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Please read this post. :( I am really very sorry to have to leave the Civ 2 Demo Game just as we were establishing ourselves as the world's premier power and purveyor of doughnuts. I would have liked to have given Duke more notice but as you can see it is entirely out of my hands and I am...

The election polls have closed and the new members of the Fanatica cabinet are taking their places in Regia Civitas' impressive senate chamber. After all of the legal wrangling and questions in the house with regard to chads, the new government looks like this: President - MonkE Vice...

The usual suspects line up for the election to the Fanatical editor's desk? Will a different editor mean a radical change of style for the paper? Are you willing to take that risk or are you happy with this journal as it is? Once again, Octavian X and steviep allow you, the readership, to decide...

Despite their first victories in the last term, and the first capture of an enemy city (capture, purchase - they're almost the same thing), our armies are restless for more action, and more particularly anxious for the opportunity to collect some more pointy Viking helmets from their foes. Will...

Through a clever system of researching some stuff and nicking from the Vikings, Leowind brings his tenure as Science Advisor to a glorious end. His leadership of the NUF boffins has brought many great advances for the realm and we are leading the world in our technological prowess! :goodjob...

The frontiers of the NUF seem to have halted their expansion for the time being, but plans are afoot for boat trips to the islands visible to the south, and some to the land inhabited by the Vikings to our northeast. Who will lead these settlers as they go to colonise new lands and meet and...

The Ministry of the Interior has been in a fever of activity in recent weeks as new cities are founded all the time, and more troops are required to pursue our war against the Viking invaders. Now that we are able to build ships to take the war to them, will this mean that we may have to make...

After the shock abdication of Queen Jayne (some people talked about building an Oracle so that the government wouldn't be caught out like this again but were laughed out of the senate), the throne of Fanatica is empty once again. Queen Jayne has been persuaded (with apparently very little help...

"The time has come", the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax and the elections upcomings". Yes, ladies and gentlemen (I think only Leowind qualifies for the latter, but a recount is underway), it is once again time to decide who will guide the glorious...

We have been cruising along quite nicely on 30/70/0 for some time, and the techs are coming in with regularity. However, it has been suggested that the Indians will be nearly finished with their Colossus project and that we might have to buy the remaining shields to ensure that we get this very...

We, the shareholders of the new Fanatical newspaper, have come to our monthly board meeting to elect an editor to take charge of our paper for its first month of publication. Bear in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that we require someone who can ensure that we meet publication dates with good...

'tenn shun! The citizens are alarmed that barbarian hordes may try to encroach upon NUF territory and we need someone with a tactical mind (and a pointy helmet preferably) to hold them off until we can begin "persuading" them to join our civilisation with some cash. Two men have answered the...

This seems to be a very popular job, with no-one who was nominated refusing to do it! Mind you, the exploration of our home island seems almost finished so what will the Foreign Advisor do after that? Hopefully press for exploration of more distant climes! Despite having retired from the...

It has taken two months of play, but we are finally very close to getting a new style of government and a new regime in Regia Civitas' Palace. Will this mean that the despot civ1-addict's science advisor will lose his job (and his head), or can he continue to keep up the good work under a new...

Now is a time for great decisions in the Empire. Our cities lead the world in production but they need strong leadership to ensure that this production is directed in the way that people want, and not to the construction of even more concert halls and discotheques for our Elvis impersonators to...

The empire has prospered under the reign of civ1-addict the first and we are about to build our first wonder! The second ruler of the Fanatica Empire has decided to take retirement for the time being and so the throne is empty! :eek: Now is the time for you, the people, to decide which of these...

That time has come round again, and the duke finds himself wearing his electoral commissioner hat, adjusting it to a slightly more rakish tilt in the mirror, and setting off around the provinces to check up on the new candidates for government positions. We seem to be doing quite well, apart...

We've got nearly 300 posts describing the amazingly dumb things that the AI has done in various game, but I want one that shows the blunders you have made. Now please don't be shy - we've all made some daft mistakes - and please submit. Maybe you thought that your tactic was great until you...

After the terrible job done by the previous science minister (who was that? ;)), the empire needs someone who will take a firm line with the bureaucrats and direct our research expertly, squeezing every last beaker from the cities to make the NUF the best-read people on this world. The...

We haven't yet discovered any other signs of life on this brave new world but we know they're out there and we need someone to direct our attempts to find them. Who is the new Erik the Red (or Colombus, whichever you prefer) to seek out (and inevitably destroy) new civilisations and guide our...