History of the World 2 - IV

[Rasputin]

Palace in Israel

"you know Otto, this building represents a true testimonial to our forefathers." Said Rabbi Rasputin.

"I have little interst in architecure Raz", replied Field Marsholl Otto Von Bismark.

"Yes that is eveident from your destruction of the Palace in Venice"

"That was a necessary tool to get the Adriatics to talk peace. "

"But surely you went too far Otto. Now most of the world despises us. We are the only nation to have destroyed a capital. We have been at constant war since the time of adolf Hitler. Isnt it time to admit we need peace. Look at our history Otto, prior to Adolf's arrival we were amonsgt the most prosperous nations in hte world. We had strong allies in the Pacific Pact, we had friendly trade with the Zulus and Chinese. We were doing well Otto."

"Only the capialists at the top Raz. Even you must admit we had a large disparity between the rich and the poor."

"Yes but I am sure given time we could have fixed that too. Now whilst that disparity is gone. We no longer have th eincome we once did."

"That is about to change Raz. With the capture of southern Europe we ahve grown and are now in a position to trade again. Bob's last few actions before entering the hospital were to reopen the trade doors. We will be recommencing trade immediatly. But this time the wealth will be distributed differently."

"Well that is good news Otto, how about peace? Is Israel's sons and daughter to ever know peace again?"

"That is beyond my control Raz. I am not the leader here, Bob still is. I am simply the Military leader."

"Yes, but we both know that Bob is not likely to recover from the Zulu assasins bullets. That leaves a major vacuum to fill. Is the military going to fill it?"

"Zulu assasin? Who said it was Zulu? My last report revealed it to be possibly an Adriatic Bullett. The Mossad is still investigating it now. But we beleive that the guilty people are the same as those that killed Sun Tzu XXXXIV . "

"Well I hope the guilty are soon brought to justice."

"Oh they will Raz , they will, just as soon as we find them"

"But what of the next Israeli leader?"

"You seeking the position Raz?"

"No not for me, I tried it and failed. But I do wish a postion on the National Committee. For that I need your seconding of my nomination, will you give it?"

"Gladly Raz. Your wisdom will be very benificial to all of Israel. Come with me now. The next Committee meeting is about to begin."

The two left the palace throne room and headed to the large assembly hall. There seated around a large rectangular table were the most reveered people in all of Israel. Every Provincial Governor had a seat (recent extensions of the table for the European and American Governors.) With extra space for the Military leaders , army & navy . The head of Mossad was there. The Chief Scientist too. A large seat was left empty at the head of the table.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you Rabbi Rasputin, he wishes to be admitted to the Committee, He has been nominated by Engineer Abdul Sheaq the Governor of the Dominican Republic. And seconded by myself. It is time to readmit the Israeli Jews to the committee. All in favour?"

"Aye" was the unaminous reply. So Raz took his place. beside the Governors.

Von Bismark walked to his seat at the opposite end of the table to the large empty seat.

"Now to business people. You will all have read the latest transcripts from the world news services , kindly brought to us by our mossad people." He smiled in the direction of the Mossad leader. " But more importantly is this " he threw down a Document labelled TOP SECRET. "This is the official response of the Australians to our leaders impassioned pleas for help"

The gathered personel quickly handed round the document and perused it eve nquicker. It was a very short document.

"You can see that they are not gonig to aid us at all. They will not send any peacekeeping forces to aid us. They beleive we went to far" he looked over at Rabbi Raz "in the conquest of Venice. They beleive that to aid is now would appear to be a signal that they accept our behaviour. These cowards disgust me. We had to do what we did to gain a lever. Did the AL want peace after our first war? No! They still remained aggresive. We had to push them further. We had to make them see we were not to be pushed around. Now the world has finalyl taken notice of us. Now the AL is talking peace."

The Mossad chief arose slowly and began talking " they may speak peace to the world at large Field Marsholl, but our spies in Amsterdam and Paris report other comments. There is talk of destruction of Israel still. There is talk of revenge. There is talk of lulling us into a false sense of security whilst they rebuild their armed forces ready for a surprise attack."

Bismark signalled for him to sit down than continued himself" Yes these are the things we need to discuss. But I personally beleive that if perchance things had gone differnetly we may have been firends today. But we cannot be friends with people who are allied to our enemies. The Zulu have hated us since time began. It was their influence over the Mali that drove the mali to attack us and made us have to go to war with them. It was the Zulu who then allyed with the AL and got them all excited and influenced the AL to attack us too. We feel that if it wasnt for the Zulus , the Mali and AL wars would never have occured. If only we could get past this history between us. If only we could go back to the beginning when we were friends with the AL. We have no ties to Australai anymore so we need to find another friend. Why shouldnt it be the AL , we come from similar backgrounds, we beleive in the same things. I think we should boycott the peace meetings in China, and attempt a personal meeting with the new AL leaders ASAP. Perhaps we could find some common ground and begin a new era of peace in Europe."

Loud cheering greeted this

"Now ladies and gentlemen, we need todiscuss carefulyl this issue, especialyl in light of recent occurances. I now open the floor to comments for and agisant this"

Much discussion ensued and after four hours the meeting broke up and Field Marsholl Von Bismark and Rabbi Rasputin met agian in the palace throne room

"So Raz , you will do this? You will goto Amsterdam and seek peace with the new leaders?"

"Yes I will go, though i have fears for my own personal safety, this is bigger than me, I msut do as the committee have asked"

[Rasputin]

Secret Meeting!!

Two figures were sitting together in a darkened restauarnt, drinking the local Shcnapps.

"So we meet again my friend"

"Yes . it is just like the old days again!"

"Strange how things come around isn't it ?"

"yes who would have said we would meet again. So many years since we last met."

"Too many my friend , too many !"

"Well the time is now here, we both know why we are here"

"yes my friend, our two nations have been heading down a path the should not have been on, our current leaders are as bad as the previous ones. They never listen to our advise anymore!"

"Yes it is very frustrating . But I hear that new things are afoot."

"Ahh news travels fast my friend. Yes, our nations leader is finally moving in the right direction."

"and our nations leader is moving that way too."

"good good. perhaps we will meet again in more friendly times soon. Remember our old meetings in Moscow and Paris. They were the good old days"

"Ahhh yes , especially the old days in Venice, a wonderful city"

"yes such a shame that that damn Bismark destroyed so much"

"Yes he has his uses but his leash needs to be pulled occasionaly."

"so my friend " he rasied his glass " to the new times, and prsoperity to both our organisations"

"To us!!"

[Frank Johnson]

A meeting of top military advisors and the president...

"Welcome gentlemen. The reason I've asked you to come to day is to get your opinion on where to send the Mongolian War effort. As you know the Mongolian economy is in full war production and has already invested much in military hardware and support facilities, and while the battles thus far have favoured us we have little to show for it besides a few territories far strung out on the border. Now the AL seeks peace with Israel and with us, however their main concearn seems to be the Israeli occupation of Europe, and not so much our invasion in the east. So"

"I agree sir, our attack has not made enough progress in the east for us to gain the world spoitlight yet, thus we are taking a back seat to Israeli invasion, even though overall we may be the greater threat. This is mainly due to the delay caused by General Sun Tzu stalling the offensive." The slick young army general shifted in his chair.

"But that is in the past. What do you suggest we do General Tabashi?"

"Simple, continue the invasion. The AL has little means to stop us. When we capture Moscow we might get some attention, then maybe we could be in a possition to bargain, but also we risk losing the support of our Israeli allies if we appear to be on a total war, so we should be cautious after achieving our annouced goal of the Urals."

"I see, Nobouki you seem to disagree from that look on your face."

"Only in that the remaining AL wouldn't be my first target sir. The supply lines are too long. There are enemies of Mongolia that lie almost within our walls that could be addressed first."

"You don't mean?"

Nobouki: "Yes, the Chinese. Their land is as green as anyone else's."

Tabashi: "Well it is an option, sir, but the political fallout would be unpredictable while most other nations seem unconcearned with our war with the AL, some even support it."

Nobouki: "This is true, but Mongolia possess few foreign colonies and no one currently has the combination of resources and will to fight us, although many have one or the other. Some may dissaprove, even sabre rattle, but when it comes right down to it there's no one who can do anything about it."

"What is the Navy's opinion?"

Mamoru: "Sir I can only say that currently our navy does not possess the strength to bring any war to any far destination, Chinese or AL or otherise. We are taking steps to rectify this situation sir, but it will be serveral years before this would change. This would make any war with the Chinese long and drawn out since a naval duel would be the answer to any land based occpation of the remainer of Asia. This only compounds the political issues involved. This would also rule out any direct attack on Africa for the time being despite the offical "war"."

"The only concensus I can seem to get is that we must attack, but you know the minority leader in the senate wants me to accept the AL's treaty, if they don't demand back our current gains, but I would say myself to raise such an impressive army for that would be such a waste."

Tabashi: "Indeed Sir."

"Well I've made up my mind. I'm going to this conferance. I don't see any problem with negoiating from a position of power. I will come home with something impressive, if not we can deside what to do then. Surely the world understands that we are the dominate force in this region and are not to be taken lightly. If not we will make it clear at this conferance."

Nobouki: "I tend to agree for the time being, if the AL can be put away we could prepare ourselves for any enemy."

"Yes, that is the idea."

[Rasputin]

Israeli Foreign Affairs document

Top Secret

To:
Adriatic Office of Foreign Affairs
Adriatic League (AL)
Honorable Enzo Pagniacci

From:
Israeli Foriegn Affairs Office
Israeli Republic (IR)
Honourable Lisa Monet

Re: Peace .

The Israeli Republics Committee of Leadership has expressed a desire to meet with your nations Foreign Affairs representatives at their earliest convenience. We will be sending a delegation of our Diplomatic Corp being led by Rabbi Rasputin.
This delegation has been authorized to make any and all decisions relating to the peace process in Europe.
We dont wish to attend the world summitt you requested, as we feel outsiders may not appreciate the needs of our respective countries and both the AL and IR would be forced to agree to terms tha tneother would be happy with.
We would prefer to get our team together with yours and thrash out an agreement suitalbe to both our nations. This should lead to times of prosperity for both our nations as we could once again open up all trade routes.
Another reason for not attending the world peace summitt is that we cannot attend such a summitt whilst at open war with another of the invited guests. At this point in time we are officially at war with the Zulus and whilst we have never shown any aggresion towards them they have continually shown their hatred of us. We could not sit down at same meeting with their representatives whilst they still hold to war.
The Adriatic Leadership should remember that their ally the Zulus twice have failed to intercept the attacks on AL territory, as they did with the Mali in the past. This recent sabre rattling by the Zulus is not as an aid to the AL but as a land grab on their own behalf. It was the Israeli leadership that refused to sign the peace treaty with the Zulu recently as the peace treaty was only offered on agreement of israel handing all AL territory to the Zulus. When we informed the Zulu leadership of our intent to negotiate direct with AL , they got all aggresive and declared a Jihad agaisnt us. This shows that the Zulus are not intent on aiding the AL ,but are after territory for their own ends.
Please accept our Diplomatic Mission into your city and sit down with them and work out the best solution for both our nations.

[Rasputin]

Israeli Palace....

"so with that medlding Rasputin out of town we can progress to the next stage General"

"Yes Field Marsholl, we have already informed the military heads to prepare for the Zulu campaign. All is in readiness."

"Good good. I shall be sending my own special envoy to the Mongolians to discuss mutual aid in this time of great need for both our countries. I think he will like my current proposal"

"You are always one step ahead Field Marsholl."

"That is why you are a General and I am the Field Marsholl!"

"Yes Sir."

"Order double rations for all the Troops General, it maybe a while before they eat again in such luxury. Tomorrow I announce the full mobilistation of our military. The Zulu will regret not forming peace when we offered it."

"Yes Field Marsholl. Hail Bismark!"

"Hail Bismark!" , the Field Marsholl was growing to like the new form of greeting he had instituted recently.

[Rasputin]

Histroy links

For those too lazy too check page one <br>
<a href="http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1487&pagenumber=1" target="_blank">History of the world part 1</a>

<a href="http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1550&pagenumber=1" target="_blank">History of the world part 2 </a>

<a href="http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19876&pagenumber=1" target="_blank">History of the world part 3</a></font></p>

Drake can we please have an update on the world politicla map at the HOTW website... I posted my thoughts on where current boundaries are earleir...

[Rasputin]

Some interesting Stats !!

From the official website

Over the past 400 or so years since 1190 AD

Aust armed forces up from 67 - 127 (nice to be peaceful)

Mongols armed forces dpwn from 55 - 50 (so much for full war industry)

Chinese armed forces up from 71 - 92 (another PEACE nation)

Mali armed forces down from 56 - 44 (mostly dead)

Adriatic League slight change 49 - 52 (Leadership changes and war)

Zulu armed forces slight change 58 - 62 (possibly big change next time)

Israel armed forces increased from 27 - 67 (all defenders of course)

[Rasputin]

Israeli Palace....

Maps lying all over the display area with graphs and tables displayed on paper. The Local Stataticians were visiting the palace again.

"See how we have grown since we threw the house of sun Tzu out. 17 provinces of Israel in those days. Now 28!! We also control 2 of the great wonders of the world. The people also love our leaders far more each year. Look at how this graph shows a lovely J curve, a descent for a short while followed by a rapid rise.

Finances too on the increase. The people of Israel are doing remakrably well."

Their job done the stat people rolled up all their maps and stuff and left.


"Phew glad that lot gone, who really cares about al that Sh!t !!!!"

[Rasputin]

Lost map

Sir , waht is this here? Looks like some sort of map. But it doesnt look like any borders that have ever been.

It is the prediction of Nostre Damus : It was written in hte fourth Quartile.

The Great war of 1600.... The Aftermath

[The Capo]

Mantucci, Adriatic Territory...

He stepped out of the cab and slowly handed the money to the cabbie, he was now in downtown Mantucci, not bad. The rain was sheeting and didn't mix well with the humid weather. It was nothing like his home in Spain which was dry and sunny. He looked down at his watch, five minutes early. He looked accross the street and quickly ran accross before an approaching Freight Truck passed by, quite odd to see a freighter during this war, he thought to himself.

He entered the coffee shop and took off his hat, he shook it wildly to get the water off, even from a few minutes it was soaked, and placed it on the hat rack, he did likewise with his trenchcoat and took a seat in a booth adjacent to the window. Where the hell was he? He thought to himself.

"Hey honey, what can I do for you?" asked the pretty, yet middle-aged waitress.

"Um, I'll just have a cup of coffee" he replied.

"Regular or-"

"Decaf please." he said in a hurried voice.

Then he entered, it was Tony DeNucci, the man responsable for murdering SunTzu XXXVIII. He was a tall man, somewhat thin but appeared to be built. He never seemed to be clean shaven and his hair always seemed well kept, but scruffy. He always wore earth tones, and tonight was no different. "Hey, Franky how's it going?" he asked.

"Not to bad, I just ordered a coffee for myself, didn't know what you wanted." replied Franco as the waitress arrived with his coffee.

"Hey, how are you doing tonight babe?" asked Tony as he smiled.

"Well well well, who have we got here? What can I get'cha honey?" she asked.

"I'll have a cup of coffee, black, regular of course, and uh, let's see, let's try out the baked Penne. Thanks." he said as he handed back the menu.

"Alright Franky listen, things are not going exactly according to plan but that doens't seem to be a major problem. The politicians are going to iron everything out in Amsterdam apparently, the international meeting has been shut down in lieu of a private Israeli-AL meeting." he said as Franco nodded "I mean, Israel suggested the private meeting so we're not sure whether or not this is going to be legit, we'll either be very friendly with Israel or we're going to be at war for a while, which I mean we're all prepared for I'm sure." he said as the waitress returned with his coffee.

"Here ya'ar honey, you boys need anything else?" she asked.

"No, not at the moment, thanks." said Franco.

"Anyway, the consensus with those in the know is that, like I've said, we're either gonna walk out friendlier with Israel or a bigger enemy, you never know the agenda of these meetings." he said as he sipped his coffee "Jesus, hot!"

"Who's going, for Israel that is?" said Franco.

"Amazingly enough the good Rabbi Rasputin is going to these meetings."

"The same guy we fought the Mali with?" asked Franco.

"Yeah, the Holy War bullsh*tter, that's the guy." said Tony.

"Doesn't seem to bad, we've never really had bad relations with him, although who knows, Jews don't really like you Catholics." said Franco.

"Yeah well, the feeling is mutual believe me, although we did let your daddy become our Foreign Minister. Saluto il Duce!!! Did he make you kids say that?" laughed Tony.

"Shut up, c'mon my father was a good man, and Mussolini wasn't so bad, definitely not as bad as these past two guys we've had." said Franco as he sipped his coffee.

"Alright, as I was saying. It doesn't look like Mongolia is going to let up, although there is an offchance that Israel could talk them out of an invasion. And word on the streets has Mongolia going after China, which would be quite the turn of events. Not only that, but the provisional government is looking more and more Democratic by the day. I doubt we're going Communist, as a matter of fact I'm sure we aren't, everyone knows Metternich is a staunch Democrat, I don't know, it could cause a problem with the Africans. There very well may be another ideological war, depending on who follows up Metternich." said Tony.

"Alright well, thanks for the update, now what's the real reason we're here?" asked Franco.

"These walls talk Franky, we had to get out of Europe though, out of Africa, Israel, out of the Mediterranean, I was going to have us meet in Egypt, but that was a little risquee for obvious reasons." he said.

"Well yeah, but you said yourself that there are friends in Israel no?" asked Franco.

"Yeah well, I still worry. You're a Jew, they may just imprison you, they'd have no mercy with me buddy." he said as he raised his coffee and took a sip.

"Okay okay, c'mon on with it. You know there's still martial law in this province, the Governor has his little shock troops running amock, still Fascist here in Mantucci." said Franco.

"Well, hell, you're at home here or in Israel!" said Tony.

"I might be Jewish, but I'm not Israeli. I'm an Adriatic through and through." he said.

"Alright alright, listen. Word has it that there are upheavals being planned all over the place. The latest is that Franco Pedretti may be Communist and is planning an insurrection during the peace talks, which is why he continues to support a foreign meeting, he knows Metternich will be there, if the meetings are in Amsterdam that will faulter greatly. Not only that but it seems that a little friend of ours Otto Von Bismarck is attempting the same in Israel, and who knows what the hell's going on with Bob Hawke, I think he's dead but as you probably know information coming from Israel is hard to come by, especially now." he said.

"Alright, well what-" the waitress approached.

"Baked Penne, here you are honey. You boys need anything else?" she asked.

"Just the check." said Tony. She nodded and left.

"Well what was the point of this meeting?" asked Franco.

"Franky c'mon. You're the son of Francisco Franco, you have a lot of clout, you own the biggest weapons distributor in all of Europe, not to mention a plant in Lusaka. The party needs your help Franky, we really do." said Tony.

"I don't know anymore Tony, I really don't." the waitress returned and dropped the check.

"Thanks a lot boys, you have a nice night." she smiled.

"I don't know what the hell is going on or who to trust, I wish sh*t didn't get this deep sometimes." he said.

"What are you talking about man, Jesus Christ look at this sh*t, is this edible?"

[Rasputin]

Mossad HQ

"so the terrorists are active again Major"

"Yes Captain. They launched a surprise Suicide bombing serious of attacks in the Java Strip last week. Some of my favourite coffee shops are now no go zones."

"It is ridiculous that this is permitted to continue. The damn Zulus are training the terrosists and they are looking so innocent."

"Not for much longer Captain, we will be launching counter offensive against all Terrorists suspected training zones wherever they will be found"

"Finally Major, this will bring peace to Israel"

"Yes Captain, provided we get them all , provided we get them all"

[The Capo]

Moscow, Adriatic League...

"I can't believe this" said Adriana Alessi as she looked at the large spiral-bound ledger. "Secret Peace summit."

"Is good, no?" said Igor Grozny.

"Well yes, it is, maybe there will be peace finally. Well we still have a job to do, even in light of recent events, so alright here's what our plan is." she flipped over the chalk board to reveal a map of the Ural Mountains/Central Asia with various cities and bunkers marked out "This is Moscow, and here is our bunker, only five miles south east. The Mongols will most likely come straight on, they believe their weaponry will be superior enough to forego any sort of advanced strategy, not to mention the flat terrain of the steppe makes any type of complicated strategy unrealistic. Therefore we expect Howitzers, Panzers, Artillery anything they can use that's going to do the job effectively they're going to impliment. Now, our intelligence reports that despite their overwhelming land area, as well as talk to the public, their military is around our size, if not smaller. Which is going to be a good thing because they expect a push over war here. The only problem is our army is mainly composed of old Gestapo garrisons and infantry. Not as strong as large hordes of Shell-based weaponry."

"Corporal Alessi, would we not be able to muster up those forces, I mean our boys could play defense and hold them off momentarily." asked Grozny.

"Yes, that is most likely what we will have to do, luckily the Fascists were good military planners, in the flat regions we have Gestapo Infantry, and in the northern forests and tundra, which is where the mountains are, we have our Alpine troops. Allocating the proper defenses will not be difficult. What will be difficult is if our defenses are broken, most of our mechanized weaponry is in centra Europe or are holed up in France and the Netherlands defending our next two prized cities. With peace will come the freedom to use these forces to back down the Mongolian invasion." She pointed at Samarkand "If the Mongols invade too hard, and are blatantly not accepting our peace we have our orders." she said as she looked at the four assembled commanders; Grozny, Tucci, Renoit, and Turkogulu. "Metternich is not playing games with Mongolia apparently, this letter which was enclosed in my latest packet makes it clear that if the peace summit does not achieve peace with Mongolia we will raze Samarkand to the ground."

The assembled commanders were silenced, Alessi gently laid the paper and turned the chalk board back around. "Corporal Alessi" said Kermal Turkogulu "I agree... the bastards think they can nab some extra territories in our time of need, they must be punished for their stupidity."

"Well Commander, I understand your hatred towards Mongolia, but their foreign policy is the most confused in the world, they are in a war for reasons they consider good, they aren't. Their rational, their history is skewed, whether by lack of education or propoganda they are very wrong about their reasons. Personally I have a job to do, but I don't think an offensive is necessary... but, we have our orders, we are soldiers..." she replied.

[Rasputin]

Slovakia (formerly Venice)

"Have you heard the news Paullie?" asked Seargent Abraham Winkle, running to greet his friend.

"Yes Ab, isnt it wonderful" replied Warrant Officer Paul Fimona. "We are to return to Israel. The 2nd, 34th, 56th and 57th Divisions will remain, but all others are to leave immediatly."

"Crazy isnt it, only last month we were planningto live it up in Paris, now we dont even get to see those lovely PArisian girls."

"ahh not for me Ab, my fiance would kill me if she even heard us speak of things like that."

"You are a changed man Paullie. Where is Captain Deborah now?"

"No longer a captain Ab, recently promoted whilst in the field, the fastest rising officer in the corp, she is now a Major!! The last I heard her brigade were heading to check out reports of Terrorist activity on the Railway lines between Slovakia and Yugoslavia. Apparently the native Serbs there refuse to accept Israeli rule."

"Where do they get the damn weopons from I thought the AL were looking for peace, surely they arent helping those swine"

"Latest release from Mossad is that the Zulus have been making much money selling weopons to the Terrorists and even training them up"

"Swine!!"

Another soldier joined them and handed Paullie the papers he was carrying,
"Paulii , you seen these latest reports?"

"No Albert, what is it?"he said with a tremble in his voice as he saw the look on Albert's face.

"The 144th Corp has been ambushed. We cant get any response from them."

"Noooooooooooo" Screamed Paullie "Deborahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

"Its too early to know what has happened Paullie"

"If anything has happened to her I will not rest till she is avenged, NEVER!!!!!"

[Frank Johnson]

Sun Tzu is useless if not crooked

At first, I had had no worries that the possible conflicts of interest in Sun Tzu running a war against a civ he was told mid session he would probably have to run next week, since there had been no posts about it, but upon getting the latests save today I can say thats not the case.

First I do everything asked of someone who has to miss a session. Warn before hand, get a sub, tell them what to do. Go read the post your self, "Full War Production", "Hardline", "Capture the Urals", "No peace".

That all seems pretty clear. But because of your mid game falling out with Capo and the apparent promise of Sun Tzu of the AL empire, he chose to ignore the best interests of my civ and give in to helping himself out. Not only did he fail to achieve or even maintain objectives in the Urals, he allowed sensitive technology to be lost to enemies, signed peace outside the terms I outlined, and worst of all changed all my war production to engineers and power plants. I am abosulutly appauled that this was allowed to happen. Although Sun Tzu was an attrative replacement for Capo at the time, the others invovled in the game should have realized the conflict of interest which now has horribly set back my empire while I have been playing hardball on the forums unaware.

While I won't ask for a restart unless it is placed in my lap, I do want to make you all feel very stupid for what you have done, and warn you all now that I care nothing for game balance now. Screw it. I will persue any vendetta I feel like weither its healthy for the game or not. You don't really care about the health of the game if you let this happen to me anyway.

[Rasputin]

OOC

I agree with Dangimes comments re Suns attempts to prevent Mongols war effort agaisnt his future Civ control. I felt during the last session that Sun let me donw in the war , but relised it was a sacrifice necessary to continue game. With the loss of Capo the game migh thave floundered.

So whilst I think Dangime has been hard down by, it is impossible to go back in time, so we need to press on and continue. The only thing we should do when we continue on Friday/Thursday night is allow time for dangime and others to change their production schedules before finihsing whoevers turn it is

As for vendettas, they are ok, just dont make thme personal Dangime. This is just a game, and war can be part of game so go for it. But it is not personal

Look at Capo, i sure he doesnt hate me for all the land i stole from him !!!!!!