What is Vanilla?

[Galain_Ironhide]

Y'all need to stop lying to the kid.



What it is, is that the people at Creative Assembly initially were afraid that their product might not sell as well as they hoped. So as an early marketing ploy they used as special type of disc which uses a laboratory induced process that makes sugar as durable as plastic. These special discs then came in a variety of flavors: Vanilla, Pistachio, Chocolate, Strawberry, Rum Raisin, Butter Banana... they even tried experimental flavors such as the infamous Skunk Butt Tartar and Hogan's Heroes (that one had a leathery texture, and kept trying to escape from the box). And everything was fine, because if you weren't happy with the game you could use it for a semi nutritious, but totally delicious (well except for the Hogan's Hero versions), snack.


But then something went wrong, as often happens with everything is alright.


All the flavors started rebelling against their game playing masters. Computers were being taken over by strange mutant compact disk creatures, which would turn these computers then into Zombies. No, not the flesh eating version, the version that other computers use to attack nations such as Estonia (you may remember that happening a couple years ago). That is, all the flavors except for Vanilla. Something about the chemical makeup kept it loyal and decent.


So of course, there was a giant recall and cover up. People in China were further censored, and the CIA was heavily involved. And of course we were supposed all give up our more delicious versions of the games, but because the Vanilla disks had never caused trouble many people chose to keep theirs. And are probably still licking them today.

So you see, that's what all that Vanilla talk is about, and the reason you know nothing about it is that your Government doesn't want you to. But of course, there's videos all about it on Youtube. It's called the "Operation Antidiabetic Conspiracy". Check it out.



And the moral, of course to this is that Direct Download not only saves you from having to interact with Ebay merchants or your local Walmart employee, it also keeps the world free from terrorists.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Sure..... (is this true, now i am even more confused!)

[Jochi Khan]

'Vanilla' is a reference to the game, in the box, as you bought it.

[Yoyoma1910]

Don't listen to them, they're obviously SIS agents, furthering the cover up. Or should I say ... comrades? You know the SRV has become increasingly active on the British Isles these days.




The truth of code "VANILLA" must get out!

[Old Geezer]

Now Vanilla is the real thing. We get ours from Mexico, of course. But Vanillin in an artificial flavor. Both taste and smell good but the vanillin can make your hyperacitve child even more so - at least it did mine.

Real friends don't let friends play vanilla MTW2. We got patches to fix it all better and another one has been promised really soon so we can stop modding the vanilla and patches to vanilla. This is all real clear if you have been playing for a year and read the forums every day.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Lol, i dont know how to install mods or create mods, i hear people says change the destr_sidsjhsdiufhsiuefhshlfh to sfksjhiuhkjnkdjfghdurg, oh no not that, this:hsiufhiuilgdurgjkdfg, it makes no sense, non of the terminology makes sense.

[Redz " Preatorian Knights"]

yoyoma1910!!!this is why i love to read threads here.... make me laugh so hard in my bed i kept reading the damn thing...
anyways im not a comp-know-how person so that makes us two insane834all they talk about is download this and make this script like this hell no my friend i dont know how to do it... and guess what been playing total war sence shogun to rome to alexander but i never played a moded one though... GUESS I LIKE THAT VANILLA FLAVOR TO MUCH DONT WANT TO VENTURE ON OTHERS!!!! he he he