Longbows work as hitters right?

Seeing his privateers, i moved my "stack" out of easy vision so that he wont know what i have exactly. He can sac a knight to go see what i have, but thats one less unit i have to worry about. I put two maces into phyrexia so that he "should" have to at least bombard, if not hopefully lose some more units. Really wish i could have gotten another Lbow in there. The way i see it, unless Cairo has a bunch of units in those caravels.. I dont get why he is attacking? Shouldn't he want to work with me to eat some of OH? Hell, together we could probably stop Gav from winning. Im just happy that 90% of his power is from his absolutely ridiculous amount of ships.
IF he hadnt of attacked, i would have had rifles in roughly 2 more turns. Ive seen some pointless attacks, but
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Maybe he doesnt realize im like the de-facto king of defense?

"Superdeath seems to have acquired a rep for aggression somehow.
In this game that's going to help us because he's going to go to the negotiating table with twitchy eyes and slightly too wide a grin and terrify the neighbors into favorable border agreements, one-sided tech deals and staggered NAPs."
-Old Harry. PB48.
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-Old Harry. PB48.