I am rooting for the Ottomans.
IMO, the Byzantine city placement was really aggressive, which needs some slick diplomacy or actual force to back it up... thought they were quite frankly asking for it. Attacking them was the most sensible thing to do.
I quite agree with the Ottomans not making their intentions clear about their attack - no point in telegraphing your actions when the other person can still react to it... This was definitely not the situation for that.
Having said that, where it sticks slightly for me is doing their subterfuge through game mechanics - missclicks, dodgy desktop connections, etc. I'd put that into a different camp to leading them up the garden path about compensation/settling - which I felt was a)necessary, b)handled masterfully.
I think it's not 'honourable play' - a little to far on the 'lies' side of the equation to me, but it's not a big foul. Certainly not on the same level with agreeing a NAP then backstabbing, for example.
What I'd now like to see is Byzantine pull it back together, regroup and kick someones teeth in with Cataphracts!
IMO, the Byzantine city placement was really aggressive, which needs some slick diplomacy or actual force to back it up... thought they were quite frankly asking for it. Attacking them was the most sensible thing to do.
I quite agree with the Ottomans not making their intentions clear about their attack - no point in telegraphing your actions when the other person can still react to it... This was definitely not the situation for that.
Having said that, where it sticks slightly for me is doing their subterfuge through game mechanics - missclicks, dodgy desktop connections, etc. I'd put that into a different camp to leading them up the garden path about compensation/settling - which I felt was a)necessary, b)handled masterfully.
I think it's not 'honourable play' - a little to far on the 'lies' side of the equation to me, but it's not a big foul. Certainly not on the same level with agreeing a NAP then backstabbing, for example.
What I'd now like to see is Byzantine pull it back together, regroup and kick someones teeth in with Cataphracts!