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    Re: Building Slots in Some Cities Still Bugged

    That may be their reasoning, but I think it's a very poor decision. Is it really a good idea to leave something bugged, in perpetuity, so that some saves that were started 4 patches ago, which may...
  2. Thread: Poison Arrows

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    Re: Poison Arrows

    There's no reason that adjustments cannot be made to other units at the same time the poison is nerfed.


    I'm sure the Romans would only have last 19 men as well, right? And his screenshot is...
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    Re: Poison Arrows

    Correct - nothing matters beyond whether or not the unit gets clipped by at least one single arrow. Once that happens, the poison is applied and some percentage of the unit will begin dropping dead...
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    Re: Poison Arrows

    I really hope CA will do something about this soon, and not just move everyone over to Warhammer and abandon Attila in this state. A single stray arrow clipping a unit shouldn't cause exhaustion for...
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    Re: Poison Arrows

    Any unit hit by poison arrows is set to exhausted for the rest of the battle, and it doesn't seem that missile block chance really protects against them either; Herculiani Seniores in stationary...
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    Re: who will you choose for president and why

    Ron Paul, hands down.

    He's the only candidate I'd feel good about voting for. Anything else is just trying to discern which big-government-loving clown is the lesser evil.
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    Re: Scotland... You a kilt lover?

    So the zipper sound doesn't scare the sheep away.
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    Re: Iran to launch new dress code crackdown

    I think Nilufer might be a man...
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    Re: Strange Year/Age thing

    That's how it's supposed to be, though it does bug me a bit (and others too I assume).

    It's easy enough to set the game to half a year per turn (check the FAQ sticky), which will match up aging...
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    Re: Scotland... You a kilt lover?

    Might be a little off topic here, but does anyone know of any available skins/models/unit cards for Scottish gunpowder infantry? I'm not really looking to play a major mod right now, but it'd be nice...
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    Re: Scotland... You a kilt lover?

    Scotland has some pretty decent units (for the single player game at least, I don't play MP). Noble Swordsmen are the equals of the English Armored Swordsmen, but aren't available until much later.
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    Any trick to getting family members married?

    I've got a pretty decent campaign going now with England, and only have one problem...*none* of my sons are getting married. Most are mid 30's and younger, so they've still got some time left.
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    Sticky: Re: New FAUST & FUSIL (Unit Stat Guides) for Update 1.2 are here!

    I'm not able to download either file :(

    I get the same error each time: "Your download has failed. You have an invalid session set. Click here to try your download again."
  14. Re: Iraqi PM: U.S. troops can leave 'any time they want'

    Why couldn't we leave those places?
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    That's a pretty imperialistic justification.


    1) Some people in the south wanted slavery. The majority of the population (ie, not rich plantation owners), I would wager, were either indifferent...
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    Re: Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul

    Considering Ron Paul's economic stances, that seems a little strange ;)
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    Re: Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul

    That tyrant in North Korea is brutal to his people. I wonder just how many he's starved, wrongfully imprisoned, had killed, etc...Should we go to war over it?

    Stalin was a butcher, just ask...
  18. Re: What if the US had stuck strictly to the Constitution

    So does a village that doesn't wallow in mediocrity while leeching from the ones that actually work hard. If someone wants to smoke crack and make babies all day long while never attempting to get a...
  19. Re: What if the US had stuck strictly to the Constitution

    That's the general idea behind the excuses given by those that wish to strip away constitutional rights and freedoms. All too often when someone says "It's a living, breathing document" what they...
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    Re: Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul

    He didn't just jump onto a party.

    If he ran as a candidate for a third party, he'd have to spend most of his time and effort to just get on the ballet. He wouldn't have been in the debates, and...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    I believe it's the right of any state to secede from the union for any reason it chooses (whether or not I personally think secession for that reason is a good idea).

    Ideally, this would never or...
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    Re: Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul

    What? That's not his stance at all...

    You're misinterpreting the nickname he's been given. It's because he votes no on unconstitutional bills. Too many politicians think that winning an election...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Then why is it such a different issue whether it's one state seceding, or half the country?


    Tariffs certainly contributed to the atmosphere present at the time, even if they weren't the chief...
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    Re: Republican presidential candidate, Ron Paul

    Which third party candidate are you referring to? Ron Paul is a member of the Republican party. He's also won 10 congressional elections, all as a Republican.


    And that's somehow going to cost us...
  25. Re: See which Canidate for American President fits you best

    1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
    2. Ron Paul (74%)
    3. Kent McManigal (70%)
    4. Tom Tancredo (68%)
    5. Duncan Hunter (61%)
    6. Mitt Romney (58%)
    7. Chuck Hagel (58%)
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Care to support that? The south was not nearly as industrialized as the north, but to think there was no economic viability is a bit silly.


    Apples and oranges.


    So the driving force in the...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Ah, so puffy chested arrogance was worth the loss of 600,000 lives (allowing for population growth, this would have been something like 5 million today).

    I stand by my original assessment; Lincoln...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Why should he have forced those states to remain in the union?

    Was using military force (passively aggressive at first, then actively aggressive later) to force such a thing really the best...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Maybe I didn't make my opinion clear; I believe he should have evacuated the forts following secession. As I said, the ball was in his court, and he took a hard-nosed stance.
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    The continued occupation of the forts, claiming they were "federal property" was, at the very least, passively aggressive.

    At that point the ball was in Lincoln's court, and he took the more...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Secession was partly over slavery; but the war was fought over secession.


    Some states seceded before he took office; four others (Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and N.C.) did not secede until he...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Yea, and you're a communist!

    See? I can make up stuff to pull out of my butt, just like you.

    You remind me of a neoconservative on this point; "You disagree with my opinion/world view,...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Thanks for personalizing the issue.
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    Slavery was only one piece of the puzzle; the issue at large was State's Rights.


    Whether they were physically located in Europe, or in the colonies, doesn't matter. The point is that at least...
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    Re: Total War at an End?

    I think it'll be around for a while. They could revisit Rome and Shogun. They could aim for Napoleonic era Europe. Or, maybe do something centered around North/Central America (French and Indian War,...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    So did the Europeans (and many others). They didn't butcher 600,000 of their own countrymen, and cripple their economy to do it. I'd wager that a program of compensated emancipation could have...
  37. Re: Justice finally served in the Simpson murder case?

    Is your post an attempt at satire?

    The jury consisted of 9 blacks (one ex-black panther, who gave Simpson the "black power" clenched fist salute), 2 whites, and one hispanic.

    If he'd had a jury...
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    Re: What's Bill O'Reilly's problem?

    I don't remember any accusations of rape. There was a woman a while back that accused him of trying to have phone sex with her or some such; I don't remember exactly how the story went, though. Seems...
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    Re: Top 5 Favorite and Least Favorite US Presidents

    I wasn't referring solely to G. W. Bush.


    What are the criteria you used to make that assessment? Or were you just picking and choosing where it suited you?


    What? I merely asked you a...
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    Re: What's Bill O'Reilly's problem?

    He tried to say Hitler was Christian, then said the point was debatable. It's not even debatable, though; it's quite obvious that Hitler was not a Christian. The part that's possibly debatable, is...
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