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51  8:59am 18/01/04        
Back with a Vengeance
Umm, actually there is something the commie countries can do to stop us, but after they do it, and we retaliate, the entire world would be a slowly cooling pile of radioactive ash, so nobody would really win there...........

Have you ever played Medieveal: Total War Kilam? If you play as an Islamic religion country, and one of your provinces gets conquered, you can launch a Jihad to recapture the territory. But, they cannot be used to go on offensive campaigns, unlike the Catholic countries that can use the crusade.
52  9:27am 18/01/04        
Blink If You Can Hear Me
Yes, arguing philosophy using points from video games is a good idea.
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53  5:55pm 18/01/04        
friend of the sleeping pill
As they are all deeply researched and studied.
Ralen MeVere
54  8:28pm 18/01/04        
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friend of the sleeping pill
Have you ever played Medieveal: Total War Kilam? If you play as an Islamic religion country, and one of your provinces gets conquered, you can launch a Jihad to recapture the territory. But, they cannot be used to go on offensive campaigns, unlike the Catholic countries that can use the crusade.

Medieval: Total War is one of the most historically accurate games I've played yet...but about Jihads it's partially wrong.

Read up on Saladin and the Third Crusade.

I'm assuming the reason Jihads work like that in MTW is because they can't rightly make a feature like that in a game like that be defensive, it would HAVE to be offensive, and therefore, reclamation against foreign invaders would be the stand-in for defense against invaders.
55  8:36pm 18/01/04        
Sith Master
ji·had also je·had
n.

1) A Muslim holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels.

2) A crusade or struggle: "The war against smoking is turning into a jihad against people who smoke" (Fortune).
56  9:04pm 18/01/04        
Return of the King of the Cafe!
This is too disturbing. I'm keeping away from this thread from now on.

But I think communism was a good idea, in moderation.
57  12:45am 19/01/04        
Internaut
But I think communism was a good idea, in moderation.

Sooo... you're moving to Cuba when?
58  1:30am 19/01/04        
Return of the King of the Cafe!
I'm in Canada, although Cuba is nice. I wouldn't mind living there when I'm old
59  2:07am 19/01/04        
Back with a Vengeance
Cuba, Nicuragua, Angolia, Russia, China, they are all good places to live in.

Wait, what the hell am I saying?
60  3:13am 19/01/04        
Internaut
I'm in Canada, although Cuba is nice. I wouldn't mind living there when I'm old

The tourist areas might be nice, but the rest ...

Ever wonder why so many Cuban's float over to Florida on rafts?

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