fixed though

I haven't played much for a while. I'm too busy and it takes up too much time to play If I remember correctly, I'm part of the Philosopher Kings (we were gonna create gimmick Alternates that were all named after Greek Philosophers).

You'd rather have everyone have everything? But I thought you didn't like the 8 skills because they were carbon copies?