Sisu accepted peace without even looking at the map.
@Gavagai
I moved to the hill this turn, declared war, then offered 10T peace. I really didn't plan to attack (dry whipping a warrior would give me only ~58% odds to burn the city next turn) and, in fact, it is my major foreign policy goal to maintain peace with Sisu for some time.
The warrior you see in the screenshot is covering a worker chopping a forest. Presumably Sisu was concerned about an attack from the south and wanted to remove cover. It's true the chariot could seriously mess with Sisu's micro, but here's the thing:
1) I believe Sisu is sandwiched between myself and Xenu - Sisu is my only neighbour by land. Sisu is dumping EP's into Xenu and ignoring me. He settled his second city north - ignoring the horse site to his east.
2) There is no contested land between us:
*14T of territory between caps.
*Newfound/Silers claim up to the 7T border and the culture of my sheep city will extend across the border.
*The borderlands are crap
The land I want is immediately adjacent to Sisu's cap - no skirmishing - any conflict over that land would mean total war with Sisu. I could try to roll Sisu sooner rather than later, but that would probably cost me the game to civs that spend the early game making profitable investments. In particular, it frees up Xenu to tech his way towards Cataphracts.
Peace with Sisu costs me little and motivates conflict between Sisu and Xenu. I have plenty of expansion room for now and a solid core. Revealing more of the map (damn you bear) will be the test.
@Gavagai
I moved to the hill this turn, declared war, then offered 10T peace. I really didn't plan to attack (dry whipping a warrior would give me only ~58% odds to burn the city next turn) and, in fact, it is my major foreign policy goal to maintain peace with Sisu for some time.
The warrior you see in the screenshot is covering a worker chopping a forest. Presumably Sisu was concerned about an attack from the south and wanted to remove cover. It's true the chariot could seriously mess with Sisu's micro, but here's the thing:
1) I believe Sisu is sandwiched between myself and Xenu - Sisu is my only neighbour by land. Sisu is dumping EP's into Xenu and ignoring me. He settled his second city north - ignoring the horse site to his east.
2) There is no contested land between us:
![[Image: VtTvq87.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/VtTvq87.jpg)
*14T of territory between caps.
*Newfound/Silers claim up to the 7T border and the culture of my sheep city will extend across the border.
*The borderlands are crap
The land I want is immediately adjacent to Sisu's cap - no skirmishing - any conflict over that land would mean total war with Sisu. I could try to roll Sisu sooner rather than later, but that would probably cost me the game to civs that spend the early game making profitable investments. In particular, it frees up Xenu to tech his way towards Cataphracts.
Peace with Sisu costs me little and motivates conflict between Sisu and Xenu. I have plenty of expansion room for now and a solid core. Revealing more of the map (damn you bear) will be the test.