First of all, a huge thanks to everyone that slogged through that test run. From what I've read, it did not seem fun to do. Thanks guys, for making it more fun for the rest of us.

Now that I've got M2, I'm ready to jump in and contribute to the game! Thanks to econ for offering me first dibs at Emperor/Chancellor. Please bear with me if our people suddenly come under attack from five directions (yes, five) as I will be sort of learning on the fly. I guess that's what the Diet's for, eh?

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As far as rules go:

-All sound good, including Lucjan's army proposals. If we're putting battles on very hard mode then I don't want to be hampered by fighting only with half-stacks.

-Two turns per year (same as in RTW) sounds good, and I think it is appropriate. We may miss out on Gunpowder and the New World but then again, in WotS we didn't even hit Marius reforms.

-As far as the screenshot issue (which popped up in WotS Post-Mortem), perhaps we could keep them full size but put them under spoiler tags (or iFrames, courtesy of Tosa). That way we could click them and they would load one-at-a-time. In addition, it keeps that nasty little horizontal scrollbar from showing up.

EDIT: Inbox cleared. Sorry about that.