Yeah, Ichabod, sorry for the attack. 
We did consider you as a friend although at some point there was some trade mess that we did not enjoy too much. You canceled our trades and sold same resources to Bacchus or WilliamLP IIRC. Anyways, we felt that we simply had no other direction to turn as we wanted to try at least something to improve our position. Mackoti paid attention to our border and had a sizeable army. Dtay did not really have an army, but capabilities to build one and revenge after capturing couple of cities. Attacking your island quickly and trying to stop you from landing your 100 knights seemed like a best bet of non-attractive options.
Actually if you had paid a bit more attention I think we might have been in trouble. I think I underestimated slightly how quickly you got to Frigates and definitely how fast BoM was pumping them out. Your navy was starting to reach a dangerous size and you could have (soon) started threatening our coastal cities, but luckily from our perspective we succeeded in our sneaky attack.
We did consider you as a friend although at some point there was some trade mess that we did not enjoy too much. You canceled our trades and sold same resources to Bacchus or WilliamLP IIRC. Anyways, we felt that we simply had no other direction to turn as we wanted to try at least something to improve our position. Mackoti paid attention to our border and had a sizeable army. Dtay did not really have an army, but capabilities to build one and revenge after capturing couple of cities. Attacking your island quickly and trying to stop you from landing your 100 knights seemed like a best bet of non-attractive options.Actually if you had paid a bit more attention I think we might have been in trouble. I think I underestimated slightly how quickly you got to Frigates and definitely how fast BoM was pumping them out. Your navy was starting to reach a dangerous size and you could have (soon) started threatening our coastal cities, but luckily from our perspective we succeeded in our sneaky attack.