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    Re: [IB AAR] Spite of Severus

    Glad you liked the AAR. It was more by luck than judgement that I managed to produce a moderately satisfying ending for it.

    I haven't quite completed the sequel (even after several years),...
  2. Thread: The Log Book

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    Sticky: The Log Book

    Full List of Critic's Quill articles by Issue (up to Issue 37)

    TitleIssueReviewerCategoryDay in the Life of Antonius1JuniusAARDownfall of the Empire1JuniusAARSacrum Romanum Imperium Nationis...
  3. Thread: Project Ideas

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    Re: Project Ideas

    Why not do something empirical?

    For example, you could prepare a simple questionnaire for other students asking them for estimates of various distances around the school that you can determine by...
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    Re: If life then what?

    There are two strands of speculation about the possibilities of alien life:

    Its chemical nature.
    Its intellectual nature.Chemical arguments come about in the context of where we think life...
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    Poll: Re: Does the solar system [B]really[/B] exist?

    I don't think this is really Athenaeum material - the bold highlighting and lack of supporting evidence is a dead give-away that this is actually a philosophical question.

    In order to establish a...
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    Re: Evolution on mankind

    I don't think there is such a thing as Devolution (except in the political sense). All species evolve to better fit the available ecological niches.

    It has been fashionable in recent years to say...
  7. Re: Post Rate Top Trumps or 'I'm sadder than you are'

    Joined April 30, 2006

    0.21 posts per day

    Oh dear - that's a bit pathetic.

    I found this site a couple of months after RTW was released in October 2004 and subsequently lurked for 18...
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    Re: Earth is in fact growing

    I'm really impressed at what professional looking results you can get with You Tube. The projection of animation onto globe is so lovely to watch that you never get around to asking why the...
  9. Re: Why do black people keep trying to claim Hannibal?

    That was the opening post. I must admit that I have never heard anyone claiming this myself (maybe I don't get out enough).

    Anyway, it is time you all knew the truth.

    HANNIBAL IS WELSH
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    Re: Hello . . . and a few questions . . .

    My archers and slingers usually get a lot of kills and take few casualties. They don't seem to gain experience as quickly as front-line units. But this may be because the experience gained is divided...
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    Re: Hello . . . and a few questions . . .

    @mjobling

    My own feeling is that the experience calculation for retraining is wrong. It was better in the original Medieval Total War where new recruits were given default valour.

    If a unit...
  12. Re: Why do black people keep trying to claim Hannibal?

    Although I can't suppress a slight shudder at the prospect of the Vin Diesel treatment of Hannibal, there is some small hope. Vin is apparently a Hannibal enthusiast and plans to do the film in Greek...
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    Re: Hello . . . and a few questions . . .

    Units gain experience for killing enemy troops in melee, and to a lesser extent from chasing down routers or killing enemies with missiles.

    Units also get some experience simply for being in the...
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    Re: No unit comments since RTR

    Is this Shigawire's Latin Voice Mod?

    It was going to be included in RTR 6, but was removed just before release because some incompatibility between the two mods was causing CTDs.

    You might...
  15. Re: Any tips on winning siege battles with low losses?

    Success against stone walled towns requires an appreciation of the defender's advantages and appropriate action to eliminate or work around them.

    There are three ways to assault a Stone-walled...
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    Re: The man-made-global-warming hoax

    The difficulty with conspiracy theories is that they appeal to a very basic part of human nature. We want to believe that things are not as they seem, that secret cabals are running things behind the...
  17. Re: What if the English had recgonized and supported the Confederacy?

    I cannot see Britain going "all out" in a war against the Federals.

    They would have limited their involvement to diplomatic, economic and military support, and breaking the blockade. There was no...
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    Re: Best movie nased on a real battle

    Waterloo is the most beautiful war film I have ever seen. It was filmed in Yugoslavia and was an Italian-Soviet co-production.

    The Russians made an entire division (of 20,000 men) available as...
  19. Re: What if the English had recgonized and supported the Confederacy?

    Gaining recognition by Britain was a major aim of the Confederacy. They had no prospect of, or even desire for, a purely military victory. What they needed was for the Federal Government to give up...
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    Re: Your favorite classic WW2 movie

    It was interesting that the first two films mentioned in this thread were The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far - both adaptations of books by the late great Cornelius Ryan.

    My childhood was...
  21. Thread: The "best" AI

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    Re: The "best" AI

    It is well known that the Siege Assault AI in RTW is not very good.

    However, The Carthaginian army described is nicely balanced. You were really lucky to be facing such an army - given that you...
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    Re: Why can't they build tanks with two guns?

    The USA have already developed tanks with a missile as main armament.

    The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh (courtesy of Wikipedia).

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/MGM-51.jpg

    It was...
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    Re: Console Wars: The Computer Strikes Back

    Um - shouldn't we have a bit of balance here? (OK maybe not, because that gets in the way of a good rant).

    There isn't a single universal scale of "goodness" that you can use to actually compare...
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    Re: How many PC games do you own?

    Perhaps a better question is how many games have you finished?

    I can remember finishing...

    Civilization II
    Doom, Doom II (plus Doomsday and hundreds of player WADs)
    Heretic, Hexen
    Quake,...
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    Re: Why can't they build tanks with two guns?

    I can't think of any 2 gun turret tanks other than the Maus and Char B already described above.

    There were a number of tanks with multiple guns and even multiple turrets.

    The Soviet Union...
  26. Re: Any tips on winning siege battles with low losses?

    I have tried many approaches to assaulting stone walls, and have now settled on a system that seems to me the most efficient and cost-effective.

    Step 1: Deployment
    Firstly, I don't bother with...
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    Re: Was Napoleon actually any good?

    Wellington

    Wellington didn't gamble. He was cautious and calculating, astute and reserved, cold and with the natural remote superiority of the aristocracy.
    Wellington always operated with...
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    Re: Was Napoleon actually any good?

    Ironically, Wellington didn't hold with the Corps system, and didn't really use it. Wellington's armies were always under his direct personal control. It is amazing that he could cope with so many...
  29. Thread: Chaos theory

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    Re: Chaos theory

    No - I studied History to A-Level only, but that doesn't stop me reading. :)
    Here is another alternative history novel...

    "The Separation" by Christopher Priest.

    As a part of a much larger...
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    Re: Was Napoleon actually any good?

    An excellent set of points from Lou5je (even if he does turn out to be a Bourbon).

    The Nature of French Armies

    Napoleon created the Corps system for controlling large forces. Each Corps was a...
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    Re: Should the West Intervene in Zimbabawe???

    My apologies - I got so carried away with history that I forgot to address the topic.

    If the West (UK, US-UK or NATO) attempted to effect "Regime Change" by force, then most of the other African...
  32. Thread: Chaos theory

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    Re: Chaos theory

    What-ifs are an irresistable attraction to anyone who has studied history. The problem is how to build up any degree of confidence in the consequences of your proposed change.

    Alternative history...
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    Poll: Re: What may the next Total War game be?

    I would imagine Colonization starting around the time of Columbus and finishing perhaps around the time of the American revolution.

    A bit of gunpowder is OK, but Napoleonic style mass gunpowder...
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    Re: Should the West Intervene in Zimbabawe???

    Here is my tuppenceworth...

    As an aside - Sadaam was considered a threat to the "stability" (whatever that means) of the middle east and hence to that of the oil market.

    In Africa we see the...
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    Poll: Re: What may the next Total War game be?

    My apologies if this has all been said before - I don't have the energy to read all 75 pages in this thread.

    I think CA have already let it be known unofficially that they are unlikely to do the...
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    Poll: Re: Website Updates

    The pictures are great - I am looking forward to seeing some moving versions of them on my PC.

    Not sure about the blood though (maybe I'm just squeemish) - anyway it makes unit identification...
  37. Thread: RTR or EB

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    Re: RTR or EB

    EB made a good job of upping the initial difficulty level. It took me four attempts before I found a way of surviving as the Casse. It is very painfull to have to decide whether to immediately...
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    Re: Roma mod, and 5.4.1

    I also had a good time with 5.4.1.

    I believe it was the first version with the eastern map extension (but before Bactria was added as a faction), so I played Selucids to see how different they...
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    Re: death and nothing.

    I'm not sure that is helpful.

    After death, the body remains.

    As for the mind, where has that gone? - unless there really is a soul, then asking where the mind has gone is like asking where is...
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    Re: Is anything valuable in space?

    Come now, expand your imaginations.

    Space is where we have to go if we are to have any future as a species.

    The Earth is too small and too connected for safety. Look at the record of mass...
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