| June 14th — Masada Revisited |
| Two more
scenarios have been reviewed: Masada
II and Sargentum.
Both are posted in the Review
forum where Private
Estate - Old Loyalties is still drawing comments. The Community forum is a buzz with a Tribute
organised by Octavion. If you want to find out who will be "tributed" go and
have a look.
The Cleopatra program on Discovery was
rather nice. It showed a computer reconstruction of what Cleopatra looked like (definitely
not like Liz Taylor) and some interesting character profiles.
A lovely novelisation of this story was written by Judith Tarr, Throne of Isis. The story
start shortly after Caesar's death and ends with Cleopatra's suicide. |
— Walk like an Egyptian...
Angel Jayhawk |
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| June 13th — Cleopatra on
Discovery |
| For those of us
in Europe, Discovery Channel is showing a documentary on Cleopatra tonight at 22:00 CET.
Of course our friend Julius Caesar plays a role in this program as well. The Game
Help forum is still one of our busiest, again questions fly on topics such as worker
shortages and trade problems.
As usual the Community
forum is getting lots of visitors. The most active topics remain the stories and the
birthday/party thread. So if you are momentarily tired of ruling an empire, browse over
for some light hearted banter. |
— Now who came out of that
rolled up carpet..?
Angel Jayhawk |
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| June 12th — Heaven News Update |
| A lot has been
happening in Heaven lately. Here are a few of the more noticeable items.  Heaven has it's own
marketplace nowadays where you can get Heaven memorabilia. We still have a few T-Shirts
left. They carry Angel Hamlet's HGS log on the front and the one on the left on
the back, so if you want one, you'd better hurry on over to the Marketplace.
 Age of Empires
Heaven is holding a Mongolian Campaign Contest. What do you need to do?
Well, in a nutshell, you have to write a camping consisting of 3 scenarios set during the
time of the Mongols, from Ghengis Khan to Kublai Khan.
Even if you don't want to compete, go there and check out some of the links on the Mongols
that have been put up. If you want to know more click here.
Apart from that Gamestats is running a
contest based around some of the favourite Westwood games: Dune2000 and the soon to be
released Tiberian Sun. Follow the link if you
want to know more.
As for the forums, it seems another party
has started in Creaticus Dania's Hippodrome.
It was a bit slow to start, but it might get busy tonight |
— In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
a pleasure dome decree.
Angel Jayhawk |
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| June 11th — Passage to Egypt |
Angel
Monty's Monkey has been busy
for those who've had enough of the career games. He uploaded 10 (!) scenarios and 2 cities
to the Download
pages.
Included in these scenarios is one by Gordon Farrell with the intriguing
title: Marc
Anthony in Egypt.The Game
Help forum is moving into the numbers behind it all, prosperity caps, industrial
efficiency, worker's percentage and the ever popular, how do I get a palace..?
That's all for today folks, with
team-spirit training and a huge dinner, I'm bushed. Way past midnight...time for the hawk
to catch a few winks. |
— Where do the marketladies
live..?
Angel Jayhawk |
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| June 10th — Conquest of Paradise |
| It seems a group
of people discovered the New World career Cherub Dragon2 created early this year. The Review
forum is receiving it's fair share of...reviews: Here's Iceland. The Game
Help forum has some interesting thread going on about, what else could it be but,
housing. These thread concern themselves with the numbers behind them. The question is: How
do I get rid of 1x1 housing?
Too good to be forgotten.
What's that, you might wonder?
Well it's Cherub Baltic's HTML
primer. Triggered by a discussion on HTML links he was kind enough to bring it back to
our attention.
Our bedside story time has taken off for
the faraway lands of AoE again in Quest
for the Bowlsem Flower, the sequel to wacky Rescue on an Angel. |
— O frabjous day! Callooh!
Callay! He chortled in his joy
Angel Jayhawk |
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| June 9th — Tyrant Commits
Suicide While Praetorians Watch |
On this day in
68BC Nero, last of the Augustine Dynasty commits suicide while the Praetorian Guards
proclaim Sulpicius Galba as Emperor.
Galba, who had promised the return of the Republic, was killed a short time later.So much for the past, today we have a spirited
discussion in the Game
Help forum concerning palace building strategies. Want to know more? Just browse to
the palace threads one
and two.
Angel Reckless Rodent at Pharaoh
Heaven has received another batch of screenshots. He put up the first four yesterday
an will put up the other four up today.
Here's a preview... |
— The Praetorian Guard
counted nine cohorts of a thousand men each and included both infantry and cavalry...
Angel Jayhawk |
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| June 8th — Bath Girl Seen on
Desktop... |
The Lady Incontinentia,
Chair RSPCE, seems to have had some time left besides taking care of Tusky and his
friends.
She busied herself making a lovely set of little C3 characters to inhabit your desktop.
Check out the Download
pages and grab the zip-file file containing such favourites as the bath girl, the
gladiator and...the dreaded market lady.  
The forums seem to be very much alive,
especially the Game
Help and Community
forums. |
— Are you going to
Scarborough Fair....?
Angel Jayhawk |
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