Great Northern War

[PDifolco]

Hum, later for me too, the time I learn Finnish ..

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by PDifolco
Why did you start at x2x2 in a SP scenario ? We'd soon have a big mess of cities/units everywhere...

'cos I'm into x2x2 games right now. and how many x2x2 successions have you seen before? lets try something new for a change.
and we will not have a big mess of cities and units, 'cos the casulty rate will be SOooo high. and if you don't take those casulties, the enemy will take your cities.

I neither know the scen nor really where all those icy countries are, also !

they are next thing south of north pole.

come on! is the knowledge of the scenario so important?
its just like playing the original game starting 4000bc.
samekind of leap of faith into the unknown.....

obiwan: no problem. we will remember your good will.

so who's playing next? anyone?

[rjmatsleepers]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
kibitz = observe (a bridge term from Yiddish???)

SG[1]

Yes, but "observe" doesn't convey the flavour. A true kibitzer never actually plays the game but is nontheless more skillful than any of the players. A kibitzer must comment on the game at all times. A novice kibitzer simply uses 20-20 hindsight to point out mistakes and what the player should have done better. A seasoned kibitzer uses grunts, laughter, shrugs and other body language to convey the same message, without ever making a direct statement that could be challenged by one of the players. Coffee house kibitzing is an art form that people will travel miles to see.

RJM at Sleepers

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by rjmatsleepers
Yes, but "observe" doesn't convey the flavour. A true kibitzer never actually plays the game but is nontheless more skillful than any of the players. A kibitzer must comment on the game at all times. A novice kibitzer simply uses 20-20 hindsight to point out mistakes and what the player should have done better. A seasoned kibitzer uses grunts, laughter, shrugs and other body language to convey the same message, without ever making a direct statement that could be challenged by one of the players. Coffee house kibitzing is an art form that people will travel miles to see.

[atawa]

I'll play next if nobody wants it.

I'll try and play tonight (If I can find and download the .scn )

[Scouse Gits]

RJM - I've played high level bridge for nearly 40 years - tell me about coffee houses

SG[1]

[rjmatsleepers]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
RJM - I've played high level bridge for nearly 40 years - tell me about coffee houses

SG[1]

I think the term kibitzing was borrowed by bridge players from chess. I think the term was used in the coffee houses of Vienna (or Budapest) where you could sit on the pavement and play chess all day for a few kopeks (or whatever the currency of the Austro Hungarian empire was). So coffee house style is where there is plenty of "robust" criticism. (Kinda like here really!) Well that's the story as I learned it

RJM at Sleepers

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by atawa
I'll play next if nobody wants it.
I'll try and play tonight (If I can find and download the .scn )

look at my post few posts up, I attached the scen to that post.

[atawa]

Playing now, I'll report later tonight

[atawa]

Why am I playing with the .scn and still see stealth bombers?

[Andemagne]

Originally posted by atawa
Why am I playing with the .scn and still see stealth bombers?

have not encountered this before.
have tried to reload? what version of Civ2 do you have? I have Civ2 MGE v1.3.

[atawa]

MGE with the latest patch, but might have screwed up.

I put the unzipped .scn and .net in a subfolder under the scenario folder.

I then went to multiplayer/load a game.

What am I doing wrong here?

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by atawa
Why am I playing with the .scn and still see stealth bombers?

The same generally happens to me with the French version when I try to play a scenario from the community. Julius Brenzaida has a solution : renaming all .txt files to fre. files. It works when he does it, but I haven't been able to make it work by myself yet .

[Andemagne]

does anybody else have same problems as atawa?

d@mn, this game doesn't seem to start so well.....

[La Fayette]

I have the same kind of problems (for example my diplomats are pictured as artillery, and my artillery as factories...). Unfortunately my friend Julius is busy elsewhere (RL), so I guess I'll be unable to play this one.