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[scottobear]

Danny Got me Shogun: Total War to play with during recovery with my back.. A nice game form the $10 rack at compusa. It's a lot of fun, and very easy on the laptop's resources. I also grabbed a copy of Age fo Mythology for myself, at $25, It was well worth it to finally get it. I'm sure that between the two of them, I'll have plenty to distract me. I'm very fond of the Cyclops units so far, because they look like Ray Harryhausen's design, and pick up one enemy unit, and use it as a weapon against another. The Kraken is also a fun foe, but I've not had an opportunity to use them as my own units. Hooray for Posieden!

I really want to see more mythologies in the next expanion.. Kali and that Crew would be fun to pit against Thor, Zeus, and Isis. I expect that I'll pick up the titans expansion in the near future.

Age of Mythology cheats

While playing a game, press [Enter] and type one of following case-sensitive codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:

RESULT	CHEAT CODE
1000 Food	JUNK FOOD NIGHT
1000 Gold	ATM OF EREBUS
1000 Wood	TROJAN HORSE FOR SALE
Chicken meteor god power	BAWK BAWK BOOM
Enable used god power	DIVINE INTERVENTION
Fast construction	L33T SUPA H4X0R
Flying purple hippo	WUV WOO
Forkboy	TINES OF POWER
Full map	LAY OF THE LAND
Hide map	UNCERTAINTY AND DOUBT
Laser bear	O CANADA
Lightning storm, earthquake, meteor, tornado	WRATH OF THE GODS
Lots of monkeys	I WANT TEH MONKEYS!!!!!
Maximum Favor	MOUNT OLYMPUS
New random god powers	PANDORAS BOX
Night	IN DARKEST NIGHT
Red water	RED TIDE
Reveal all animals on map	SET ASCENDANT
Slow down units	CONSIDER THE INTERNET
Small hero campaign army	ISIS HEAR MY PLEA
Turn enemies into goats	GOATUNHEIM
Units can move over water	CHANNEL SURFING
Walking berry bushes god power	FEAR THE FORAGE
Win scenario	THRILL OF VICTORY
Unknown	MR. MONDAY
Unknown	LETS GO! NOW!
Unknown	ENGINEERED GRAIN

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Nifty Volcano photos (Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii)

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Weirdo cone-thing - What is it?

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Anonymous screening killed the first bit of LJ-spam I've recieved, about getting drug kits. I'm not sure why they posted it in an entry from September 22... Actually, I suspect that it's an attempt to get a ride on my blog hits, but since it's screened, it won't get spidered. Bah on them! They floated in from IP 204.60.53.75, and the spam looked to be specifically LJ oriented, as it filled in the subject line, and had a hyperlink in the body field. the text of the message was basically -

Subject: magic mushroom kits
here's a great place to buy Magic Mushroom Kits

Ah well, this is the first instance of needing the screen since that bot posted 300-some entries about 6 months ago.

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looks like a new foe for ultra man to me

[phillykat.livejournal.com]

page 1: Well, not saying it is the tower of the sun which can be known but...As for ソレ inside, one taste difference the ぜ which bears -. It is to come the, (thats repeated 3x) It is (bottom of page is navigation: next)

p2: International exposition light ray discharge.

p3: With being the case that it is said, * * The commemoration which to the general observation meeting inside the tower of the sun cannot be done * * Human conference of tower of sun! Is.

Ornament of tower of sun It tried making the joint movable doll. * To be splendid the weird beautiful forum!

Entire body mobility!

And even in person of black sun deformation possibility! (there's a black sun one or the back is the black sun not sure which)

it has a Secret ___ partner. (i think little)

Obtaining - with...... it is above

****let's review: it's the transforming tower of the sun. it has international exposition light ray discharge, if you can get it to the size of a man in a tower of the sun costume and put it on the roof on a sunny day. if not you can have a little one with total mobility. still not sure about the black sun thing. so, basically scott, what you have there once it's translated is some engrish.

Re: looks like a new foe for ultra man to me

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

you lost me! what?

Re: looks like a new foe for ultra man to me

[phillykat.livejournal.com]

everything above the *** and w/e i typed after it, is the translation of the pages, except where i u c parantheses.

A few Shogun:Total War game notes

[egofood.livejournal.com]

I had the board game so I got the Total War game when it came out since the map looked almost exactly the same. Lots of fun, but it takes a long time to recover your investments. (Building a castle and a port takes 54 seasons total to recover your investment, including the 14 seasons of construction.) Rule of thumb is to improve fields only in provinces with a base agriculture of 220 or better. Border forts are also an excellent deal. The one thing I don't like is you can't replenish units to bring them back to full strength with new recruits.

x is the base agriculture value:
2000 koku to build a Castle and Port in 14 seasons recovering investment in 40 seasons (54 seasons total)
500 koku to have Improved Farmland in 8 seasons recovering investment in 2500/x seasons ([2500/x]+8 seasons total)
1200 koku to have Superior Farmland in 18 seasons recovering investment in 3000/x seasons ([3000/x]+18 seasons total)
2100 koku to have Exceptional Farmland in 30 seasons recovering investment in 3500/x seasons ([3500/x]+30 seasons total)
3100 koku to have Legendary Farmland in 42 seasons recovering investment in 3100/x seasons ([3100/x]+42 seasons total)
1000 to build a mine recovering investment in 68/18/15 seasons
5000 to build a mine complex and fortress recovering investment in 88/63/55 seasons

And here are the buy points for various units in the freestyle battle screen:

  0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9  Honor
  51   71  100  140  196  274  384  538  753 1054 Yari Ashigaru
 102  143  200  280  392  549  769 1076 1506 2108 Yari Samurai
 153  214  300  420  588  823 1152 1613 2258 3162 Samurai Archers
 217  304  425  595  833 1166 1632 2285 3199 4479 Naginata
 153  214  300  420  588  823 1152 1613 2258 3162 No-Dachi Samurai
 255  357  500  700  980 1372 1921 2689 3765 5271 Warrior Monks
 229  321  450  630  882 1235 1729 2420 3388 4743 Cavalry Archers
 307  429  600  840 1176 1646 2305 3227 4518 6325 Heavy Cavalry
 242  339  475  475  665  931 1303 1824 2554 3576 Yari Cavalry
  51   71  100  140  196  274  384  538  753 1054 Arquebusiers
  89  125  175  245  343  480  672  941 1317 1844 Musketeers

  0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9  Honor
  51   71  100  140  196  274  384  538  753 1054 Arquebusiers
  51   71  100  140  196  274  384  538  753 1054 Yari Ashigaru
  89  125  175  245  343  480  672  941 1317 1844 Musketeers
 102  143  200  280  392  549  769 1076 1506 2108 Yari Samurai
 153  214  300  420  588  823 1152 1613 2258 3162 No-Dachi Samurai
 153  214  300  420  588  823 1152 1613 2258 3162 Samurai Archers
 217  304  425  595  833 1166 1632 2285 3199 4479 Naginata
 229  321  450  630  882 1235 1729 2420 3388 4743 Cavalry Archers
 242  339  475  475  665  931 1303 1824 2554 3576 Yari Cavalry
 255  357  500  700  980 1372 1921 2689 3765 5271 Warrior Monks
 307  429  600  840 1176 1646 2305 3227 4518 6325 Heavy Cavalry

Re: A few Shogun:Total War game notes

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

very nice, indeed! I'm sure that sheet will be amazingly handy... Thank you so much!

code

[(Anonymous)]

does any1 have the code for total war shogun on the box that u need 2 put in be4 u start 2 play cos i downloaded the game and cant find the code.