zakalwe Wrote:Spot on, I think.
Personally I find the whole 5 vs. 1 plan to be pretty distasteful and underhanded, so if anything, I hope it fails horribly and Spulla subsequently gobble up some more land from their incompetent neighbors to consolidate their lead.
Thanks. The thing is though, right now I'm not too worried for Sullla + Speaker. Sullla is certainly being fooled by some of the diplo posturing, but the same thing that happened in the apolyton demogame and RBP1 is happening here - namely an elegant plan is unraveling because people aren't able to follow an exact plan. We've already seen how many delays the attack plan has, and we have Rome not necessarily being able to commit all of their units as early as they had hoped either. That plus at least one member of the coalition having second thought...it doesn't make me willing yet to bet against the CoW, but if they're successful it won't be because of all of the past precedent.