1) You sit inside your study all morning playing RTW when its a gorgeous sunny day outside. You look at your walking boots....you look out the window at the sunshine....then you turn back to your screen and ponder how to force teh Seleucids to accept a ceasefire.

2) The countryside reminds you of certain TW maps...the way that church is nestled amongst the trees with the graveyard at the back....that long ridge with the steep slopes on one side....