FOUR HUNDRED reasons why you play RTW and MTW and STW

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

Yep 400 is a crazy number but berserkers are crazy. ( and yes I know i'm making a remake of the other posts but I enjoyed them.)

1. i like to see some soldiers fart as they wait for the emeny~D

[Mikeus Caesar]

2. MTW is like playing chess. Challenging, but logical.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Seeing as this is more game related, I'm going to move it to the EH.

[IliaDN]

3. It is cool.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

if you get 400 you get life supply of cookies AND a free beer at my house~:eek:
4. So i can put up threads like this to get my post count up~D
and remember try to be funny

[ichi]

way cool movies of ninjas at work (STW)

[Craterus]

5. Comical factor of watching Legionaries fly... (elephants)

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

6.So I can make peace with barbarians then conquer them when they least expect it!~D

[Chimpyang]

7. To have the pleasure of watching little pixillated men die...

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

8. To slag people who think red alert 2 is the best stratgy game ever...

[cunctator]

9. To change (virtual) history.

[Craterus]

Why play them (RTW, MTW, STW)?

10. Why not?

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

11. to see Ai calvary succumb to my plananx!~:cool:

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

12.To laugh at Scipii when their armys are destroyed at Mt. Etna!

[Craterus]

13. Online community, meet new people and even join sites like this one.

[mfberg]

14. To watch cavalry charge your spearwalls.

mfberg

[Craterus]

15. Try out mods.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

16. So I know when in a food fight I should run to corner so i don't get flanked:hide:

[Mikeus Caesar]

17. To laugh at the fields of bodies once the killing is finished.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

18. To laugh at one peasent with 50 units worth of javs coming to kill him..

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

19. Because it gives rise to the " spoil policy, here is the spoiler i will say,

Halo 2 has a cliffhanger

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

20. So i can extermianate those hairy barbarians and make some moolah!

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

21. When it starts raining you cry out to other people with umbrellas,"Tuesedo formation!"

[Mikeus Caesar]

22. Watching Parthian Troops recieve flying lessons from Seleucid elephants.

[Hunter KIng George]

23 . For the heart-pounding rush these games give me right before the charge into battle...:charge:

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

24: To see Gaul invade Greece ~:)

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

25.To laugh at chariots crossing the river and falling down off the bridge (unless they're mine:furious3: )

[Craterus]

26. To kill the Roman Senate.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

27. So that I can be evil to small puny sprites.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

28. So we can lots of moolah by doing that cheap exploit: offering map information and getting something like 2000 for it!

[Viking]

29. So we can can conquer europe and get away with it. :hanged:

[Craterus]

30. So I can waste my weekends on there.

[ichi]

way cool movies of ninjas at work (STW)

^^^^31^^^^

[avatar]

32. To hear my barbarian general tell me what we will do after the battle.

[Craterus]

33. To hear some funny speeches...

[Mongoose]

34: to spam the forums


35: to watch the ai and laugh so hard that it hurts.

[xemitg]

36. geisha's in STW

[rocketjager]

37. "He is running like a whiippped dog!"

[Come Together]

38. So I can cry and laugh at the same time whilst my assasin dies with a 99% chance of succeeding.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

39. So I can exterminate very city in the world and not get ridiculed for it:devil:

[PseRamesses]

40. Take out Hannibal´s long overdue revenge on Rome!
41. Finally make Europe a muslim one.
42. I always wanted to become Shogun.

43. Get to know you people!

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

44.Become emperor
45.Become emperor
46.Become emperor
47.Become emperor
48.Become emperor
49.Become emperor
50.To repeat "Become emperor" loads of time in one thread so i get that life supply of cookies~:eek:

[Viking]

51. So I can post in threads like this.

[Craterus]

52. So I can play as "Bartix" when EB comes out.

[Mikeus Caesar]

53. So i can wonder what 'Bartix' is. And put '-ix' on the end of everythingix.
54. Toix tryix andix translateix whatix Abokasix saidix.

[Viking]

55. So I can find out when the alien invasion is due to start :alien:

[Mikeus Caesar]

56. So i can find out what the Uranian doomsday device is. ~D

[avatar]

57. To hear the Vikings "victory song" after battle.

[Viking]

57. To hear the Vikings "victory song" after battle.

58. So I can find out what I missed when I didn`t play MTW

[Craterus]

59. To use HA's against all infantry armies. And laugh at their attempts to attack.

[Rodion Romanovich]

60. To charge hastati with massed cataphracts or elephants
61. To beat spam armies in multiplayer and teach them to bring a balanced army
62. To conquer both Rome, Carthage, Greece and Macedon with a barbarian faction.
63. To fight multiplayer battles with more than one player per team and sometimes hold out alone against 2 or more enemies when your allies just stood back or managed to get themselves slaughtered/routed in a foolish premature charge
64. To use 3 low-quality cavalry units to kill/rout a full stack of AI opponents.
65. To make the roman empire a footnote in history
66. To conquer the entire world as the Aragonese, Thracians or some other smaller faction

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

67.To laugh at posts in this thread such as mikeus's post!:rolleyes5:
68. So that this fourm exists and i can bug evrybody with my smiliy army
:surrender: :2thumbsup: :egypt: :egypt: :yes: :yes: :whip: :whip: :smash: :clown: :clown: :wink2: ~:shock: ~:mad: :fainting: :scared: :scastle: :uhoh: :vanish: :toilet: :jawdrop:

[Come Together]

69. To get my 12 ship navy filled with my full stack army which I have been building for the past 20 turns beaten by a 1 ship navy with triple gold cheverons with a 5 star admiral.

[Craterus]

70. To annoy my family when they want to use the computer.

[PseRamesses]

71. So I can spam away in posts like this.
72. So I can watch a good post turn into a spam trap.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

73.So i can send a peasent army to its death and not be thought evil(As a matter of fact you are evil!:devilish: )

[tibilicus]

74; To watch a unit of els strugle to kill one man. They just run him over but he wont die when theres one left.

[Mount Suribachi]

So I can play as the English and conquer the French. MTW or NTW, its all good :duel:

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

Mount Suribachi,please put your number in,75.You need to number your answer like this, e.g someone posts their answer, which is the 78th answer, hence he puts in 78.blah blah blah, you get the idea

[Divine Wind]

76. To get away from my girlfriend ~D

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

77.To say to Divine Wind what a cheeky little git he is!~D I mean, to get away from his girlfriend!~:cool:

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

78/ To take the frustrations of everyday life out on mass formations of little men on a computer screen will always brighten up anyone's day ~D .

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

79.To see how evil ORG members are~D

[Craterus]

80. To see how long it will take to reach 400 in this thread.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

81.To put a crap general to a crumbling wall and watch him being buried alive!
82.To lie down down the floor crieing because you uninstalled RTW and can't find the cds!
83.To wonder if I could in one post, up to a hundred and make the reasons funny.
84.To watch a AI general fling his self on to a pike and get shot by 10 units of archers(yup, don't mess with me!)
85. To smash anybody who think RTW is the worst stratgy game ever.*walks up to somebody and experiments with a flamethrower on his body!*
86.To see the moonpeople be beaten by our lovely hats!!!~D ~D
87.To bathe in the emenys blood for a whole week!
88. to enslave those nasty barbarians.
89.To go to the toilet and come back out and notice you never paused RTW! Argghhhhhhh!!!
90.To be happy that i've done ten reasons already in one post and still be funny.
91.To enjoy the soon coming out EB.
92. To give a rebel general a little run around with my HAs
93. To be inspired to do stories for RTW.
94.To smack my friend in the face with the RTW cd-box for saying that my global empire is crap! The fool!
95.Because you set formation for your pencils, ruler etc. in your office.
96.To get closer to that life supply of cookie......*drools*
97. To have a pizza while i see the AI being slaughtered.
98. To make a battle where you can kill the evil Jamster! beings.
99.To rejoice when I conquer the SPQR
100.Yeehaa!!! I'm at a hundred!

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

101.To bow at my last post

[Franconicus]

102. Helps me increase my inferiority complex

[Basiliscus]

103. So that studying for exams has an incentive :furious3:
104. So that when I sleep I dream sweet dreams of death and destruction
105. To increase my knowledge of history
106. To give Takeda Shingen a chance to unify Japan...
107. To give the Byzantines a chance to keep Constantinople...
108. To give the British a chance to rule the barbarian world (repeat to fade!)...
109. To pass the idle hours ~:)

[tibilicus]

110: So dont in medieval total war i can come so close to taking thw world as Byzantium, Only to have a civil war just before it hapens. If im really unlucky the Golden Horde will arive at the same time. Making it a lot worse. Loyalty it means nothing in RTW. Quite litrally !

[Craterus]

Honour was a lot more important in RTW times. Loyalty was higher and people rarely betrayed, not as much as Medievil times.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

111. to look at some reasons and laugh

[tibilicus]

112: So i can waist my life on something thats no real then one day realize that i need a job ~D

[Craterus]

113. So it can burn out and I can buy another game, that may be completely crap[. Then I will go back to RTW, and wonder what I was thinking leaving it.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

114.To cry when my 14 star genral gets killed by peasents

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

114.To cry when my 15 star general dies by peasents:furious3:

[Craterus]

115. To capture all 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.

[Aetius the Last Roman]

116. To make references to RTW in an economics paper (keynes anyone?).

[Aetius the Last Roman]

117. To dodge doing my i.t revision. :dizzy2:

118. To explain to my family that conquering Europe is slightly more important to me than they are. ~:)

119. To get yelled at for saying the above.

120. To whine about RTW's faults on the forum.

121. To praise it at the same time.

122. To gasp in shock and awe as my whole amphibous invasion force, my best veteran army), headed for Gaul is annihilated at sea by the rebels.

123. To punish rebels.

124. To exterminate people in my capital for the sole purpose of making it less congested.

125. To get over 100 unhinged loons in my factions during MTW.

126. To read stories at the mead hall.

127. To sell maps to unsuspecting AI factions for virtual fortunes.

128. To make more money from maps than from my cities in a decade.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

129.to see people posting lots of reasons in one post which i likw.
130.to get slagged because I can't spell right(see above)

[Viking]

131. So I have a reason for not doing my homework. ~D

132. To annoy Berserker! when I only post two reasons in this post.


114.To cry when my 15 star general dies by peasents:furious3:

15 stars?! ~:eek:

[tibilicus]

133: So i can errrrrrrrrrrr kill people. Computer people of course..............

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

134. to put my mid-digit at Viking because he like to annoy me.(Remember, the eyes of Berserker! are upon you!)

[Mount Suribachi]

135. To participate in the PBEM games in the The Throne Room and read the accounts of their rulers by master storytellers like Seljuk Sinan and Simon Appleton. Man they were great days, I miss them ~:(

[Viking]

136.So I can say we might have a hard time to get 400 reasons.
137.So I can kill the romans over and over again. :devil:

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

138.To forget to put the number before the reason and mix people up

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

139.To wonder what funny reason i could put in

[AggonyKing]

140. Because I have no life ~D .....wait that's sad :embarassed:

[tibilicus]

141:To come to the conclusion that we will NOT reach 400 resons.

[Craterus]

142. To disagree with Tibilicus and assure him that it will happen.
143. To have an 1h30mins long bridge battle online, only to have my ally leave halfway through, leaving the AI to charge his men to suicide. And mine to be massacred shortly after.

[Viking]

144. So I can agree with Tibilicus, `cause this thread won`t even reach 200.
145. So I can say thanks to this post I`ve reached 250 posts and have unlocked a new set of avatars. :balloon2: ~D

[Lord Hornburg]

146. To laugh at stupid AI.
147.To cry when your soldiers die.(Not that I dont do that no way)

[tibilicus]

148: To have huge archer duels and watch arrows go back ad forth. How sad...............

[Craterus]

149. Army of Incendiary Pigs vs. Army of Armoured Elephants

[Samurai Waki]

150. Doing Something that requires a lot of attention and then you start thinking about possible strategies to defeat the Seleucids... and end up farther back in your workload then when you first started.

[Rodion Romanovich]

149. Army of Incendiary Pigs vs. Army of Armoured Elephants

151. Army of silver shield pikemen vs army of eastern infantry!

[Viking]

152. So I can cry when my 10 star general and 1000 men dies for no purpose, and then laugh of it afterwards. :laugh4: ~D

[Kagemusha]

153.Because im starting to hate artificial characters in the game. :furious3:

[GonZ]

Because all war should be virtual

[GonZ]

er that was 154 btw...

155. Because TW is far, far better than TV

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

156. To turn Viking and Tibilicus into slaves for saying this thread's reasons will not reach 400.

[PseRamesses]

156. To turn Viking and Tibilicus into slaves for saying this thread's reasons will not reach 400.

157. To see Berserker commit seppuku in shame of being proven wrong with this statement by all dedicated spammers.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

158. To say to Pserammses, "whats spehfksdfhduh?????" and completly confuse him.

[PseRamesses]

158. To say to Pserammses, "whats spehfksdfhduh?????" and completly confuse him.
159. ?????? ~:confused: I´m confued alright! ~:cheers:

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

160. to laugh at Pserammases being confused, yes I am evil homer, i am evil homer!~D

[Rodion Romanovich]

161. To return to this thread and find it's turned into spam.
162. To think about better reasons to put in this thread to show the spammers that we don't need to spam to reach 400.
163. To realize 162 is impossible
364. To cheat with the numbers in this thread
365. To continue as if nothing had happened
366. To see that we've nearly reached 400 now! ~:cheers:

[manbaps]

167. Have 16 kensais rout a 5000 man ai army without even fighting them.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

168. to say to manboobs,"How the hell are you meant to do that?!?!"

[Craterus]

168. Follow history paths i.e. Alexander through Asia, Roman Empire (I've never done this, but I've heard that it's enjoyable)
169. To join the .org only to be put off RTW by the amount of criticism in the Colosseum when I joined.

[Viking]

170. To ask Legio what on Earth he means with that there`s spam in this thread.

[The_Cortez]

171. Oygenate brain cells.

[PseRamesses]

172. To get thoose rare occasions of surprise when the game AI does something completely out of the ordinary - playing Carthage it´s now 238bc and I haven´t been in a war since 275bc (RTR). That´s almost 40 years without conflict.

[Come Together]

173. To do the same 3 very difficult and long turns for the 3rd time due to the game crashing over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, and over, etc.

[Rodion Romanovich]

170. To ask Legio what on Earth he means with that there`s spam in this thread.

174. To tell viking the thread is indeed full of spam
175. To realize that this post too is probably spam
176. To apologize for spamming

And a non-spam reason:
177. To see 6 viking berserkers rout 1800 peasants in M:TW
178. To watch briton chariots charge german spear warband, preferably when you are playing the germans
179. To watch briton chariots charge german spear warband when playing as the britons

[YXAndyYX]

180. To laugh at your soldiers moving like mentaly ill and run against buildings etc.

[Craterus]

181. Because it helps with history, and geography.

[John86]

182. I have nothing better to do.

[PseRamesses]

183. Ambushing the Romans in the Teutonburg woods.
184. Showing the Romans Carthaginian cavalry superiority at the plains of Cannae.
185. Holding that moutain pass at Thermopylae.
186. The satisfaction of leveling Carthage to the ground as the Romans.
187. The satisfaction of sacking all of Italy as Hannibal.
188. I do love historical re-inactments (sp?), he he!

[Zarax]

189: To mod it of course!
190: So we can play improved games

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

190. to get up to 200 in one reason and prove Viking wrong that it will not go up to even 200.
191.To dream of those cookies i'll be winning....
192. To trap SPQR in a crossing of the river Tiber and fire javilens, arrows and flaming rocks.
193. To also dream of that beer.
194. To cry because I'm underage to drink.
195. So I could come with the name Berserker! for the ORG.
196. To cry good god when Clayton asks another stupid question.
197. To charge peasents with calvary and ultimate ass, baby!
198. To rejoice when EB comes out.
199. To laugh as calvary charge my archers and LOSE!
200. To jeer at Viking, to see why look above

[Viking]

201.To :wall:, `cause of what Berserker! just did.
202.To drink a barrel of mead and then start some heavy spamming at this thread and...umm no good idea. :thinking:

[Craterus]

203. Take part in PBM's.
204. Take part in joint campaigns.
205. Learn a bit about ancient civilisations.

[Sensei Warrior]

206. To laugh maniacally when the AI moves very carefully into your well constructed trap, and to watch the enemy be wholly consumed with nary a loss.
207. To cry when the AI, no matter how rarely it is, does the same to you.
208. To construct an 8 star general that you really, really need, only to find out he has vice which makes him easy prey to being bribed.
209. To start a campaign as the Brits, ally yourself to the French and Argonese, and sit and watch neither of them attack you, even though you give them every opportunity, for the next 100 years.
210. To watch your heavy cav cut an army in two.
211. To watch an army quit the field because of your expert use of missile units.
212. To scream in frustration when your king dies from artillery fire.
213. To scream and throw your monitor out the window when 212 happens and you don't have a heir that has come of age.
214. So I can wonder why they changed the avatar thing since the last time I posted about a half a year ago.

[Craterus]

Or perhaps, just over half a year ago? You joined in Nov 2004...

215. To nitpick at people here on the .org ~D ~D ~;)

[Blacknek]

216

To discover STW after playing MTW and RTW already and beeing not disapointed although its a dated (but evergreen) piece of software :bow:

[PseRamesses]

217. Playing STW for the ambience, MTW for the battles and RTW for the great graphics and hoping that a furture game will be a hybrid of them.

[Sensei Warrior]

Craterus must have figured out that I am really bad at math. LOL oh well, it seems alot longer than half a year, it must be my crummy job.

218. To be called to task by my peers when I screw up, no matter how rarely.

219. To use the edit button to fix my mistakes and pretend that they never happened. ~:eek:

[Shaka_Khan]

220. I need to play this in order to distract myself from sin. :help:

[Shaka_Khan]

221. I need to distract myself from my experience of sin.
I can't :help: myself.

[Muska Burnt]

221. character traits that say someone get so drunk they poo there pants

[Shaka_Khan]

222. It is good for your ego to think that you know how to conquer the world.

[Shaka_Khan]

Lol @ Centurion Officer.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

223. To see my thread going along nicely

[Shaka_Khan]

224. To spam a lot

[Viking]

225. So I can play as the Sassanids once BI is out ~:cool:

[Viking]

226. So I can wonder why it doesn`t say that my post above is edited even though it is ~:confused:

[Auctoritas]

227. So that during inevitable disputes at work, I can tell my coworkers that "They stand alone." and that " No one has come to their aid".

[Papewaio]

XXX: Unedited.

[Papewaio]

XXX: editied

[Papewaio]

XXX: edited.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

228. To sing, "You shine like a burning star,"(From U2 those words came from, those words are in the chorus of "the fly") when a Roman peasent runs around on fire from a firepot.

[Blacknek]

229.

MTW: To conquer Croatia. Not because it is such a strategical important province. But because of the beauty of the land, the cute croatian girls and just to know, that my soldiers can spent their time off on the adriatic coast ~:cool:

[makkyo]

230. For the chicks.

[Blacknek]

230. For the community

231. To fail with honour

[Craterus]

Two 230's.


Why do you play RTW?

233. I play RTW because it is a game, what else are you meant to do with a game?

[PseRamesses]

234. So I can play Bactria in RTR 6.0 (or was it EB?)
235. So I can play that beautiful Mundus Magnus map and
236. finally build that Egyptian empire of mine although the timeframe is wrong.

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

234. So I can play Bactria in RTR 6.0 (or was it EB?)


Yeah, Baktria is from EB

237. Talking of EB, thinking,"Are you idiots or something?" when RTR says that EB is trash.

[-Amon-]

238.To see jedis in medieval..

[Azi Tohak]

239. The girls are prettier in Kansas than in Minnesota (at least where I am here).
240. On the tiny chance something in RTR might, just might, smack of the AI having a brain.
241. Bored with my RPGs ~;)
242. Still trying to get my 2000 kills, with zero deaths.

Azi

[Sensei Warrior]

243. To finally figure out how to mod the game a little.
244. To realise I have started modding way later than most other modders.
245. Wonder why I bother with modding when there are a ton of great mods out there.

[Viking]

246. So I can watch the way cool Carthaginian outro ~:cool:
247. So I can wonder how other members manage to put more than 2 reasons in one post.

[Craterus]

248. To imagine the coolness of the Carthagininan outro... :cool:

[Arrowhead]

To...er...Well...win?

[Crazed Rabbit]

250. To conquer England as the Irish.

[Craterus]

251. To conquer Rome with a general named Hannibal Barca.

[Marcellus]

To capture cities and then slaughter most of the population.

I'm not evil. Really, I'm not. ~;)

[Craterus]

253. Smash Egypt and Rome for being so boring.

[jacked]

To conquer Europe

[tibilicus]

255:To laugh at carthage time, an time, and time again for allways getting compleatly wasted!

[Viking]

256. So I can watch my worms...er soldiers dig beneath the enemy walls and kill those who are stupid enough too stand at the walls when they collapse.

[jacked]

to kill all the enemy

[Marcellus]

258. To hammer the 'execute prisoners' button again and again and hear the blood splatter. ~:)

[Rodion Romanovich]

255:To laugh at carthage time, an time, and time again for allways getting compleatly wasted!

259. To cry for that same reason.

[Craterus]

260. To watch helplessly from Britain as Egypt grow to be a superpower (yet again).

[jacked]

256. So I can watch my worms...er soldiers dig beneath the enemy walls and kill those who are stupid enough too stand at the walls when they collapse


To watch my men fall from the wall

[PseRamesses]

257. So I can sack Carthage with 19 onagers and my general. Pity though I seem to forget to bring the salt every time.

[Craterus]

(We are on 262)

263. Marvel in the wonders of warfare before guns.

[jacked]

to play roman legionares

[Craterus]

265. To play as Barbarian Hordes

[jacked]

To control an empire

[Rodion Romanovich]

267. To control a city state

[Abokasee]

have a whole army of forester warbands kill whole army of parthian eastern infantry (240 each unit!) from a whole army to no one alive! ~D ~:cool: :dizzy2:

[Marcellus]

269. To watch as your Royal Knights slaughter whole armies of peasants

[Sun Tzui]

270. To build an Empire that might have stood the test of time.
271. To execute prisoners and runaways for fun and not being taken to war tribunal for crimes against humanity).
272. To let my cities rebel only to massacre its population for more efficient control and loyalty (and again not going to court for crimes against humanity).
273. errrr to satisfy my big ego!!!

:charge: :charge: :charge:
:duel: :duel: :duel:

~:cheers:

[Sjakihata]

274. To waste time

[kiwitt]

275: To practice the lessons of "Sun Tzu". Who else !?!

[Sun Tzui]

276. to reach a personal number of 300 posts yupii ~D
277. to visit this thread everyday to see if 400 replys are possible!
278. to realise that only such a fab game as RTW and the whole TW series could have such great ppl in the forums.
279. towisely listen to the teachings of the more experienced warriors.
280. to kick the crap out of any1 who badmouths RTW!!! :charge:

~:cheers:

[Sun Tzui]

281. To realize that lack of imagination on the forums wont allow this thread to reach 400 posts :(...

[Advo-san]

282. To see my byz make it in 1453 :charge:
283. To see my French fry the english ~:cheers:
284. To see my English taking over france ~D
285. To continue the work of Abdel Rachman :smash:
286. To lead the norman fury to mossul :duel:
287. To get to use all those funny icons ~:handball:

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

288.To fall off bridges when I lose my huge empire to egypt!

[Crazed Rabbit]

289) To frantically hold off enemies from all sides as the HRE in WesW's MedMod IV.

Crazed Rabbit

[Geoffrey S]

290. To win a battle through good tactics when hopelessly outnumbered/outclassed.

[Craterus]

291. To use 4 units of peasants and 3 units of militia hoplites to defeat the Grand Greek army at the gates of Athens... (Stupid Greeks thought they would land an army at my gates, so the Athenian citizens had to show 'em off, back to Asia!)

[Ciaran]

292. Two games for the price of one
293. To have battles that look like battles and not paltry skirmishes.

[Craterus]

294. Quite a lot of replay value. I still need to see the outro movies for a lot of factions!!