Opinions on ethics of this PBW move

[geoschmo]

I can understand your not liking it from a game play perspective, but your analogy is flawed. It's actually more like the Nazi's surrendering to Italy, an ally, or at least to Switzerland, a non-alligned nation. Canada was part of the allies in WWII, so the Nazi's surrendering to Canada, would in effect be the same as surrendering to any Allied power, including the US.

Part of the problem is you can't refuse the surrender of an empire. Which would be a good thing to add to the game.

If you think about it from a non-game play perspective, it makes sense for a race to surrender to an ally and possibly avoid anialation rather than fight to the death, or surrender to an enemy that is likely to treat the population harshly.

It all depends on whether you are looking at the game from a game play perspective, or a role play perspective I guess.

That's one of the reaons I highly recomend that the surrender option be turned off for all multiplayer games. It just leave too many doors open for trouble.

Geoschmo