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Servilius Novus
04-29-2012, 12:07
Hi everyone :)
I'm Servilius Novus, regular Europa Barbarorum player and former vanilla RTW and M2TW player. I play the Total war series for about 6 years for now and my enthusiasm and dedication to the Total War series is still the same :)
So hai guys! ;)
Hi, Servilius Novus,
be welcome in the realms of TW;
being quite a traditionalist I´d recommend a few trials with "The one and only original" M:TW 1 - unequaled experiences granted!
greetings daigaku
Peasant Phill
04-29-2012, 13:21
Welcome Servilius Novus,
I see you picked an interesting avatar.
Servilius Novus
04-29-2012, 14:36
Hi
daigaku Gotta try it, downloading! ;)
Peasant Phill :laugh4:
Welcome Servilius Novus:smart: glad to see you on board. As a "former" M2:TW player myself, I applaud your desire to try M:TW which I just came to about 1 month ago and have been playing for not quite 1 week! Anywho, enjoy the friendly confines of the ORG.
Hi,
@ Servilius Novus: sorry, just curiosity: already installed? Already playing? If yes, wish you great battles!!!
@ Jack50: How are you progressing, how do you like that one?
greetings, daigaku
Servilius Novus
04-30-2012, 10:22
Jack50 Thanks :) Also, I get the joke :smart: :laugh4:
daigaku Yes, I already installed it and it is AWESOME! :2thumbsup: I just started a campaign with the early Byzantines (on easy since it's my first try :P ), and
I already conquered the Middle-East and Egypt ;)
Hi, Servilius Novus,
;-)) love to hear that! The Byzantines are a great faction, with allround very good units. Watch out for about 1250/1280, made the experience that they didn´t get too good heirs around this time. So do what you seem to enjoy anyway ;-)) keep on conquering!
a happily playing along
daigaku
Servilius Novus Happy about your victories:mean: Of course to play the faction just a little northwest of there(Hungary) makes for a better Empire since you can incorporate the Byzisses in :laugh4:
daigaku One is super awesome:smitten: I went ahead and bumped up my copy to version 2.01 to eventually try some mods. From what you are posting sounds like that keeps you busy!
Servilius Novus
04-30-2012, 20:33
daigaku Thanks ;) I am bit of afraid of the mongols though =D
Jack50 Well, I am Hungarian, so I also though about creating a decent Hungarian Empire :2thumbsup:
Welcome Servilius Novus ~:wave:
Your avatar looks exactly like me, after three days of Carnaval :grin:
Servilius Novus
05-01-2012, 09:46
Andres Hi Andres :cool3:
:clown::bounce:
Hi everybody,
@ Jack50: even Vanilla kept me busy for about 10 years, having started to play MODs only a few weeks ago. Tried first XL on 2.01, but didn´t like the limitations (playing mostly the Danes, for example conquering Ireland for Kerns and Gallowglasses - in XL there were none :-( and no LithCav!!!) Now playing REDUX, available for both 1.1 and 2.01, with completely new time frame, units a.s.o. - and keep sticking to the machine to play and play and......so have FUN, man!!!!
@ Servilius Novus: No need to be afraid of them, starting early gives you the time to develop good enough armour for their godd@mned Archers as well as getting far enough into the tech tree to have allround superiour units - but you have to keep an eye on income, of course (as Byz no prob, rich provinces). Wish you VICTORY ;-))
@ Andres: Shame on you! After three days still looking THAT sober?!? ;-)))
greetings to all players of "the one and only" TW-game,
daigaku
InsaneApache
05-01-2012, 11:42
Hello and welcome.
@ Andres: Shame on you! After three days still looking THAT sober?!? ;-)))
I can handle my drinks :snobby:
Servilius Novus
05-02-2012, 09:20
InsaneApache Hi :)
daigaku :charge::charge::charge:
Hi Andres,
I can handle my drinks :snobby:
......ook Bessengenever?!? ;-))
daigaku
Hi again Servilius,
it's not my turn to salute you welcome,
btw, where did you got the old Medieval? Where can I get the S1?
Servilius Novus
05-05-2012, 20:21
@The Feathered Serpent (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/member.php?u=95424) Hi :bow:
......ook Bessengenever?!? ;-))
daigaku
I prefer beer (I'm Belgian after all :wink:).
More recently, I also learned to appreciate single malt whisky.
Hi Andres
I prefer beer (I'm Belgian after all :wink:).
More recently, I also learned to appreciate single malt whisky.
?!?How was that called?!? Becassine??? Tried that some 20 years ago - wasn´t too bad tasting, but gave headaches......
Which Single Malts do you prefer - the "turpentine" ones (like for example Laphroigh) or something smoother (like Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban)? I personally prefer the latter....
Jamas, daigaku
Hey daigaku,
Never heard of Becassine. But there are many smaller breweries, very local, perhaps it was one of those?
I still have a lot to discover in the world of whisky and I must say, so far, I love most of it. I think the best one I got so far, was a bottle of 18 year old Caol Ila my wife got me last year for my birthday. My "standard" whisky for the moment is Highland Park 12yrs; allthough I prefer the 16 yr old, but it's not so easy to find around here. I enjoyed the Ardbeg 10 yr, but didn't like it as much as the other ones I mentioned. I bought my father a 15 yr old Glenlivet bottle and I regretted giving it to him after I tasted a glas ~:)
It was in fact my father who introduced me to the world of whisky with Jameson (Irish whisky) and Glenfiddich.
Hi Andres,
Yes, this Becassine stuff was from a small brewery from somewhere south Belgium, a friend had brought some along....
The Glenlivet is great. Quite neutral, not too sweet and not smoky at all - fine choice ;-)) but next time make this present to yourself!!
Sorry to say, but Glenfiddich contains sugar colour - and if you know whatfor to search in the taste you´ll recognize it....
Of the Irish stuff I only know good old Paddy - something to blow your head, but not for a nice evening to taste along with a good cigar ;-)))
Haven´t tried the Ardbeg yet, but will have a look for it - as well for the Highland Park, just to get to know them ;-))
So I wish you nice experiences for your tongue, whisky is really worth it!
greetings, daigaku
Ah yes, whisky along with a decent cigarillo... I never smoke inside the house, but when the weather allows it (unfortunately not often here in Belgium), I like enjoying cigarillo's and whisky during the evening outside. Just sitting there, watching the wind playing with the leaves, enjoying my drink and my smoke. Not thinking too much. It's so relaxing. A bit unhealthy, but then again, it's not like I do that every night (in my case, the bad weather here is probably a blessing for my health ~:)).
Terrible heathen that I am, despite having tried a lot of whiskys my go to is often just Bushmills, although there are a few bourbons I really enjoy.
Whisky + Cigar + clear skies and a telescope = a wonderful evening.
Johnnie Walker Black and a smooth cigar and yes outdoors! Only once a year for me (to have all 3 come together)! Otherwise gin and juice.:wink3:
Hi,
sounds as we all should meet for a warm summer afternoon, having around some fine and different bottles, some of those (by some detested) wooden boxes with smokeable wonders inside, slowly starting a fire towards sunset and get some Camel Steaks ;-)) and some Merguezes (algerian/tunisian sausages with lamb and beef, quite hot, usually eaten with Harissa, a paste of chili and garlic) going, simply enjoying life as it is.....
dreaming greetings, daigaku
I'm all for it! Especially the Merguezes, never had 'em but they sound just wonderful~:grouphug:
Merguez on the BBQ, most excellent :2thumbsup:
Champagne before diner, a good rosé wine during diner (I prefer it over red wine during summer), a good BBQ, whisky and cigars afterwards, good weather and good company. Perfect.
@Jack50 (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/member.php?u=95452) : whatever happened to the 49 other Jacks?
Peasant Phill
05-11-2012, 11:06
For me it's spare ribs (those merguezes are great though) with a trappist or white port. No sigars though.
Not that the weather here is cooperating
:on_whine:
Hi to all hungy and thirsty,
@ Jack50: living only five km from the french border, I get them from a master butcher in Chalampe - and he makes them really spicy ;-))
@ Andres: no need for Champagne - living in the warmest wine region of germany, we´ve got a great wine maker here, and he produces a "Sekt" which can compete with any champagne I know ;-)))
@ Peasant Phill: Sorry, but no pork on my grill - don´t eat that stuff... but how about a Sundowner Special Camel Steak, and afterwards some spicy sausage?!? and no need to complain about the weather - we´ve got 28°C around here, sunny may weather as it should be ;-))))
hungry greetings (wife´s calling for food)
daigaku
Andres They were crushed beneath the magnificence that is Jack50! Or really it takes 50 of us little jacks to make one Jack50:inquisitive:
Hi,
@ Jack50: .....will all those 50 come to the BBQ event?!? .....we´ll need a bigger one ;-)))
daigaku
Hi,
@ Jack50: .....will all those 50 come to the BBQ event?!? .....we´ll need a bigger one ;-)))
daigaku
sorry, doubled and don´t know how to delete....
sorry, doubled and don´t know how to delete....
Deleted :bow:
@daigaku (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/member.php?u=95313) , it's possible to "hashtag" people by putting "@" right in front of their name. This will give them a notification the next time they visit the place.
But you need to do it like this: @Jack50 (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/member.php?u=95452) , not @ Jack50.
Does your winemaker exports his products to Belgium? We went to the Champagne region last year and we visited quiet a few little, local Champagne makers. Most of them tasted as good or even better as the "big" names (like Peiper-Hidseck, Jacquart, Veuve Cliquot etc.). You don't find them in the local stores, but it was possible to have them deliver to Belgium.
:bow:
Hi Andres,
now I know how that thing works - had the wrong idea it to be something mail-connected; still not knowing all the features of the forum; also wondered, where this "notification"-thing came from I see next to my name when logging in.....;-))now everything´s clear...
Sorry about the wine/Sekt, but it´s only sold locally, maybe even not till Freiburg, which is only 30km away; on the other side, there come people who know him even from Northern Germany to buy. If there´s a chance for postal delivery I have to ask him next time going to look for the 2009 "Spätburgunder Rotwein" (something, I believe, like Pinot noir or so). Knowing mainly the german wines (and Sekt), I´m not too familiar with the french/international names....
So at the BBQ there will also be "Sekt" and white, rose and red wine?!? grows bigger and bigger ;-)))
thirsty greetings, daigaku
You know we've made a mockery of the OP:clown: Well it all sounds like you have what your bringing, about the only thing I could add would be sweet corn from Iowa we can throw it on the grill also.
daigaku Only 1 Jack50 now so just 1 of me but with all the good food and drink I may have to pretend I'm 3 people:laugh4:
Jack50:
You know we've made a mockery of the OP:clown: Well it all sounds like you have what your bringing, about the only thing I could add would be sweet corn from Iowa we can throw it on the grill also.
daigaku Only 1 Jack50 now so just 1 of me but with all the good food and drink I may have to pretend I'm 3 people:laugh4:
Sweet Corn from the grill?!? Never ate that, only out of the pan, with loooaaads of butter ;-))) sounds interesting...
okay, and with three chairs only for you, another min. two for me, where will all the others sit around the grill?!? We´ll need either a really big one - or at least two!!!
looking forward greetings, daigaku
Yep sweet corn off the grill doesn't need much butter but is better with some pepper or paprika on it salt:confused: if you like that stuff. I think we can make enough room for all of us to enjoy the heat of the grill mixed with the cool night breeze singing songs too:rtwyes:
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Hi,
Jack50:
Yep sweet corn off the grill doesn't need much butter but is better with some pepper or paprika on it salt:confused: if you like that stuff. I think we can make enough room for all of us to enjoy the heat of the grill mixed with the cool night breeze singing songs too:rtwyes:
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... sounds tasty - and I got an idea while mouth was watering: short time before the corn on the grill is finished, along with the pepper to put a thin slice of a handmade cheese on it so it´s just melting the moment you eat it - ever tried that?!?
jamjam-greetings daigaku
btw: got a guitar??
not with cheese but.. it would be good may try that this summer. You don't want me near a guitar:help: I can keep some rythme with concession instuments like morracas or a tamborine.
Peasant Phill
05-16-2012, 11:19
If we're giving out BBQ advise, try throwing in some garlic between the coals. Everything will have a slight garlicky taste.
Hi Peasant Phill
If we're giving out BBQ advise, try throwing in some garlic between the coals. Everything will have a slight garlicky taste.
nice you joined our yummy-theme ;-)) but it´s not only BBQ, it´s as well whisky, cigars/cigarillos and general good feeling!
I did rub some garlic onto some grilled bread aso, but never got the idea of putting it directly into the coals - must try these weeks, when summer really arrives here ( can take another 2-4 weeks), along with Jack50´s grilled corn ;-))
wish everybody fine weather for the weekend, so all BBQ-dreams can become reality...
greetings, daigaku
Well, it's not really BBQ weather, but it's dry and temperature is bearable. Visited friends in their new home yesterday. We decided to take the risk (it was a bit cloudy) and had a nice BBQ. Aperitive (sparkling wine, (Jacob's Creek, which was a pleasant surprise)), BBQ with red and white wine available, ice cream and fresh fruit as desert; pie afterwards. Children playing in the garden, dads playing soccer. Perfect :2thumbsup:
Back home, I enjoyed two cigarillo's while listening to music. No whisky though, had had enough alcohol for the day.
Hi Andres,
except today (was a bit cloudy, few drops), these days the weather here is great - ´bout 25°C, sunny, dry air - weekend will be the same - hope to talk my wife into a bicycle-tour and maybe a visit to a lake for a first swim ;-))
monday, when work awaits me again, there will be rain all day - no weather to work on the roof but below.....
sunny greetings, daigaku
daigaku
Excellent weather now and it will last at least until Sunday they say, which is splendid news, since we planned a week-end trip to the Ardennes :2thumbsup:
Maybe I should rename this thread into something more appropriate, like "The BBQ, beer, wine, whisky, cigars, excellent weather and good company thread".
Peasant Phill
05-23-2012, 13:54
daigaku
Excellent weather now and it will last at least until Sunday they say, which is splendid news, since we planned a week-end trip to the Ardennes :2thumbsup:
Maybe I should rename this thread into something more appropriate, like "The BBQ, beer, wine, whisky, cigars, excellent weather and good company thread".
I already had a great evening yetserday sitting in my garden, in the sun reading a comic together with my GF. Mojito in one hand and a strange but exellent tasting substance named fruitpap (http://jan.moesen.nu/media/photos/2007/01/eten/20070131-fruitpap.jpg) in the other.
Fruitpap is baby food. And you combined that with a Mojito?
:inquisitive:
I had a Straffe Hendrik (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/268/2466) yesterday evening :2thumbsup: No cigar this time; don't want to make it too much of a habit.
Peasant Phill
05-23-2012, 15:22
Fruitpap is baby food. And you combined that with a Mojito?
:inquisitive:
I'm in that stage of my life where I desperatly hold on to my fleeting youth (all of it).
Some Admin should abuse his powers and rename you Grandpa Phill... :thinking:
Hi, folks and friends,
Andres: Great idea renaming this thread - may attract others with different tastes as well ;-)) My favourite drink at the moment is a local dry white wine called "Gutedel", at day/workingtime mixed with icecold water, evenings served pure and going with some fine bread, lamb salami and (not from me) handmade cheese - hmmmmmmmmyummy. btw, anybody smoking cigarillos called "Villiger Kiel"?!? love them after a good meal....
Peasant Phill: "...that´s not midlife crisis, that´s post pubescent!" (unknown author) ....could that about fit for you?!? ;-)))
weather here will as well be GREAT for all weekend, but no chance for a breakout - too much work. Short bicycle tour, maybe short swimming, a beer in the afternoon, but Ardennes? -sniff- not even high Blackforest...
working (nevertheless happy) greetings daigaku
Peasant Phill
05-23-2012, 21:39
Peasant Phill: "...that´s not midlife crisis, that´s post pubescent!" (unknown author) ....could that about fit for you?!? ;-)))
I've been in a post pubescent state ever since my 14th birthday. I'm 29 now, these are the last years I can do stupid things and not become that weird uncle.
Hi Peasant Phill,
I've been in a post pubescent state ever since my 14th birthday. I'm 29 now, these are the last years I can do stupid things and not become that weird uncle.
young man, I´m 54 now - and my wife does say this unknown-author thing at least twice in a month to me, shaking her head but grinning - so don´t worry, you´ve still got ages to stay in that state ;-))
....and weird uncles can be the only interesting ?relative? to young nieces and nephews ;-))
weird greetings daigaku
@daigaku (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/member.php?u=95313) , got a box with 50 Balmoral Shetland cigarillo's with Christmas and am currently smoking those. I like their taste and their not too heavy.
@Peasant Phill (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/member.php?u=15885) : as long as we're alive, we all can and will keep doing stupid things ~:) Like, for instance, quit smoking for 10 years and then pick up the habit of smoking cigars :laugh4:
InsaneApache
05-24-2012, 10:46
Went to the pub yesterday for lunch. Only the second time since the smoking ban. It was very hot in the beer garden but enjoyable. The only downside was the cost. A pint of bitter shandy, a pint of bitter and a pint of lager. Guess how much?
26p under a tenner. Cripes! ~:mecry:
Still the food and company was excellent. I'll have to get a mortgage if I decide to do it regularly.
Hi InsaneApache,
....you see, the idea of this thread isn´t wrong: go home for lunch, accompanied by good friends, and you get the same food, the same good company, maybe even better booze ;-) , for half the price - and, in your own garden, with freedom of smoking and (hopefully) selected surrounding, with even a better setting...
greetings from daigaku, who will only next year be able to make up his garden :-(at the moment used for storage of building materials)
Peasant Phill
05-29-2012, 11:14
Had a great weekend ending it with a BBQ (I was the chef), a good beer and afterwards a nice swim. Life can be beatiful.
Hi Peasant Phill,
...don´t let us die curious: and WHAT was on the grill?!? ;-))
hungry greetings daigaku
Peasant Phill
05-29-2012, 22:13
Hi Peasant Phill,
...don´t let us die curious: and WHAT was on the grill?!? ;-))
hungry greetings daigaku
Sausages, merguezes, hamburgers, brochettes, ... The usual stuff.
If I had time, I would've thrown in some bananas.
Hi Peasant Phill,
Sausages, merguezes, hamburgers, brochettes, ... The usual stuff.
If I had time, I would've thrown in some bananas.
...sounds great. Have no idea what those Brochettes are.
Bananas on the grill? With this spicy food, I prefer to throw some potatoes into the ?embers?, and a few thick oiled slices of aubergines next to the merguezes - yummy!
got me a new gas grill for "quick and dirty" short-term action - throw it into the garden, put food on, and 20min. later - voila!
A good time, good food, good smoke and good drink to everybody,
greetings daigaku
Brochette.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brochette)
Peasant Phill
05-31-2012, 11:20
Bananas on the grill? With this spicy food, I prefer to throw some potatoes into the ?embers?, and a few thick oiled slices of aubergines next to the merguezes - yummy!
Bananas for desert of course. Warm bananas with some home made chocolate sauce is very easy to make and quite good.
Other than that I tend to throw in some potatoes in the peel and perhaps some other vegetables in foil on the barby.
Hi, Phill,
...so for dessert, you like it sweet - can cope with that. For me, those bananas would go with honey and roasted almond slices ;-))
Pity last weekend wasn´t that good for outside activities, at least not in my region. So we stayed at home, ate well and had some local "Weizenbier", normally known from Bavaria. Meanwhile ours is better (and stronger!!)...
Had no chance yet for the gas grill, but will report how those merguezes taste from no-charcoal fire....
greetings daigaku
Can somebody tell the weather gods that autumn is not in June?
Hi Andres,
Can somebody tell the weather gods that autumn is not in June?
We have a desperate lack of Druids in our region, not even a decent Witch, so no chance to get through to those buggers ;-))
grumbling pagan greetings out of the rain from
daigaku
Where I live I am asking El Nino or La Nina or whatever it is this year to warm up this summer. Dry warm winter, cool wet spring? Crazy!
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