30-05-2000 09:20									#31
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The Hunt For Red October, perhaps?

	30-05-2000 11:26									#32
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Justify how, Horse? You mean the logic (as per the real world)?

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	30-05-2000 11:52									#33
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ok folks lets see how much money it will take to bribe AH to stop posting these threads. I'll chip in the first one hundred dollars u.s.

and lets see how long he will stay bribed!

	31-05-2000 22:44									#35
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i couldn't copmplete the game without bribery...

and actually i sometimes have to pay 10000 golf for an engineer or something, now that's ridiculous!!

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	01-06-2000 03:52									#36
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Bribing in the modern era is perfectly realistic. Here's the price list:

-African republics: a shipment of armaments to an ambitious colonel will suffice.
-Former Russian presidents: a few cases of fine vodka. Daily.
-Banana Republics: the amount of dollars that a CIA agent can carry in a briefcase.
-Switzerland: for gold, they'll turn a blind eye to anything.
-The chancellor of the worlds third largest economy: 30 million DM
-The president of the number one nation of this planet: a few fancy tricks with a cigar will do.

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	01-06-2000 04:55									#37
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And I'd bribe one of your ships again if the need arose, Horse. The fact is, if you remember, you didn't realise ships could be bribed. Ships are just another unit.

My question is, if you stack two ships, does that render them unbribeable?

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	01-06-2000 11:53									#38
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This one doesn't have the legs of the Building on Mountain Hexes, Horse. Not controversial enough. Time for your next one, bub.

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	03-06-2000 09:37									#39
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Finbar, like you said, ships are just another unit.

	03-06-2000 11:16									#40
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You know, until a game with Crusty two months ago I didn't think bribing ships was possible

	03-06-2000 20:50									#42
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The HMS Hermione, perhaps? In 1797, I think?

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	04-06-2000 06:59									#43
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Yeah right, Horse, now you're arguing Civ is real life? Chee.

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[This message has been edited by finbar (edited June 03, 2000).]

	05-06-2000 03:19									#44
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Oh Great - a ship MAY have been bribed in 1797. That really clinches the argument

	05-06-2000 04:10									#45
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*Horse tries desperately to breathe life into a dead thread*

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	05-06-2000 06:30									#46
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*finbar tries desperately to kill thread that is very much alive - unlike his first OT thread, which sank without trace after 3 or 4 replies*

	05-06-2000 09:39									#47
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*Horse lowers own standards by defining this thread as very much alive and goes on to resort to cheap shots*

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	05-06-2000 10:01									#48
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Huh? Cheap shots are my stock in trade

	05-06-2000 11:08									#49
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*Horse takes refuge behind self-deprecation when, in fact, the opposite is the case*

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	05-06-2000 11:14									#50
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank finbar for keeping this thread at the top of the thread bar. 50 posts, that's 46 more than finbar's last thread.

Subconsciously he obviously wants this thread to succeed. It could also be guilt of course for bribing my ships.

Thanks again Mate

	05-06-2000 16:10									#51
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Hate to see a grown Horse cry, Horse.

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	06-06-2000 01:14									#53
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could you not consider bribing a ship as a form of piracy? or even a hijacking? If you don't sink the ship when you capture it, you make it yours, and the cost to bribe can be viewed simply as the expenditure that went into the planning and execution of the exercise, since reducing your treasury is a good way to simulate not getting something for nothing