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MFCamillus
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From placement and a couple of other things I am suspicious but probably need another 2-3 moves to be sure.
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MFCamillus
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And sent over to Swissy.
May slow down in a few minutes. The races are basically over and the lawn still calls for mowing. I'll be in and out though.
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MFCamillus
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3550BC to Swissy.
With any luck we can still get a few more in today. I shouldn't be away from checking for more than about 20 minutes at any given time.
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MFCamillus
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3500BC to Swissy
Derby was wet but the favorite still one. They got a nice bonus.
Busch race was confused in the beginning. Fuel conservation (or when do you run out on pit road or on the track) at the end. It was not too bad of a race though.
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MFCamillus
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On to Swissy.
In the Derby it is not as often that you get an upset. By Belmont you a lot of times will.
Yes. As I said a nice bonus.
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MFCamillus
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To Swissy
Any horse that can go 7-0 deserves something. It has not been done since 1977.
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MFCamillus
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Actually Man o War was 1920(?)
I think that Seattle Slew did it in 1977.
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MFCamillus
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To Swissy.
You know you can almost hear the turns clicking off like a clock. Cool.
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MFCamillus
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To Swissy.
yes quickly passing everything else we have started even 2 weeks ago.
And approaching a 3 player one that I started 4 weeks ago.
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MFCamillus
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To Swissy.
I look at it this way. We have a great start that will make the turns during the week not as boring. Or next weekend when I will be traveling and probably down to 1-2 turns a day.
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MFCamillus
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To Swissy.
Yes at this moment it would be nice to be seafaring. But as for the Greeks and the Phonecians.... Kind of two different groups (particularly linguistically). There were certainly groups of them that were highly seafaring, but then there were those that were incompetent at sea. The classic Mycenaeans were certainly seafaring (just ask Odysseus)
I think the problem is that the designers looked at the classic Athenian period. Athens and Sparta were not known for naval battles (although the Athenians were not bad) they relied on allies and for some reason US education tends not to talk about Delos, Rhodes, or Illyria. And Alexander and Perseus certainly did not use Naval power. Just the Phalanx. Thus the Hoplite UU.
Last edited by MFCamillus on 02-05-2004 at 06:44
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MFCamillus
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To Swissy.
If there was one thing that Alexander set a good standard in it was in integrating other societies. That can be seen by the staying power of some of the Hellenistic successor states. It just never ceases to amaze me when I look at a map how far he went and how fast he did it.
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snoopy369
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Of the Peanuts Gallery
Apr 2004
time: 23:35
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yeh ...
one of the books i read a while back, don't recall exactly which one, was an alternate history where a bunch of people got thrown together from different time periods ... british from the afghan conflicts in the late 19th century, americans from the 1990s, and ... Alexander the Great, on his way back (and within a week of his death). Of course, one of the first things that happens is his advisors are told of his near future, and he averts it  They end up in Babylon (as in a thousand or two years prior to Alexander babylon, if I recall correctly) ... don't recall the title, think it was by maybe Eric Flint or one of the other Baen authors. David Drake maybe? Anyways, quite interesting book, especially watching Alexander come to grips with modern weapons (even modern in the "brits in the 1880s" sense of the word).
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02-05-2004 03:03
Not that history is particularly practical to most people, but at least then people would have an understanding for why they are where they are ... 
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