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Besides recovering and then if they have to inject a local anesthesia, that's not painful at all! Uh, yeah it is really painful, depending on where it is and how long the recovery is.

Bumpity bump. It's Derek's first day of highschool, hoorah. Anyways. We had a huge line of cars that lasted for about 20 minutes because it's a huge school. I had a pretty good day, got to see several girls I know, got to sit next to and flirt with a girl I'm thinking of going out with, got to see a bunch of friends at lunch (barely understood what was going on there lol >.<), saw 2 people I haven't seen in about 2 years, and saw a girl from another school i hadn't seen in 3-4 years. 'Twas a pretty good day overall except for boredom.

Churchill's quite a good quoter.

Turkey, pickles, olives, lettece, and cucumbers. It tastes really fresh and tasty.

Oh my god. That brings back so many memories. When I was younger my mom and I used to play the original. That was such a fun game also because I had friends that I could visit their town and such.

:wall: :wall: Amazing that anyone could NOT get what you're saying. Sigh. Anyways.

That's absolutely ridiculous. Is it? Or maybe is it like the Truman Show? You've been taught all your life that mind reading is impossible and there's no way it'll ever happen. But maybe everyone else can read minds except for you. Oh damn. The producers are going to fire me for saying that ..

Speaking of Trauma, I've had 4-5 surgeries (minor) on my toes for ingrown toenail. The first time I had it done, the pure fact of surprise and the speed at which he put the needle in my foot made it horribly painful. When I had to have it done again, I started bursting out crying and couldn't stand it. I wouldn't let him near me again. He really made me angry\traumatized. Anyways. I have a severe paranoia of burgular\murderers. Whenever I'm home alone I swear I hear things going on upstairs. Luckily I have a fire poker next to my computer near the fire place in case someone tries to break in. Instant pike\spear\halberd (sorta looks like one) FTW. Other then that, I have a fear of having nightmares lol. I had one yesterday about someone trying to kill me. I had another one about a week\2 ago that had a decapitated, armless, legless womens body with a stab in her crotch for some reason. It really was rather freaky\creepy. I had to go watch TV for a while.

I've never used the dogs before, because of the 2 turn thing and then they don't do much damage I thought. :?

[hide=blue slip ons]These are the shoes I got the other day, they're the same except that mine don't have laces. [/hide] [hide=multicolor slip ons]I got these too. Not exactly the same coloring but mine is different colors of plaid, which this is the closest I could find. [/hide]

You should know that whatever you send against berserkers there's a 95% chance that they will die. I've found I take the most casualties from cavalry charges, so if you want to keep hitting and running zerks that'd probably be the best way to do it. I hate the Greek Generals. He sounds like a freaking 12 year old. "The enemy general is KEEEELED." His voice squeeks everytime at the keeld part. It's hilarious. :lol:

Seriously? I love it now lol. It's really similar to how I talk and how I think, so I guess I find it funny ..

I dunno. You could just have zerks charge them, then have your goth cavalry charge them from the flank. I'm not 100% sure, but it SHOULD cause a rout, then just move down the line of cohorts\other infantry. The morale loss of other roman's routing should be enough with a zerker charge to make them rout themselves, if they won't just keep charging. Also, to Shadow, if the Spartan Hoplites move out of position to meet the charge, then they'll get flanked by the spear warband themselves. It's a lose-lose situation since Greece has pretty crappy cavalry except for generals.

I'm seriiously loveing pictures for sad children. It's a great comic. :lol:

Greece is decent at best. Their biggest thing they should probably rely on doing is using their huge naval trade bonus (owning Greece, Rhodes, and a part of Sicily) and their ability that they're fighting a one front fight - north. Germania has Britons to the west, Rebels to the east, Sycthians to the East, Gaul to the South, South west\east. But yeah, Greeks can easily just bribe an army to tears, and then rely on the sieging of towns they can't bribe. If they sally out, or have another force attack them, just have your phalanxes in a 3\4 sided triangle\square, and then have your generals wayy off to the side to avoid them being ran off. When you get engaged, not only will they lose to your phalanxes, they'll be in a treat with your general body guards attacking them in the flank for a nearly instant rout. I think Germans can easily beat Spartan Hoplites though. Have a spearwarband to keep the phalanx in place, then have your choice of zerks or Goth Cavalry to flank and rout the enemy. Very easy to do.

That last one was great, as is the nerd one. "I am not telling a joke. you are terrible". :lol:

Oh my god. I remember doing those last year and the year before. SOOO much fun. It's like playing Russian Roulette, especially with a strict teacher - you have to hope that they don't hear a ball hitting something or giggles from people. But yeah, we had a sub in one of my classes, we had like 6 people throwing things at once when he'd turn around. It was hilarious. We had a sub in Science once. He had to be 70-80. So this guy throws a paper ball at me in the back of my head (he was sitting behind me). I turn around to pick it up. The freaking teacher yelled at me and told me to go sit at another table. I got so mad. I think I almost got sent to the office or whatever.

Yeah, I know. :P I just felt like screwing\messing with you heh. But yeah since I've been using chariot archers lately I've gotten into horse archers. So freaking awesome - it's almost impossible to lose as Armenia\Parthia because of like you said, they're almost overpowered. Though chosen archer warbands\pharoah's archers (which both you'll be very likely to see) will just eat up non-cataphract archers. I thought you were talking about non-sieged cities. :ugeek: But I guess that's the funnest thing about raiding cities - they can't get defense up fast enough to absord the attack of a full stack of whatever you choose. Have you ever tried ambushing? I really want to go back into Germania campaign and to try and get the zerks and cavalry on that little spot north of patavium - the romans love to use that spot to get to the barbarians, hahaha. I've only ambushed small (2-3 unit) armies before, but it's fun.

I can't wait for Empire: TW. That's going to be epic - home cities, revolutions, -sea battles-, you can garrison people in buildings. It's going to be great. Lancer the hell you talkin' about? 11 turns for a port, reli building, and barracks? Depending on the barracks and reli building, that's about 5-8 turns. Not to mention that the barbarians have to lay siege to your town, which gives you time to build up, and also you're in a prime defensive spot (hello phalanxes). In my recent Briton campaign, I just took Italy, western europe, most of Spain (wrapping that up), almost all of Germania, and Sicily. Chosen Swordsmen on warcry just destroy everything. Then throw in some Light chariot archers (4-5) and you're in a beautiful spot to win. Chariot archers are fun to use - you can maneuaver them around to the back of some Hastati or Cohorts and just shoot them from the back and watch them fall like flies. You'll usually get a good 10-15 every complete volley. Even more for silver\gold chevron chariots. What I hate about the Britons is that you have to recruit mercenaries to have cavalry that isn't chariots. Chariots are suckish at best at running down routers. Germania is a fun civ to use like lancer said though. Berserkers and spear warbands make them borderline OP, along with Gothic Cavalry. It's fun though since you can take 5 'zerks and 5 gothic cavalry and just have the zerks run at the right flank while the gothic hits the right flank at the same time - almost instant rout. Have your cav run down the routers. You'll easily get some gold chevron units really quick. Brutii is probably the best civ to play between the Brut\Jul\Scip factions. They have Greece, Asia Minor, northern greece, RHODES (beautiful place haha to have). Towards the end of the game you'll be making 50k a turn easily from sea trade from places like Greece, Egypt, and Asia Minor. Parthia\Armenia is sooo much fun to use. Cataphract Archers just can't be beat. Maneauver around them and encircle them and just weaken them and rout them with cataphract archers. If you're looking for something more realistic, a hugely popular mod is Rome: Total Realism. Just google it or something. I have some tips though. For every turn that a general sits in a city, he risks getting a negative attribute. If you move him a little, he'll lose that risk. It gets higher and higher for every 50k you have too. Bribing is fun to do if you want to get rid of small little armies. I like to keep a diplomat near Patavium so that the Brutii (who move from Greece upwards to try and take back Italy) so that he can bribe almost any army sieging Patavium or Mediolanium. You can also move Retinues between Generals - just dragandclick them to another person. So that if you have a 'Pet Idiot' Retinue, you can move him to a moron general you don't care about. Civ just can't compare to RTW except that you can start your own colonies and you can go through the ages. It's a good game - but yeah, it just is weak comparitively. Incorrect, heavy onagers get something like 110 attack vs infantry

lionheart_0, hiimben, mumm are all people i tlak to a lot on msn. I like lenticular too and zon for their humor. ginger i almost never agree with, but he argues really well lol.

Wow. Just curious, where are you from?

That's a nice picture Sue.

I don't understand why you posted this, it kind of pales in comparison to the rest of the topic, not to mention I would call it a sensible thought (depending on why they were after you). Running away from the police is just what kids do, especially drunk kids. It's entertaining to see on shows like Cops people try to run away. I mean, they're wearing pants and a t-shirt - the cop has (probably) a bulletproof vest, a thick shirt, thick pants, radio system, gun, baton, pepperspray, etc, and they always catch the guy. I think I read somewhere that 87% of all people that run get caught? I gotta say, I've never thought that. No reason to add another charge to yourself and also make the cop pissed at you.

Firstly, I don't actually do drugs, or smoke, or drink. There you go. I've made an informed decision not to do any of those things, and I'm quite clearly not crazy. Secondly, remove the blanket statement. Marijuana has some medicinal properties. Alcohol actually boosts confidence and promotes positive attitudes towards life. All drugs have some positive effect, even if it's only hallucinary - they wouldn't sell otherwise, think about it. Drugs are not all bad. It's about actually knowing what each drug is, what it does, what risks are involved and how seriously they can affect your health, and knowing that moderation on any substance that enters your body is key. Alcohol sure as hell isn't bad when you take only one unit a day for five days in a week. Nice points. I trying to find something to counter it but I can't. Gotta say Ginger, you seem to be the opposite of me on nearly everything I think in, but you do a really nice job presenting.

... Make informed decisions? Are you crazy? Drugs ARE bad. Alcohol IS bad. The only one that you might make an "informed decision" about is sex. Otherwise that's it. Why would you want to make a desicion to do drugs? I don't think I expressed this the way I could've. I hope you get what I mean ..