22-06-2003 10:17									#1
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Hello in the barracks.
I'd like all the millitary decisions to be discussed here that includes:

1. Unit names.
2. Direction in wich to explore
3. Since we are not expansionistic we have to decide what do with goodi huts should we find some.
4. Of cours we will look here for targets to hit with our glourious army to be....


Concerning the unit names there are two ways we can have it done.
a) We can name them in a certain system.
Example: 1. Warrior 2. Warrior 3. Speaman 4. Horseman... or 1. Warrior 2. Warrior 1. Speaman 1. Horseman and so on.

b) We can give them uniqe names of Monty characters.
Example: 1. Brian the boy named 2. Dickus longus 3. Sir Robin the not quite so brave

c) a combination of a and b

any proposals how we do it.?

	22-06-2003 11:39									#2
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I would name our workers after non-military characters like Brian, Judith, Concorde, Princess Lucky, Witch...

Military units get named after military characters: Sir Robin, Biggus Dickus, Black Beast of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh...

	22-06-2003 18:10									#3
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I propose our first worker be named "Dennis", or "Old Woman".

	22-06-2003 19:58									#4
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since we will have a lot of them i'd say all of our workers should be named "Dennis". "Dennis A."; "Dennis B." ......

	25-06-2003 13:34									#5
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I' like to name our first Warrior Crack Hack since he has such a nice Axe. Not quite a monty Name but hey we can invent our own names i supose.

	28-06-2003 12:06									#6
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My votes:

first worker = Dennis
first warrior = King Arthur

	29-06-2003 04:51									#7
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second worker: Old Woman.

	08-07-2003 00:34									#8
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What do you think of "Crack Hack Lumberjack" for the second warrior? That is a little bit easier to understand, in my opinion.

Also, now that we have a warrior, it would be nice to have some advice from the military minister what to do with him.

Last edited by DaveMcW on 08-07-2003 at 00:43

	09-07-2003 13:56									#9
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So we have Dennis and King Arthur now.

Crack Hack Lumberjack is a good name. Can we give him some fancy lingerie too?

our second worker shall be "Old Woman"

I'd like to have "King Arthur" scouting the castle in a circle with about five squares diameter.

"Crack Hack Lumberjack" should scout mainly in the southern direction.

Is that o.K.?

	09-07-2003 14:06									#10
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I had the 2nd warrior planned to guard the capital at least till the 2nd city it built. If not, we're enforced to use the luxury slider significantly earlier and our research slows down.

	09-07-2003 14:09									#11
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Hmm.... all right then. That is one good reason to keep "Crack Hack Lumberjack" at home. Then we should send the third warrior to the south.

	09-07-2003 14:19									#12
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As for unit naming, at some point we'll be enforced to resort to numbers, because we run out of Monty names. My concern is: Don't give the same numbers to different units (like 1st Warrior, 1st Spearman, 1st Catapult, 2nd Warrior, 2nd Spearman, 2nd Catapult and so on), but number them in ascending order regardless of the unit type (1st Warrior, 2nd Spearman, 3rd Catapult, 4th Warrior, 5th Spearman, 6th Catapult).

This has several advantages. At first, we don't need to keep track at several numbers for each unit type. Second, it scares the hell out of the enemy, when he spots the "25th Swordsman" (holy ****, they have 25 swords...)

It would even be better to name units not using its type, because this would cause massive renaming after upgrades, but using its class. Classes are:

- Offensive infantry (Warrior, Swordsman, Medieval Infantry, Guerilla)
- Defensive infantry (Spearman, Pikeman, Musketeer, Rifleman, Infantry, Mechanized Infantry)
- Fast unit (Chariot, Horseman, Knight, Cavalry, Tank, Modern Armor)
- Bombard unit (Catapult, Cannon, Artillery, Radar Artillery)

- Offensive infantry could have the name "Paladin" (except Warriors, they get real names)
- Defensive infantry gets either the name "Infantry", or we name them "Pikeman" till they get guns (Gunpowder) and "Infantry" afterwards
- Fast units have the name "Mounted" till Cavalry, and "Armored" afterwards
- Bombard units, well, I need to think of a name... "Bombardier" perhaps?

	10-07-2003 02:32									#13
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That system would certainly work well. I like it.

	10-07-2003 02:46									#14
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Catapults should be "Livestock artillery".

	10-07-2003 10:47									#15
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Yes and the "Livestock Artillery" will shoot cows....

To make the Army a bit mor Monty like I'd like to have those Names:

- Offensive infantry could have the name "Foot Knights" (except Warriors, they get real names)
- Defensive infantry gets either the name "pointy stick man", till they get guns (Gunpowder) and "thunder stick man" afterwards
- Fast units have the name "Montyed" till Cavalry, and "tin cans" afterwards
- Bombard units, well, I need to think of a name... "Livestock artillery" perhaps?

	11-07-2003 00:23									#16
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We must make one capatult named Lapin De Bois. I have a very clever plan for it...

	23-07-2003 11:38									#17
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Sorry friends but my job at Neu Demogyptica is way to time consuming to do my job here like i would like to.
I resign herby as military minister.
I hope ther is someone out ther who has alittle bit more time on his hands.

I'll stay a member of course and i'll post to the matters that matter.....

	23-07-2003 18:03									#18
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I WILL!!! AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

also, a nice system could be
offensive inf 1 then number of unit
def inf 2 then number of unit etc...
waaaaait, that wont allow for more than 9 units of each type

i'll bite my own legs off for that!

	23-07-2003 21:43									#19
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I'd like to be military minister too.

	24-07-2003 05:39									#20
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I think we could work out having some sort of co-minister setup...

	24-07-2003 13:41									#21
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Sure that will work. See the Theseus/Arrian cooperation in GS.

Btw, what about giving the minister(s) of war a funny name, like Chief of War & Defense (C.o.War.D.)? Just an idea.

	25-07-2003 08:12									#22
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how about "Chief of Ride Forth and Run Away!-tactics"

	25-07-2003 10:34									#23
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Somehow i like CoWarD more.
I'm the old CoWarD!

	25-07-2003 17:03									#24
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hmmm, well, yeah now that its not 4am and I look more closely, I like it

	26-07-2003 04:49									#25
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Not a big deal either way, but rather than offensive and defensive infantry, I've used *** Infantry (defensive) and *** Special Forces (offensive) with no problems after discovering the same upgrade/rename problem myself. It's just less typing and fits neater in the box.