Swiss Pauli Wrote:To be fair to Jowy, rego stitched him up with a NAP the settled aggressively in the other direction. If that were not enough, rego went on to declare that Jowy putting a city 4 tiles from his own capital would be aggressiveWhen it came to the choice of helping Byz or not, Jowy had a tough choice: anger Ottomans (who will be a major player) by propping up Byz, or not help and anger Spulla (with whom he realised there would be conflict at some point) & annoy the largely irrelevant Byz. For me, Jowy's decision was an understandable one (he needs a strong ally against Spulla) but his handling of the diplo was very poor, and has now been compounded by settling Thebes in a needlessly aggressive spot (in spite of recognizing the peril he's in
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I wasn't aware of Rego's strangeness so I guess that makes sense. Makes you wonder why he's yelling at Spullla settling 4 spaces away from his capitol. As for the Byz thing, well you're just trading one powerful faction for another. Except you are able to actually influence one militarily and territorially and not the other.
There are arguments made for both but I think that siding with Kathlete is a less good option to actually place well in the end.