Neu Demogyptica - correspondence & foreign affairs

[Kloreep]

Looks okay to me.

From what Darekill has told us, it sounds like ND is asking the impossible: If we attack, they attack. But if we ask them to leave, they attack as well. And if we do nothing things likely go downhill as well.

This is a nice way of not doing any of those three: we make contact without actually saying anything meaningful.

[lmtoops]

I suppose the true intent is to keep portions of our infantry away from the main invasion force. The ships do not have to do anything, and they will still occupy 20 - 30 infantries.

Since ND does not have much military for a full invasion, my guess is these ships are intended to divert our infantry.

[Tiberius]

Radek, this is wonderful

[vondrack]

Originally posted by lmtoops
I suppose the true intent is to keep portions of our infantry away from the main invasion force. The ships do not have to do anything, and they will still occupy 20 - 30 infantries.

Since ND does not have much military for a full invasion, my guess is these ships are intended to divert our infantry.

The question is: are they intended to divert our infantry or are they intended to look like diverting our infantry?

[Kloreep]

Or perhaps, they are intended to look like they are diverting our infantry to divert our infantry.

They do have some Marines. Let's not leave ourselves open to them unless we have to pick an area to skimp on defense.

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Kloreep
They do have some Marines. Let's not leave ourselves open to them unless we have to pick an area to skimp on defense.

Somehow, I fear that even if we leave this area sorely underdefended, believing ND would not attack, we will still not have enough to safely cover everything needed.

[ZargonX]

From what Darekill told me yesterday, this is kind of a test. We shoot, they shoot. We turn hostile and/or take a hardline stance, they turn hostile and/or take a hardline stance. We ask them to leave and they may get pissed. We ignore them and things may start moving in the wrong way.

Not to be the nay-sayer, but it sounds like ND has created a situation where they can attack no matter what we do. It looks like they are just looking for the slightest motivation to attack, and even if we don't provide it, I'm sure they'll come up with something on their own...

[vondrack]

What if they have to pose like hostile? What if their role is supposed to be to "tie our forces", but they in fact do not mind our units to fight elsewhere?

A long, bloody war is in their best interest. If we fail to hold the initial invasion, there will be no long, bloody war.

[ZargonX]

True. That is a definite posibility. Let's just play it like you suggested, and go from there.

[vondrack]

Note to ND sent as posted. (I thought I would have more time to think about it... but GS were real fast with their turn)

[vondrack]

OK, I am starting to think that we are about to be dealt a real serious blow sometimes soon... since things are going simply too well today. First the miraculous performance of U-Q1... and now this!!!

Dear
vondrack
Secretary of State
Legoland

With my deepest regret I have to tell you, that the captains of the "NDD Haudruff" and the "NDD Schlepper" have been relived of their Captainspatents. They are working now together as a team in the Mointains to lay tracks for the railroad.

It must have been bloodline which runs back many centurys ago that they wanted to visit the place where the only stranger from Borconia ever has set his feet on the Legonian continent. It was their grand grand grandfather. They were ridiculus curious to see that shore and have forgotten all their orders to stay clear off of your land.

They had no authorization to do so. We are more than gratefull that you did not sank their ships and saved the lives of thousends of inocent Marines that were onboard of the "NDD Schlepper".

We hope to avoid such incidents in the future.

As you will notice the ships have been moved away.

Greetings
Darekill
Admiral of the Neu Demogytian fleet.
Chiefdiplomat of Neu Demogyptica

[Tiberius]

All I can say is: WOW!

[vondrack]

I briefly responded in an informal way...

And here, I was hesitating whether a little bit of roleplaying was the right thing to do with a team that sent the Roleplayers to exile...



vondrack

Darekill's response was fast:

I like roleplay a lot.
I did not like Roleplay.
there's a difference
No i did like them too but i liked their territory even more.

In this context...

Did I ever tell you how great your continent looks?

Ah, I should stop teasing you.
BtW. GS has Mech.Inf. **** **** ****......

Those are sh|ts there...

Not sure whether this is good news or not... but I guess it's not very bad. It rules out the Nuclear Power beeline which would make GS marines all that more dangerous. It also gives us an estimate of the GS research power (close to 800bpt). It also means that our mobilization is unlikely to deny a wonder to us - GS would be there quicker anyway (like 8 more turns).

What puzzles me completely, though... why did GS not wait for MIs to join the invasion forces? Or do they plan to use transport-chaining to get them to Legos as fast as the beachhead units?

I am not all that scared of MIs, to be honest. Arty hits them just fine and if MIs are low on health, tanks do well against them, too.

[Tiberius]

From the other thread:

Originally posted by Tiberius
In a way we already have ND on our side: they didn't attack us, they don't want us completely destroyed and they don't want an even more powerful GoW. There are only 2 problems:
1. they are weak, therefor they are not really able to help us militarily
2. they would help us only when the situation becomes desperate for us, which is too late.
At this point I don't think that ND wants to help GoW and GS even more, but they don't really have a chance to do otherwise. They fear a miltary intervention against them.
However, we should try to seek ways of cooperation that can't be detected by GS and GoW, yet it'd help ND and us. More about this in the ND diplo thread.

Here's an idea: we could buy radio from ND. We put our research slider on 0 for the remaining 2 turns, ND delivers us radio in 2 turns, and we split the money with them. This is good for us and good for them. Plus we don't get radio earlier, and the others won't be suspicious.

The only danger is that GoW may investigate a city and see us on 0% science.
Talking in the chat with Radek about this, he came with the idea about what we could say: that we are trying to steal a tech, instead of researching it.

Basically, it is not a problem for us if GoW or GS finds out about the "rat", but it is our argument on how to convince ND to accept the deal

[vondrack]

And another great idea coming from Rear-Admiral Tiberius!

See - it's not all bribery... he actually is quite capable!