Also, one more addendum. Sometimes civs tend to declare peace within 3 turns of declaring war after you've joined the war cause. While I am certain Khan would gladly accept rejoining the war effort if I asked him to, under this honorable ruleset, I am forced to oblige any non-tribute demanding offer of peace if the Civ asking me to go to war in the first place. I weighed the option of going to war with a civ that'd only offer peace (Ghandi's a notorious peacenik, even though he does have the tech advantage, I could've pressed the assult enough for him to offer peace--I am sure I could've gotten to his capital long enough to hold it for a few turns through Washington's territory, or vice versa when the Greeks asked me to go to war). That would've almost assuredly made Ghandi sue for peace, which I would've had to follow.. and by then Khan and Alex were too afraid to declare war on their own, and washington/ghandi were all too willing to declare war--but our agg civs were too afraid to ask me to help too often.
Btw: I think gifting units to Khan made him think I wanted to go to war too, because he asked me to go to war within a few turns after I had gifted him over a dozen of my best riflemen.
I'm still kicking myself had nearly twice the production power of either peacenik civ through monty's holdings, and the ability to go to war with only one of them. Still, the other would likely have gotten a spaceship victory soon. Just a matter of time... which I didn't have. Takes a good ten turns just for those large cities to stop revolting and start culture / land domination. I wasn't sure I could do that with a tech and numerical unit disadvantage. Gaaah. Should've gambled! That's the more interesting game. Who remembers the easy wins? No challenge, no fun.
Btw: I think gifting units to Khan made him think I wanted to go to war too, because he asked me to go to war within a few turns after I had gifted him over a dozen of my best riflemen.
I'm still kicking myself had nearly twice the production power of either peacenik civ through monty's holdings, and the ability to go to war with only one of them. Still, the other would likely have gotten a spaceship victory soon. Just a matter of time... which I didn't have. Takes a good ten turns just for those large cities to stop revolting and start culture / land domination. I wasn't sure I could do that with a tech and numerical unit disadvantage. Gaaah. Should've gambled! That's the more interesting game. Who remembers the easy wins? No challenge, no fun.