Ideas and Thoughts

When I started playing with the Austrians I have soon discovered that Monarchy is no way to rule the world if you want scientific dominion and your subordinates happy, it’s just too expensive, but I have disregard the fact until the fact caught me.

Revolution ladies and Gentlemen! The Austrian Capital shouted and everything but a small army went black!

What the F@ck ?!? I screamed to my screen.

The I was prompted with a choice. Will you side with your Government you filthy Monarchical pig or will you join the Rebelion and become one with your people? I have chosen to go in the arms of my beloved people and help them take over this crippling old empire and make a thriving democracy out of it! (oh! yeah at that time I have all Europe but Balkans and Britain.) So to cut a long story sort. I am alone in a dark map with only one minisqule army just at the borders of my capital. I had no choice but to storm the gates and retake what is rightfuly mine!

By the time the revolution kicked in my Capital was creating my 6th all mighty full stack army to show the Ottomans we won’t be friends any more (they hurt my feelings  ). So when I stormed the gates with my army a full stack waited for me and said Hiii! Byeee!… Well, yeah it was a very very short battle. I was just cannoned to death on my way to the capitals walls. After that you know the drill .. load … and all over again.

How to create a Revolution

Simple steps.

1. Remove all armies from your capital
2. Make your Capital Really Really angry by getting taxes to the top or by destroying all that makes them happy (Pleasure Gardens, Observatories etc) or both. Start by rapping all their daughters. This will anger them for sure.
3. By the time all daughters are rapped and taxes collected you are going to have a very angry capital in your hands. Normally in a matter of 3 to 4 turns you will have a revolution in your hands (Don’t worry you won’t miss it, a dialogue will appear)
4. You can choose to Either side with the Government or the Rebels. If you want to change your Government type, go with the flow… errr Rebels.
5. Just move the Rebel Army into your Capital
6. In the process many of your conquered territories will spawn Rebels that will try to take over their lands, (Prussians as always can be a real nuissance, these guys just won’t die!)  Try to spread your armies in between provinces to be able to destroy these rebels once the revolution is over.

Vrasidas Papoutsis the Greek Rebel

The article below will only be “funny” for my Greek Friends

So, in the process of  step 4 I had to clean all the pesky Rebels from around the place. But one of them managed to ellude my hawk-eyes. It was Vrasidas, Papoutsis if I might add, the all mighty Greek rebel that in anno 1737 almost 90 years before  1821 managed to revolt and yes my friends for 2 years hold Morea as the New found Greek nation! (Monarchy, Orthodox) I don’t know how you feel for the mighty liberator of Greece but his name just makes me laugh out loud and roll on my back.

I am planning to take over the Ottoman empire now. and I will try to get the whole theatre before 1800. It will be fun!

I am looking for a mod that will allow you to play all the factions in the campain map (even the minor ones) Does anybody know if a mod like that exists?

As mentioned in my previous post I am starting a small side project. Part of this project is of course research on the matter. I have started digging where else but wikipedia and of course my first search was “nuclear bomb” that led to “nuclear war” that became “cold war” and I’ve reached a subject about “civil defense“. Do you guys know what civil defense is? I was pretty amazed when I read about it since I thought it was just a concept in the Civilization series (there is a building called civil defense that protects your population in case of bombings), but that was not just that at all. It happens that during the Cold War the U.S goverment initiated a new department like police and fire fighters that was called Civil Defense or C.D. for sort. During the Cold War the civil defense of the United States of America published a series of brochures and books with advices on how to react in case of a nuclear attack before, during and after the detonation of a nuclear device, how to create and equip shelters in order to get protected from the fallout that follows and general precautions on the subject. Two of these publications was the official U.S. goverment “Survival under Atomic Attack” in 1950 and the “Fallout Protection” in 1961. Apart from these publications that are indeed a really cool thing to read even for fun, the Civil Defense also created an awesome movie called “Duck and Cover” that I believe that it’s also the source of the famous expression duck and cover!

So I am happy to present you the movie itself that it was distributed at that time in every school in the U.S! Enjoy!

The Rules

I remember way back when I was about 18 years old me and some friends of mine playing falloull Table top Role playing game and having so much fun. Today I have tried to find the remnants of this game online. I clearly remember that there was a PDF rulesbook with rules for the game. Of course I was REALLY happy to find an online version of Alternity’s Gamma World (click here to get it). I always loved Alternity and I thought that a good idea would be start converting Fallout III resources using Alternity’s rules. But this didn’t go as well as I thought it could. It seems that part of the Fallout magic is it’s own system. I will try to find the old PDF and I will add to this post if I get lucky.

The Setting

Ok, so far we know what happened to California and Washighton D.C. more or less, but what of the rest of the world. Fallout 3 talks about War Against Communism and the Annex of Canada, so it’s pretty much obvious that in the storyline the U.S. went in War with China (?), Russia and that there was a major front in Canada as well. But what about Europe, Africa, Saudi Arabia or even Australia, the setting of our beloved MadMax Trilogy.

The Project

I thought it would be interesting to start a project that it’s goal will be to create a post apocalyptic setting based on the Fallout saga mythos. So I will start a series of campaigns accompanied by some research on the subject. I wil be posting source material here when available

The following containt NO SPOILERS that are story related

Betty

Betty’s task may lead you to the exit of the simulation but it will eat your karma for breakfast, if you have a good aligned character and you wish to get this over with use the Failsafe combination below.

The Failsafe

In order to escape the simulation you will have to activate the failsafe terminal in the abandoned house, this a very hard thing to find out so I will just give you the combination for the abandoned house combination:

- Radio
- Pitcher
- Gnome
- Pitcher
- Concrete Block
- Gnome
- Bottle

The following containt NO SPOILERS that are story related

Power Armor

As you will soon find out even if you find a Power Armor you wont be able to wear it. Most probably your first contact with a brotherhood of Steel Armour will be in the Metro Station outside GNU Radio Station (fallen Brotherhood of Steel Knight) You can take that armour and sell it but that’s pretty much all you can do with that armour, or you can keep it (but I would not recommend it). When you reach GNU Radio Station the Knights will tell you that you can be trained to wear a power Armour in the “Lab”, don’t get your hopes up because the lab is not in the GNU Building. Furthermore if you try to reach the Citadel and you just appear in the front door the Knights Will not allow you to enter, but just for your information the Citadel is at the ruins of the Pentagon underneath the huge cemetary.

In order to get a power Armour you will have to follow the main quest (find your father) this will lead you into the citadel (throught an underground passage). When you get in the Citadel getting the training is fairly easy. Also as a bonus there is a power armour just laying there in the lab section.