Ottosmops

@ Rambo, it seems that you have a superstitious belief in some prophecies of 'the book', and to support your opinion you use the existence of Israel. Did it never come to your mind that the Zionist movement knew these 'prophecies' too, and that they acted to fulfill them? Your belief in supernatural prophecies reminds me of Adolfs belief in 'die Vorsehung'.

@ Rambo, Did you ever consider the theory that Patton = Jesus?

Why didn't the Russians kill Stalin? Why didn't the Koreans kill Kim Jong-il? Why didn't the people of Zimbabwe kill Robert Mugabe? Etc. Because humans are gregarious animals and military personnel is rather accustomed to follow the orders of their leader then to eliminate him.

@ Rambo - Dude, Saturday night fever?

I guess you mean Eratosthenes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

Concerning hexes vs. squares: While the unit icons must have a certain size, so that the players can easily recognize them and move them around, I see no need, that the hexes/squares must have the same size. To approximate reality, i. e. the circular movement radius in flat terrain, the underlying grid of the map could have a finer granularity than the size of the unit icons. If the side length of the hexes/squares would be a tenth from what they are now, their shape would no longer be relevant for the players. Of course, the calculation of movements and supply ways would need more time, but with computers becoming always more powerful, this will be doable in the future.

I tried the link in your post, it works for me!

To counteract too much unhistorical play one could force the players to keep some occupation forces in the conquered countries. Depending on the size of the occupied country, i. e. the number of its cities, the invader has to leave a certain number of troops there. If he don't do this, then the occupied country could have a certain probability to start a revolution and switch back to neutral or to the other side. The idea behind this is, to leave the player the choice which way to go, what countries to attack, but to prevent him to do more than what historically could have been done.

Do you feel alright?

GT Legends The best ( = most realistic ) racing game that I've ever played. Caesar IV I always love to optimize something, but since I play only occasionally and very slowly, I will never finish a career. Worms Armageddon Old, but still fun to play. SC2 Every time when an update is released, I start a game as Allies, only to see, that the AI could not take a single one of my Russian cities. But I don't abandon hope...

Amazing

Not that I'm an agent from the 'other side', who tries to promote the 'other game', :eek: but why do you compare the prize of the 'other game' with SC1 (25$) and not with SC2 (55$)? Do you judge from appearance (hexes) alone?

@ Rambo ... Dude, what has your friend George double-u to do with D-Day? :confused: He is just celebrating a party with Mrs. Merkel and comrade Putin. Anyway, I salute those, who you salute... ... and also those, who fought on the other side of the front. :eek:

History is never written objectively. Der Standort bestimmt den Standpunkt. (The location determines the point of view)

@Rambo --- Dude, you drunk? Cool. :cool:

Great. I love you too, Rambo. And I'm sure, everybody else loves you too. OK?

With an aircraft from the Vatican.

You are right, of course. But: From a theoretical viewpoint, the random number generator still works deterministically, it increases only the possibilities. If someone knows the method that is used to generate the numbers and the initial seed, he could include this knowledge into his calculations. Even without this knowledge, one could work with expected values. And: More practically seen, even in a game without random events, given the many possibilities and the unreliability of the human brain, ones moves sometimes give the impression, that they are randomly chosen.

But still chess masters use several hours for their games. And they would use more, if they could. :cool: Abstractly seen, there is not much difference between SC2 and Chess (and other comparable games). :cool: Both are deterministic and have a very large but finite game tree. The size of the game tree says not much about the difficulty of a game. Anybody should be able to add two arbitrarily large whole numbers, though the set of the whole numbers is infinite. Neither does the number of moves in a given position determine the difficulty of a game. Imagine a game, where you have only two legal moves in each position. Would such a game be easy? Not necessarily, as you could read further ahead in such a game, and you would have to do this, to find strong moves. So except that SC2 is a strategic game as many others, what makes it appealing to the players? I think, it's the connection to reality. The game mechanics are not arbitrary, but they copy some aspects of reality. The movement abilities and the strength of the units mirror real life entities. Research and diplomacy also work similarly as they do in real life. The military environment and the reference to history also attract people. So the player finds the game familiar from the beginning, he doesn't have to learn abstract rules. But to become a strong player demands time and dedication. And again, in this respect, I see no difference between SC2 and other games or activities.

To play a strategic game means to make reasonable decisions. Reasonable decisions must be based on facts. Facts must be represented somewhere, usually in the memory of the player. That's unavoidable for every game, be it Chess or Poker or SC2. The better your memory and the more relevant information you have stored, the stronger you can play. Intuition is always based on information. Of course I don't say, that everybody should become ambitious, you can have as much fun to play ... just for fun, as I do.

He has only a 15” monitor.

I find it extremely stu... - oops, - I mean, unrealistic, that the three US units are sitting in their cities for the first two years of the game. They should lose a strength point every week, because of alcohol, drugs and syphilis. :eek: But they should gain a moral boost as compensation. Sex & drugs & alco-holl is more fun than to (Sleeping, you forgot the sleeping last time, Mr. Incredible.)

No wonder there were no Nazis in Germany after 1945. They emigrated to America.

You don't consider the UK and Spain as your allies? :confused:

War On Bad Policy! would fit well into this schema. And nobody would complain, if this were a world wide war.