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Topic: Weird Things... Current Date/Time:
April 11, 2000 03:25:29
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C Chulainn
Chieftain
From: Leeds,WestYorks,UK
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 13, 2000 22:03
    
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Sometimes things happen in Civ that would be rather unlikely to happen in reality: today I dropped nuclear missiles on all of an enemy's cities and occupied them - the moment I did, they all began celebrating "We Love the President" Day...
"Hooray! Hooray! Three cheers for the man who just reduced our town to radioactive rubble!"
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CivAddict #1
Warlord
From: Zwolle, Netherlands
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted February 14, 2000 09:47
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Leonardo's Workshop upgraded my elephants to crusaders, think about that one..CA1 |
Wezil
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From: Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted February 14, 2000 11:20
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Maybe it is just a matter of changing the feed CivAddict#1. After all, it is said 'you are what you eat'.  ------------------
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." H.S.T. |
Zulu Elephant
Prince
From: North Yorkshire, England
Registered: Jun 99
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posted February 14, 2000 11:32
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Using engineers to change the ground under your city to hills - Raising an entire city |
C Chulainn
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From: Leeds,WestYorks,UK
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 17, 2000 20:13
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Another good one is turning everyone into an entertainer, so there's no food - the citizens are overjoyed that they're all starving. |
War4ever
King
From: Vancouver, B.C. Canada PST
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted February 17, 2000 20:33
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or the one scentist who makes the city content even though they were just revolting??? this concept is revolting lol |
poppawoppa
Chieftain
From: Chico, CA USA
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 22, 2000 20:39
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Sorry I'm so dense, but what is the meaning of lol? I have tried to use "lots of luck" but that just don't fit. Huh? |
War4ever
King
From: Vancouver, B.C. Canada PST
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted February 22, 2000 21:08
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Poppawoppa lol is lots of laughs or laughing out loud.....ROFLMAO is rolling on the floor laughing my ass off  |
Scouse Gits
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From: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted February 23, 2000 04:43
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poppawoppa - you are not the first and will not be the last to be totally confused by all our little abreviations - try out: ../../Forum1/HTML/000967.html
I think you will find it helpful------------------
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Scouse Git[1] "CARTAGO DELENDA EST" - Cato the Censor |
poppawoppa
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From: Chico, CA USA
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 23, 2000 19:24
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SG THANKS! |
KhanMan
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From: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 23, 2000 20:45
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Diplomacy, anyone?Can you see, in Real Life, a civilization being allied with another one year, break the alliance and declare war the next year, and being bought off by their original allies the third year? Also, how 'bout them horsemen charging right into the gun barrels of tanks? -KM
"Sic semper pax mundis"
"Hoi legoi kakoi estin, te kai tous philous xairon!"
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Mark von Wagner
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Registered: May 99
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posted February 24, 2000 01:41
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Also, how 'bout them horsemen charging right into the gun barrels of tanks?
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During World War I, this sort of thing did happen occasionally. Usually, it was horsemen charging machine gun posts, but once or twice some idiot of a commander ordered a cavalry charge against a tank. quote:
Can you see, in Real Life, a civilization being allied with another one year, break the alliance and declare war the next year, and being bought off by their original allies the third year?
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I do not know of this entire sequence occurring, but during World War II, the Germans and the Soviet Union were allied for their invasion of Poland. The alliance lasted for less than a year before Germany invaded the Soviet-occupied portion of Poland, and from there tried to conquer the Soviets. Mark
[This message has been edited by Mark von Wagner (edited February 24, 2000).] |
KhanMan
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From: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 24, 2000 03:29
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They had that kind of stupidity back during the later Middle Ages in Europe, but I was thinking, what kind of country can risk that in the nuclear age?...hmmm...scratch that...we got away with quite a lot... How 'bout them legions lining up in battle formation to charge a battle ship stuck in port...dented swords anyone? -KhanMan |
The Mad Viking
Chieftain
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted February 24, 2000 12:47
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How about a (vet) Cavalry not only charging a tank, but taking it out without getting more than a scratch itself!!! |
Field Marshal Klesh
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From: Massachusetts, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted February 24, 2000 14:47
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In many WWII scenarios, the capture of Berlin leads to a pop-up about hitler's suicide. But when one then checks with the foriegn minister, hitler still leads the Germans! |
mindseye
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From: San Francisco, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 99
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posted February 24, 2000 21:06
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Also, how 'bout them horsemen charging right into the gun barrels of tanks?
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Didn't this happen in WWII when the Wehrmacht rolled into Poland, which still posessed major cavalry units? Or how about Warriors facing Armor? This happened when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia. I once read that Ethiopians were able to immobilize the crummy Italian Semovente tanks by prying the tracks off the wheels! Okay, here is my nomination for Civ2 Weird Thing: Alpine Troops skiing across open desert. |
Captain Nemo
Prince
From: USA
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 25, 2000 11:49
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How about engineers mining the Himalayas into foothills... |
Miner
Warlord
From: London
Registered: Jul 1999
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posted February 25, 2000 16:24
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Guderians Panzers rolling into Poland at the start of WW2. They were charged by the Pomeranian (sp?) Cavalry and wiped out, every man & horse.In Civ2 though, chances are you will kill Armour with Cavalry, which is why I give the pikemen flag to Armour. |
Miner
Warlord
From: London
Registered: Jul 1999
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posted February 25, 2000 16:28
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Anyway, I think the weirdest thing is returning Nukes/Cruise Missiles'Quick launch the nukes...no not that way...that way ... oh no they've moved... quick shove it back down the launch tube before anyone notices...' |
mindseye
Chieftain
From: San Francisco, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 99
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posted February 25, 2000 18:54
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Speaking of weird activity by Nukes & Cruise Missiles, how about the whole idea of them flying from one city to another? You know how the AI loves to shuffle Cruise Missiles into a threatened city. What does this represent, the entire support team and its defensive units climbing aboard the missiles themselves and soaring over the ocean to another city and ... landing? It's too bad there isn't a mechanism in the game that forces you to re-locate missiles by transporting them, not flying them. |
Peacemaker
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From: The land of Boneheads
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted February 26, 2000 15:04
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How about the fact that you must defend every city with a military unit or it will be easily taken over by another country.O gee the French just captured Cincinnati. ------------------
Don't let the name fool you!!!
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Seeker
King
From: Canada(UWO)
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 26, 2000 16:29
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Military unit's in Communism make the people "happy"? "You vill be happy, Kamerad, or you vill be shot"!! |
KhanMan
Warlord
From: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Registered: b.02-15-99
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posted February 26, 2000 20:44
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Fundamentalism making cathedrals, temples, etc. unnecessary..."Sorry, guys, but now that the High Priest is in power, we're going to raise your places of worship..." -KhanMan
"Ie Jesu Dominae Pro Tempore;
Sic semper Spiritus Dominae..." |
Fiji
Settler
From: Antwerp,Belgium
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted March 02, 2000 05:51
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how about these:a USA or UK or Japanese (or ...) yacht goes faster than a Norwegian yacht because US/UK/Japan have nuclear power and Norway doesn't the ancient egyptians have been working for decades on their pyramide and when it's almost finished, the pharao decides that he want's a big bronze statue in stead and poof, all the stones miraculasly become bronze |
Scouse Gits
Prince
From: Liverpool, United Kingdom
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted March 02, 2000 07:37
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ROFLMAO @ Fiji
That is a beaut!! but of course the poor old Egyptians had actually been labouring for centuries not decades!   ------------------
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edgecrusher
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From: amsterdam, NY, USA
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted March 02, 2000 20:14
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women's sufferage makes it so women like it when their husbands go off and get killed overseas(or on the same continent...)------------------
i've had the poison leak into my skin
and it corroded my heart away
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Sirotnikov
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From: Israel
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted March 10, 2000 22:17
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China, while having 4 size 3 cities and almost no military force declares war on russia (11 cities), greeks (16 cities) and vikings (8 big cities) in the same turn.Spain is at war with egypt, convinces the persians to attack egypt, in a couple of turns signing peace, a "Madrid pact to contain persian agression" and finally allying with Egypt against you because you wouldn't pay them 6320 gold for no f***ing reason. You discover the secret of electricty by visiting ruins of an old village. No, just kidding. Never happened. I think after a certain level of tech. acheaved entering a village automatically gives you money.
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myrlyn
ACS Civ2 DB Helper
From: glasford,il usa
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted March 11, 2000 15:21
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Question for Miner
What is the source material for your statement? I have read vast amounts of material on the sep 39 campaign and have never came accross such a reference. However
i have read accounts by an italian war corrospondent that claimed the exact same thing. Alas never with any proof.
http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/~rzepinsk/1939/html/cav.htm Wishing to increase my knowledge. Thanks
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tobyr
Warlord
From: Princeton, NJ USA
Registered: Oct 1999
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posted March 13, 2000 10:50
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My favorite:
Abraham Lincoln demanding that the Persians give America the secret of Democracy.- toby
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