Well from the age of ~15 (I think), I was playing strategy "board" games as pc's were just not around then and yes I'm hitting 50 now. (I take that back, I had an Apple 2+ with 64k memory I think).

I have enjoyed all the Total War games so far, though after picking up the one before Empire T war, I decided to play it safe and just wait awhile for some patches to come out before buying the game as I hate it when the game crashes all of the time, but it looks as if it's safe enough now to go out and get it.

Well, TY to you guys for your input on this game and I'll be going out in a couple of weeks to buy the game, soon as I can come up with a good reason to tell my wife as to why I'm gonna treat myself to something or hmm maybe I'll just hand her some cash too and call it even.

A game for me and shoes for the wife, though it's not like she needs any with the mass she already has (women and shoes).

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