Posts made by TM Moses VII

“They also they are world powers because they give other nations advanced weaponry to maximize killing.”

That is terrible… :(

I am only an average Axis player :(, but what I was taught was that Japan’s air force is the most important unit in the game. Without it, Imperial Japan has no way to supplement its offensive drive west of Asia and into the Russian borders. So, sincerely, I warn against any attack by Japan that involves risking the loss of one or more planes. There is over a fifty percent chance Japan will lose at least one plane and a twenty five percent chance they will lose two. Sir Ozone wrote this leaves only two aircraft left for in Asia, simply not enough if I plan on taking the Soviet Far East, China, and India on the first turn.

"True, but hitting Hawaii immediately puts pressure on the Americans, which is something Germany cannot do. Will they cede the Pacific to the IJN and risk a costly invasion of North America? Or will they launch an attack against you with whatever available units and hope they kill the same # of you as you of them? You have the advantage in the Pacific if you take Hawaii.

Besides, maybe later you can land a BMR or 2 and start Strategic Bombing USA… It could happen…"

Sir Ozone is right. The more you disrupt America’s offensive capability, the less strain that is put on Germany. Not only are you gaining extra income and securing your ‘flanks,’ but this forces the American player to withdraw extra men to Western USA, diverting forces that would otherwise go to Europe. In essence, Germany is given time to prepare a sturdy defense without risking the threat of a two front war too soon.

I don’t know why Star Wars fans, like TG, make fun of and criticize Star Wars so much because of Ewoks. Personally, I thought they were cute, too! :D Yoda, that furry little Muppet that sounds funny, was the best thing to ever happen to the series. Be nice! :)

“Moses’ sister, you are a Christian? Why have you not weighed into the religious debate?”

I’m very sorry, Sir yourbuttocks, but regretfully, I only have a limited amount of time to spend here on the Internet. Usually, I will try to answer as many threads in a limited amount of time, and I have not encountered any such ‘religious debate’ so far.

“Maybe her connection with the Almighty is so strong that she doesn’t have to squabble differences with others in order to be content with herself?”

Why thank you! :) My relationship with my Lord is all encompassing and all loving.

Sir DasEwokSS said,
“i mean let them die out till there surroundings can support them with out outside help.”

That is awful. Surely the second largest continent in the world can support multiples of the present Africa population. From this very reasoning, I can only imagine you are speaking of the widespread famine and lack of pure water frequenting Africa. But what if we were to apply this principle to a modernized country, like Japan and Great Britain? Should they not deserve outside help? What if we were to enact a full trade embargo on those countries so that those less fortunate will ‘die out till there [their] surrounds can support them with out outside help?’ :( The truth is that much of the world is dependent on the North American breadbasket. And to refuse this as a thinning of the herds measure is horrid. :cry:

“TG Moses VI you know that the slavery still exists in Africa and existed before America was even started and long after America is gone(GOD FORBID) it will still exist. Don’t forget that the American slavers needed to trade for the slaves! The Africans used the slave trade to get rid of people they didn’t need or want depending on the person. Africa wasn’t this peaceful place where everyone got along and even the “slaves” were treated like gold, before the white slavers came along. The Africans used the slavers to exploit the black slaves as well. There is a reason why when the tribes went to war on each other they took prisoners, they knew that by taking them they could trade for stuff. If we tried to buy slaves from them they would start selling them all over again. The temptation to make a profit would be too great!! Yes at least half of the blame could be placed on the American slavers but not all of it. How can America be totally blamed for it when it exist before they came along.
By the way I don’t buy that every African slave lived that well. Some probably did. I don’t believe you got the wrong info on that, I just think there is this I HATE AMERICA crowd who would like us all to believe that everything was perfect in Africa before we came along. That even the “slaves” there were treated like platitnium. I’m not saying that you are part of this crowd I think that maybe who ever taught you this may have had a hidden agenda!! The blame goes both ways.”

As TG put it, African slaves, as a whole, were well-treated and skilled servants. While it still wasn’t right, at least slaves weren’t brutally beaten or looked down upon. African tribal life was not entire tranquil, but at least tribes mutually respected one another. When the Europeans arrived, this system came crashing down; the cycle of violence intensified bitterly. You are only half right on your thoughts of the European slave trade in West Africa. In reality many slave catchers did not trade for ‘stuff,’ but instead for guns and ammunition. To better illustrate this, lets say there were two tribes located in West Africa. Though there were incidents of small skirmishes and prisoners [slaves] were taken, later to be exchanged, both tribes never had a reason to go to full scale war. That was before the Europeans came.

With the introduction of the Europeans, the balance of power shifted. By trading guns for slaves, one tribe could amass a great technological advantage over the other. And by playing both sides against the other, the Europeans were able to successfully gain their treasured slaves at the cost of weakening the African info-structure through war and pillage. If one tribe didn’t trade, they lacked the necessary arms to defend themselves and would all quickly become slaves in their own right. When this happened, African society came tumbling down. :(

“Now you want to talk about REAL exploitation by Americans ask black people who live IN this country about what they went through. Now they went and still do up to a point go through REAL exploitation. Except for South Africans the average African have not lived under racism like black people have here!!!”

You may not know this, but racism is still alive and mounting in African, and American, life. :( Except the white on black racism has deteriorated into black on black racism. The European and American neglect and brutality has infected many Africans promote Africans on their brown and black complexion. Dark or black skin color is looked upon as being ignorant, rough, and criminal. Light or brown skin is as being shrewd, stuck up, and weak. :cry:

“Okay TG Moses VI give me time to build my case on why StarCraft is better than Warcraft II. I want there to be no mistake on the subject. Just please read the whole reason why. It will probably be very long.
I should have it finished soon. I’m going to try and not miss anything on it.”

I like to see this too. :) I will say that fantasy is such an captivating branch of knowledge… much more than high technology. Plus, elves are cute!

Keep in mind, the game still freezes on you from time to time even with the 1.3 patch. :(

Great Britain may not have the largest navy anymore, but it is my favorite. I like the way her majesty names her ships.

“first things first we dont have a right to do anything! no country or person does. in life nobody has any real rights. just more garentted privleges. so we dont let Iraq build Nukes they can build them if they want to, well just stop them personally althugh Nukes are monumental achievment they ruined the old classic wars. were never gonna have those old wars were sides are balanced and theres a good fight anymore. but also the Nuke saved countless lives aswell. look at it this way. if The US and USSR didnt have Nukes. they would have slugged it out in Europe i can garuentee that. also India probably would have gone right onto pakistan had it not bin for nukes. there would have bin allot more wars were there would have bin full scale fighting. so many lives would have bin lost.”

Plenty of major wars have been fought following World War Two without the expense of atomic arms. We have no clear assurances that the next major war will be a nuclear one.

“We are in the era of the thermonuclear bomb that can obliterate cities and can be delivered across continents. With such weapons, war has become, not just tragic, but preposterous.” - Dwight D Eisenhower

“That sounds cool. Did you use lots of bombers?”

Indeed. :) Lots of bombers means lots of fun!

My e-mail is angelgirl1893@hotmail.com

Please contact me on our general Allied strategy, I’ll try to help as much as I can! :)

I was about ten years old when played my first game. My brother had invited some friends over in a free-for-all game of Axis and Allies. One of his peers could not make it, and seeing no other choice, he asked if I could play. After promptly reviewing the rules, I chose USA. This was one of enjoyable gaming experiences I have played. The whole game was a blast from start to finish! I can’t remember many details, other than it was the first game began my love of bombers. They won me the game! :D

Can I please be in this game? :( I don’t play very often, and you guys are such talented people. My favorite country is Great Britain, but I am willing to have any just as long as I have a chance to play.

Eisenhower was a good president. :) An vital part of presidency is choosing the right administrators for the correct cabinet positions. Don’t forget that George Washington had to appoint his own staff because he could not commit to being everywhere at one. None of this was ever written in the United States Constitution; nevertheless Mr. Washington knew the tough challenges governing a entire nation would bring. Imagine how much more presidents have to oversee today.

“Me-163? Hahaha. That worthless looking, waste of wood was more trouble then it was worth! A catapult launching cows would probably be more effective! (j/k)”

Be nice to Sir Horten! The Komet is a fine looking plane, and I am sure anyone would love to fly one…

“(Wait… that garbage she throws about buying bombers and building an IC in India did NOT come from me!)”

You are just mad that you couldn’t think of something better first.

I would someday like to travel everywhere too, Sir Horten. Although the only place my brother likes better than California is the South, where he can dress up and reenact Civil War Battles.

PS: Liberty is being able talk to such nice people online without being booted by your brother. :wink:

“Okay, at least I’ll give you credit for something. You do know how to pick out good games when you see them and aren’t like most other girls that go, “Oooooo look at the pretty packaging.” Sid Meyer probably did more for strategy games than any other person.”

Thank you, this has been the best comment you have given me today. :)

“I think he means which nation to you attempt to destroy first, not whose pieces you attack on the first turn. Therefore my answer is to crush Russia - It’s easier to hold back a D-Day than to attempt a Sealion while USSR is building up in Kareli.”

Sometimes I like to be creative and invade USA. I you can do this by building a small force of transports and a aircraft carrier, and then land in Brazil, moving slowly Northward after. The Fleet can also serve a dual purpose of keeping the Allies out of Africa. If anything, I like to try something new. :)

TG Moses,

The problem with the communism is that it cannot work. Following the Communist Revolution, Lenin faced compounding problems behind economic planning. Lenin later wrote, “In attempting to go over straight to communism we, in the spring of 1921, sustained a more serious defeat on the economic front than any defeat inflicted upon us by Kolchak, Deniken or Pilsudski. This defeat was much more serious, significant and dangerous. It was expressed in the isolation of the higher administrators of our economic policy from the lower and their failure to produce that development of the productive forces which the Programme of our Party regards as vital and urgent.”

In February 1921, Lenin secretly wrote, “The greatest danger is that the work of planning the state economy may be bureaucratized . . . . A complete, integrated, real plan for us at present equals ‘a bureaucratic utopia.’ Don’t chase it.”

Trotsky admitted to similar problems. In his literary work, The Revolution Betrayed, Trotsky wrote that while “the obedient professors managed to create an entire theory according to which the Soviet price, in contrast to the market price, has an exclusively planning or directive character . . . . The professors forgot to explain how you can ‘guide’ a price without knowing real costs, and how you can estimate real costs if all prices express the will of the bureaucracy . . .”

In Socialism (1922), Mises demonstrated the logical flaws of communism because of the system’s inability to provide knowledge about which production projects are feasible and which ones are not. Without private ownership in the means of production, rational economic calculation is unknowable. Once economic planners are in power, they must find some rationale to base their decisions on. As a result, those who have an advantage in exercising one’s power will rise to the top of the planning mechanism. In this case, Stalinism becomes a logical consequence of Marxism. It grand failure lies in the decline in economic productivity because of state overcentralization and the deterioration of the bureaucratized social welfare system, a supposed benefit of Communist rule.

It is common practice today to criticize the deformed, egalitarian socialism built in the 1930s. But that criticism sidesteps the structural reasons for a communist barracks-style approach. And it avoids the central question: Can a conformist, democratic socialism be built on a noncommodity, nonmarket foundation? Why is it that in most cases, efforts to combat the market and commodity-money relations have always led to authoritarianism and encroachments on individual rights?

What has more government centralization brought to the United States? Less than 2 percent of Americans are farmers, yet the Department of Agriculture adds still more bureaucrats. Before 1950, the government largely stayed out of the housing business. Now we have housing projects in all of our major cities, and the government, an absentee landlord, couldn’t care less. The private sector can build housing more cheaply, with an incentive to maintain the property and screen tenants. During the 1980s, the “decade of greed,” charitable contributions by corporations and private citizens increased by at least 30 percent. Why? People had more disposable income, paid fewer taxes, and therefore gave more away. Americans are among the most generous people on Earth. But people want their money to go to people and organizations that they choose and trust.