china leader

[Haon]

sorry about that rant, there, did not mean to sound like a KMT member, never mean to insult anyone either, sorry, butI have recently lost a game ot Mao when he build a space ship and it really ticked me off.

[flash9286]

yeah but you were right

[XOR]

Well, for one thing, Chinese do not like Mao. China was de-Maoized the same way Russia was de-stalinized when they got rid of Stalin. Mao was responsible for something called "cult to personality" which is trying to impose his figure as if he was some kind of patriarch or messiah or something, something like what Nero did but without the exagerated theatrical excentricity of Nero. The only good thing Mao did for china was save and protect it's sovereignty from the Russians, English, Portogese, Arabs, etc. But I dont think the Chinese really feel that that was a thing he did "for his people".

Most western world people seem to be so ignorant about this that not long ago some stupid idiot clown who happens to be president of a southamerican country went to China and said "Yo amo a Mao", which translates to "I love mao" in reference to some propaganda of the Maoist era where the phrase "Mao loves the people, the people love Mao" comes from. I think it's from the Red book, not sure, I'll give the book a read if I can find it and download it. The thing is that after that, the idiot didn't really fit very good with the Chinese which practicly resulted on no agreements of any kind being arranged, and I wholeheartedly wish the chinese would have lynched the ignorant petulant idiot as I would have. Oh well, international conventions tend to protect the worst specimens of our specie.

We could just take Sun Tzu's era's king or some king that somehow unified China. Options of rulers start from Xuang Dee (I think it was, I cant remember exactly) and then I think we have a long line of kings from the Chin, Shang and I cant remember what other dinasties.

Otto von Bismarck wasnt a "respectable subject" either, maybe the Germans dont mind, but his biography is definately not that of an "admirable" person. In Otto's case I believe it comes to be more insult to the French and not much importance to the Germans. I guess it comes to show that world's history has been crudely shaped by bureaucratized criminals one time after another.

Going a bit further off the topic, I think Gengis should be Khan Genghis Temujin of the Mongols and not King Gengis Temujin Khan of the Mongols, I could be wrong, but someone should check it out as I believe "Khan" was some sort of emperor title and not his name.

[bongo]

XOR: I think you are right about 'khan' - just their word for emperor or king. I read somewhere that they had a supreme king called kha-khan. As this title was taken already Temujin had to make a new title - Gengis Khan - Khan of the sky. I think Gengis is their name for the sky, which also was considered a deity.

I'm no historian though, just a humble engineer.

[Lord Merciless]

Well, you can do the following things in the game:
- Raze enemy cities at will;
- Pop-rush improvements and units whenever convenient;
- Start all-out nuclear war;
- Starve a size 30 city all the way down to 1 without repercussions.

Does that make you any better than Mao, Stalin, or Hitler, if not worse?