RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[BobRoberts]

I wonder if cats will be ready when the Praets arrive? How many do you need to stop 8 veteran praets?

Noticed that Dantski intends to split his stack into 2, going after the capital and the coastal city... Wonder how big the capital stack will be?

Lots of armies coming in... it's going to be ugly?

[Swiss Pauli]

The CoW has to fall back to plan b and pillage Spulla back to the stone age, and wait for Praets before attempting any city assaults.

Also, they might as well break the NAPs and attack now seeing as it's all terribly obvious anyway.

[zakalwe]

Also, they might as well break the NAPs and attack now seeing as it's all terribly obvious anyway.

Personally I wouldn't consider that a valid excuse for breaking a NAP.

And looking at Pitboss #1, I think there are plenty of examples of people obviously intending to go to war but still waiting for their NAPs to expire.

[Swiss Pauli]

Well given that all but ploker & Inca are in on the dogpile, I don't think the fall out from NAPstabbing the runaway leader will be too high.

[zakalwe]

My opinion obviously matters little, since it is very unlikely that I'll be playing in any future pitboss games here. But I would be reluctant to enter into an alliance or any other kind of binding agreement with someone who previously broke a NAP. If a NAP is to be interpreted as "we won't attack you, unless it happens to suit us, or you become more powerful than us", then what's the point in signing one at all?

[Ruff_Hi]

Interesting choice of words here (my bolding) ...

Besides, they have to be feeling a little guilty about all of this. Maybe if we act like a nice guy, it'll give them second thoughts. Worth a shot, right? What are they gonna do, declare war on us? Heh.

As stated before I'm pretty upset with Greece for not disclosing India's scouting units whereabouts better. We could have easily have hid our units better if we had known what was happening. Anyways upon further reflection I'm also upset that they found out this way. I was OK with Spulla getting blindsided by us but now that they know we're coming I almost feel a bit sheepish and ashamed...kind of like they way a child would when they let down their role model so to speak...kind of silly huh?

[Ruff_Hi]

Let this be a lesson to you: always keep on top of less skilled allies and tell them everything they have to do, otherwise screw ups happen.

Welcome to the world of management

Krill - your consistency is a huge plus in your favour! 8)

[darrelljs]

I would be reluctant to enter into an alliance or any other kind of binding agreement with someone who previously broke a NAP.

What he said. Shady diplomacy is the ONLY thing I would carry over from one game to another. I got the impression from the Apolyton demogame that the MP community sees NAPs as binding (and in the case of Spain rules are explicit on this). I would expect the RB community to be at least as honorable .

Darrell

[Ilios]

What he said. Shady diplomacy is the ONLY thing I would carry over from one game to another. I got the impression from the Apolyton demogame that the MP community sees NAPs as binding (and in the case of Spain rules are explicit on this). I would expect the RB community to be at least as honorable .

Which is why I think one shouldn't sign a NAP as soon as you meet another team...

[Ilios]

Here we go!