Some basic VI questions

[bamff]

As a knight of the GinanTonic Order, I will confess that I have on occasions over-imbibed whilst campaigning....on one occasion it resulted in me not saving the game, on one other, I was amazed at how much territory I had conquered in the previous session when I next restored
....a bit of a mixed bag really....

[macsen rufus]

There was a reason the Spartans tended to have a few bevvies before launching into battle Although there were times when they overdid it (Plataea, IIRC???)

[The Unknown Guy]

I was going to claim that I´ve never played drunk, but I just remembered I´d be lying. I did once. I had been drinking Chivas with a friend, who got roaring drunk, despite my warnings about him being hitting on the bottle too much (it was glaring obvious by his intonation, and his euphorical utterances about "somesuch ******"), and had to tend to the posterior "crying drunk" phase, which made the already annoying situation even more annoying by utterances about "the misery of the world" and the like. I applied my water cure (AKA: force him/her/yourself to drink as much water as you can, as this way you will both avoid the dehydration that takes place when alcohol inhibits the secretion of the Antidiuretic Hormone, and will help your liver to metabolize alcohol, as the Alcohol dehydrogenase needs water to do it´s magic. It works most of the time, and is my standard method of dealing with hangovers)

Anyway, after doing that I went to my room, not dim-witted but not totally sober either, and I couldn´t sleep, so I loaded MTW. I was playing as the Byzantines against a humongous Golden Horde army. I don´t recall the details, but I do recall that at one point I was getting beaten and I thought something on the order of "what the hell, cavalry charge", which steamrolled through mongol archers and horse archers, and killed the general, which caused a general rout.

[caravel]

Well last night after a few bottles of Leffe I managed to lead the Turks to an impetuous victory in Antioch and Tripoli. Yes it has now "kicked" off, with the dastardly Fatimids attacking Syria with a force 3 times my size. The camels won they day eventually. At one stage they were wavering badly, and I had my one unit of AHC and another of Ghulam Bodyguards (wothless heir) racing around to the enemy flank. Eventually it came to a big slug fest with the enemy general alone in the middle of my Turcoman Horse units, when suddenly down he goes and the lot of them begin to waver and rout. Giving them some encouragement by a simultaneous multi-flanked charge helped them to finally decide. And that was it. My next moves were against Antioch and Tripoli, I now have them at a disadvantage. Originally I was allied to both the Byzantine and Fatimids, the former abandoned their alliance when the latter attacked my faction. Now that I have the Fatimids on the run, the Byzantine will be next.

So a few beverages does no harm, though getting behind the controls after a serious session is not advisable. Camels aren't that good, there is only so much that camels can do after all especially under the control of a sloshed general. Camels are indeed god-like units, but with an inebriated general at their head they're as good as dead.

[drone]

I've played sloshed a few times. Haven't really gotten into any trouble, and I can't recall falling asleep at the keys, but it's usually fun the next day to figure out the drunken logic in the saved game. There are usually a few questionable strategies...

"What the hell was I thinking?"