February 2012
I'm going to write a childrens' book called...
Featuring beautiful hand-drawn images of eight year olds smoking Woodbines happily.
Thank fuck they've finally evicted the bastards...
Took them bloody long enough.
gaydetectives:
i want to become a magical girl where do i sign up
you know who would have made a great American...
fwips:
Hey Sherlock, get over here, man.
I found some
Fresh Prints.
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India Makes An Offer:
Whilst fishing for trading agreements to prop up the failing Prussian economy (with 20,000 pounds spent on the two new standing armies and social improvements in Spring alone), the Indian Marathas gave me an odd offer.
Prussia, naturally, refused. An overseas empire means nothing without a unified Germany or a unified Prussia.
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Prussia Begins:
Central Europe, Spring, 1700 - this is what I’m concerned with.Prussia itself is divided into East and West Prussia - these must be united swiftly, otherwise standing armies can do nothing but stare across the Polish corridor.
I’ve got three options - I can either sit for several years building trading fleets and despatching them to Africa for slaves (ivory) to fund my military...
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Okay, let's finally start this liveblog.
It may be piss poor tonight. This is the night I do an all-nighter every week.
the makeup in the Iron Lady was great
dorothy-cotton:
look how
natural that looks
you
people
shoosh
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Well, I can almost begin the E:TW liveblog.
This will be fun. I do love 18th century field battles.
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“Nobody paid you to worry in the Army.”
– David Howarth, ‘Waterloo: A Near Run Thing’
Wargaming: Quatre Bras
This is my first goal.
Dutch Belgians, Ney’s Corps, Wellington, Picton, the Brunswickers…
It’s going to be incredible.
I also need to try and build the Bossu Wood at some point.
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“It was the dawn of Sunday, 18 June 1815.
Of all those thousands of...”
– - David Howarth, ‘Waterloo: A Near Run Thing’
A nonfiction book where the opening paragraphs made me shiver. Yesssss.
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I'll be able to start this liveblog soon,...
Oh, hurry up, internet.
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Matt's Vintage Ramblings: Were my internet not... →
caesarindahood:
mattsvintage:
Oh well, house rules whilst we wait:
Play with four turn years, two turns of summer, two of winter.
No movement in enemy territory during winter except to withdraw to friendly territory.
Double-sized units, including artillery batteries (8 guns instead of four)
In revolutions, always side…
Ah Empire Total War. I played Rome a little while ago and it’s nice...
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Oh, and...
I’ll be playing with the DMUC mod and its adjusted rulesets and AI on Normal/Hard to stop the game from simply being a miserable failure from turn 1 and in some attempt to improve the historical accuracy.
I’ll have to make sure I can get screenshots working.
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Were my internet not throttling itself to death I...
Oh well, house rules whilst we wait:
Play with four turn years, two turns of summer, two of winter.
No movement in enemy territory during winter except to withdraw to friendly territory.
Double-sized units, including artillery batteries (8 guns instead of four)
In revolutions, always side with the Royalists.
Attempt to maintain the old states of Europe (France, Britain, Sweden, Russia,...
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almightysempai answered your question: Oh, why not.
Prussia!
Preussen it is!
I’ll write some house-rules for this playthrough up soon.
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Oh, why not.
Once it finally installs and I’ve fiddled with some things…
Prussia or the United Kingdom?
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Tempted to liveblog Empire:Total War, turn by...
And battle by battle.
Because quite frankly, it’s amaaaaaazing. Well, it is once it’s modded, anyway.
Should I?
