Q) have you ever found yourself interested in what various fan teams and studios create?
A) Certainly. I think that kind of creative stimulation is essential to the life of a good game.
Q) What's your opinion of said teams, do you enjoy the fact that you're indirectly responsible for such a flood of creativity?
A) I am humbled and highly flattered.
Q) What is your favorite kind of cheese?
A) French (yes I know they have 200 varieties)
Q) What are some things you've punched holes through that aren't designed to have hole punched through them?
A) Computer cases, the heel of my foot, lead miniature figures, playing cards
Q) Where ya been?
A) In Germany.
Q) Did you miss me?
A) Desperately.
Q) In my song i use several taunts from the AOK games, i mix it with my music. Is that allowed ?
A) I’m sure our sound guys are highly flattered and pleased that you would do this.
Q) Why dont you have a sig?
A) I keep forgetting to add it.
Q) What's your opnion on the Crusades?
A) I think they were noble quest to hold a war for a reason other than greed and conquest (yes I know not every participant had such high ideals). On the other hand, the reasons they DID have were grossly insufficient for a war and their intrusion into the Holy Land was unwarranted and fundamentally wrong.
Best “What If” from the crusades – just before the battle of Ain Jalut (where the Mongols were stopped in their conquest of the Mid-East), Kitboga the Mongol leader (who was a Christian!) invited the Crusader states to join him in his war vs. the Mamelukes and their allies. The Crusader states, showing a remarkable lack of vision, refused, perceiving him, despite their shared religion, as another Asian invader. The Mongols lost and a generation or two later converted to Islam. If the Crusaders had joined the Mongols AND this had enabled Kitboga to win the battle, it’s possible that much of the mid-East would be Christian to this day. What a change on the present-day situation!
Q) If you could play a campaign on any historical figure, who would it be?
A) Marshal Suvorov
Q) Where did you get the idea Korean should be a tower civ ?
A) From Age of Empires
Q) Shouldn't Huns not get monk since they are atheist ?
A) Their monks are secular humanists.
Q) Which one of these civ do you think is the best on arabia, Celts, Chinese, Franks, Persian or Mayan ?
A) Chinese
Q) What's your favorite computer game beside AOK ?
A) AoM
Q) Is "not posting anything on here when you come home completely drunk" one of the reasons why you abstain from alcohol?
A) If so, only a subsidiary one. I made the non-drinking decision when I was 18, before there was any internet worthy of the name.
Q) Do some of the forummers' names sometimes make you wonder?
A) I am constantly puzzled by the names people choose to be known by.
Q) How do you explain the Huns in an all-tech game being able to research both Atheism and Theocracy?
A) It’s a Unitarian theocracy.