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[Kot]

FINALLY! AN TRUE ARSTOTZKAN MANS UP AND STANDS AGAINST MAGIC!
YOU WILL GET A MEDAL COMRADE!

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Medal Of Glory is a highest Arstotzkan military and civilian decoration. It denotes that the individual that has recieved it is GLORIOUS, which usually means killing a lot of Moskurgians and dying, prefferably taking the enemy with them. The main piece of it is a huge Arstotzkan ruby (despite the fact that Arstotzka doesn't have any meaningful sources of rubies, but seems to have some sapphires). There is only one such ruby in Arstotzka¹, which means that they have only one Medal Of Glory (except those cheap knockoffs made with stained glass). Arstotzkans have thought up with a way to overcome this minor problem, making it a posthumous award, so that noone has to actually wear it (it's very damn heavy, so noone would actually want to do it), except at their funerals when the medal is replaced with fake one before the body is placed in the grave. The recipents are listed with golden tread on the red pillow the medal usually resides on. When there is no place on pillow anymore, they get a bigger pillow, which has caused it to be more like a mattress now. It's stored in a chamber in Arstotzkan, with a whole department (some say it's what the illusive Department 17 does) tasked with guarding it. Among most well-known recipents of it is a whole crew of "Glorious" T-15 tank and all dead rulers of Arstotzka. It's was proposed to Konstantin The Bear that he should recieve it after he die, but he dismissed that and said that he's never going to die.

¹It's origins are unknown but a legend says it was created by an unnamed Forenian hero, in times before time, with help of dust devils. He used the stone to save his land from ice giants, imprisoning them forever. In exchange, dust devils wanted him to attack southern tribes, to stop them from finishing an blasphemous ritual which they claimed is going to doom the whole Forenia. There is a similar legend in Moskurg lands that mentions an unnamed Forenian hero that used the sapphire made by ice giants to kill dust devils that attacked settlements of his people. He also succeded, but before that ice giants ordered him to attack northern tribes and help ice giants in war against dark magic.

Sadly, Medal Of Glory is awarded only posthumously, so call me when you die, ebbor.

[Andres]

FINALLY! AN TRUE ARSTOTZKAN MANS UP AND STANDS AGAINST MAGIC!
YOU WILL GET A MEDAL COMRADE!

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The spelling of GLORY looks weird. It took me a couple seconds to decode what it meant by GOYRL meant. My suggestion is make it clockwise like you'd find on coins. I don't like the bigger pillow thing (I'd prefer a special book) and I oppose giving it to anyone but war heroes. Our leader will have to do without unless he died in battle.

[Kot]

The spelling of GLORY looks weird. It took me a couple seconds to decode what it meant by GOYRL meant. My suggestion is make it clockwise like you'd find on coins.

Dunno, it looks fine to me, as it's not a coin. But whatever, I may fix it. Right now, gaems.

[Andres]

Damn, couldn't ninja-edit in time. I edited my previous post.

[Kot]

I oppose giving it to anyone but war heroes. Our leader will have to do without unless he died in battle.

Welcome to another country led by "glorious leader". At least they get it after they die. I considered the book too, but ultimately decided that name mattress is more "glorious".

By the way, thank you very much, I too consider it's nice.

[Andres]

By the way, thank you very much, I too consider it's nice.

Sorry, it does look pretty good regardless. I guess I'm just picky.

Hey Sensei, I don't think our planes should cost as much Ore as they do. It costs 4 Ore to make a triplane out of aluminium but that has lots of supports for the wings and thus requires lots of Ore to make it all out of aluminium. A monoplane needs no supports and as such a fully aluminium one should only cost a maximum of 3 Ore.

[Taricus]

Again, it's probably the turboprop/autocannon adding onto the price.

[Kot]

GOYRL

The way I wrote it is based on "cross" orders, where the spelling goes Up, left, right, down. Those only have four wings tho, so when there's five it may look weird.

[Andres]

Well, now that we have a glorious medal for our soldiers to aspire to, I wonder if Arstotzka can be granted another Unyielding Thirst for Glory.

Glory to Arstotzka.

[Sheb]

Again, it's probably the turboprop/autocannon adding onto the price.

Well, the autocannon ain't made of aluminium, and you've got quite a lot of firepower too. Not bitching here, but it'd be nice to know what the reasoning behind it is (if there is one, Sensei has been known to mistype prices from time to time), for future design.

Also, according to your tech list, rebels are still preventing you from having more than one Ore. :p

[Andres]

It seems our discussion has slowed this game down significantly. I don't even care about their Hippo any more. I just want the game to continue.

[Sheb]

I think the correlation goes in the other direction: the slowing of the game is causing the discussion. :p

[evilcherry]

I think the correlation goes in the other direction: the slowing of the game is causing the discussion. :p

and a particular few Arstotzkans aren't willing to drop it.

[Sheb]

Sensei specifically asked us for our opinion about how to resolve the issue. Of course we're discussing it.

[evilcherry]

Sensei specifically asked us for our opinion about how to resolve the issue. Of course we're discussing it.

Honestly we are all now at a "hell we couldn't care less, stop QQing" mode.