RB Pitboss #2 [SPOILERS] - Speaker and Sullla

[darrelljs]

From this (totally biased) lurker, nice work! I'm stoked for you guys and rooting you on!

Yeah, all the Byzantine refugees in your land are rejoicing...our Warrior even lived !

Darrell

[sunrise089]

Yeah, all the Byzantine refugees in your land are rejoicing...our Warrior even lived !

Darrell

Not only lived, but provided crucial intelligence, right?

Yay us!

[antisocialmunky]

...gangbang alliance...

I guess that's one way to describe it Mr. Sullla. :-p

Congrats on flipping Dantski one way or another guys. It was a rather spectacular war.

EDIT: Ruff_Hi thought you might enjoy this smiley I found, I think it describes the war pretty well.
:dervish:

[Mr. Svinlesha]

One more lurker chiming in to congratulate team India for pulling out of what seemed (for a while, at least), like a nearly hopeless situation.

I raise my glass to you. Mazel Tov!

[Sullla]

Just in from Whosit:

To the Honorable Speaker and Sullla,

While this may seem odd considering the message I sent you just the other day, I come asking for peace between the Killer Angels, myself, and the other civilizations with which you are at war.

Securing Romali's exit from the war was a masterful stroke, but the rest of us remain united. While we are willing to continue the fight to drag you down, a decisive victory may now be elusive, so we believe that it would be in the interest of all parties to agree to peace. True, you would be able to hold the rest of us off for quite some time, but surely it will not do your economy any good. Therefore, we propose that you make peace with all belligerent civilizations. As part of the agreement, we will all sign a 20 turn NAP with you, so that neither you nor any of our allies need fear another strike.

Prolonging this conflict will help none of us, so we hope that you will respond with due haste.

Sincerely yours,
The Galactic Empire, the Greek Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Rebel Alliance

Well, well, well. Now that's something different. Suddenly continuing this war is a waste of time that won't do anyone any good. That's a bit of a reversal from what we just heard 24 hours ago, eh?

What do you think, Speaker? Now I'm not even sure that peace is in our best interests. This could be a very strong window of opportunity to hit Jowy and cripple him before he gets access to cats and horse archers himself. On the other hand, we certainly could use some time to rebuild. But if we give them 20 turns of peace, what's to say that we won't get attacked again by 4 teams as soon as that NAP runs out?

I send back a very short message, saying we had received their email and were discussing things. Unfortunately I'll be out tonight, and Speaker will be gone most of tomorrow, so we'll have to pass some emails back and forth and decide what to do.

[Speaker]

I'll need to think about this a bit. When will you be home tonight, Sullla? I am taking my wife out to dinner and a movie tonight, and won't be back until pretty late. The movie starts at 9:50 and is 30 minutes from home.

The timing of their proposal strikes me as a little fishy, being exactly the same length of our NAP with Dantski. Is it possible that they decided to try and save their units (Praets + Mali's stacks) for Round 2? Am I just being paranoid? If we could get together 10 catapults and 15-20 Horse Archers, to go along with our current army, I would feel pretty strongly about our ability to defend against pretty much anything they could send at us.

Right now, we are in 0 danger. We have at least 20 turns of peace with Dantski, so that front is secure, and more than enough units to annihilate those Praets, and Jowy, Kathlete, and Nakor have no power. Both Hampton Roads and Chancellorsville should have plenty of units to defend them. Is there any reason for us to rush to peace? Obviously it won't last. I sincerely doubt they can hit us with anything we can't handle in under 20 turns anyways.

So...what are the compelling pros for taking peace with all of them? I'm not really seeing any. I'd much rather have some sort of tiered peace, where we get 15 turns with Jowy, 20 with Kathlete and Nakor, and 25 with Whosit, or something like that, so they can't time their attack to hit us, unless they wait for all the NAPs to run out.

I'll post some more thoughts later.

[Rowain]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves. These aren't the AIs where as soon as you beat off one stack, they're no threat.

Right some have played even worse than the AI.

[Sullla]

I'm heading out for dinner with a very nice girl I met a few weeks ago. I'll check to see if you're online when I get back, and if not, maybe we can chat early tomorrow morning before you leave for the day.

I also don't see a compelling desire for peace if it means getting simultaneously invaded again in 20 turns. There's also something to be said for the fact that we have cats and horse archers, and Jowy doesn't. If we have one flank secured, why not capture a few Greek cities? 10 axes + 6 horse archers + 6 cats should be able to take down any Greek city of our choice in relative ease... right?

[BobRoberts]

Wah! It's amazing how fast situations can turn around? As recently as 1 turn ago, it was all looking painful...

I'm really impressed at the position you are in now, considering the events since the start of this war. Thanks for the great updates - made for entertaining reading and has kept me on the edge of my seat. Am fascinated to see where it will all head from here.

And on more important matters - was it a good movie?

[Sareln]

That's a really interesting decision you guys have there... please give the details of the reasoning in detail!