[zenphos]

Hah,

Well actually I did realise adjudication meant judgment, but I wanted a situation judged, not me or my actions.
I did not feel the need to clear my name but instead thought it would be an interesting exercise to see what people thought and whether there was an agreement in place and if the forum had agreed there was then I would have withdrawn my armies.
Although now I am thinking I would have been better off not bothering, wiped him out and moved on.
As for my opponent, he was at the time the leaderboard nation.
He had most of the mercenaries, the most forts, the most provinces and the biggest armies. All of which he either is still at the top of or very close to the top.
He mercilessly crushed some guy early in the game with a cheesy mercenary rush which I found to be pretty harsh in a newbie game. I mean if an experienced player falls for it then that is their fault but to merc rush a newbie is in pretty poor spirit I thought and sign of a guy without a lot of mercy when it comes to his dealings with other players.
He also had an army of 250 men a turn away from my border when I attacked so he is not in a hopeless situation with all his armies 4 or 5 turns away. And I am pretty confident he has another 200 men 2 turns away.
3 forts he can recruit from plenty of money coming in and I am guessing by now he has shored up some allies on his other borders so he can focus everything he has on me.

So I guess this is what I meant when I said not in possession of all the facts. Basically I thought some merciless, cold blooded newbie rusher was in the process of preparing an invasion of my lands with 250 men and some elephants. Turns out he wasn't but I didn't know that at the time.