Pax Apolytonia?

[Thud]

Do we want to go to war? With whom?

This poll is unofficial and will close in 3 days.

[Thud]

My opinion:

In order to fufill our manifest destiny and have an Apoyltonian Nation that stretches from sea to shining sea: I support a war with France this term.

Other than that, I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.

Under any circumstances

[Ninot]

As a left wing independant, im dissapointed in you Thud

Apolytonia needs peace, not war.

[UnOrthOdOx]

I am dissapointed for a different reason

As an elected Minister it is your duty to accept the will of the people. You should accept the outcome, and not take an 'Under no circumstances' position.

My opinion?

War on both.

Preferably one at a time. And hope one of them get Germany involved...I wouldn't mind taking that Capernicus from him...One way to speed our relative Science is to slow the rest of the world down...

[Shiber]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
One way to speed our relative Science is to slow the rest of the world down...

Such a wise sentence, I just had to repeat it.

UnOrthOdOx, are you by any chance into modern physics?

[Robber Baron]

After careful consideration, I'm finding myself swayed by those who argue for a brief, limited war with France. Stress brief and limited. Grab a town or two, wrest at least one of those saltpeters from Joan. Late in the war send in a few war chariots to trigger a golden age. Then we need to settle down and do some serious peaceful building. (If the other civs will leave us alone -- a big IF.)

[Thud]

Yes, onortho, but until the will of the people is evident that a war is in the interest of the people, I will disagree with that position no matter how much it is argued for.

If they poll and say that war with england or germany is good, and we go to war, I won't do anything about it; unless I feel it so unjust that I abdicate to Duddha.

I really intended that post (circumstances and all) to mean this: If the people want war with France, so be it; HOWEVER, I will support war on France, on the condition that it is the last war of aggresion.

[Reddawg]

I too support a BRIEF war with France, if it's at LEAST two turnchats away... if it is prolonged, there will be hell to pay.

~MoE Reddawg

[Thud]

Coincidentally, though I would support a final war with France, I voted for Peace. I think that I'd rather send the message (with this poll) that Peace is preferable now, as opposed to it being necessary after France.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Originally posted by Shiber


Such a wise sentence, I just had to repeat it.

UnOrthOdOx, are you by any chance into modern physics?

I am not entirely sure if that was meant sarcastic or not...

Coincidentally, I do work with Physics every day. That is an intagral part of my job, though computers are slowly replacing most of the work involved...

[Shiber]

I was totally serious. It is a wise thing to say.
Most people don't realize that it's not the absolute value of a certain property that matters but its relative value.

[GodKing]

I say peace for at least 20 turns. To give us a chance to rebuild and regroup. We are the largest civ by far, yet our military is only 3rd I beleave. And our infrastructure is laging behind seariously. After the regrouping, I say take on greace or germany, as they have the most to offer us now.

[ThePlagueRat]

I agree with GodKing. We should expand our borders now,
by culture and build up infrastructure.

Sooner or later some foreign emissary will come with a
nasty treaty and unacceptable demands.
Then the Foreign minister should post it here and
we will see the reaction...

Don't let them step on us,
but don't try to be "World police force" either.

[Duddha]

To War!

[ruby_maser]

anything but a protracted war with France is fine by me. Controlling the neck of the continent is important (assuming we can defend it) and the saltpeter and iron is a plus.

Britain, IMHO, has no strategic value and seems to be just a land grab based on the assumption that if we don't take it, someone else will and trying to justify it with a measily resource or two and Arbela safe. Perhaps bolstering Arabela's culture might be an alternative to wiping out an entire civ to keep it safe.