Hi everyone,
I am by no means new to the world of civ. Played my first uneasy chieftain turns of the original CIV back in 1992 (Am I the only one who always thought of settlers as smiley faces?) - screwed up a few final exams as a result but it was worth it.
After that, I became a continual latecomer. When CIV II was released, my comp was so old, it took about half a minute to move my first settler from one square to another. Dont worry: a few years later I lost a lot of sleep learning to dominate the CIV II world.
By the time CIV III was released, I immediately immersed myself, but having just become a content productive citizen myself, with a girlfriend no less, I never found the time to really master the game.
Since a few months, I have a little more time on my hands and decided to dedicate some of it to Conquests, at which I now consider myself an intermediate player. Last week I won my first game at Monarch with Japan - I love the Samurai, for the 4/4/2 ofcourse, but even more for the sound and movement of it's sword *shwoosh-twingg-shwoosh*.
Of course I am aware of the fact that C-IV is now available, but I decided to learn to master Conquests first, to extend my total enjoyment of the whole CIV-legacy.
I stumbled on CFC recently when I was looking for some details and strategy concerning Armies. I felt really stupid when I realised discussing strategy, bugs etc. with fellow fanatics via the internet has been possible for years (duh...) but never did. Guess I was to focussed on my early days of exchanging floppy's with my school friends.
Well, to make a long boring story short and sharp:
I intend to join in some COTM games, to deflate my ego with regard to having mastered the game, tho I guess it will not be long before I cannot resist the C-IV temptation anymore.
) I still have to find a way to add it to Sevo's great mod 
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