Dramatis Personae
Harry - a bar owner on the verge of the very big time
Big Yin - a diety heading for the Second Division
Rafe - an archangel who is passed by
Gabi - an archangel who fails to even find ice
Quetzalcoatl - a diety who seems to be much in demand
The Rurikovichs - who return to the big time only to find Harry already there
Wotan - another diety who has a tough time of it
Joan - who fuels at least one fire
Fluffy - who rather overdoes the rebellion
Thumper - who may be losing his influence
Scene 1: Harry scans the correspondence
So nice to go back to old haunts, must look them all up some day for old times sake
so much for Gross Deutchsland then? should have stuck to opera
as usual his eyes were bigger than his belly
oh I wish Gabi would loosen up, 600 years ago he was fun, innovative and now ...
at which Harry remembers the recent news
and picks up the email from Raphael
which inspires him to send another email to Gabi
.... a little while later he reads this tragic news
Scene 2: The Parliament
Harry, flanked by fluffy and thumper has called the plotters together
"look you are not going to get rid of me ... anyway why do you want to"
"well Senor Harold its these wars you start"
"and then escalate"
Harry sighs ... he either sets Thumper on them, or tries to explain things. He glances at Thumper
and decides to explain.
"So lets review that war, Mexico now belongs to us"
"The Yankees are all weakened by their infighting ... I asked Fluffy to set off a small revolt in the UCSA"
Harry glances at the note:
Looks angrily at Fluffy ... "I said a small revolt [1]"
"when thats over, they will out of the CSA sphere ... and in ours"
"we can then invade North America"
"Right ... I'm off"
Scene 3: More diplomatic action
Harry arrives back at the bar after the meeting and checks his in-box
and sends off a quick reply
and settles down to read the latest diplomatic reports [2]
[1] - they have no army (I destroyed it in the last war) and about 100,000 rebels including Communists, Fascists, Anarcho-Liberals and several types of nationalists
[2] - yep Harry's been on a ship building spree
[3] - I installed the latest patch just before that game play session, it does seem to have improved a few things, not least the AI's interest in gaining its war goals.