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If Sun Tzu saw you play the Total war games

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  • SpycrabSpycrab Registered Users Posts: 1,373
    edited September 2011
    @The Weaver

    I call bull excrement! Babel fish can't be that accurate!

    Otherwise, wonderful story.
    At the end of the day, if someone cares enough to come and post on the forums, it doesn't matter if the post is good or bad, it means that Total War is something really important to them, so I don't take it personaly.

    -Will CA


    Criticizing is not wrong, initating a witch hunt however is.
  • Ancient_RuffianAncient_Ruffian Registered Users Posts: 2,861
    edited September 2011
    @Spycrab - read The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - I'm sure they're pretty accurate. Survival of the fittest and all that. If they weren't accurate they wouldn't get used. ;)
    OSWALD: This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared at suit of his gray beard,--

    KENT: Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?
    - King Lear, Act II Sc. ii

    The entity previously known as The Weaver.
  • Napoleon 2ndNapoleon 2nd Registered Users Posts: 2,151
    edited September 2011
    The weaver- It's not the fittest, but the ones who are the most adaptable to change! And i'd know.....
    'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the ones who are the most adaptable to change' Charles Darwin

    But I have a thing for cannon...
  • Ancient_RuffianAncient_Ruffian Registered Users Posts: 2,861
    edited September 2011
    Well, given that language is constantly changing, the Babel fish would have to be very adaptable to change just to survive.

    I actually cannot believe I am seriously discussing this.
    OSWALD: This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared at suit of his gray beard,--

    KENT: Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?
    - King Lear, Act II Sc. ii

    The entity previously known as The Weaver.
  • NaishoNaisho Registered Users Posts: 3,426
    edited September 2011
    Be careful or someone might respond by reciting "Ode To A Small Lump Of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" which translates perfectly everytime.
    1---/\__/\
    1=(O-"-O)=/\
    1--- / | | \--/ -|
    1---| \-/ \-_ /
    1--( Neko )

    Naisho the Neko

    "You have raised assorted issues under what might be termed a “I-don’t-like-it because-I-say-it’s-not-historical” banner. This isn't quite the same as "justified", I'm sorry to say." -MikeB
  • crimson_shadecrimson_shade Registered Users Posts: 137
    edited September 2011
    i like Naisho and The Weaver's posts....

    supply lines would make things more interesting but also really annoying, like being poked wiht a tiny needle. on the grand scheme of things, it hardly matters, but you're loosing troops nonetheless.

    to answer the question, i think he would watch for a while, facepalm himself (from utter disapproval), b-splap me (for incompetence), break the computer (for failing to portray combat as it really is), and walk away shaking his head (with disappointment).
    • Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
    • Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
    • Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.
    Sun Tzu
  • Napoleon 2ndNapoleon 2nd Registered Users Posts: 2,151
    edited September 2011
    Wait- is that Empire or Nappy? LOL :)
    'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the ones who are the most adaptable to change' Charles Darwin

    But I have a thing for cannon...
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