SleepingMoogle Wrote:That may be true, but as far as we know, he is still planning to attack India as well. There's not a lot to gain if he lets the Byzantians die, and then can't settle their lands because his hammers are spent on military. Right now his plans benefit the Ottomans far more than himself.
He's on the good side of Otto so he's likely to have good negotiations for land with his border with them and probably get some of Byz land without a fight. It also sounds like he may be able to get some units from them to help in his fight and being on their good side could secure one of his borders. All this from giving them some info and not helping Byz.
Helping Byz he delays getting to use his only metal resource, potentially gives away his military plans to India when he needs to request back his metal if Byz aren't done with it in 10t, only has about a 50% chance in gaining a weak ally on the border (50% chance they'll be killed of anyway), pisses off Otto team that will likely be his neighbour in the future, delays growth of Otto for a little while longer.
He gains practically nothing by helping them and loses a lot. Plus I don't blame him for not trusting Regoarrarr's diplomacy. From what I've read in the other game he's always planning a move ahead and if you haven't heard his far future plans then normally your on the receiving end. And as we've seen reading here he's already discussed taking out Jowy with India after allying with him for a bit.
He certainly could have played this better diplomatically though so as to come off less suspicious that he's up to something.