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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002 time: 00:24
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Sent at 9:04pm EST, 7/21:
His Holiness the Pope Calixtus I,
Your Eminence, I am a simple man.
I speak not with the flowery words of the diplomat. I speak most often with the coarse language of the battlefield, and, infrequently, of a rhetoric to stir my men's souls.
For some time now, I have been... distraught. As your Holiness may not know, I lost my two sons, valiant young men, in the battle with Vox at Arashi9. Since that evil day, my life has been an empty shell; even watching the final elements of the Voxodus unfold has brought but a small spark of pleasure to me.
This Grand Alliance between Spain and Egypt, however... it has woken something in me, a desire and growing hunger for the world. I wonder if this is not fate, if this indeed does not mean something more than just politics and war, but if the Alliance, and the exposure to your ways and beliefs, might not have meaning for me personally.
I question my long-held belief in Chickenism, and wonder whether your way, following the teachings of Cathol, might be in my future. I would learn of you and from you...
But while I have had my eyes opened to these new wonders... that they be threatened by heathens such as these Chinese and Arabs, why, my anger BURNS on your behalf, and I will not stand for it!
Simply put, my sword is at your feet, in the hope that you will accept my defense.
* Theseus kneels and bows, holding out sword for blessing and benediction
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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002 time: 00:24
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Received 11:14pm, 7/21:
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My dear friend and brother in Christ,
Bow not to me, for after all, I am but a man. It is to the cross that you must bow, for there is ever man's salvation. I only preside over the Church in the place of Christ, before whom ever knee shall bend.
Brother, I am moved by your story. You are clearly and good and honest man, and a true Christian man at that. What does it matter that you speak coarsely to your men? As a soldier, you are expected to do so. Surely, priests of the Church don't speak thus from the pulpits, but no one expects them to. A general speaks thus because his men speak thus, and the men look up to the general and wish to be like him, and likewise, the general wishes to be like his flock so that they will trust him, and when they trust him, there is no place that they will not storm for him. I commend you for your integrity as a man and a soldier. May God shower his blessings upon you and your men!
I deeply grieve over the loss of your two sons. It is a sad time in which we live, when children are buried by parents. But remember that this vale of tears is but a shadow, and that God knows and sees all. Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
I rejoice at the opening of thy eyes, brother. The Lord does great things, truly. Is there anything that He would not do for sinful man?
Come closer, my son.
*Theseus kneels for baptism. The Pope pours water over his head, and marks him with the Sign of the Cross.
I seal you with the Holy Spirit. Rise, all your sins have been washed away.
I bless you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Take with you this banner, my banner. Fly it above thy regiment as you march into battle. Let they who seek to bring this world to ruin know that God will not allow them to win this war.
My son, I appoint you as the second and final paladin of the Church in Egypt. Cardinal Ralphus serves with you as a paladin. You are a crusader of the Church. Know now that you are Paladin Theseus of the Order of St. Michael. I also appoint you a Cardinal of the Church if you wish to have the position. There shall be, in all, five cardinals appointed to the Curia from Egypt, just as there are five in Spain. Will you honor me by accepting, my friend and brother?
God's Will be done!
Pope Calixtus I
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Haifa, Israel
Jul 2002 time: 07:24
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Public Forum
Hi Arnelos,
Hasty semi-personal, semi-official message follows:
GS would really really appreciate it if you would try to quiet down the issue of city exchanges in the public forum. We can meet up later and discuss this amongst ourselves, and decide what to make public, but let's not do anything hasty. I understand your frustration in light of the other comments in that thread, but please keep it bottled up for now.
Btw, I'm taking this opportunity to request another joint GS-RP chat when RP gets the turn. We have lots of news, and some new ideas. Please prepare your new battlefield screenshots (annoted, if possible).
Best regards,
Shiber.
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Haifa, Israel
Jul 2002 time: 07:24
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Re: Public Forum
Shiber,
I've only stated in the public forum what was planned ahead of time for public consumption. The problem is that if I'd said NOTHING, GoW would get highly suspicious because it's out of character for me. So I had to say something, but something they would both likely believe and something that would not give away the true nature of the GS-RP agreement.
I did discuss this with NYE last turn, the fact that we'd need a cover story for the city exchange. We're also going to need a cover story for the "brief war", should it Lego and/or Vox notice (though they might not).
I want your forces' arrival on Bob and deployment into the battle to a surprise as much as you do. This is why only pre-planned statements have been asked to be made by RP members.
However, I must warn you that apparently GodKing, of his own accord, told Unortho and MZ in chat that we'd received tech and some money from GS in exchange for the cities. He made sure to mention that GS was insistent on not breaking any NT agreements with GoW, however. Quite frankly, I'm not happy that this lie was shared with GoW as I'd preferred that we kept a single straight story.
On your end, OPD told me that Arrian (I think) sent a PM to ND. When we asked NYE about it, he said the PM specifically was written to ENCOURAGE ND to declare war on GS for happiness reasons. While this is good for GS on the happiness front, it would have been nice if we'd known about that PM ahead of time. I might be wrong here, but we were under the impression that the joint hope was that ND would bypass the cities so they couldn't be used as forward military bases in the war (since roads around those cities are now speeding the movement of Ansar Warriors).
It sounds like we need to try to coordinate what we're telling ND and GoW in the near future to prevent further misunderstandings.
As for the save, it has arrived.
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The warmonger formerly known as rpodos. Gathering Storm! Apolyton Spirit!!
Apr 2002 time: 00:24
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Ummm, I got a bit into it:
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To his Holiness, the Pope Calixtus I
To Him, who from evil is able to bring forth good, I render thanks for having mercifully inspired you to extend to me your blessing and your banner.
I am but a military man, Holiness, and must with all humility cry out my unsuitability for the vaulted position of Cardinal of Egypt.
Within your beneficience, I would instead extend upon my role as Paladin of the Order of St. Michael... I propose to create a Knights Templar, dedicated to the corporeal health of the Holy Church and its ministrators, and guide and protector to those in the world who may wish to explore the beauties of Spanish churches and cathedrals.
Until all threats are removed, praised be to God and his son the Lord Jesus, all of the Knights Templar shall take vows of poverty, humitility, and abstinence; we shall live together in martial training and in prayer until all are safe. Ecce quam bonum et quam jocundum habitare fratres in unum - Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Already, there has been eggregious loss for the God-fearing folk of Spain. We Knights Templar shall ensure that the heathens make fitting reparation for the losses and wrongs inflicted upon the Church: while my kin and brethren may put down a heavy boot upon seized lands, know that in my heart all of the territory taken shall be under apostolic suzerainty.
I fear, Holiness, that this must remain a private matter for the nonce... but, oh the Glory and Rapture for all of Christendom when we make our intentions known and take the battle to the enemy!!
Humbly,
Paladin Theseus
Nautonnier, le Prieure de Sion
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Meet my blade!
Sep 2002 time: 06:24
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From Togas: quote: Zeit,
I have cleaned out my inbox AND my outbox, however, feel free to email me directly at tom_ogas@yahoo.com It's a much more reliable method of communication.
Arnelos posted your message in our forum and I concur. We haven't spoken as much these past few turns. We have simply gone through the motions of managing our cities and worker and moving new units about. The enemy has presented us with no changes and we have, therefore, continued to carry on with our conservative plans of defending Pamplona at all cost and rebuilding cut roads, while our rear cities get back into war production.
I have made a point of contacting NYE with any new information we receive and any requests we have had.
In the future, we welcome GS participation at our chats, there just hasn't been much to chat about the last few turns. We are also VERY interested in a joint military planning meeting. Right now Nuclear Winter and BigFree are the primary military minds on our team. Both are working on some future plans and both are anxious to meet with your team to see how we can help each other in this war.
Please give me a good time/day to meet and I will share it with my team.
--Togas
Zeit,
I have cleaned out my inbox AND my outbox, however, feel free to email me directly at tom_ogas@yahoo.com It's a much more reliable method of communication.
Arnelos posted your message in our forum and I concur. We haven't spoken as much these past few turns. We have simply gone through the motions of managing our cities and worker and moving new units about. The enemy has presented us with no changes and we have, therefore, continued to carry on with our conservative plans of defending Pamplona at all cost and rebuilding cut roads, while our rear cities get back into war production.
I have made a point of contacting NYE with any new information we receive and any requests we have had.
In the future, we welcome GS participation at our chats, there just hasn't been much to chat about the last few turns. We are also VERY interested in a joint military planning meeting. Right now Nuclear Winter and BigFree are the primary military minds on our team. Both are working on some future plans and both are anxious to meet with your team to see how we can help each other in this war.
Please give me a good time/day to meet and I will share it with my team.
--Togas
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And from Arny: quote: Ok, part of the problem is that a lot of people have been busy of late and Togas has essentially been handling turnchats by himself recently. I've brought this issue up in our forum and talked to Togas about it in chat (along with NYE). I'm hoping we can schedule some joint chats in the near future for planning purposes... we really should be consulting each other more on tactical planning, I agree.
Perhaps if we also set up the MilOps channel on a permanent basis?
I'm open to ideas.
- Arnelos
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Meet my blade!
Sep 2002 time: 06:24
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To Togas:
quote: Togas,
I have recieved word from Arnelos- he suggested making MilOps a permanent channel for GS-RP talks. I think this is a wonderful idea, and I'm sure the other GS members will agree. Both our team have (I hope ) fond memories of the talks held there during the earlier days of this war and alliance, so I'm sure this would work well.
I will make contact with NW and BF about this- I'm not so good with technicalities registering an IRC channel involves, but I'm sure we could find someone that could accomplish that task... 
I would also like to stress out that despite the fact that we are now commited almost wholly to defense, there are many things that can be done- our generals have adopted a defense strategy that could help us take the edge off of the enemy's speed advantage- by, for example, placing defensive units on key tiles. RP could certainly help by sparing troops for this important task, which could save the lives of other troops, and bring the loss ration greatly to our favor.
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Jun 2001 time: 05:24
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Somewhat delayed PM from BigFree, with lots of images.
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I'd like to get an update on the war in the South. what happened with those 8 Cats? Did you get them Back? What are your troop positions? Should we coordinate an attack on any certain city? Alamo?
We have 3 MI and 4 Pikes just North of Alamo, as reported by Togas. I think these shots were taken before the all the units were moved there.
Here are screens from the 260 AD turn:
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Here's the one "after" picture:
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I think we could possible take Salmanca with the 3 MI's and 4 available Knights. We had figured GoW had 11 Rider's in Salmanca. But now that they have moved some out to meet your troops, I think there are not many there. How many Rider's did you see in the field on your turn?
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A little late, snice they've played their turn. I'd sent out estimate of how many Riders GoW had used (3, or possibly 4, leaving 6 or 7 in Alamo at best (for GoW).
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Sorry for the delay in response, although I think much of the info you asked for was in what I sent to you already. The catapults, in case you haven't heard through other means, were initiall captured by GoW and were on a non-road square at the end of their turn. For them to vanish from our view (which they did) they must have either disbanded them, or had ND capture them, move them on to the road, and then GoW recapture them and move them into Alamo or Merida. We know GoW have 2 slaves (our ex-settler), which that has happened to, and I believe you met some catapults in Alamo.
Regading co-ordinating attacks, I think that is going to be necessary. Alamo is very well defended now, and is going to need a large force to crack it open (realistically, anything less than 20, 4-attack units is going to be a waste of good troops, although 15 might be enough to scare them into abandoning it).
We only saw 4 riders. One was guarding a hill to provide intelligence. Three were used to attack us (and came from one of the towns). They had all their units in towns, and moved them out to attack one at a times. They only needed 3 or 4 to finish our stack off, so they have 6-7 left around the place, mostly in Alamo I suspect (plus three injured riders which will be healed next turn probably). My extimate to attack Alamo is based on their being 6 riders defending.
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Birmingham UK
Jun 2002 time: 05:24
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Chat with RP up untill I left
* Now talking in #MilOps
*opd> allo again
*opd> sorry about that
*BigFree> np
*asleepathewheel> ah, can you stay on this time opd? I have to leave very soon
*asleepathewheel> I will post in our forum what has been said thus far.
*BigFree> ok
*opd> yeah I can stay
*BigFree> [13:45] * opd (~dwyerowen@82-36-92-149.cable.ubr04.harb.blueyonder.co.uk) Quit (Quit: )
*BigFree> [13:45] *asleepathewheel> we also have 2 knights around meridia
*BigFree> [13:46] *asleepathewheel> (not sure where those got to
*BigFree> [13:46] *asleepathewheel> I meant murcia on that last part
*BigFree> [13:47] *asleepathewheel> hmm
*BigFree> [13:47] *asleepathewheel> what to do
*BigFree> [13:48] *asleepathewheel> I'm not quite sure
*BigFree> [13:49] *BigFree> Togas is playing the save now
*BigFree> [13:49] *asleepathewheel> if you move this turn, then they can take the stack, because we can't reach there soon
*BigFree> [13:49] *BigFree> I would count on him doing what I said
*BigFree> [13:49] *asleepathewheel> ah, ok
*BigFree> [13:49] *asleepathewheel> so is the plan for us to move to alamo, or take meridia?
*BigFree> [13:50] *BigFree> Well, we were justhoping tooprovide cover for you whiile you did what you needed to do
*BigFree> [13:50] *BigFree> plus we wanted to cut the Ivory
*BigFree> [13:51] *asleepathewheel> I see. hmm. I am pretty rushed right now (wife will be home any minute) hence why I'm a bit scattered
*BigFree> [13:51] *BigFree> Since they were pummeling us with those Cats you lost to GoW we figured we needed to move now
*BigFree> just what you missed OPD
*asleepathewheel> ah great
*opd> cheers
*asleepathewheel> I apparently have no idea how to do that
*asleepathewheel> anywya
*BigFree> I was also wondering if GS could build a new bas of operations North of NM
*asleepathewheel> I see the urgency to move now
*opd> yeah you could do with moving out
*asleepathewheel> new base where?
*BigFree> If you gave us Sirocco, we could use more tiles for Barcelona
*BigFree> I was thinkg that 9-9-9 of NM would be good; we'd need another road though
*asleepathewheel> true, it might increase our turn around time for unit transport.
*asleepathewheel> esp. if we are shipping units south
*BigFree> yes
*opd> how badly do you need the tiles for barc
*asleepathewheel> I will post to our forum (pretty dead there lately)
*opd> wait hmmn
*BigFree> Barc would be able t use the tile 8-9 of itself
*asleepathewheel> I don't see sirroco and barc overlapping, am I wrong or are you thinking of New Madrid
*opd> you mean NM?
* Arnelos_AWAY is now known as Arnelos
*opd> Re-baseing would be a pain in the ass
*opd> North of NM would defeat the purpose without roads through the jungle*asleepathewheel> yes
*BigFree> It also has the effect of us having another unit pruducing city that can shre tiles with NM
*BigFree> Roads would definetle have to come first
*asleepathewheel> we could shift the workers in Sir to the coast, that would give you another irrigated plain
*asleepathewheel> sir is on hill, not sure you would get that much produciont out of that square for a while, with one worker in the area
*opd> what are your plans regarding the troops next to the Alamo?
*BigFree> I have to reboot
*BigFree> we plan to move them all 1
*BigFree> then try to cut the raod
*BigFree> brbr
* BigFree has quit IRC (Quit: )
*opd> Moving them 1????
*asleepathewheel> I think he means adjacenet to alamo?
*opd> But they'll just get hit with cats untill they're all redlined?
*asleepathewheel> yes, basically Vox revisted
*asleepathewheel> I think the notion is to move them in, have the enemy kill of the units, and we swoop in and take meridia and the rest of the south with our knights
*asleepathewheel> using the 10 units as decoys
*asleepathewheel> and also to pillage the road from alamo to the rest of ND to sever the ivory pipe
*opd> I think thats a really bad idea
*opd> I don't think GS are in a position to launch a southern offensive
*asleepathewheel> I think it might be useful in 2-3 turns, *asleepathewheel> exactly, our knights are at least 2.5 moves away
*opd> GoW can take out the RP units by themselves with little loss
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* ChanServ sets mode: +o BigFree
* BigFree sets mode: +psnk Right
*opd> While ND take out an attack we make
*opd> What can your units on the mountain adjacent to the ALamo see?
*opd> can you see any cats stationed outside Alamo?
-> [BigFree] PING
-> [Arnelos] PING
*opd> are you playing the save now?
*opd> hello?
*opd> hello?
*asleepathewheel> um anyone home?
*asleepathewheel> I think BF said Togas was playing the save currently
*asleepathewheel> or something
*BigFree> sorry
*BigFree> I can send you a screen, but we see a **** load of ANsars 1 of Alamo
*opd> any catapults in the stack?
*asleepathewheel> hmm
*BigFree> nope
*BigFree> I think all Cats are in Alamo
*asleepathewheel> cats stamped GS on the bottome
*opd> you guys aren't seriously going to move further into GoW territory?
*BigFree> Yes
*opd> hmmmmn
*BigFree> That is what Togas wants to do*BigFree> I was against it
*BigFree> but he doesn't want to just sit there
*Arnelos> people, let's not leave Pamplona underdefended... just a thought
*asleepathewheel> Its a few turns premature
*BigFree> I tried to tell him it would be better to coordinate
*asleepathewheel> we just aren't in position to do anything yet
*opd> you guys should be retreating
*Arnelos> I agree
*BigFree> With the lack of communication between us he felt the need to do something
*Arnelos> for future reference, it would help IMMEASURABLY if GS and RP would do all warturns together
*BigFree> I agree
*asleepathewheel> we understand, frankly GS has recently had a lack of communication amongst itself, if you know what I mean
*asleepathewheel> NYE is gone, my computer was dead for a week, etc etc
*opd> no one is around
*opd> shiber, zeit, Deepo
*opd> all gone
*opd> well not gone but not as active
*BigFree> WOOT
*asleepathewheel> so that is where we are at, we pitch in where we can, but...
*BigFree> Ok, Togas did not play yet
*BigFree> He left instructions for me to play it
*asleepathewheel> cool
*BigFree> :Phrew:
*BigFree> I had planned to rotate out the injured units back to our terr
*opd> I think maybe we should look into the forum exchange thing again*BigFree> wht is that?
*opd> Someone from GS joins RP and someone from RP joins GS
*opd> to act as conduits
*opd> or communication links
*asleepathewheel> I have to go guys, the wife is home, OPD, can you copy this stuff to our forum?
*opd> ok 
*asleepathewheel> bye
* asleepathewheel has quit IRC (Quit: )
*BigFree> That woud be good
*BigFree> I will join GS
*BigFree> If it is ok with our team
*opd> ok I'll bring it up in the forum and make sure everyone is ok with it
*BigFree> good
*BigFree> I will play the turn now
*BigFree> rotating the units out
*BigFree> but keeping enough there to cause the discomfort
*BigFree> making them keep units at home
*opd> how many?
*BigFree> There are 10 there now 5 pikes 5 MI's
*BigFree> I will send 4 away and replace 2 of them with healthy units
*opd> thats cool
*BigFree> so8 wil end up ther I beilieve
*opd> you don't want too few to be susceptible to serious cat damage
*opd> BTW last turn they captured cats between each other to give them an extra turn of movement
*opd> We don't really know but they may do the same again to attack twice with them in the same turn
*BigFree> damnm that is cheating, IMO
*opd> yeah they probably won't do it again but they could
*BigFree> do you know much about irc?
*opd> not really
*BigFree> damn
*BigFree> I screwed something up
*BigFree> oh well
*opd> I know I didn't need a password to get into this room
*opd> what did you screw up
*BigFree> The cahnnels used to 'flash' when there was a new message....not anymore though
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*opd> hoooray
*BigFree> Maybe Oct knows
*opd> Hello Ot
*BigFree> The cahnnels used to 'flash' when there was a new message....not anymore though
*BigFree> how do I fix that
*Octavian_X> Hello
* Arnelos is now known as Arnelos_IDLE
*opd> I if thats the worst of your problems you're doing ok
*BigFree> screw the helos just tell me how to fix it! 
*Octavian_X> heh
*Octavian_X> right click the name of the channel on mIRC
*Octavian_X> select the 'Flashing' opiton.
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Apr 2002 time: 05:24
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