{"id":242,"date":"2005-09-16T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T21:20:09","slug":"paradox-pre-order-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/16\/paradox-pre-order-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox Pre-Order Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more reason to get excited about the imminent release of <i>Diplomacy <\/i>from Paradox. Anyone who preorders the game from their online shop has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradoxplaza.com\/news.asp?ArticleID=260&amp;Page=News\">chance at some pretty cool prizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>First prize is a weekend in Stockholm hanging out with the development team. You get a behind the scenes look at how the kings of ambitious gaming produce their product and a night partying with Swedes. Plus a day to look around one of Europe&#8217;s great cities.<\/p>\n<p>Second prize is a German hat; <a href=\"http:\/\/reenact.homestead.com\/pickelhaube.html\">one of those spiked ones<\/a> you see in all the old war movies. Third prize is a German sword with scabbard. (Why all the German stuff? Is this just easier to come by? Why not a Cossack hat?)<\/p>\n<p>There will also be ten consolation prizes &#8211; Paradox medals. I&#8217;ve already got one of those.<\/p>\n<p>If you were on the edge of pre-ordering <i>Diplomacy<\/i>, this could be your chance to wow your friends with talks about the beauty of Sweden or with your cool new headgear. Contest ends when <i>Diplomacy<\/i> hits shelves the first week of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more reason to get excited about the imminent release of Diplomacy from Paradox. Anyone who preorders the game from their online shop has a chance at some pretty cool prizes. First prize is a weekend in Stockholm hanging out with the development team. You get a behind the scenes look at how the kings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-3U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}