Recent content by joshuakira

china has fought for land outside it's traditional cultural borders. manchuria and tibet being quite obvious examples. also their attempts to make vassals out of vietnam, the rest of indo-china, and korea are further evidence. also, what do you think the wars they fought with russia and india...

the americans didn't have that US cavalry under washington or roosevelt. neither elizabeth or victoria ruled with redcoats. napoleon didn't employ musketeers. what's the problem? they're civ specific nothing to do with the leaders.

i thought there was something about the fields being white or something too?

i kind of like the modern music better than the classical age stuff.........but i usually like some hendrix or zep, pumpkins, u2........maybe a nice long house or breaks set. sometimes i just trun the music off and watch tv.

oooooo, i'm not arguing people that disagree with me, read the quotes. saying that american revolution wasn't followed by systematic forced labor to the death is just rediculous. calling communism the cheif source of human suffering in the 20th century is just as rediculous. these guys...

it's a political game.......and it's a forum that's supposed to help people understand the forces at work with in the game which is based on history. get over it

^^^^^^^^^^^^^that's the point^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i'm shocked that people that play this game can be so ignorant about the forces at work in the world. obviously it's just a game but it allows us to take familiar situations and adjust the particulars to the point where systems and patterns become...

how is carving faces of presidents into the face of a mountain not a fascist sentimentality? mt rushmore reminds me of the situation described by tacitus and seutonius. in imperial rome after a certain point people began to realize that there were good emperors and bad emperors, even some...

that behavior was limited to maoism, as means of strict control in the market of ideas. it was in a way the first successful prosecution of thought crime to take place in the open and on a large scale. as i understand the pol pot government killed anyone that could count past ten. the idea is...

one of my first memories at university was some ratty prof shoving a MiM tract at me in my first day of orientation......i thought it was funny how agressively he was preaching so i took it and gave it a read, which i found even more entertaining. i swear these guys get the WORST writers in the...

ACTUALLY history begins with a self-realized social memory. history doesn't exist without humans (or i suppose some other intelligence) around to write down (in the strictest sense of the term) or at least TELL successive generations the stories of the past. everything before the sumerians (at...

i'm having a weird late game issue. whenever i exit to the desktop, my computer crashes and automatically restarts with a disk check even though it's obviously finding nothing......what's going on?

who told you this? the horses all came from the spanish, if that weren't the case you'd see at least ONE indigenous culture with horses. every horse that ever lived here before 1500 were extinct LONG before any kind of human culture emerged. there weren't ANY horse for americans!

i'd be down with a more modern centered expansion. i guess one of the main ideas of the game is to try to win as early as possible, but close games can get really lame when all there is left is to either mop up straglers for a domination (shouldn't be an issue with vassals) or go for a space...

re: the over abundance of warriors......... hear, hear! one of the best things about this mod is that it almost forces you to apply new strategies from the vanilla game as well as making significantly "civ-custom" research paths since each has a predefined startpoint and no starting tech...