PTWDG II: Mohammed al-Sahaf Team thread

[bongo]

Who : The diciples of Iraqi information minister Mohammed al-Sahaf, currently on administrative leave.

Our Goals :
#2 To conquer the world, no less.
#1 To inform everyone about it.

Rules : Every member must not only always tell the thruth but also do so at every oppurtunity and with as many word as possible. Members are allowed to be rude both against each other and non-members if done with style. Rudeness without style are only accepted against non-members.

Qualifications : Honesty, imagination and denial.
Skills in Orwellian newspeak and proper spelling are also welcome.

Tribe : A militaristic and religious one. The Atzecs are a well known tribe from old mesopotamia.


Name and secret handshake are not yet decided.

Our government are now taking shape. There are already a consensus for:
Minister of Truth and Enlightenment
Minister of Peace
Other position are suggested but still debated :
Minister of Information
Minister of Banana Quality Control and Production
Messenger of good news
Ãœber-Dictator
Minister of Grammar and Speling
Chief Executive Officer of Plumbing and Sanitary Facilities

We have a rich heritage of mottos left us by our Great Master.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!"

Members :
bongo
Alex , The Apolytoner Formerly Known As Alexnm
Krakan
OPD
Thud


We will without doubt be the greatest team ever! And when others see our greatness they will leave their inferior team and come to us begging to let them in. Remember, we speak only the truth.

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/

[Alex]

I'm sure that the delay in posting this thread is a clever tactic to lure our enemies into thinking that we would not mount a significative resistance, but now they know that we're alive and ready to face them in the cruelest possible manner.

(Phew! I thought I would have to start this thread after all... )

[bongo]

Welcome thruthful friend. Our style of play will of course include some very innovative and cunning strategy. We will throw shoes at the infidels, and steal their bananas.

[Beta]

Imposters!!

[Krakan]

I have a large quantity of bio-banana warheads stockpiled in my bedroom. I relish the chance to conquer the world with these super advanced weapons and to steal the vast shoe resources of Team Sunshine.

[Zero]

r u guys gonna be persia? (modern day iraq)

[Tiberius]

Isn't it Babylon (modern day Iraq)? The city of Babylon was somewhere south of today's Baghdad and I think Basra is the former Ur.

AFAIK Persia is Iran.

[BigFree]

Originally posted by Calc II
r u guys gonna be persia? (modern day iraq)

The Ottomans would be better choice since the Turks actually contolled the region(Mesopotamia) that is now Iraq from around 1500 to the late 1800's

Before that there were the Mongols, the Assyrians, Babylononians and the Sumerians in contol of Mesopotamia, which by the way is a Greek word meaning "between two river's." The Tigris and the Euphrates.

[GeneralTacticus]

Aren't you guys all missing the fact that modern-day Iraq is in fact Arab?

(apart from their assorted minorities, of course...)

[Jon Shafer]

GT is right. Modern Iraq is made up mostly of Arabs, with some other Middle Eastern peoples mixed in for good fun. So if you wanted to be ethnically correct, you'd need to be the Arabs.

[BigFree]

Originally posted by Trip
GT is right. Modern Iraq is made up mostly of Arabs, with some other Middle Eastern peoples mixed in for good fun. So if you wanted to be ethnically correct, you'd need to be the Arabs.

We could or could not be talking about modern day, Trip & GT. There are certainly no Babylonians around today is there? Or what about Persians? The choice of Civ that would cover this region inhabitied by Modern Day Iraq is what I was geting at, not neccessarily who's there today and tommorow. The game starts in 4000 BC around when Sumerians were in control of the region. That being that, there' no "perfect" Civ for this region. If you wanted to mimick current day situations, then Arabia would be the way to go.

You get my drift.

[Jon Shafer]

But we're talking the Minister of Disinformation here, man!

Sounds like an ad for Ozzy Osbourne or something.

[Thirgaral]

Originally posted by Krakan
I have a large quantity of bio-banana warheads stockpiled in my bedroom. I relish the chance to conquer the world with these super advanced weapons and to steal the vast shoe resources of Team Sunshine.

It was an accident...you know that a Team Sunshine member never would do that on purpose

[Shiber]

Re: PTWDG II: Mohammed al-Sahaf Team thread

Originally posted by bongo
Who : The diciples of former Iraqi information minister Mohammed a-Sahaf.

He hasn't left his job, he's just on an administrative leave.
In fact, he's commanding the Iraqi armed forces currently besieging Washington DC. Infidels!!!@#$!

[bongo]

You missed the point here, wether Mohammed al-Sahaf is 'former' iraqi information minister or just on administrative leave is completely irrelevant. What matters here is that WE are his diciples and will enter (and win of course) this game following his golden rule. We tell the truth.

It really doesn't matter which tribe we play, we'll win. The infidels will suffer badly. They will be left starving in the desert, crying for their mothers, and bananas.

Krakan , welcome among us. Any opinions on which tribe you should go for? Honesty and thruthfulness are sadly not among civ3 traits.