Our LAN games have been facinating. I've read some reports of people munching all the minors and then turning on each other. Our games were a bit different. We had a Polish and Ottoman player who tried that and after initial successes were just kept in constant wars by other players. We just ensured that they never had a break between wars so that war-weariness kicked in. We broke up Poland without ever winning a war against it, rebels broke it into a couple of countries, and we broke the power of the Ottomans after giving 1500D to Georgia after he tried to add it to his empire. The swearing and shouting from the corner was fantastic, he had no idea what was going on. He never really recovered and the Ottomans reached the limits of expansion by 1620, well short of the 1556 tide mark. It only takes two of you to pick on aggressors and you can do significant damage to anyone on a power building mission.
Its a real shame that it doesn't work on 56K. Its ok if you are American but for Brits, thats £40 a month. I've found it cheaper to hire out internet places for a day.
