Thoughts

Well, since you have the Master pickpocket status everywhere, your bad reputation follows you. The rest are just design flaws.

 

The gravestone in Ashbury reads: Here lies Lester Moore, four sluggs from a .44, now les no more. Which we all know is from Tomestone, the movie. Hey, those are pretty good. Keep em' comin'.

 

Hah, that one's pretty good! Very true too.

 

Then there's Virgil and Dante, the protagonists in Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio.

 

Yes, however I would have to say that Appelby is does not correctly portray Apple computers. I FUCKING HATE MY WINDOWS MACHINE! "Sigh", my old IMAC was soooo much more reliable. Unfortunetly one can almost never find games for a Macintosh.
The scientist elf...err um..whats her name. I can never remember... you know, the one that wants you to find the Volar's Wisp Essence.. well, shes a human. Oh, and the Half-Orc prostitute at Maddam Lil's has a whole bunch of technological degrees in Herboligy and something else. Too bad shes not a follower. Also, sometimes when you creep up to animals i the sewer, they talk to you...strange yes?

 

Yes, talking sewer creatures. Weird. Then there's the big Arronax flaw where he appears to be a human and whatnot.

 

Hieronymous Maxim, Real life inventor of the machine gun (at the time called the 'maxim gun')

 

Shame he did not invent medical arachnides as well.

The owner of the inn in Black Root is human, yet you call him a gnome.

Halfling player, when talking to halflings of the Ancient Game in Black Root, refers to them as "halflings" ("What game, halfling?") as if he is of different race.

Pollock, supposedly the leader of the Pollock gang, has lower intelligence and dumber dialog than any thug from his own clan (no wonder Clan Maug is taking over the Boil :roll: )

 

No, it's pretty obvious: the English war machine out-produced the Scots. (Similarly, Scottish valor and knowledge of the terrain were negated by historical inter-clan hatred which the English used to great advantage.) That was also the flaw that lay behind the Confederate States of America's ultimate defeat: the socio-economic system they wished to preserve simply couldn't compete in the long haul against a modern industrial model.

 

I prefer to think of the Union victory as the trimuph of central command & attrition. The Union Army had a single CIC. There was no single confederate Army. There was the Army of Virgina, The Army of Georgia, etc. And no one could could order any of those armies around from a central command.

Then there was the great population advantage advantage the Union had, while a good percentage of the Confederacy's population were slaves, & mostly niether trusted for nor used in combat.

We could also talk about the industrial capicity of the north vs. the mostly agrarian south, the almost total lack of confederate naval power in the face of the blockade

No, the socio-economic system could not compete in the long haul, but the war was not the long haul. I believe the Civil War was a product of greedy northern industralists who were not content to wait for the long haul.

Not a southerner BTW, born & raised in New York.

 

Yes, but remember one rebel could kill five Yankees.

 

Simple, even to this day, the south eastern US has a major tradition of hunting and fishing.

Most young guys were I live pick up their first rifle before they were 12 years old. At the start of hunting season, theres a gun in 40% of the lockers in high school.

Plain and simple, this knowledge of rifles, and how to cope with rural conditions (battles rarely were fought in a city), and a slightly higher tolerance for pain and adversaty made them better soldiers.

BTW, even though I don't condone slavery...it was mostly a propaganda tool...The war was over much more...not nessecarily better.

 

True, but in the mid 19th century, the north was primarily rural as well. There were more metropolises, but there were more farmers. Both sides has a lot of people who could handle a rifle long before they signed up. And this is still true in some parts of the north. In my early youth in central PA (near Gettysburg), we got four days of school off for hunting season. Now, that's not far north of the Mason-Dixon line, but it is the north.

Man for man, the armies were pretty much equal. Both lacked shoes, food, and field medicine. Both were filled with inexperienced, poorly trained, sons of poor families.

The South had one thing -- probably the best general on the continent. The north had just about everything else. The best general might might as well be a pastry chef if he can't get fresh ammo to his troops because the sea supply lines are blocked by ironclads.