Veturi - LA (Started)

[Hullu]

Well, I really can't be boxed within one province radius of my capital. I had a bunch of stale turns due to a holiday trip and thus I had a very slow start. You are free to believe my intentions as you wish, currently my borders are where I need them to be. Whether you want to war over them is up to you.

Edit: And it was next to capital + 2 other provinces, not three.

[Tuidjy]

Hmm? Two or three is not such a difference, but one of us cannot count.
And in this game, getting a name for 'miscounting' is hard to shake.
The one next to your capital was 52. You also took 56, 62, and 67.

So can I assume that you did not intend to keep 67, and won't mind me
retaking it?

[Tuidjy]

Oh, and please allow me to express my admiration for whatever negotiations allowed
Ermor to move all his spellcasters and both his major armies north. It's educational
to learn that even tying up some Ermor forces on the C'tis and Atlantis border was
more support than I could expect.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

It's not a matter of fine negotiations. I've signed a 5 turn non-agression pact with Ermor simply because this is my first game playing Atlantis, let alone CB. My research is horribly lacking, and while I might survive a war, I can't expect to gain anything with the tools currently available. I'd probably lose territory.

Ctis actually did take some territory from Ermor, though Ermor took it back.

Besides- why should I get involved in your war? Simply because you make an impassioned plea? I am the nation of ice and _bone_. Some of my sympathies lie towards ermor, though as I stated, I am willing to get involved LATER, I want to gather intel first and see how it does turn out. There's still about 400 undead to the north in one province- the fifty or so Ice Warriors I have stationed in a fort are hardly a match for that. On the plus side, I'm starting to produce mage-priests from places OTHER than my capital. They're not very powerful or versatile, but they can be used against undead or living foes. I might even summon some undead chaff myself- though my site scans are turning up rather sad results.

[Hullu]

Not that it matters much but I don't remember you ever having province number 56, but I must admit I just might remember wrong, and judging from the layout of the provinces - I probably do remember wrong. So my apologies on the possible error on '2 or 3'.

And while offtopic, what comes to my spellcasters. The need to move them around has crippled my research quite majorly - so they're not too scary to be even mentioned

Apart from that I stand by my words when I said my borders now lie where I need them to be in order to feel the least bit secure. My border moves with steel, blood, and gems and currency - the pick is yours to make, Man.

[Tuidjy]

> My border moves with steel, blood, and gems and currency - the pick
> is yours to make, Man.

Am I to understand that you are willing to sell the ONE province that I
care about? Since the second month of the war, and I did not even consider
it a war until then, this has been about province 67. I have NO interest
in the other provinces you took.

You could smash through my defenses... I lost most of my scouts, but I
believe that at this point, you have 80% of your troops at my borders.
For all I know the percentage of spellcasters may be higher.

It will cost you, but if you have rock solid peace agreements with
C'tis and Atlantis, you can afford it. There is nothing I can offer
you to stop you in that case. But if you do not particularly wish
to lose too many of your troops and would let #67 go for gems and gold
instead of steel and blood, we can talk.

[Burnsaber]

C'tis has a great need for Earth Boots. Contact me with PM's if you're wlling to make one. I can pay with money. death gems or death items (I have con4).