Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[Fintourist]

Hmm.. It seems to be my habit to bring up various controversial options, but I think its always better to consider all scenarios..

Thus, how about this. Lets first capture those tundra cities, then sign off our deal with WPC and then make separate piece with the Germans. We leave WPC fighting for Huron and when we are ready, take their land too.

Ok, that's slightly mean..

[Sullla]

Nope, we need to eliminate the Germans so that we can draft the captured cities immediately upon hitting size 6. It's not about helping WPC, it's about doing what's best for us (as always!)

[Fintourist]

Reasoning... accepted!

[scooter]

Also, we promised WPC that we would not take separate peace with the German team.

I'll send something quick and to the point, I think promptness is important here again.

[scooter]

Sent:

Beta,

Thanks so much for the screenshots, that helps.

We will help you recapture your city next turn. We will plan on killing all except one unit, so just make sure you have a couple units in place to finish them off and you should be good.

Thanks!
scooter - Team RB

[spacetyrantxenu]

Then again...if they'd like to attack first and wipe out their units attacking to regain their own lost city that would be great too. Just leave out a unit or two to cleanup whatever is left after we do our work.

[mostly_harmless]

Com = Community. Is my guess.

mh

[scooter]

From WPC:

 
Thank you!
 
Standing by. And yes - we have a number of units that can attack this turn.

Kind of wondering if he misunderstood as we're attacking this turn, so I clarified:

To be clear, it'll have to be next turn (T162) and not this turn to recapture. Our 1 movers are 4 tiles away from the city, so we're just a little too far this turn. So you can take this turn to get into good position if you'd like. 

[scooter]

Three more quick consecutive messages from WPC:

OK. Understood. I figured that would be the case.

What's the scoop on the two tundra cities? This goes back to the 'big picture' discussion, but also dictates what we do with our stack next to Warendorf.

Also, in looking at the situation and their intent to do maximum damage to us, I suspect they may cross the river in force. This may prevent us from taking back our own city. In other words, they would rather let you capture our city and they get eliminated rather than letting us recapture it.
 
If that is the case, I gather you can liberate a city. Or is that considered 'gifting' as well?

Was hoping we could avoid talking about tundra.

[NobleHelium]

:Rolf: Oh man that last message. These guys are officially hopeless.