This being my first post, I don't know whether to post it here or elsewhere. Anyway, glad to make your acquaintance, I admire and love the emperor Napoléon! Does anyone else??

I think I've come across a different kind of board....ehh.......

:hmm: This isn't really Civ3 related. Perhaps you should go to World Hostory or Off Topic.

Welcome to CFC :) But no this isn't the right place to do this at all. Try the Colosseum Off-Topic area

Gonna wait before hearing back from Cyzarine before moving the thread. S/He could just be saying that Joan was a poor choice and Napolean should have been the leader. This would be perfectly acceptable Civ3 discussion. Lord knows it's happened enough here...

I think there should be a choice for female players to have a - better looking! - Jeanne d'Arc as the leader of the French, but hey, Louis XIV and Napoleon suit me personally better.

I do not love Napoleon however, I am straight! ;)

Hey, take that back! Joanie is pretty cute till she pulls out the GI Jane look.;)

You are right, Jeanne changes into a real TANK GIRL clone... :) but how can you call her cute, don't you love Theodora, Gengis? ;)

Once Joan gets to the Modern Age, she becomes hard to look at. So hard to look at that I don't want to trade with her. Same with Smoke-Jaguar in the Industrial Age. He looks weird.

I trade with anyone, ugly or not.

Napoleon was a good influence in bringing the administrative talents of generals and scribes to the service of the french people. He is, after all, the first Great Leader of the French, no? However, the wars that brought him power ultimately defeated him.

Perhaps Cyzarine has gone to bed, or has been exhiled to Corisca by now. Adieu, fair post...

Once Joan gets to the Modern Age, she becomes hard to look at. So hard to look at that I don't want to trade with her. Same with Smoke-Jaguar in the Industrial Age. He looks weird.

As long as we don't know yet what this thread's topic is, I'll go ahead and say that I'd rather trade with modern Joan than modern Henry the Navigator. Maybe this has been brought up before--there could be a whole thread on it, for all I know--but am I the only one who thinks he looks like Jesse Ventura? :eek:

Once Joan gets to the Modern Age, she becomes hard to look at. So hard to look at that I don't want to trade with her. Same with Smoke-Jaguar in the Industrial Age. He looks weird.
You mean how she is bald :lol:?

Aha now I see I've joined the wrong board completely! Sorry everyone, and would somebody delete this thread? : )

Why delete? We do have a history subforum. Stick around, check it out....

Thread moved to World History

He is, after all, the first Great Leader of the French, no?


And Charlemagne?

Napoléon was a dictaor who murdered people and subjugated nearly whole Europe. He also made the Code civil and other good things and he made the national states. But he was only a dictator. Charlemagne, Steph is a German as well as a French, He was the Frankish king and under his grandsons the empire was devided in three and then two sister states which were foes for over 1000 years (more or less): France and Germany.

Adler

Charlemagne, Steph is a German as well as a French,
Perhaps, but does it prevent him from being the first French Great Leader?

Perhaps finding a compromise: He was BOTH first great leader, German and French. Okay?

Adler

Perhaps finding a compromise: He was BOTH first great leader, German and French. Okay?

Adler
Fine with me! I just wanted to point that France history doesn't start and end with Napoleon. There were others before, and others after

Some of those who fought under Louis XIV's reign were considered great in their time as soldiers. Napoleon... well I don't love him, he was a decent general and an efficient national leader. I do not however think he was a genius, or to be more precise he wasn't regularly a genius, or even a great general :p

Maybe he just liked short-range 19th century cannons. ;)

Maybe I missed the point, but I got the impression that that statement meant he was the first in the list of Great Leaders for the French civ in Civ III. If that's what was meant, then it's certainly true. If it literally meant that he was the first great leader the French people ever had, then it's demonstrably false, but I just didn't get the feeling that's what was meant.