Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Pretty sure we've accepted it for T165-175. Effectively only T165-174, as they're declaring on T175 (unless we wrangle it so that since the deal lasts 10 turns, the NAP doesn't run out until T176).

[Ruff_Hi]

I agree that we will / have accepted the Marble trade ... but who knows how the mind of CFC works.

That raises another question ... when does our NAP run out? What is the wording of our agreement with the Germans? Can we attack on T150 or do we have to wait until T151 and not violate the NAP?

[mostly_harmless]

We should also be watchful of any help the Germans might potentially receive from CFC and others around now. Unit gifting was forbidden? But gold and resource gifts are not.

And I wouldn't count on the Germans to sign any peace deals if we fail to elimintae them in a timely fashion. Speed is the key here. Spearhead through to the Apolyton border and mop up the remaining German cities (i.e. help WPC). Pretty much what Sulla suggested in the war planning.

mh

[Yell0w]

Ceterum censeo CFC...

...esse delendam

"My grandmother called" made me laugh so hard

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I like the idea to appear scared, though I doubt it will fool CFC. On the other hand maybe their zeal can be used against them this way.

[dazedroyalty]

For the record, I support:

Noted.

I think this is a great response. It's a little cheeky but doesn't burn any bridges if, by some miracle, CFC decides not to attack us.

[scooter]

I the RB muscle car doesn't run that smoothly in idle .. but could CFC use our non-trade of Marble as a NAP violation and thus render our T175 NAP void? Could they be getting ready to attack us?

They just promised us 3 days ago that they will give us the marble from T165-T175.

That raises another question ... when does our NAP run out? What is the wording of our agreement with the Germans? Can we attack on T150 or do we have to wait until T151 and not violate the NAP?

Yep, we're fine, we can declare on T150.

[scooter]

From Spanish team:

Could be a good idea if you could consider sending just a couple of
good units for a gift and do it, the gift in a place where CFC could
see this.... This will send the message to CFC we are not alone and
thecnicaly wil not brake you NAP with them as we are still in peace.
We understand this may be just to further of what you could done for
us... and also, take in advice CFC you may had bad intensions with
them....

We actually could technically do this as long as we did it before war was declared. Not that I'm endorsing that, just saying we can give them whatever we want while we're at peace, but as soon as CFC declares war we cannot gift units.

[scooter]

Sent to Apolyton:

Hey guys, are you interested in extending our NAP until T190? T170 is not that far away, and I see a lot of conflict coming in the future to just about everyone. I think we'd both sleep better at night knowing we had another team nearby that we were safe from. What's your thoughts?

Thanks,
scooter - Team RB

[novice]

If we're going to help the Spanish I would rather lend them the money to complete HBR ASAP, and then hopefully get the money back soon enough that our Engineering ETA doesn't suffer.

[NobleHelium]

I really don't think we can trust the Spanish in terms of lending gold and getting it back in a timely fashion. And let's not mess with the business of gifting units.