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Sick Opening Screen: Open the game in Dosbox. There are three different opening screens. I'm planning on using the other two opening screens later on in the LP.

Relation Screen: Shift-B.

Aqizzar: I meant to invade (to take Egypt by surprise), but the game wouldn't let me. Either because I didn't have any troops on the border to invade (meaning I have to deploy all troops), or that I tried to make relations better, and the game wouldn't want me to invade a country that I wanted to make happier.

Deploying all troops on the border is different from invasion. It means that your troops are there to provide protection in case the enemy attacks. However, since deploying all troops indicate to the enemy that you are likely to invade, relations goes down, and your enemy nation may invade first.

I lay a third claim to the Sniper Rifle.

"No, no, don't you see? If you go and kill everyone, you'll only let the terrorists win! You don't want to be a terrorist, nobody does. Killing is immoral, you cannot deny people natural rights. Nobody deserves to die!

Instead, maim everybody you encounter. Not kill them. By maiming them, you showcase American might and power, manitan a level of self-defense, while at the same time, respecting the individual's right to life."

Did I? He did lie about a temple to be built in his name... Xenoprossic society has a lot of deceit and overthrowing. What makes you think I created a better world for all?

And what made you think that I believed what I said about you being just and how we might be able to cooperate? I'm also an Xenopross.

Since World War II, we have been told that no major wars have occurred. In reality, there have been many small scale confrontations all over the world which have not developed into larger wars mainly because of Super-power pressure and fear of nuclear holocaust. But, the Superpowers are in decline. Japanese economic strength increases the U.S. deficit. New Soviet leaders are concentrating more on internal problems than foreign affairs. The days of purely military campaigns have gone. All modern battles have definite political objectives.

Today, the Middle East is as unstable and dangerous as any time since the Crusades. The Superpowers encourage their fighting cocks and try out their state-of-the art military gadgets. It is the potential cradle for World War III.

The latest such "test" of military weapons had its roots in 1996, when a famous Egyptian hotel mogul, Hisham Talaat Moustafa, was  arrested in the Gaza Strip on allegations of supporting terrorism. There was the usual protests throughout the Arab world about this unjust action...

But this Egypt hotel mogul also happened to be a Senator of Egypt and a personal friend of the  General Hosni Murbark's son, Gamal. To see one of his political allies removed from power would be a great blow to General Murbark. To let all his business assets (rumored to be worth a billion dollars) be seized by Israel...would be intolerable.

While the mogul was held in an undisclosed location for interrogation,  Mossad reported that his brother, Tarek, financed a small private army of mercs. At the time, we merely thought that its main goal was to rescue Moustafa, and so boosted up security. However, it appeared we were WRONG.



After the murder of the Prime Minister of Israel in December 29th, 1996, our troops began cross-border raids into Egypt, in order to hunt down Tarek Talaat Moustafa and prevent his network from conducting any further destabilization of our country. The Egyptian government claimed that Tarek had no responsibility for the assassination, and furthermore called the cross-border raids a violation of the Camp David agreement.

To make matters worse, a reassertive Iran is opening up old wounds, and is blaming Iraq for supporting Arab separatists with both supplies and special operation troops. Our diplomats was busy laying the groundwork for a Military Pact, but Iraq would never be able to sustain a military offensive by Iran. Our main hope for having a lasting friendship within the Middle East...gone. We're going to face Egypt alone.



As the new Prime Minister, my goal was to protect Israel through these tough times. This was not what I signed up for when I entered into politics, but I did not look a gift horse in the mouth.

I first took a look at the data Mossad provided me on the Arab states.



Then the US ambassador walked into my room, officially to wish me good luck on my rule. Unoffically...

These cross-border raids are---

You haven't dealt with terrorists on a daily basis. We are doing it to protect ourselves. You saw what happened to our previous Prime Minister...

And I know, I know. Still, these cross-border raids threaten to increase tensions within the Middle East, and we...we can't have that. Please, I beg you to talk to Egypt, and find some sort of peaceful resolution.



I am calling on behalf of the Israeli government in order to try and establish good ties.

While you still conduct border raids. How nice.

Do you think I even want to talk to you? I am only doing so because the US Ambassador wants peace in the Middle East. Your father wanted peace in the Middle East too. Ever thought of him?

He didn't expect you to betray that peace and frame my friend. Goodbye.

And good riddance.



See, Ambassador?

You didn't help by declaring an end to the cross-border raids.

Then Egypt shouldn't be friends with known terrorists.

I don't think you guys have actually proven anything. For all the general public knows, he could have been an innocent victim.

This may be hard to understand, Prime Minister...but we will not grant you a blank check to do whatever you want and upset the Middle East. Egypt and the US has been working together to counter the ever-present Soviet threat, and to spread democracy throughout the world. I do not want this situation to escalate out of hand and our friendship with Egypt to suffer.

Nobody said a war is going to break out, Ambassador. That's the last thing anyone want. The cross-border raids will continue, but we're going to limit them, in order to respect your concerns.



Yeah, well, whatever you do, don't restart your nuclear program. Nuclear proliferation will never be productive to a lasting peace in the Middle East. I'll try using whatever soft power I can in order to bring Tarek to justice.



I thank you for that. Now...let focus on more important issues. Where are the weapons?

Let's see here...



ONLY 25 million? What about that 4 billion dollars that we have given to you in December?

Oh we spent all of that on resuming---er...resuming our drills of military troops.

Those are some expensive drills. I can't really link you up to any of our defense contractors until next month. I'm so sorry.

After the American Ambassador left, the Iraqi Ambassador came in.



Israel, you must have read the news...

Yes I did. I don't want the Iranians on my doorsteps, but, we have our own war with Egypt brewing. We'll keep trade lines open, and the Iraqi President can live here in exile, but...

There is a better solution, Israel. I got a list of contacts in Egypt, back during the first Persian Gulf War. Your intelligence agencies could use these contacts to foment unrest within Egypt, and eventually begin an insurgency. Establish a puppet government, or start a civil war, it doesn't matter. You'll live another day...



Mossad has been trying to get a list of Egyptian dissent groups for years! The government of Israel thank you greatly.

...and you will get such a list if you assist us in our quest to overthrow Iran once and for all by supporting their insurgencies.

Consider it done.

The idea of backing insurgencies really got me thinking about some of my rivals. Palestine actually have been fairly quiet these past five years, but with the war with Egypt coming up soon, it is rather likely that the Palestine problem will grow. I deploy some Israeli troops and requested from Mossad a list of dissent groups from the primary sponsors of the PLO: Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.




The only major dissent group I was able to find was the "Islamic Unity Brigade" branch of Jordan. A very powerful Islamist organization desiring to unite Muslims together in a Holy Jihad to protect their faith from infidels. I didn't like working with the Islamists as any Israeli would have, but if the Islamic Unity Brigade focuses on overthrowing the secular Arab governments instead of attacking Israel, I will do what was necessary.

Meanwhile, through the diplomatic channels, Lebanon, in no uncertain terms, denounced me for my close relations with Syria. And it is here that I convene the Cabinet for the first of many meetings.

"You see, Lebanon and Syria secretly hate each other, and you and I know that we both secretly hate both countries. Lebanon is getting angry that I am cozying up to Syria, but that's only because I don't like Syria threatening the Golan Heights, especially with rising tensions with Egypt.

I have been funding an insurgency in Lebanon to overthrow the country, while talking to Lebanon and pretending to be nice. Lebanon hasn't fallen for my charms, and now Syria is screaming at me for somehow talking to the evil Lebanon government.

So what should I do? Should I stop talking to Lebanon, and continue funding its insurgency, so as to appease Syria? Or should I start repairing relations with Lebanon and start upsetting Syria? Lebanon is an incredibly weak country, not even worth an alliance offer, and I don't want an Syria invasion. But at the same time, Lebanon---

The Cabinet looked at me.

Listen, I'm dealing with the Egyptian threat in the calm, rational and deliberate manner that Israel is best known for. So, what will you say?

Well, the point was to influence people to support the entity, and then get those people to form those communes (so that they can stay...you know...alive). Of course, knowing that Illieum intended for the results of my turn to be not what I expect...I expect to be totally [BEEPED]. So I am waiting until next turn, so that I know how best to react to the solution.

World of DanceCraftRevolution

I thought that already exist. If you have Xbox Live and Dance Dance Revolution: UltraMix 2, you get to play in Combat Mode where you fight against other Dancers (or even 'cooperate' with them in doing hard Dance Raids). I don't think there is a ranking system though measuring how well you outdanced those dancers...but I wouldn't be suprised if they did.

So, this is an oxymoron, isn't it? Living creatures supposed to have a soul [if you believe in it at all], but the undeads are not living creatures.

But they may be living.

Look at the root word of "undead". It means, Not Dead. If you are not dead, then you may have life.

However, I don't think scientifically, they would be considered living. They can adapt, react to stimuli, are composed of one or more cells, regulate their inner body tempature...but they do not engage in Metabolism, cannot grow, and cannot reproduce. So, they are not really alive.

As a former player of Urban Dead, a game where zombies are known to be super-intelligent elite commandos taking out the hordes of humanity, I think zombies do have souls, are self-aware, and are willing to do whatever they can for the glory of the Horde. However, I am willing to believe that the Undead Horde itself has one Soul, and that one Soul controls all the other zombies as puppets. This is because zombie hordes usually work together for one specific goal, and don't wage war on each other, and the idea of an Undead Horde of 60,000 having just one Soul makes sense to me.

I don't think necromancers exist in this game, do they? If they do, and if Undead are ruled to be puppets, then the way to destroy an Undead Horde is to just kill the necromancer or let the necromancer die of old age. The puppet no longer works. That seems too easy. Also...have anyone considered that the Undead may occur naturally in areas contaminted by Dark Magic?
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Then we go into people who can be called into their bodies from their afterlife in defense of something. Mummies are a great example of this.

Ugh. Mummies. Listen, mummies are people who are buried with bandages to be sent to the Afterlife. The body exist as a place where the person's soul has to come back so that he can go and eat food in this world before he returns back to the Afterlife where he go out and party. The Mummy isn't going to stand up and fight, he's just going to go down to this world, see some lovely hamburger somebody left behind in his tomb, and gobble it up. And the soul has to eat food, because if he doesn't, he'll die of starvation.