Niccolò Machiavelli's Thread

[zakalwe]

The recent correspondence with Pirates:

Trolls,
No scouting and a map trade sounds acceptable. Our Quechua is currently leaving your territory, it should be out next turn.

An NAP sounds fine.
-The Pirates

Alright, we have proposed the map trade in-game.

We'll then consider a rolling NAP with a 10-turn cool down active immediately. Please confirm that this is what you're agreeing to, just to make sure there are no misunderstandings.

Trolls

Yes, we are agreeing to that.

[zakalwe]

If nobody offers any opinions to the contrary, I will try to get a NAP extension with M3.

[plako]

Go ahead with 3M. I've not much intrest to have dialogue with them after the unit gifting episode, but I don't mind if someone else does that. Maybe we want a bit more detailed deal with them.

[zakalwe]

Heya, sorry I hadn't responded. Just got the additional nudge from you in via the PM and figured I'd send a quick reply before I forget again. I keep getting distracted and forgetting, and not getting around to discuss with THH how we want to reply. We did finally get a little bit of discussion on it going last night, so hopefully will have an actual reply to you within a day or so.
Just wanted to make sure to let you know that we're not deliberately ignoring you. I had just gotten too caught up in other things, and letting myself concentrate too much on just the PB10 game since our threads there have lots of discussion, whereas for this one it's next to nothing.

Sound familiar?

[spellman]

Is it more waaaaaaaugh time?

[zakalwe]

Menagerie have some workers roading near our borders, whistling inconspicuously.

I'm thinking we should just offer straight peace to Tasunke. If we need to defend all of our front against potential knight incursions, it's going to tie up a lot of troops. Better to just get 10 turns peace and swing everything west. If M3 don't attack us, we can always attack them.

And if Tasunke refuses straight peace, that is also an interesting piece of information.

[plako]

Go ahead with that. Maybe we can make Forge some kind of city over the longer run.

[zakalwe]

From M3:

Hi Trolls,

How does a flat NAP to t200 sound to you?

With congratulations on your recent victories,

[novice]

So I wonder what happens when Tasunke logs in, will he still see a peace offer from us?

I guess this means we still have some "sunk cost" military to spend on Tasunke.

[zakalwe]

We could delay our answer until he's played the next turn.

If we do get peace with Tasunke, it might be worthwhile to raze their border city and force them to do some whipping. Could also backfire, of course.