Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[mostly_harmless]

Will ceasefire in any way reduce the war weariness Civplayer is hopefully still suffering?

And we are not dead yet! We might even see another Great General being born for us in the turns to come! Don't give up hope!
I think we should pass the info of the attack onto UniCiv.

mh

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Any chance we could pass the Great General to them as well? Probably not, given the distance. Maybe we could attach it to a galley and make it a super fast mover and then gift the unit?

[Qgqqqqq]

Cease fire would end the war unhappy.

[antisocialmunky]

We should ask for ceasefire and then invade and help kill WPC.

"We will give you ceasefire, if you let us help kill WPC before we die."

[scooter]

Xenu, you're handling this diplo far too sanely right now. Let's have less of that and more of the slightly crazy email war and peace type stuff.

[NobleHelium]

War weariness is only present when you are at war.

[mostly_harmless]

No ceasefire with Civplayers, then! The whole point of carrying on is to make it costly for the aggressors. We can make a counteroffer for a large sum of gold, which we can gift to UnivCiv.
If they want to avoid a three way turn time split they should lean onto WPC to make peace with us or tell their CFC Overlord to finally finish us off!

Forget all notions about going on any kind of attack. Distances are too large and we only have 5 units left. Also we are still at war with CFC!
As for the Great General, he still needs to be born, which means we have to fight first.

I have to go afk for a couple of days and have requested a pause.

mh

[spacetyrantxenu]

That's the spirit! A pause is an absolutely invincible delaying tactic -- why didn't we think of that sooner?

Scooter, let me get this straight. You're actually advocating for bad behavior when I've gone and tried to be nice? It will set my social rehabilitation back by days -- DAYS I tell you. But sure, I'll see if I can stir the pot some. First I'll tell UCiv so maybe they can get a leg up on an attack. They should just attack WPC, damn the alleged NAP, it's obviously not convenient now. That's how WPC NAPs anyway right?

Next up, should we say anything to tip off WPC that they're about to die? Even if they know an attack is coming they'll bumble their preparation, but at least maybe they'll whip some more longbows and make it painful. That's if we care about punishing our aggressors. I would be inclined to say nothing to Worst Playing Civ and let them drink deeply from their juice box of comeuppance when these guys get ready to serve it to them. If we are still alive maybe we can offer then a useless mutual defense pact (our mutual struggle brings us together!) just so we can break the deal with them, as a symbolic reminder of their transgression.

Or maybe just send them an email with the with the word Schadenfreude printed a few thousand times, although I suspect they won't open any messages from us after the last one we sent.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Just send them this:



Let them die as painfully as possible. No need to inform them. When they get invaded, if we're still alive, we can give them some choice words. Or just ignore them. They're piss ants and terrible at civ. Who yells at an anthill?

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

Or this, because if they're as bad at using the dictionary as they are at civ, this will keep them busy for months: