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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.

The same people who need play, stop and eject buttons for media files.

The windows key is nothing but trouble this is true. There is a registry hack out there that will kill it just as effectively as putting it in a drawer though.

The key to making it work would be to tune the difficulty level just enough that you would be able to get out of most scrapes, but not all. It's a matter of preference, and your preference for quicksaving is not an argument in and of itself.

I actually prefer not having to deal with saves at all. My preference would be to have the game autosave in different slots at every rest spot. I agree that playing without belt and suspenders could make the combat more challenging as it would actually matter whether you lived or died. Either that or it would make your pants fall down.

Also watch out for loose bundles of connectors inside the case, once I had a birdsnest of wires right near the PCI slot I was using for the card and it screwed up the airflow making the fan annoyingly loud in 3d mode.

But you get marginally better service than universal healthcare. And, I should certainly hope, margaritas in the ambo.

Is that a man or a woman

that's what they say, I kinda doubt it's much of a real issue though.