--- In mepbmlist@y..., "arnheim2001" <arnheim@g...> wrote:
Hi Andy,
Great to see such a good player back.
You always were a smooth talking dog.
1650 remains the dogs bits,
Ah yes, the frantic cries of a desperate witch king, the grinding
poverty of the DS, the unseemly scramble to get Sauron every time he
appeared, the realisation that on Turn 1 you can see more Freep
armies on your map than you've got pop centres. God how I've missed
it.
There have been a few changes that you may or may not be aware of.
Our friends American have added a new dimension with some excellent
players and different strategies churning up the UK's stagnant pool
and you can always argue about Global Warming if you get bored
(though, as a generalisation, they're VERY patrotic in a knee-jerk
kind of way).
Look forward to a change in styles.
Agents are weaker with assassination much harder (except against me:
()
with stealth a more important factor,
What's a poor Cloud Lord to do. No more 70+ assassinations a game for
him anymore then (and some of those were Freep characters too).
e-mails de rigeur (no more 2
hour phone calls)
That's the only reason I can even contemplate affording this game
again.
and neutrals are much less despised.
I find that difficult to believe coming from the man who after 2
pints always referred to them as @$*^!@# pond life scum, usually to
their faces.
- Andrew
