War in Germany

Transposed from an older blog


Still very crap, and life is in a really pissy mood this week. My cousin who's been ill for some time, died on Monday, so bollocks to going to work or achieving anything constructive.

So sat at home playing computer games. I usually avoid computers, as I'm a bit obsessive about computer games. I start them for fun, and then end up playing them for hours and hours and hours.

However in this case I want something to keep me occupied, and that doesn't involve moving around too much (still ill), so ended up playing 'Europa Universalis'. A very long difficult historical game of world conquest.

Starting from humble beginnings as the city of Hannover, I spread my baleful influence over my neighbours, before blackmailing the arabs into maps of the middle east, trading those maps with the portugese for maps of Africa and the caribbean.

Then many profitable years in the slave trade, supplying German plantations in Hispaniola, while colonising the east coast of North America.

Several Indian wars later, lots of indian tribes get exterminated, puts me in a powerful posistion to lauch my real objective.

The bid for power, in the wars of Spanish Succession to reunify Germany in one large Fatherland, with a world spanning Empire all by 1700. Bismark I'm sure will approve.

Games over. Back to serious stuff Green and Peace like?