excel saga. I like spreadsheets.
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(and it looked better in the wiki article)
Well, my recent absence of a few days from this forum is due to a great campaign I've had going in Rome: Total War with the Germania faction as Shadow Phoenix decided at the top of the 34th page of this thread. It's been going very nicely, I've gotten 17 provinces and beaten the heck out of Gaul, as well as promptly banishing the Britans from the European mainland(I'd kill them on their island also, but I don't have any ports near there yet). I've usually liked to play with factions with strong calvary and good archers, but I'm starting to like the german troops. Unfortunately, The Romans started attacking me recently(probably because I got rid of Gaul, and they don't have anywhere else to expand), and now I have to fend them off. It seems that the german troops aren't all that effective against Romans. If only they had better calvary. Also, one of my diplomats just spotted a huge Gallic(Gaul) army coming towards me from the spain area, and I'm going to have to divert some troops there in about two turns to defend my cities. As for my cities, I don't have much population, and I can't build better buildings until I get enough population to advance each to the next level. All in all though, it has been a lot of fun. If anyone is thinking about getting the game(it's pretty cheap now) go for it. There's nothing like watching 20,000 soldiers assault a castle, with flaming arrows raining down and catapaults hurling rocks at the walls. Also, I just watched the trailer for Medieval 2: Total War, and it looks amazing. Here is a link to the filefront page where you can download it. Just remember while your are watching it that it's all in game footage, no pre-rendered cg. It's really amazing what they can achieve with their engine. There are also some screenshots on the page I linked to, if you don't want to download the video. There is also a lower resolution version of the video here. enjoy.
Well, I noticed some good hard drive deals in the ads today. I've noticed that prices have really come down on them recently. What do you think is better?
Maxtor PATA-133 100gb drive at office depot for $19.99, Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA300 hard drive for $49.99, or Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA300 hard drive for $159.99?