Team Sarantium Diplomacy

[polarnomad]

Sent to Sarantium:

Sarantium,

Your hired units died on the walls of Khan's Throne, ending our current contract. Once game mechanics allow for payment, Team Mercenary will contact you.

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[polarnomad]

Received from Sarantium:

Understood. How did we do? ...Beta

[polarnomad]

Sent to Sarantium:

Not very well, I'm afraid. First axeman died dealing no damage. Second axeman dealt 0.5 damage to 1 archer. The first spearman dealt 0.5 damage to 1 archer. The second spearman died dealing no damage. FYI, 2 additional Keshik are located 1-7 of Khan's Throne.

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[polarnomad]

Received from Sarantium:

Damn. That is not good news. And doubly bad news about the Keshiks. I thought we had them all accounted for.

[UnOrthOdOx]

If Sarantium is being completely truthfull, (not just wanting to stick it to us) I find their generals to be of increasingly questionable competance.

[OzzyKP]

Then I suppose they won't be too much of a threat in the future.

[OzzyKP]

No word from them at all as to why they destroyed our chariot?

[UnOrthOdOx]

They did WHAT?!

/me runs to turn threads...

[UnOrthOdOx]

Alright. Send a bill and demand explaination.

This means war, as neccessitated by our founding statements.

[polarnomad]

Suggested draft of message to be sent to Sarantium following the elimination of our chariot:

Sarantium,

Following the slaughter of our chariot north of Khan's Throne last turn, Team Mercenary demands an explanation and compensation, or you will find yourselves not only at war with the Horde, but also with Team Mercenary.

[UnOrthOdOx]

1. note that it was an unhired unit.

2. They are already at war with us now until compensation is received. (as far as I'm concerned anyway)

3. That compensation is 3 x the hammer cost IIRC (but I might be confusing the Civ III pricing there). (75 gold?)

[polarnomad]

Ok. How about?

Sarantium,

Following the slaughter of our unhired neutral chariot north of Khan's Throne last turn, you find yourselves not only at war with the Horde, but also with Team Mercenary. We demand and explanation for your actions, and compensation equivalent to 3 times the hammer cost of said unit, namely 75 gold.

[Slade Wilson]

And this brings us back to our earlier request to rent 6 additional units. We would be looking for them asap, and would like them to advance on the Horde's horse city - Karakorum. You had not given us a definitive answer regardng this proposed rental. Please advise.

The stage is set. Please have our stack of rented mercenary units attack Khan's Throne. We have units to the north ready to attack next turn as well. The manoevering has turned out well.

Damn. That is not good news. And doubly bad news about the Keshiks. I thought we had them all accounted for.

Im not fully aware of the situation and history here so take this with a tanker of salt, but 1. They ask for more units and we reply in the negative, indicating perhaps we dont have that many units to spare(giving them idea of our armies) 2. they suicide our hired help giving free experiance to horde units and then 3 begin attacking our units. Are they cooperating to kill us or something...?

But if was backstabing someone i would send troops accross the border towards cities not hitting chariots in the boonies

[polarnomad]

The situation does seem a little confused at the moment. Not sure what they are thinking.

[Octavian X]

The worst-case scenario, I think, is that the chariot was killed in order to prevent it from seeing something that they don't want us to know about - a combined Horde-Sarantium stack coming to attack from the south, for instance.