Great update from slaze just in. Here is an interesting passage (my emphasis):
slaze Wrote:About that time sulla was "wrapping up" the jowy war, and I could much use his help having athlete need to plit his army to his other border (i had/have espionage in his cities and all of it was one archer each. I send my almost daily report to him about opponents research etc and in this one, I roughly tell him it's time to get after athlete and his response is for me to calm down. That he wants to develope the jowy land and he's concerned with maintenence costs and such. And I get this one morning, and I have it floating in my head all day and I come to the conclusion that this guys just gonna do whats good for him, no more no less. When we were discussing what was going on some turns back, I was under the impression that the jowy war was really a war against athlete as well, that they were the same enemy.
I have to run.