While We Wait: Part 5

[Abaddon]

I'm Abaddon, an I didn't approve this message.



Other than that, its a pretty nice big-me-up as a description do you not think?

 

[flyingchicken]

It's horribly misleading, like the "60[?] new governments!" of the info blurbs for Civ3 Conquests.

 

[Abaddon]

Well how would you sell my NES in 5 lines?

 

[flyingchicken]

I dunno, but I certainly won't mislead anyone. But I guess that's just me, which would be sad if true.

 

[Abaddon]

I very much doubt he did it on purpose.

 

[North King]

I would venture to say that the Faroun are almost devoid of a real-world parallel, and the same goes for Mikuena.

Certainly, there are a lot of people who manage to make wholly new nations (I try to, most of the time). But there are also a lot of people who just go straight for the Europe parallel.

I mean, if we started pointing figures... Dachs, and thlayli are you ready?

Seriously, if I don't carry up the banner of the great motherland who will? Nobody

I have made a nation or two with some basis in China, if I recall correctly.

 

[das]

Certainly, there are a lot of people who manage to make wholly new nations (I try to, most of the time). But there are also a lot of people who just go straight for the Europe parallel.

I find that a nice and lazy way to come up with original civilisations is to mix traits of several existent ones and then see what you can brew out of it. The Ksiliotai/Gasiriai culture in BirdNES was originally intended as a mix of Mycenean Greece and Vedic India, though it kind of quickly began to acquire other traits from diverse "river valley" empires.

 

[andis-1]

Nations I play have very strange tendency to evolve in very similiar way... I just can't help myself, certain cultural traits are just more suitable for my sort of warfare

 

[Ninja Dude]

OOC: That's only because nobody else does ANYTHING similarly to being East Asiatic (Though I highly approve of the Ancestral Cult)

I was planning on having the Oobuto in Arrival of the Greats have some Japanese influences. But for some reason they really didn't get to shine.

Krato in N3S III has some Indian influences (howdahs, mahouts, katars). Other than that I don't really know what else it really could be compared to in the real world.

 

[Thlayli]

For the record, American women can handle their swords: Gold, silver and bronze in fencing, baby.

 

[North King]

I've been trying to make sense of the BBC's reports out of Georgia, and here's how the situation seems to be right now:

Russian jets have bombed Gori (the town just south of South Ossetia), P'ot'i (port city on the Black Sea), and possibly military positions in Abkhazia (might be the separatists themselves, but I highly doubt their ability to launch jets).

So far, if we take the official estimates of each government as credible, the Russians have lost about 20 men, and the Georgians 30. Extrapolating from the fact that governments tend to lie as much as possible, both have probably lost about 50 men or so, with the Georgians on the losing side; military casualties are probably under a hundred on each side, in any case. The Russians have lost two jets at least.

As for civilian casualties, the Russians claim over a thousand, the Georgians a hundred. I'm going to go with a middle estimate of about 500. Both sides claim to control Ta'khinvali, so I don't know who to put it under, but I'm guessing that the Russians have the upper hand. The Abkhazians have attacked Georgian positions in the west.

Attached is the map.

 

[Abaddon]

How were the jets taken down?

 

[andis-1]

They lassoed and pulled them down obviously.

 

[andis-1]

According to yle (finnish equivalent to bbc), Georgia has been pushed out of Tshinvali and has begun a counterattack to reclaim the city again.

Interfax says russian navy is preparing to blockade georgian ports as we speak.

 

[Dachs]

How were the jets taken down?

SAMs are available widely. I don't know if Georgia has Shilkas, but those would work too.

 

[silver 2039]

The casualties are claimed to be some 2,000 now. But that sounds immensely exaggerated.

What are the Cossacks doing anyway? I really want to see a cavalry charge.

 

[North King]

How were the jets taken down?

I'm gonna guess missiles, but I honestly have no idea.

 

[North King]

The casualties are claimed to be some 2,000 now. But that sounds immensely exaggerated.

Casualties are probably around there, deaths, no. The Red Cross has said that the hospitals are "flooded" according to BBC.

The number of peacekeepers dead surprised me, though:

Hmm. If this is ture than the situation could be either somewhat better or much worse than I thought.

Georgia is holding its own so far, it appears: according to Wikipedia, there are currently 30 Georgian casualties, compared with 150 dead Russian peacekeepers and 12 Russian soldiers.

So currently, have Russian bombings been limited to the South Ossetian border?

In answer to his post, for the record, no, Russians have been bombing elsewhere.

 

[Terrance888]

I mean, if we started pointing figures... Dachs, and thlayli are you ready?

Seriously, if I don't carry up the banner of the great motherland who will? Nobody

I will!

I use prepackaged nations, and deliberately fail to play in non-Earth maps because I don't believe that I am sufficiently inventive. We've been over this about a bazillion times. Oh, and nice typo.

Now what does that say about the 'great motherland'?

It is China. One Forth of the world's people resides there!

I would! China is kewl.

In other news, I'm found that the first 1443 posts of the New NESes blah blah blah thread was quite extraordinarily sleep-depriving.

Also, RiskNES is delayed because of a break-in, a robbery, a missing phone, and a missing gun, which all led to transportation problems and to Internet connection problems. I'm serious.

What does Kewl mean?

I understand, I don't do RiskNES

*points to above* See dachs!

I'm overjoyed okay after just concluding the Opening Ceremony (due to stupid NBC).

To China coming second place! (But with 35+ gold medals )

To China coming first place!

 

[Dachs]

It is China. One Forth of the world's people resides there!

Your definition of a fourth and mine must be pretty different.

What does Kewl mean?

Cool.

To China coming first place!

To the USA coming in first! (China can come in second or seventieth for all I care. ) You guys are going to lose the basketball game tomorrow.

YOU GOIN DOWN SON