Time to enter the Army...
Well, as the title says, I have decided to enter the Esercito Italiano (Italian Army) as a volunteer. Levy has been suspended some years ago, and now the Army relies only upon volunteers who have got to pass quite strict selections, both physical and psychic. Typically, every 4 people that request to be recruited, only 1 manages to finally pass selections and enter the Army; I am one of those lucky 1s out of 4s, and some great opportunities present to me. I took this decision back in October, but only these last days I finally managed to know I accomplished that.
Being a soldier has always been my dream. Three years ago I decided to put that dream momentarily aside, focusing on university. That was a big mistake, and only now I have realized that. To rot in an office overwhelmed by papers has never been my intention at all..but somehow, at that time I thought it wasn’t that bad afterall. Never put your will aside and replace it with things you are not convinced of, NEVER!
A year in the E.I. allows to become a professional soldier, a fire fighter, a policemen, a Carabineer,... It opens a lot of doors, each one with an interesting path to follow. This does not mean I am born for war, that I am a warlike fanatic. Serving your Nation is much more than that.
Now you might wonder…why am I telling you all this? It’s simple: Because I spent almost 6 years here in TWC (4 as registered user, 2 as guest). Modding RTW and playing other TW games became a passion. I am proud of having joined the Diadochi Total War team more than two years ago, a team which unfortunately now vanished, with only RedFox remaining with his little time to dedicate to this wonderful work. I put a lot of hours of hard work in this, even with my limited knowledges, and I always tried to make my best to contribute to what I consider being the best RTW mod. I hope it was worth it, but by seeing a lot of people coming here and saying it’s a good mod even if hasn’t received updates and fixes in some months, I can think it was definitely worth it. I won’t lie, I have spent more time modding Diadochi rather than playing it; because modding became even more fun than playing!
What does this all mean? That, at least for 4 months, I will be almost completely absent from here. Boot Camp lasts two months, plus another two for Combat Training. I surely won’t have the time nor the chance to access my laptop. After those 4 months, when I will be out of training and in actual service, I might come back sometimes but there’s nothing sure.
I will leave for Boot Camp on the 22nd March. I was obliged to at least inform you of this, because some other members of the DTW team disappeared without saying a word and I didn’t want to act like that. As I said, reading your generally positive feedback on the mod has always been a great satisfaction, and I truly thank you all for that. A special thanks goes to RedFox, who allowed me to contribute to this mod.
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-Spartan
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Re: Time to enter the Army...
, anything that kills more than ten people in a minute is a big gun for me
Originally Posted by Spartan 666
