MP: Chlorolera is made of contagious and deadly!

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by DonCorazon

I don't play in 50 games and just roll the dice and then go AI or quit in games where my gambles don't work out. I play till the end in every game. Even when it seems like I am going to lose, as in this game, I don't just quit or suggest its not worth the time to take my turns....

This is where it gets fun.

I like suggesting things. There is -usually- a thinly or heavily veiled reason for me to say something, but often my point in expressing myself has little to do with being understood (seems a lost cause), rather than creating an effect (cause-effect, much more reliable than actual understanding).

Now, you can imply things about my character as a player, and that's great, but it just proves that you don't know. You see, I play to the end in every game as well. I have never passed a failing position to a sub as "still competitive", I have never gone AI prematurely, and I've never stopped submitting turns simply because a position begins to look hopeless. I'm actually only starting to become comfortable, in this game, taking the big risks when the signs are unfavorable, and I want to roll the dice. You make it sound as if you equate gambling, with a tendency to quit, or to abandon an unfavorable position. I find it ironic that when I turtled up with Gath in Kingmaker because I had no attractive options, you commented you didn't know how people could play the game without finding a fight, then when I rush you here, you complain to me how you keep getting rushed, and you just want to play out the game. And for clarification, I have gone AI exactly twice in MP games here, the first was Gath in Kingmaker, and I was down to my last 2 castles, with no units after my last blaze of glory. The other was World in Crisis, where I likewise had made a last desperate series of attacks against the *3* people attacking me, and only went AI when I did, because a player in a much stronger position in the game got frustrated about a stale, and wanted out - we couldn't find another sub so I offered to swap out, for the good of the game.

At any rate, I know full well about your confidence as far as our initial clash was concerned. The thing was, you were cut off from recruitment options, with no/little income (sieged capital), while I was prepared to send reinforcements every turn, with a very strong income, and national troops streaming in at a rate that I felt very much outweighed the potential power gains from your continued research. In any case, I'm not sure how you could argue with my assertion that I would be far happier with the situation had it played out as a 1v1 then on my terms, rather than a 1v2 against my vassal neighbor and his newfound double-dealing ally.

You see, what you called an "Alliance" (Star Elephant Alliance ring a bell? Your term, not mine), I considered vassalage. That's what happens when a nation is about to crumble under another, and out of fear of the end, begs for mercy, they become a vassal. Big mistake on my part, I suppose, to think that you might be grateful that I responded favorably to your plea for survival, and would continue to plan and work with me to make both our nations stronger.