alanschu

He likely became so uber-strong he thought himself invincible.

???? All the AI does is move along mountains for me. They're always the first place I try to defend. As for roads, there's no point in following roads, as you cannot use enemy roads to get a speed advantage.

Awww...Rescue Raiders was made by Sir-Tech. RIP

I think they were the controls for his Acme Iron Lung.

Eldar.....INTROSPECTION IS FOR THE WEAK!!! *ZAAAAAAAAAAP* See, adding some Onomatopoeia or even l33tspeak will instantly degrade your writing to a less than formal style

I always hated that I needed 40000 units to defend my border. I would have much preferred that the "zone of control" equal some sort of meeting engagement if you tried to run past a unit (i.e. it would intercept you). As it stands, a little angle hole lets his units march unmolested around my panzer divisions. And then the AI just finds an unchecked mountain tile and travels along the mountains until it gets to a city it wants to plunder, with it 2000 unit stack of doom. The thing about logistics and whatnot, is that the game does not model this at all. I can have an entire army deep deep into enemy territory, but he does not suffer at all. I also don't see how it limits the strategy, because I find the "strategy" of moving your giant unit stack between adjacent armies an all sides to be an unrealistic strategy. Score to you though if that tile is a mountain tile, because nothing is going to stop you. It also makes fortifications essentially useless, because you have to build 30 of them along your border.

Hehehehe

I tried downloading it and got 0 seconds of audio It's probably because it downloaded something from my cache instead for some stupid reason. I'm using IE.

w00t. 24 24 > 18 :D

That reminds me of that "real-life" D&D video. "Lightning Bolt Lightning Bolt"

On a side note, is the game open-source aka free, or is it open-source aka license owners can modify the code? If it's free, where's is at?

Deceived again! It only LOOKS like I have a shuriken in my head! :ph34r:

Even then, aren't border skirmishes disputes about "This land is ours!" and whatnot? :D

Deception is a useful ability!

I think a lot of the minor powers aren't as power hungry because, for one thing, they can't be. But also because attacking other minor powers is just going to piss off the closest major power and get them crunched anyways.

I don't think Yoda even knew this though. I got the impression that Qui-Gon informs him of that ability later on. It seems as though the novelization supports this.

Hahaha....Alans Chu or something I quit trying for creative nicknames because they were always taken. Only once have I not had alanschu work.

I never liked Choplifter....perhaps because I sucked at it. There didn't seem to be a way to rescue the other buildings unless you went and crashed into it to set it on fire There was a similar game though, called Rescue Raiders. I still love that game even today. You were in a helicpoter with guided missiles, bombs, and machine guns (that later are replaced with air to ground missiles...very devastating). You slowly accumulated money, with which you could buy tanks, engineers (that could repair AA guns, infantry (useful for taking little base installations), Demolition trucks (the only thing that could take out the enemy base and win the level). And an anti-aircraft jeep that would shoot down the enemy helicopter. Both sides were equal (in terms of units), so it was just a lot of fun And it was all played from the same side scroller perspective that Choplifter! had

My first name is Allan, my last name is Schumacher. An 'L' got dropped because when my e-mail address got set up, the person setting it up put it as "alanschu" However, I stayed with it because I got used to it and seems more balanced than "allanschu" It just sort of stuck. I'm curious how people pronounce it actually haha

The thing I didn't like about Civ 3 was the lack of Zones of Control. As much as it frustrated me when I was younger, it is really the only way to set up a defensive border. It sucks to have a ton of troops on your border with fortifications and everything, but you miss one little angle tile and the guys just zip right on through.

Giant rats? In an RPG game? Wow, sounds like this game is pushing the envelope for new game ideas

For the most part from what I've heard and being completely anecdotal, was that the Allies had a large amount of respect for the German War Machine. I suspect it was a bit more personal for the Soviet, and perhaps the French and the English as well. The Americans? Well, them and the Germans were just really good at killing each other.

Didn't I already say that?

Nah, war is for protecting your borders from those ruthless AI players that have no respect for your borders.