Just how friendly is that Mr Khan?

[couerdelion]

There are times when a slip or mistake can bring some small good fortune. In my current game, I noticed I have made a few small errors along the way to, and in the aftermath of a CS Slingshot.

One of these was made after the deliberate decision to delay switching religion until I had bureaucracy in place. I also avoided switching immediately to Bureaucracy because I wanted to use the switch to also take Caste System but remembered to make that switch during my turn.

With religion it simply escaped my mind to make the switch at a later date. However, I felt the need to share with Genghis Khan – my friendly neighbour – the wonders of this new Confucianism idea that I had discovered. Saladin and that Persian bloke had already adopted – Sally was the Defender of the Faith – so I figured it wise to have at least one fewer mortal enemy on my continent and Genghis was the only choice.

Things were moving on peaceful after than when all of a sudden Genghis is banging on the door with his fists and telling me that I should switch to Confucianism!!! I think that’s just his way really although some might think he was being aggressive. Indeed I thanked him most kindly and agreed that it would be a good idea to switch to Confucianism immediately.

In case you have not guessed it already, Genghis now regards me more highly for agreeing to his demands to do something I should have done hundreds of years earlier.

What a nice man that Mr Khan is

[Arrian]

I had something similar happen to me in my current game, although it cost me instead of helping me.

I (Inca) founded 4 religions (Hindu, Confucism, Christianity [by prophet] and Islam [mostly by prophet]). I had adopted Hinduism b/c I wanted to run Org Rel.

My only neighbor (Saladin) was a long ways away (no Quecha rush for you!). I didn't have time for actively spreading religion to him - I was busy founding cities, fighting barbs (they burned a city of mine, the bastards), and stuff like that.

The SOB converts to Christianity. Then he dials me up (almost immediately) and demands that I convert. At the time, I had 2 Christian cities to about 4-6 Hindu.

I agreed. +1 for agreeing, plus the +whatever from "brothers & sisters of the faith." He loved me.

And then I did something stupid:

I built a bunch of Hindu missionaries and converted him to Hinduism... and switched back. At the time, I had only the Hindu Shrine, so this gained me some GPT... but it cost me a turn of anarchy. Not long thereafter, I used another GP to build the Church of the Nativity. That city is now my Wall Street city anyway (b/c National Epic + Oxford in the capital). Silly me.

Oh, and I went and killed Saladin anyway.

-Arrian