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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 09 September 2016 11:01 EDT (US) 2401 / 2504

When I lose a battle, I want it to be because I erred. A forgotten flank, or accepting battle when I know it to be a foregone conclusion, underestimating the opponent's veterans, etc.

Not because a computer rolled some dice.

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General Sajaru
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posted 09 September 2016 23:40 EDT (US) 2402 / 2504

Besides, that's half of the point of the game, the other half being the management aspect, of course, although if you just want that you could play Civilization, couldn't you? What makes (made?) Rome- and Total War games in general- unique was the way it blended RTS battles with TBS management.

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 11 September 2016 07:51 EDT (US) 2403 / 2504

Very true.

I do very much enjoy the way this game blends the two- turn-based management, affected by the outcomes of real-time struggles on the field of battle.

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DominicusUltimus
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posted 15 September 2016 19:49 EDT (US) 2404 / 2504

I admit I couldn't get into turn based management games like the Europa Universalis series. Even Crusader Kings II failed to keep my attention for long because I hated how battles were out of my control and based on calculated number crunching to decide the victor.

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 16 September 2016 12:19 EDT (US) 2405 / 2504

I get an immense kick out of totally screwing the management side, but hanging on to win because I am so bloody wonderful on the battlefield that my sword undoes all the problems the pen caused.

The pen might be mightier than the sword, but the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment than a pen ever could.

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Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 28 September 2016 08:19 EDT (US) 2406 / 2504

My entire State has lost electricity ...

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 28 September 2016 11:45 EDT (US) 2407 / 2504

A very good thing that you had one of these portable devices with its own energy supply, or we would never have known.

Was it a storm, yabba-dabba-doo idiots with bombs and beards, or a faulty powergrid that brought your State to this state?

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Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 28 September 2016 17:00 EDT (US) 2408 / 2504

A massive storm, tearing down transmission towers in combination with lightning strikes on power stations. The automatic failsafes then shut the entire grid down.

My power was out for over 7 hours. Parts of the State are still in the dark ages.

A state-wide blackout caused by cyclonic weather has thrown South Australia into chaos, with traffic gridlocked, planes grounded, thousands of city workers stranded and homes without power.

The state last night declared a �code black� � full emergency �response � after 80,000 lightning strikes hit the state and gale-force winds took down three transmission lines and at least 22 towers to �isolate South Australia from the national grid.

Premier Jay Weatherill said the lighting strikes �tripped the national grid, causing a state-wide outage and the interconnector from Victoria to shut down�.

�All of this has combined to bring our system down,� he said.

The Premier said any state would be vulnerable to widespread loss of power given the weather conditions and insisted the system had responded as it was designed to under such circumstances.

�This was a weather event not a renewable energy event ... lightning strikes and wind surges caused this,� he said.

�Right now we are in the middle of it and preparing people for the next episode.�

SES chief officer Chris Beattie said emergency conditions would remain for the next 72 hours. He said there had been 400 calls for assistance in the 24 hours to 6.30pm and only 30 traffic lights were working across metropolitan Adelaide. Police took to social media to advise the state�s 1.7 million residents not to travel unless it was urgent, with traffic light out�ages and rail crossings blocked by boom gates in emergency mode causing gridlock.

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 29 September 2016 11:07 EDT (US) 2409 / 2504

Welcome back to my world, where the longbow was the pinnacle of technological advancement!

Seriously though, it sounds like quite a storm. I am pleased to read that few people have been hurt or wounded. I wonder how people will do shopping (those who cannot walk to a grocery store), and if the militia has been needed to help assist the emergency services crews.

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 01 October 2016 04:19 EDT (US) 2410 / 2504

A quick question:

Am I allowed to double-post in order to keep the thread going? Enquiring minds would like to know.

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Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 02 October 2016 03:39 EDT (US) 2411 / 2504

I've never double-posted in my life Terikel. *halo*

Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 02 October 2016 03:39 EDT (US) 2412 / 2504

... it's probably alright though.

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 02 October 2016 12:03 EDT (US) 2413 / 2504

Ah, I am relieved.

I would hate to break any rules, however good the intent.

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Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 03 October 2016 09:32 EDT (US) 2414 / 2504

It's lucky I'm such an expert on the rules. I feel a bit like an official external consultant for EXCO now.

After a Summer of having no clue what I want to do having finished my BA in Anglo-Saxon & Celtic (very vocational degree, I know), I have decided to remain a student bum by going back to archaeology again by doing a MA at Durham. Durham's right up in the North of England (practically Scotland! *shudders*) and is absolutely gorgeous - only been here a day so far but it's actually prettier than Cambridge in my opinion.

So that's nice for me. Now to find out about all the admin-y stuff I'm supposed to have already done in order to be a student here.

General Sajaru
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posted 03 October 2016 19:51 EDT (US) 2415 / 2504

Way to go Edorix- keep soaking up that taxpayer money for as long as possible

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 04 October 2016 10:51 EDT (US) 2416 / 2504

Good for you!

You make us proud.

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posted 07 October 2016 03:03 EDT (US) 2417 / 2504

Am I allowed to double-post in order to keep the thread going? Enquiring minds would like to know.

double posts are best posts

unless they're double posts to win the thread then they're worst posts

house won this

Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 07 October 2016 03:56 EDT (US) 2418 / 2504

Surely there's some limitation period on double posting anyway. If it's been a week I think we can safely say you haven't selfishly leapt in before the next person has had a chance to finish drafting his or her post.

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DominicusUltimus
Legate

posted 09 October 2016 04:34 EDT (US) 2419 / 2504

Doubt anyone will have to double post for long since I'm sure some random plebs will make an appearance to try and claim the glory of having the winning post of a 3+ year old party thread

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Awesome Eagle
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posted 09 October 2016 16:16 EDT (US) 2420 / 2504

It is my aim and goal to win this party thread. I think it was the party thread before this (or could be the one before that) that it stalled at 2498 and since you couldnt double post to win i think i took the bullet to let someone else win.

Bring it on! (I dare every to create a surge of activity to get a new party thread by the end of this week. i will do my part..

)

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Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 10 October 2016 07:50 EDT (US) 2421 / 2504

I will try to think of something to say.

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 11 October 2016 12:51 EDT (US) 2422 / 2504

I've been dead in the water for a week or so, and finally able to worm my way back online to say something, only to learn that I forgot.

Old people do that. A lot.

At least I am absolved of the double-post dilemma. I do like Pitt's observation. If it goes a week or more since one's last post, then a subsequent post, even consecutive, does not count as a double. There, decided.

Oh wait, you all should hvae your say as well. I may or may not abide by that, but I can propose to try. All for?

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Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 11 October 2016 18:05 EDT (US) 2423 / 2504

Aye.

"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French." - P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins

UrbanEngine
Legionary

posted 12 October 2016 09:55 EDT (US) 2424 / 2504

Maybe I can be the surge you're talking about. I'm back baby, after many a year. I'm not even an edgy young teenager anymore.

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 13 October 2016 16:10 EDT (US) 2425 / 2504

Aye

Welcome Back!

How bloody hard is it to get a job out there these days! Not me- but my girlfriend is looking endlessly. She got a certification for a job, but the only people that they want need experience, and the jobs that need no experience actually get taken by people with experience anyway.. oh the paradox...

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