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Just ask and I'll take this down. Remember that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, though. :p

Ha ha, I've got no problem with this. TBH keeping both the HttT and IN list updated was pretty encumbering for me so I'm relieved that I don't have to make a new one for DW. Best luck to you guys.

As for me I've recently discovered my masochistic tendencies and started playing Magna Mundi Ultimate, so I won't be getting DW on steam until an update from team MM is released for the expansion.

"It's starting to bore me how much you suck!" - The Scout, TF2

upon killing a dominated opponent

K, download the save file here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bzxqggl0Nt_8M2M2MDk5OTctNmU1Mi00NjgwLThiNjQtNzAwN2M2YjY2M2Fl&hl=en&authkey=CJTsgIsB

I have to ask, am I the only one who has never actually played a complete game of EUIII?

I either

A) get bored
B) Get pissed at something
C) Forget about the game, then start a new one, then don't feel like going back.

I know I haven't played further than the beginning of the 16th century from the 1399 start. I prefer to play short, 30 year periods as a given country with some set goals. Most fun were probably returning Byzantium to glory or forming Ireland.

But 400 year spanning world conquests do sound like fun. I guess I just don't have the tenacity to pull off something like this or this.

I would like to complain about Silent Storm. Specifically, when I'm playing Silent Storm, I regret that I could be playing Jagged Alliance 1.13 instead.

So why won't I play that instead you ask? Simple. I know that if I switch then I will start regretting that I'm not playing Silent Storm.

Both games have flaws that the other doesn't have.

I get frustrated with the weak AI in S2 that, although it outnumbers you will never take advantage and rush your cover position with a human wave, that way 6 guys can reliably assault a building occupied by thirty to forty armed hostiles. When I lose a battle and have to reload I usually feel that I was duped by the dice rather than that I have made a tactical error. The weapons are kind of meh and lack the variety that is in JA with the tons of guns setting, and oh, there is no body armor, or clothes. I get angry with the WW2 setting which I hate(especially with the scifi/alt history bullshit later on), the lighthearted fictional war that takes place in Arulco is just so much better. I'm bored to death by the strategic map and pre-mission preparations that feel like they could all be handled in just one menu instead of different load zones, while in JA the most important decisions are made in the strategic map.

If I were to start playing JA however I would immediately miss S2's gorgeous graphics, 3d map that lets you adjust the view, and most of all, that awesome physics engine and destructible buildings. Only in S2 can you hear a hostile soldier creaking in the attic of a building and order your heavy machine gunners to unload full-auto over their heads, breaking through the roof and killing him. Only in S2 can you decide that instead of fighting a hangar full of mecha nazis you will simply plant enough explosives at its foundations to raze the entire hangar in one controlled explosion, killing all inside.

Both games are excellent but playing one makes me think of the other.

It is regrettable that games cannot have babies because if these two combined their genes then the result may well have been perfection.

you have hero units which are amazingly powerful

Oh shit that sounds horrible.

Giant Enemy Crab : Total War anyone?

The japan mission before the castle. Disguises don't work and you have to take a tunnel route which provides no cover and your enemies have night vision. Professional grade is possible if you just run once you get an alert.