[PBEM] Warlords - head2head

[sabrewolf]

ok, here's what i wrote:

you must be kidding, right?
ok, i'll forgive you the copper tile and i'll forgive you the "unfortunate"
mishap of entering my border. i will even forgive you ONE turn of
lurking, without that i launch a counterattack.

i was prepared for this kind of surprise (otherwise i would not have pushed so
close to your borders). my cities had prebuilt spearmen and my war chariots and
axemen have trained well against barbarians. my workers had built roads from the
korean lands for reinforcements (although i expected the reinforcements to go
the other way ).

so you can do following:
a) turn around now and i will forget and forgive all.
b) take a look at heliopolis, the city you are targeting and don't attack, and
i'll let your units survive.
c) attack anything of mine or pillage any more of my lands and i'll make sure
you never get to see the new world

[sabrewolf]

and here's the turn

[GeoModder]

I'm afraid I entered a d) option in the equation...

375bc about to be sent.
And on top of that I want you to let Wang Kon survive.

[sabrewolf]

what's d)?

wang kon... alright... he will survive

[sabrewolf]

alright, here are the facts: your impis and chariots will be able to take out my city. you'll certainly lose a few units, but so will i.

however, i have loaded up the game and i will be able to get qui shi huang to declare war on you too in return for alphabet and polytheism. now i know that AIs suck at fighting, but he can surely make your life difficult.

i can also get brennus to declare war on you in return for metal casting, which i just finished last turn. i don't really want to trade that, but you're somehow forcing my hand. and once brennus has it i might just as well get ragnar to declare war on you too. you can then have wang kon as ally if you want, but he's down to a single city with an archer... and will some day be my vassal, i hope...

keep in mind that even if you take my city and possibly also another one, you will be fighting against all AIs plus me. you'll pretty much stop researching and infrastructure and go for all out units. in two turns i have the oracle and with it crossbowmen which are immune to all the units you can throw at me. crossbowmen have +50% against melee (impis) and no defensive disadvantage against chariots. so i'll send a bunch of them to pillage your lands. i won't even capture any of your cities because knowing you, you'll throw the game once you see it.

so, peace treaty ok for you? for at least 10 turns.
plus (if you want) an agreement that we won't attack each other until [insert a point of time of your preference].

[GeoModder]

Sabrewolf, when I give in to you now it's only a delay of the inevitable. Infact, it's a sort of compliment you think you need to enlist the AI's to get me to my knees.

Guess I choose to go out with a bang this time, if you feel Alphabet + leaving Wang Kon alone is too much for you.

[sabrewolf]

how about masonry and leaving wang alone?

[GeoModder]

I'm not that cheap.
Well, do what you must to Korea, but give me alphabet+masonry.

[sabrewolf]

sorry, was out of house until now.

cheap??? i'm offering you masonry, korea's survival and not to charge 3 AIs plus myself against you and forget about the destroyed copper.

so you are not at all willing to negotiate?

hmm... that means that we won't be fighting to reach the new continent, we'll be fighting to survive for the discovery of the new continent.

[GeoModder]

I guess my advisors are convinced the Zulu empire needs Alphabet to survive in this shiny world.

[sabrewolf]

so how long would alphabet "buy" peace between us?

[GeoModder]

Until you feel strong enough to tackle my empire in a single stroke (I'm a realist here ), or the Zulu empire being requested to assist some other poor nation against GeoKilling agression. (current poor nation at war with you excluded)

Fair enough?

Time to close the blinds for today, I'll find out your response (one way or the other) tomorrow.

[sabrewolf]

i have sent you 2 versions:

1) is the all out war. qui shi and brennus were even happy enough to go for war with alphabet and a small tech.

2) is a peace agreement with free masonry. and you'll get alphabet in 20 turns if you stay peaceful better start researching stuff to trade then (i hear monarchy and feudalism are still up for grabs)

you chose. we can also continue two versions if you want. of maybe first play out one version and then the other... whatever you want.

[sabrewolf]

just to emphasise: the "peaceful" version cannot be continued without the peace agreement. no battles, no attacks, no pillaging, no other evildoings, ok?

[GeoModder]

You should have forwarded a single save, not this choice between pride and smugness.