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It better be two times over nine thousand.

And what do you have against me? I read your AARs!
You read everybody's AARs. :p
 
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Oh my... Was it Magicka that gave the boost?
 
When I was a kid, I could (and still can) free-hand draw very accurate maps of Europe. I'd make imaginary borders and so on, rub them out and draw new ones etc... you can see how that ties into my love of Paradox games. Anyone else do anything like that?
 
When I was a kid, I could (and still can) free-hand draw very accurate maps of Europe. I'd make imaginary borders and so on, rub them out and draw new ones etc... you can see how that ties into my love of Paradox games. Anyone else do anything like that?
All the time. :p Trying to remember who was next to Armagnac in my free Maths class earlier. :D
 
When I was a kid, I could (and still can) free-hand draw very accurate maps of Europe. I'd make imaginary borders and so on, rub them out and draw new ones etc... you can see how that ties into my love of Paradox games. Anyone else do anything like that?

Exactly that was the first grand strategy game of mine. :p
 
When I was a kid, I could (and still can) free-hand draw very accurate maps of Europe. I'd make imaginary borders and so on, rub them out and draw new ones etc... you can see how that ties into my love of Paradox games. Anyone else do anything like that?

Yep. A teacher once saw it over my shoulder and said, "Nice trace."
 
When I was a kid, I could (and still can) free-hand draw very accurate maps of Europe. I'd make imaginary borders and so on, rub them out and draw new ones etc... you can see how that ties into my love of Paradox games. Anyone else do anything like that?

When i was younger, and helping my parents paint the walls of a room... when alone, i'd imagine i was a general, and my "paint"-army was set on the conquest of the area i had to paint... with movements of circling the ennemy,.... :eek:o
 


When i was younger, and helping my parents paint the walls of a room... when alone, i'd imagine i was a general, and my "paint"-army was set on the conquest of the area i had to paint... with movements of circling the ennemy,.... :eek:o
When I open a pack of Smarties, they're formed into armies by colour.

A metaphor for racism, perhaps?
 
I used to do it for hours... I wonder what a psychiatrist would make of it. It's probably a fair bet Napoleon and other, much worse people that followed him used to do it too

I wonder what a psychiatrist would have made of my bigger brother making a painting in kindergarden of "a bloody battlefield seen from the sky" :D
 
When I was a kid, I could (and still can) free-hand draw very accurate maps of Europe. I'd make imaginary borders and so on, rub them out and draw new ones etc... you can see how that ties into my love of Paradox games. Anyone else do anything like that?

I used to love drawing fictional maps of countries, sometimes also including the economy of that country.

Maybe that's because I really like maps in general, I find it very fun to look into an atlas and therefore I also know geography relatively great. I also do sometimes draw maps of parts of the world, but rather to see if I remember the borders and such things. Also I'm interested in politics, so I sometimes drew countries, acting like some sort a dictator.

That, among with some interest in history, probably is the reason, why I like Paradox's games, also Civilization, Sim City etc. I kinda miss some good "political" simulation, in the way of Superpower 2, but good ;)