antisocialmunky Wrote:The immediate cause was everyone noticing that giant GNP spike and then Kathlete using that to organize the CoW. Jowy and Dantski ended up distrusting Sullla after they started to talk to each other which IIRC before or during the Byzantine War. They were going to attack anyway. Those two things were the biggest and the most direct causes of the war IMO.
I would say that their play would have resulted in run-away GNP regardless of the academy. I agree that their GNP (combined with the no-tech trading) was a significant factor, I'd just say that the GNP (ie. cottages) was the direct cause and the academy was just a supplement to that.