My first experience with the Civilization series came in the mid-1990s when Sid Meier's original "Civilization" was ported over to the Super Nintendo. Needless to say, the strategy game hooked me immediately and, as the old saying goes, the rest is history.

It wasn't until CivII was ported over to the Macintosh that I was able to toss out my SNES copy and *truly* enjoy the graphical and computational power of CivII. Prior to that, I had to settle for watching my friend — who had a PC — play his copy and attempting to get the same "feel" out of the SNES version. That was in the fall of 1997, and since that time I've upgraded to a faster, more powerful Macintosh. However, CivII is still on my computer, along with C:CtP.

I am aware of Civ II Gold Edition and assisted with some beta testing of various patches that were released. Sadly, I've decided to stick with Civ II and C:CtP after none of the patches were able to address the problem my particular copy of CivII Gold had.

My handle? Well, IRL I am an avid follower of the Amazon Nation, a once-mythical society where women predominated. Archaeological evidence has since been uncovered to substantiate the Amazons existence in the past, thus giving credence to many of the Roman, Greek and ancient accounts of the Amazons. I thought it'd only be natural to select my handle based on this RL admiration for these independent-minded, aggressive and intelligent women. Plus, I like the ability of Civ II, where one can manipulate tribes, cities and terrain. Needless to say, the Amazon Nation is more than a long-dead culture on my copy of Civ II .

Well, this post is getting long. I look forward to interacting with all you folks, moderators and such.

With that said i wish you luck and if i could quote Ming,

"keep on civin"

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Destroy or be Destroyed.
Conquer or be Conquered.
Strategy overcomes any odds.
Hit first,fast,hit last.
I am not a warmonger, i am just aggressively forcefull.

icq 30200920

Thank you for the salutations. As a leader of the Amazon Nation, you will have to go through my lands if you wish to conquer Europe and North Africa. After all, Asia Minor is the superhighway for would-be conquerors ... but only if they can get past the Amazons!

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Destroy or be Destroyed.
Conquer or be Conquered.
Strategy overcomes any odds.
Hit first,fast,hit last.
I am not a warmonger, i am just aggressively forcefull.

icq 30200920

MY icq is 30200920 and let me know.. otherwise email is dieselonly@home.com

Once again thanks for the support

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Destroy or be Destroyed.
Conquer or be Conquered.
Strategy overcomes any odds.
Hit first,fast,hit last.
I am not a warmonger, i am just aggressively forcefull.

icq 30200920

I'm really a pacifistic perfectionist . Doesn't keep me from maintaing a minimum of three combat-hardened defenders w/i my walled cities along with a pair of offensive-minded divisions which like to hunt down errant Mongols. **LOL**

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Destroy or be Destroyed.
Conquer or be Conquered.
Strategy overcomes any odds.
Hit first,fast,hit last.
I am not a warmonger, i am just aggressively forcefull.

icq 30200920

Hmm ... fairly impressive assault force. Good thing for home-grown spies, though. With their visibility from my cities and fortresses, they see your forces coming from afar. Enough time to rush Amazon offensive and defensive components from the core cities to the outlying provinces. We may be nature-worshippers, but that doesn't mean we're limp-wristed. More like fanatical ... a combination of Greenpeace and the 81st Airborne Division.

In the unlikely event of Prince War & Steve leaving anything behind - I would like a piece please.

Welcome CA, join the happy throng

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Scouse Git[1]

Now i am not sure how many units exactly he had but it was more than thirty i am sure.... i had leos and had just upgraded to riflemen and they werent vets.... well after a few attacks they became vets.....

I couldn't whatch as i thought for sure he was going to kill me..... haha i was wrong..... barely a scratch to my units and then i used the three rifleman on attack and destroyed 16 units on one square and five on a nother ...... breathed a sigh of relief cause all his catapults had no chance to hurt me....... needless to say... he was cursing or muttering i am sure and basically that was the game.....

Golden rule.... superior defense in this game always prevails..... war is on the side of the defender if the units are even moderately close in strength.... obviously a battleship will take out a phalanx.... i mean this isnt' civ1 any more

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Destroy or be Destroyed.
Conquer or be Conquered.
Strategy overcomes any odds.
Hit first,fast,hit last.
I am not a warmonger, i am just aggressively forcefull.

icq 30200920

Graag

Graag

I only started playing civII for about 2 months(better late than never) and now I am hooked. Please be nice and don't kill me until I can learn what I am doing.

Steve Clark: HEY! I'm originally from Colorado Springs!

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Different is GOOD!

AOL IM--JacSamDad

I'm actually a 26-year-old young man whose archaelogical, mythological and "what-if" interests have led to an ingrained respect for women who are intelligent, sensual and aggressive. Those are traits, IMHO, of descendants of the historical Amazon Nation.

Since I was born into a male body — and am quite satisfied, thank you — I've decided to settle for recreating the actual Amazons as best as possible. Hence the "cyber" prefix.

MacUser:

Brian and I tested and retested four or five betas that never solved the "application quit upon exit" error. He had some hunches and was working on a lead when his time on CivII was considerably reduced. We managed to fix everything else *except* for that one nettlesome error. It wouldn't be so bad, except one has to reboot the computer afterwards because any program not already running when CivII quit would not launch properly *after* the crash.

Steve Clark: I left Colo Sprgs about the time you arrived! All of my family still lives there and I am amazed at the growth every time I go home for a visit!

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Different is GOOD!

AOL IM--JacSamDad

Definitely consider yourself fortunate. I love CivII and CivII Gold ... unfortunately, the latter's pleasure is *greatly* diminished by its habit of crashing upon exiting it. You said others were complaining about the same thing ... per chance, how could I contact them? Maybe together, bouncing ideas off each other and Brian Nesse, we could solve this crash riddle once and for all.

Welcome, CYBERAmazon. Hope you enjoy these forums as much as I have.

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Frodo lives!