Nero

I enjoy reading things of substance. If I wanted to read nonsense I'd go out and buy Twilight. Maybe next time use soldiers that you haven't sapped all the energy and mass from by starving them to death beforehand? Hmm Retech said they were 'in a trance', so yeah, zombie like. You think I decided the result? Because it's silly. He has like...shrapnel, which was invented in the 19th century. No, I at least try not to ruin the game for everyone with ludicrously advanced technology.

You sent 30,000 zombified Tunisian peasants (I thought you said you only had nominal control over Tunisia...why would they give 30,000 people to go fight Spain?). A couple weeks of attacking them and yea, 500 knights could take out that many. Talk in circles = You just dance around and provide useless analogies and irrelevant information until the person gets annoyed enough to let you have what you want.

It's because your technology never makes sense and you're either the moderator or talk the moderator in circles until they agree that your technology can uber destroy everything, thus killing the fun part of the game and ushering in the 'I build 20 super duper nukers and nuke the moon' era.

At least you're learning. It'll probably pop up once Iceland's navy gets torn apart by my 12 pounder cannons and the French army gets demolished by my line infantry.

They're funny because they're stupid.

[picture of a facepalm]

Should be fun.

You didn't do anything other than give me your secret technology and then sail around the island yelling insults. Lol.

The one sitting right on my border by some French castle they were pretending to besiege. Oh that's awesome, I forgot about that. It seems I already have some of Archi's weapons, since he sent them to me a while back. Now, considering I've had them for like 5 years now, I definitely should know exactly what they are, and how they work. Retech? --- Spanish treasury: 12m

Let's see, a multi-nation army masses on my border, and you think I wouldn't know about it? Lol. We don't need logic to win arguments, we've got motivators!

Obviously not, because that actually makes sense. "The Cretians have attacked our navy." "Oh don't worry guys, no need to be alert or anything, it's not like we're currently at war." "The French are going to attack Spain soon." "Nope! No reason for alarm, everyone go back to sleep." zz

I wouldn't be surprised if Arch builds those next. Of course, he won't call them spaceships, just something vaguely scientific so that whenever someone challenges on them he can post theoretical physics theories and toss out his army of scarecrows to distract people.

:) Spain trains 5,000 infantry of the line and starts building Man-o-wars with mounted 16 pounder cannons.

You're already attacking me using it, so I really don't care. Don't need to research it. We're in the Renaissance era, free technology for all :D That's nice. It's either gunpowder or one of Arch's stupid quasi-science [developmentally delayed] weapons. And since I know you're smart enough not to allow Arch to just put that crap into the game, that leaves gunpowder.

I think he got the names Walka and Dusty confused.

I can only go on what the moderator tells me, and that's that it is in fact gunpowder. I should know, it's been used on me what...5 times now? Yea. It's gunpowder. Further proof is the fact that it managed to make a breach in a castle wall within like...a day. Retech, how much would an infantry of line soldier cost? I'm thinking like 2000 each since it's relatively new technology.

Which means that yes, it is gunpowder. So, expect to face Spanish Line Infantry and Napoleonic Era lancers very shortly, Nex. :)

Right. Anyways, Spain starts mass producing cannons and muskets, since we have somehow catapulted to the Renaissance era (thanks Arch). I'm just going to ignore the silliness of 10 ships sailing up to Spain crammed with 30,000 people and my fleet doing absolutely nothing to stop them. Btw, those castles are garrisoned at all time by at least 4000 men.

Haha, silly native primitives.

I buy: 5000 Galician cavalry for 4m (unique unit) 50 Carracks (what are the price for these Retech) And my military academy in Toledo is complete Oh and I'll buy 10 more cogs and send over colonists to South Africa again 15/20- horse breeding 15/20 - tempered steel

How hard do you chuckle to yourself when you write like that? I'd be dying of laughter.

You always have the most colourfully useless sayings ever, Arch.

Unless somebody gives Ireland a hefty sum of gold to buy themselves a nice horde of angry Irishmen to repel all you silly invaders.

Yea, I'm curious as to what's up with this, since there's currently only 3 types of ships - galleys, cogs, and military cogs.

Nah no worries, 20 galleys are pretty easy to replace.