Seeking advice for El Aurens v2

[Harry Tuttle]

Hey! I lost weight.

[Mercator]

Re: Truly a wonder

Originally posted by Boco
Working on new city improvements, too.

What the hell...

[Boco]

Maybe I can 'help' Fairline with some Mongol Wonders?

@HT. You must've, cuz there's no way that beard hides a few chins.

[Harry Tuttle]

I actually shaved it off awhile ago. Got kind of old. I grew it when I had a week off to work on residing my house. Thankfully, when it came off, I did not have the jolly face of Abbott staring back at me.

[Boco]

Honoring or Demeaning the Diggers' Reputation?

With any luck, this may be the final alpha test. The 1918 Allied offensive is beginning to mop up. Looks like a smart player can reach Aleppo several months early, but for the beta test, I don't think I'll change the balance significantly. If, however, someone wins in January 1918, then it'll be tweaking time.

Screenie announcing the arrival of the Détachment Français de Palestine et Syrie.



[pedantic amateur historian]
The DFPS didn't accomplish much. The French supplied only enough troops (a small brigade of Armenians and Algerians) to claim they helped 'liberate' Syria. The British were reluctant to accept even that much, since they were in the midst of scuttling the Sykes-Picot treaty with a Syria 'liberated by Arabs' backed by 'a few' Commonwealth troops. The ploy succeeded well enough. To gain British support in the Paris 1919 conference for a French-controlled Syria and a demilitarized zone in Rhineland, the French had to cede oil-rich Mosul to the Brits. In a lesson not keenly observed by future generations, the Brits had trouble governing Iraq after WWI. They did however succeed sufficiently to obtain Iraqi oil for Allied use in WWII.
[/pedantic amateur historian]



Here another trooper from the land of Oz performs the time-honored practice with skill far from average, but not excellent.

Actually, my caption is a complete fiction — the rest of the album of Brian Reynolds, 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam '67, shows that the Aussies' got along well with the locals.

[jim panse]

Bumpin' in

Dave, is there any progress on this one?

[Case]

Re: Honoring or Demeaning the Diggers' Reputation?

Originally posted by Boco
Actually, my caption is a complete fiction — the rest of the album of Brian Reynolds, 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam '67, shows that the Aussies' got along well with the locals.

Er, the 9th Infantry Division was a US formation. The main Australian formation in Vietnam was the 1st Australian Task Force (a brigade).

(sorry for the slow correction - I was in Cambridge, UK, at the time this was posted)

[fairline]

Hey Case, have you heard from Boco recently?

[Case]

No, I'm afraid not.

[Boco]

Where is that guy?

Good news: EA is about one readme from initial beta testing.

Bad news: RL leaves me with very little time.

If I get the readme finished, is anyone interested in testing it?

Game play is fairly well polished, but the late war diplomacy is not complete (that's where I need feedback). I could also use feedback on the Sudan campaign and the transfers-to-France bit (the spaceship). I'm not sure whether these are worth including or not.

[AGRICOLA]

That is great news.

I'd love to try EA in a couple of weeks, once we get settled and organized in Florida.

[fairline]

Originally posted by Boco
Where is that guy?

Hey! There you are!

Good news: EA is about one readme from initial beta testing.

Bad news: RL leaves me with very little time.

Nothing bad I hope?

If I get the readme finished, is anyone interested in testing it?

Originally posted by AGRICOLA
.....once we get settled and organized in Florida

...grumble...

[AGRICOLA]

Don't grumble.

You have a moderate maritime climate while we have a continental climate and lake-effect snow from the Great Lakes to the west. A month from now, this place will be like a deep-freeze, with a meter of snow on the ground and on the roof, plus a 2 km hike to the nearest plowed road.

The birds have the right idea. Even the pea-brained hummingbirds took off for Mexico two months ago.

[techumseh]

@Boco: I'd be pleased to give it a whirl. I'm glad you're still in the game!

@AGRICOLA (aka. snowbird) What do you do when there's a hurricane?

[AGRICOLA]

Snowbird to techumseh:

What else but sit on the deck, look out over the lake, be thankful for the temperate Canadian summers and sip a cool one. We're so completely relaxed that only every 15 minutes or so do we bother to turn on CNN for for the latest storm track info, no more than hourly do we log onto the excellent South Florida Sun-Sentinel hurricane website, and only 3 times a day do we feel compelled to re-check that the insurance policy covers hurricane damage to the house.

Admittedly, two years ago, things did get a mite tense as 4 storms skirted the Tampa Bay area. These "misses" left our neighbours without electricity for 2 periods of more than a week in the sweltering Florida summer heat.

So, to succintly answer your question: we s**t bricks.

BTW, apparently the pea-brained hummingbirds migrating from here to Mexico only cross the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Yucatan after the hurricane season. Clever little beggars.