Their coalitions were offshoots, here to cooperate with the locals to achieve foreign objectives before retracting like burnt fingertips. The empires in question were faraway things. “Empire” became “coalition.” Like that, the game’s focus on the local clans of Afghanistan became apparent. In my essay on the arguments made by Pax Pamir, I noted how something as subtle as one altered noun helped frame Wehrle’s thesis in a new light. In game design, small changes often beget big differences. And Cole Wehrle’s second edition accomplishes the improbable by making that message more articulate and more playable at the same time. More than any game I’ve played, John Company is about culpability. Maybe even the sort of blame that might implicate us. Absent a villain, there’s more blame to go around. That the Company’s ascent was the work of clerks and captains, common soldiers and administrative functionaries, merchants selling on commission and thousands struggling to earn their daily bread. As is always the case with sweeping evils, it’s easier to tuck a mastermind behind the curtain than to acknowledge that reality is so much more banal. Perhaps even occult.Įxcept that’s far too tidy. How else to explain the company that became leviathan - that touched half the world’s trade, employed twice the fighting men fielded by the British army, and ruled India for a century? Surely it was sinister. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).It’s easy to imagine the East India Company as a cabal: an instrument of villains, territory marked by the plunging of daggers into nautical maps, shareholder meetings held by candlelight, masks mandatory. In December 2011, Betty went on a cruise with Biff and his family. Biff attended Seth's wake in The Woolpack and left again following the funeral. Biff comforted Betty as she explained that she did not want Seth to be cremated and he suggested that she stop the cremation after the wake. Biff told Betty that she could stay in Keeper's Cottage, which he had bought for her and Seth, for as long as she liked, despite her offering to move out. He first made an appearance when Betty relived the memories of Seth in his shed, when to Betty's astonishment, Biff walked in. In October 2005, Biff made a brief return to Emmerdale following the death of Seth Armstrong. Marlon Dingle wondered whether he would see his good friend again and Biff rode off on his motorbike, into the sunset. He jilted her at the altar while almost making his vows, leaving Kathy traumatised. Biff then began dating Kathy Glover and they planned to marry, but on the wedding day, Graham Clark showed up and during the vows, Biff began having doubts about marrying Kathy as he realised that Kathy saw a lot of Graham and was close to him. She became pregnant by him, but suffered a miscarriage afer being pushed down the stairs by Kim Tate. He also went on to have a one-night stand with Kelly Windsor, his brother-in-law Roy's girlfriend, in November 1998. Linda died in a car crash in 1997 leaving Biff devastated and the following year, Biff embarked on an affair with Lady Tara Oakwell but she eventually dumped him. Biff then began dating Linda Glover and they married on Boxing Day 1996, the same day that Linda's brother Dave died in a fire at Home Farm.īiff and Linda had a happy marriage and were delighted when Linda fell pregnant in early 1997 but their happiness was cut short when she suffered a miscarriage. In August 1995, Luke died in a van smash and Biff blamed Tina Dingle as she had wrecked his life. He had a romance with Luke's sister, Jessica McAllister and was Betty Eagleton and Seth Armstrong's lodger. Biff was a biker.īiff first appeared in Emmerdale in March 1994 as a biker and school friend of Luke McAllister. Biff went to school with Luke McAllister when the McAllisters moved to Yorkshire in 1993. His father Ron Hudson had walked out on his mother Sandra Fowler when she was pregnant so Brian grew up without him.Īs he got older, Brian was known as Biff, which was his initials. Brian Fowler was born on 9th August 1976.
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