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    Default You know when you have lost the war when...

    Wow it has been ages since I last logged on and I thought what better way than to start with one of my favourite posts

    You know you have lost the war when... You order your cavalry to charge, they all charge, then all die, because they attacked tanks

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    Always use camels when attacking tanks. Everyone knows that.

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    You have lost the war when... you are all dead never stop fighting!

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...the real snow starts and you're nowhere near Moscow yet.


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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    you know you've lost the war when your best general defects to the enemy.
    'Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War' Plato

    'Ar nDuctas' O'Dougherty clan motto

    'In Peace, sons bury thier fathers; In War, fathers bury thier sons' Thucydides

    'Forth Eorlingas!' motto of the Riders of Rohan

    'dammit, In for a Penny, In for a Pound!' the Duke of Wellington

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...gunpowder's invented and you're still fighting King Tut's endless hordes

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    Quote Originally Posted by Ramses II CP
    ...the real snow starts and you're nowhere near Moscow yet.

    Ahhh, I love Panzer General...

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...you see a cute little, red-haired viking boy rubbing his nose on the OTHER side of the battlefield...
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    Quote Originally Posted by Quixote
    Ahhh, I love Panzer General...

    You know you've lost when you the allies facing me on D Day on Panzer General. I think the Allies had a army of two million if I rember correctly.

    If history went like that game, they would of lost all 2 million men, and there entire airforce.

    AI in wargames tend to suck LOL

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ... You start posting on a forum about that new little new game you think should manage to occupy you for a month or so.........
    "Why should I? Your very existence is nothing but a lie! And everything in this world is a whim! It's all the fruit of an insane imagination! NOTHING IS REAL! AND NEITHER DO I EXIST!" - [Sayoko - Character from OMG]

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    Haliburton says "no" to your latest contract proposal.
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
    Haliburton says "no" to your latest contract proposal.
    When Dick Cheney buys Haliburton?




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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    You know you have lost the war when you have a feeling that you should stop your current campaign and search for some mods.


    "War is not so much a matter of weapons as of money"
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    When your enemy sends pheasnts at your best army..and wins...easily.
    "The Gauls are scum..they deserve to die.Now brave romans, sons of mars....CHARGE!!!"
    -Me during the storming of Alesia.

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    who is Haliburton?
    "Why should I? Your very existence is nothing but a lie! And everything in this world is a whim! It's all the fruit of an insane imagination! NOTHING IS REAL! AND NEITHER DO I EXIST!" - [Sayoko - Character from OMG]

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...when you've retreated to your last city, your denarii are in red and 4 digits, and your faction heir has the plague.
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...You pick Pontus

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    Quote Originally Posted by mrdun
    ...You pick Pontus
    heh...

    ... when your best general has no command or influence, but he does have 3 intelligence! ...stupid romans with their orgies and whatnot...
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    When your to proud to admit defeat and do this
    for death and glory.
    Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head- Euripides

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    you forget to press the pause button before going to the loo and the battle is going to decide the control of your last city

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    You are the most adept swordsmen on the planet, you belong to a company of soldiers even a spartan looks small to, you have the greatest of all great generals commanding you...

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    And the enemy rolls up in an M1A2 Abrahms
    The Gods envy us.

    They envy us because we are mortal, because any moment might be our last.
    Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.
    You will never be lovlier than you are now.

    We will never be here again.

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    when warband is 2 units of leginaries
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    When your adviser give you his resignation, and asks for a letter of recommendation for your enemy.
    "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know where to hide the bodies."

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    When, after a decisive battle, you wake up in a camp, which is full of people, who talk in some strange foreign language.


    "War is not so much a matter of weapons as of money"
    Thucydides

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...when you find yourself watching a repeat of poirot.

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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    Quote Originally Posted by mrdun
    ...when you find yourself watching a repeat of poirot.
    Who is Poirot? would that be the detective?
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...when enemy's arrows blot out the sun


    "War is not so much a matter of weapons as of money"
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    When you hear that someone has kicked one of your diplomats down a well.
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    Default Re: You know when you have lost the war when...

    ...you are more bothered about school work than playing the game.

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