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Kasz216 on 15 March 2010
Final-Fan said:
Kasz216 said:
Yeah, the NA is a bit unbalanced... but that's the problem when you base it on real geography... they couldn't of made it worth less, but there was no other ways to have invasion really.

Reminds me of the good old days, when we had over 6 people wanting to play at a time... so we made a giant Europeon map with different zones for 8-16 players....

and we never got more then 4 players at a time after it was done... making all that work worthless.

Also, since you brought up monopoly... I think it's worth noting that the Orange properties are actually the most valuable.

Yeah, I know. I've got this cool Monopoly book from 1974 or something that's really great. (Well, "valuable" is relative.  Green is the awesomest to have hotels on, but it's so expensive you can't really do it without another monopoly funding you.  Orange and Dark Blue are probably the best overall but Light Blue is the best on a budget.)

I played a game of it recently, and I wasn't doing too well. I got 2/3 of the Green, and 2/3 of the Orange, but both times the same guy took the last one. Then some bastard got the Boardwalk monopoly and started building it up, so I traded both of my Greens for the last Orange and $200. I was able to build some houses, but so was Mr. Boardwalk. But only one guy ever landed on him (going bankrupt). 

And then right at the end of the game Boardwalk was in Just Visiting so I gambled all my money on hotels; he got a 12 and I was like DAMMIT and then he got "Go back 3 spaces" and I was like MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!! And then my Green buddy landed on another hotel and Boardwalk landed on the third hotel and that was pretty much the game.

P.S.  As for your custom Risk board, that sounds pretty interesting.  Any pictures?

No pictures sadly.  If i remember correctly we based it off a map in the first PC game.

Had Europe, Northern Africa, The middle east... was good stuff.

I miss having people to play risk with... my fondest memory was probably of a 6 person game I won... mostly because someone else took ove North America, but then just stopped.  They started playing isolationist... not really even ever attacking anyone... I don't know what he was thinking.  I guess that he'd save up his forces and vulture in... but without getting cards he was screwed.



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i love xbox360 on 15 March 2010

at the end of the day people the eu is flawed and will never work in it current format, end o. for the eu to work the three big countries(france,uk and germany) have to lead the way and the rest of europe will have to follow





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Lord Flashheart on 15 March 2010
DeduS said:
i love xbox360 said:
DeduS said:
NKAJ said:
Tallgeese101 said:
Oi guys, leave the French alone. The French (and many nations in the EU) are getting billions in subsidies and all they have to do is let the Germans have a little bit of control over their lives and sacrifice a bit of their national pride.

Better this way than encouraging them to go down their more traditional route to domination of Europe.

Germany coudnt take over europe even if they wanted to .They might have been strong in 1940 but those days are over.

Well... we could stop paying for this whole EU-bullshit - that would cause some trouble. :D

 

Actually it would be quite nice to invest in our own country again - the EU finances are fubar. The financial burden of the EU is unjustly shared.

 

@topic: I never felt the UK was so different from the rest of Europe - actually, mentality wise, I feel way closer to the UK than to France or Italy.

are you trying to say that germany pays for most of the eu??? if you do my friend then you need to do some research

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_the_European_Union

 

and i agree with you im from england but the country i feel the closest to is germany having been there i have to say i love the place

Yes I do - kind of - according to your link we pay the most, but not for the most. The chart in your link at least seems fairer than it was before, but it contains estimated data. I was referring to the past and just assumed nothing had changed. ^^

But most of the data doesn't add up, so I don't know which to trust.

normally not a good policy but with the EU it's understandable.



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oldschoolfool on 16 March 2010
NJ5 said:

Something that I've been noticing for a while... it happens quite often that people in Britain talk about "going to Europe" when they mean going to places in Europe other than the UK. Another example, news articles talking about "UK and Europe" as if UK isn't part of Europe.

I know many British people hate the EU, but Europe is not the same thing as EU. So what's up with that?

Wake up already. You're part of Europe.

 


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Kantor on 16 March 2010
i love xbox360 said:
at the end of the day people the eu is flawed and will never work in it current format, end o. for the eu to work the three big countries(france,uk and germany) have to lead the way and the rest of europe will have to follow

Because the EU is failing and on the brink of collapse, right?



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Samus Aran on 16 March 2010


Well, why would you want to ban libil for what he said? Your own politicians(UK) aren't better, in fact they're even worse.
How long will it take for some UK politician to insult Belgium again? I'm growing sick and tired of comments like "Belgium is not a real country". Or calling people a "natte dweil die naar de kapper moeten"
At least we don't live in a dreamworld thinking we're a superpower.  Wake up. You're America's *fill in the word of your liking here*

In no way is my post directed to the people of UK though, just some(a lot actually) politicians and political parties from the UK.

I want to say even worse things, but my post is probably already on the border of getting banned ;c

And yes, I hate Farage.

 



Lord Flashheart on 16 March 2010

what did our politions say about Belgium?

And Blair wasn't bush's dog. He was his keeper.
he was keeping him in cheack. Stopping him from saying something stupid.



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NunedQ on 16 March 2010
mirgro said:
Chairman-Mao said:
NJ5 said:
Chairman-Mao said:
NJ5 said:
Chairman-Mao said:
1. They are not connected by land to most of Europe
2. Believe it or not, they're one of the only countries that speaks English in Europe
3. They have their own currency
4. They have the most history out of any European nation
5. They could kick France's ass whenever they wanted!

1. Has already been discussed earlier
2. So?
3. See 1.
4. Not true.
5. France has nuclear weapons :P

 

1. Yes it has

2. Its just another way they are separated from mainland europe. You don't think language barriers exist?

3. Yeah it has

4. Who has more history than Britain?

5. France is too chicken shit to ever use them. Plus France is a joke, how long did it take Germany in WWII? About 1 month right?

2. You might be interested to know that almost all European countries have their own language too. This doesn't make the UK unique. Geez did I really have to point this out?

4. Greece for example?

5. What does this have to do with anything anyway?

 

2. Yeah but in mainland Europe there are different countriest that speak the same language more frequently. For examples, German is an official language of Austria, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland. And Russian is the official language in Russia, Moldova and Belarus, and is widely spoken in Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

English on the other hand the official language in just UK, Ireland and the small nation of Malta. All I'm trying to say is while yeah most countries in EU have their own language, there are some languages that are spoken in multiple countries; but English is only spoken in 3 countries in Europe (2 of which are islands not in mainland Europe)

 

4. I don't know much about Greek history, but I'll give you this one.

5. I just like making fun of France

I can't believe you actually pulled out the language card.

What about Bulgarian? Armenian? Oh and I haven't even mentioned the big one, Spanish. Not only is it not an official language in any European country (except Spain!) but it's only used in Andorra, a far smaller country than Malta. There are probably about a dozen languages which are official in only one country.

 

P.S. The Greeks in Greece have zero claim to be called Greeks. The real Greeks  were lost somewher between the Macedonian, Roman, Byzantinian, Turkish rule. Their history basically began a century ago. Might as well say American has a long history because of the ntive americans.

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Kantor on 16 March 2010
Lord Flashheart said:
what did our politions say about Belgium?

And Blair wasn't bush's dog. He was his keeper.
he was keeping him in cheack. Stopping him from saying something stupid.

We were using Blair to stop somebody from being stupid?

That's a little like using Gabe Newell to stop somebody from eating.



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Samus Aran on 16 March 2010

Lol, someone really thinks UK has the biggest history in Europe?
I can think of quite a few countries that have a bigger and longer history.
They probably don't teach kids about the Angevin empire there eh?

 

Owh and Macedonians were considered Greeks back in the Classical antiquity. The country that is now Macedonia has no right what so ever to call them self Macedonia, they don't even speak Greek for crying out loud. 

That's like thinking the Belgian history starts with the Belgae tribes =/