MP: Chlorolera is made of contagious and deadly!

[DonCorazon]

Originally Posted by JimMorrison

You see, what you called an "Alliance", I considered vassalage.

And therein lies the problem with our communication. I am not sure how alliance equates to vassalage I certainly never have in this or any other game said I'd be someone's vassal. My goal is to protect the good people of Arcos and see that my pretender ascends or dies trying. In my admittedly spotty mind, alliance just meant we would both attack the same foe. I complied and attacked but the "alliance" ended in my mind when we signed a NAP with Shin . After that all we had was a NAP with each other which had to end sometime. I have complied with it, right?

Going back to the moment where you had me besieged and I asked for a NAP - you didn't know how close my reinforcements were, nor that I had nice indie mages in addition to my capital mages, nor what my research level was, so your claims that I was "begging for mercy" are based on incomplete information. I asked for a NAP because, for the reasons described above, I thought I had a decent chance of winning back my besieged capital, but that even winning it would be a big setback. I didn't want to risk a single mage, and who knows what can happen on a battlefield with a bunch of elephants. I told you as much and you agreed to a NAP. Its not like I used the Jedi mind trick on you. How that turned into me being your vassal, I have no idea. I did not feel "grateful for your mercy" as you describe it but rather was annoyed that you thought it was a good idea to elephant rush another elephant nation when there were bountiful indie provinces all around. Part of the reason you were able to siege the capital was it seemed like such a bad idea, I thought you had attacked the adjacent province mistakenly and so I did not move in reinforcements. My stupidity there. And I am not saying your plan would not have worked - your elephants might have stormed through my sparse defenses and wiped me out - it might have been brilliant. I didn't want to take a chance that it was and so asked for a NAP.

And if I misinterpreted you on quitting, then my apologies but a few posts up you said "sort of makes me not want to bother making up a turn at this point.." and "I'd rather just have it over, and be able to start a similar scenario on the same map perhaps." That sounded to me like you wanted to give up.

Sorry if this all left a bitter taste - you alluded to being stabbed in the kidneys, etc. and I certainly don't want to make anyone feel like that. For me its just a game and fun. Having someone end a NAP or attack unexpectedly can be rough, but its part of the game. It knocked me out of the KM race when Eriu surprise attacked me but I played on in good humor with Cleveland, the evil Sidhe mastermind.

Ok, someone please post something funny to pull this one out of the mud...