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Oh, by far. But I wouldn't be surprised if someone somewhere thought that ALL cheese made in the States is over-processed garbage when that's simply not true.

Hate.

HATE.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE.

Take it easy, AM.

Anyone up for a Sirus the Trucker Goddess/AlleeCat the sapient train ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN OF DESTINY?

... Or is road vs rail not such a huge issue in the states?

Depends on where you are. Near a trainyard? Huge issue. Open road? You can run parallel to trains for a hundred miles or more with no issue.

I'm sorry, I didn't know :<

AKARI HAS JUST TWO MINUTES TO SAVE HIS COMMANDER

(has a 20 minute fight, including at least two minutes of monologues)

And this miserable planet will explode in exactly five minutes!

@Sirus: I'm pretty sure you can't be excommunicated because of the aggressive actions of another faction. If France keeps sieging you, they'll get excommunicated and you can siege them right back. You may have to sit there an wait until either the French army attacks or raises the siege as I can't remember whether sallying forth is an aggressive action or not.

Good news! Sallying forth to drive off a besieging army apparently does NOT count as a hostile action! It was a long, intense battle, and I lost my general to some stupidly-accurate flaming ballista shots, but my brave English soldiers killed or captured all but maybe 30 of the invading French. There was plenty of micromanaging involved, especially with the general's bodyguard which was my only mounted unit, and so it was a constant dance of trying to keep my longbowmen in range of the enemy army while attempting to keep their crossbowmen away from my army. Eventually all of my archers ran out of arrows, requiring the infantry to charge the pitiful remains of the French line.

I attempted to ransom back the captured soldiers, but France was unwilling to pay and thus the poor bastards had to be executed. Such is life in Medieval II: Total War.

...BAD NEWS!
France apparently does not have to worry about excommunication, since they're now laying siege to Paris. Which is my city. And the enforced peace by the Papal States is still in effect. Great. This is what killed my last game of Medieval II because I got sick and tired of having my hands tied behind my back constantly while my enemies could do whatever the hell they wanted.

GOOD NEWS AGAIN!
The army attacking Paris was small. Three units of armored sergeants and a unit of crossbowmen. Through careful micromanagement of a unit of mailed knights and five units of longbowmen, I managed to leave just a single soldier from each enemy unit alive at the cost of two knights. Those four survivors will return to their home villages and speak of the futility and horror of going into battle against England.

We have a SSB3DS thread in the Other Games forum, folks