[SP0ILERS] Mackoti + Ioan76: Rooservelt of the Netherlands

[Ioan76]

Thank you! Looks like you can hold ground....

Yes ... I also have this feeling ... but let's see what will happen in next 2-3 turns ...

[mackoti]

I am such a noob, i play for soo long time and all this years i believed that if you have construction and you are in your own teritori and the enemy has a road under units and you have bridge, you dont atcack crosing river, well you do,well what can i say nothing more...well done Mack..

[Ioan76]

Well ... at least you "checked" a little bit Luddite's main stack ... I attached a screenshot for our lurkers.

Also we received the following offer from Luddite ... seems that the cost of war is quite huge for him ...

I have to compliment you guys- it's really remarkable how many units you were able to build in such a short time. I thought I could finish you off, but looking at it now I'm not sure that I can. So, I'd like bring up peace one more time, and hope we can work something out. As a first step towards peace, I decided not to do any pillaging this turn.

I should prepare an answer to him ...

[Ioan76]

I had a chat with Macedon and after this answered to Luddite's offer with the following message :

Hi Luddite !

Seems that you realize that the cost of a total war is/will be crippling ... which is OK.
Macedon "checked-out" a little bit your stack ... but mainly the raport of force didn't changed this turn - so I assume that you will not change your mind.

Our main concern is to not offer you a "short-term" peace and in 10 turns you to come with more units & catapults ... or to perform a naval invasion from Silver City. If we will manage together to figure out a way to avoid these issues ... a longer peace-deal could be obtained.
First of all - for how long do you intend to sign the peace ?

Regarding additional forces - would you agree to a periodic exchange of "Military Advisor" overview-screenshot in order to have a ... Mutual Assured Non-Catapult proliferation ?

Best regards and congratulations for your game until now - fighting a war which bring you 4 cities and building Great Library in meantime is a good achivement !

Ioan

I know ... there is a little bit of ass-licking involved ... but let's hope that we will be able to negotiate a deal which will give us a chance for a final place between 5-7.

[Ioan76]

I will login just to check the situation ... actually we prepared sort of a "gambling-trap" ... I'm curious what happens during the night ...

[mackoti]

We have peace now, but what we will do with our big army???

[Ioan76]

We have peace now, but what we will do with our big army???

This is the main reason for which I felt somehow ... strange about this peace-agreement ...

[mackoti]

well there is a solution , after we get our grea scientist i will relocate all units and revolt to hereditary rule sa we can grow our cities more. well this is just a tought for now, but i will do some math to see if is worth.

[spacemanmf]

That's what I was going to suggest. :-)

[Ioan76]

We are 8 turns away from Civil Service ... interesting.