OT: - Real life dominions

[Gandalf Parker]

The pretenders in this particular game do seem awfully unbalanced. But if US is Ulm then BinLaden is Pangaea. Force of arms vs sneak tactics. Winning seems automatic but it can take alot longer than it would with another open force.

In fact, maybe he is Pangaea with Carrion Woods. You have to take out the religious leaders or else they can create an entire new army.

Gandalf Parker

[Agrajag]

Just in case it doesn't show on the left, I'm from Israel.

I'd say we have enough gems to alchemize into 100 Astral pearls, as well as an Astral-9 pretender. An Alteration-9 researched. So atleast if Israel goes down, the rest of the world goes down with it ("Going Out With a Bang" =P)

Now seriously, those comics are just an excuse for them to riot. There's enough blasphemous and otherwise inappropriate material for:
1) Israel to burn down every arab country in the middle east.
2) USA to burn down every muslim country in the area.
3) Jews to riot and burn down nice portions of most of the western world.
4) Hindus to riot and burn down almost the entire world.
5) etc.
Yet none of that seems to happen.

[Fate]

Yes, this is all true (especially who is what gods ).

I think that how this really needs to be seen as is the stone that broke the camel's back. From my (poor) american perspective, the entire middle east has been on fire for the last four decades -or longer- and I think that the feeling there could finally just be a substantial population who "just can't take it any longer."

Now, don't get me wrong, I am not trying to condone what is happening, I am just pointing out that there are reasons. Sometimes you just don't want to think about it, just do it.

[Tom_Scudder]

Despite everything, these demos have not been very big (loud & violent, and very stupid, but not big), compared to eg the big demos & counter-demos in Lebanon last year, or the big anti-terrorism demo in Jordan just after the bombings this October (?)

A blog I intermittently contribute to has a big fat roundup on the whole danish insanity:

http://www.aqoul.com/danish.html

[PDF]

Gandalf Parker said:
The pretenders in this particular game do seem awfully unbalanced. But if US is Ulm then BinLaden is Pangaea. Force of arms vs sneak tactics. Winning seems automatic but it can take alot longer than it would with another open force.

In fact, maybe he is Pangaea with Carrion Woods. You have to take out the religious leaders or else they can create an entire new army.

Gandalf Parker

Funny parallel ... But did you mean that US gets *no* chance to win (as would be the case in an Ulm/Pangea contest usually) ?

[Fate]

PDF said:

Funny parallel ... But did you mean that US gets *no* chance to win (as would be the case in an Ulm/Pangea contest usually) ?

If your taling about Dominions-esque total anihilation, I hope no one wins.

[shovah]

i hope the UK wins give the little guys a chance

[Vicious Love]

So are we still overanalyzing this False Horror spam, or what? Flagellants will be flagellants, and the media will be the media.

[Saber Cherry]

When I posted before, I forgot about the possiblity of Egypt teleporting Sphinxes. Anyone know the latest rules?

[Alneyan]

Well, I wouldn't say the US are Ulm, really. Caelum seems a much better fit: they have flying hit squadrons and long-ranged fun (instead of crawling on the ground, they are quite wealthy and have an easier time building up their forces, they have some nasty firepower under their belt, and many players feel they are overpowered, leading to a "gang on them" approach.