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Heh, remember back when STEAM was considered the absolute worst DRM had to offer. The good old days.

Yeah, I've been cleaning out the inside of my case with a mains vacume cleaner for as long as I've had computers. I'm careful not to touch anything with the business end, other than that I don't worry about it. I've never had a board or component short out.

Ottoman Spihari are quite effective at countering those annoying horse archers, but the battles generally take way too long and you will be chasing after them trying to rout them long after they have lost any chance of winning. Set the battle timer to low 20-30 mins and defend rather than attack. That ways you can always fast forward if it gets too boring.

The main problem with the mongols is that they don't break easily and when they reform, nearly all their units have bows to pelter your pursuing units with. In a city I usually let them in and make sure most of my forces are positioned to intercept. If you can destroy all their artillery breaking them is possible though.

If you have a full stack in a city all you have to worry about is morale, the enemy will be hard pressed to defeat you with numbers. Try placing half your force outside the walls, on the flanks of their assault, then box them in when they hit the walls. If your infantry loses their morale check they will be doomed though, as it can only be recovered instide the walls during sieges.

Keep an eye out for mercenaries after the Mongol invasion, you can buy elephant artillery in Egypt.

Just ignoring them is actually an option, they will take Byzantium but you can find a new home for your nation. Lower egypt or Serbian lands. Then return when their stacks have spread out and deminished. One of my favorite games was with the Turkish, they are in a terrible starting position which can be improved and fortified, but the Mongols will still come and ruin most of your buildings anyway. Instead I immediately started a jihad against England, all of my generals and jihadists easily looted everything in their path on the way since it was so early in the game, and by the time I took London I had enough cash to rebuild there.

Just let them in the front gate and hit them from all sides. You could also place artillery outside your walls, they will be destroyed, but they have a decent chance of taking out the ram first.

By the way has anyone played Napoleon total war. The reviews sort of suggests its un fantasticness, still it would be nice to play a version of Empires not riddled with bugs. I don't think I have played a single campaign without running into problems, either with the save games or the turns taking ages and ages after a single faction becomes very big.

Also, you definately want the Crusades adon. It's the best of the DLC packs by a long shot. The Byzantines are a powerhouse and have a load of special units.

Only the flaming balista on the wall or you own trebuches or similar units can bring down the ram, the normal balistas usually aren't enough, and you can't aim it if you dont control the unit. You need improved fortifications for the balista to be flaming in the first place. You might want to consider opening the gate to keep them from crossing the wall in several different places. Spearmen with decent morale are ideal to plug the hole. Also Byzantines get nafatun (molotov ****tail throwers) if placed above the gate they have just enough range to pelter the enemy while they try to break in. Siege towers can be destroyed by infantry but it takes a very long time, usually not worth it. The ram can't be destroyed by infantry but you should be able to steal it (alt click for the hand icon to come up) then just run it inside. This is also a rare opportunity though.

The big Lebowski.

Yes, seeing as how it was a piece of crap.

According to that article the game was not cracked.

Radiation treated canned goods last centuries, and what kind of produce would not be radiation treated as a matter of course in pre war fallout world.

The Republicans used to call the opposition 'Communists' because it was a convenient label with negative connotations, now that that nolonger has even the pretense of sounding genuine it's 'Socialist'. Every society known to man has some degree of redistribution, and that's what it really boils down to. We are talking about A : degrees, and B : labels.

Maybe all the republicans should move to one side of the country, the democrats on the other. Ralph Nader can have Alaska.

'The dog pulled my trousers down' Brilliant.

That VATS is out, or that they actually shoot back rather than look at their shoes while you pop their mellons.

Stop messing with my heeaaad! You roleplay taking a dump. .... You ought to get a kick out of this then http://www.speech.sri.com/people/anand/toi...t/simulate.html

I mean radroaches.

Farmers are lv 0. All they encounter are radscorpions.

Fallout was always over the top. Realism is not really an issue for immersion I think. It's just too bad this installment is going to be 'family safe' as well, relatively speaking. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to turn tricks or become a pornstar this time around.

You know what annoys me though. After windows XP Alt+CTRL+DEL nolonger starts the task manager, it gives you the logon screen where you can chose to start the task manager, and a bunch of other pointless logon related choices.