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Old 14-05-2019, 23:57   #16
Lt. Killer M
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well, well, well - this has been interesting!

I proceeded as planned, keeping the option of war open, but (thinking of the high defense bonus the Holy Roman Empire gets for archery units) also trying to keep open the option of a peaceful solution. The diplomatic messages with Matrix quickly escalated, though. He sounded really afraid, distrustful, angry, frustrated. Oh well - he neglected going for copper quickly, and the penalty could now being pillaged back into the stone age..... erh, yeah, that's where he actually still is. Whatever.... He also settled ANOTHER city, this one with copper in its 21 (but not 9), so I had to MOVE! Matrix kept harping on about how a war would mean we both can't win the game - not really true: an efficient pillage would have allowed me to continue expanding and growing. Tho cost would not have been prohibitive. But annoying, I grant him that.

I responded in innocent mode, suggested the false-war ruse against jakeri to him - he feared a backstab. Matrix is a smart one, but here fear got the better of him: he should have known me well enough to know I would never break such a deal!



And then, suddenly, when I laid before him the fact that he would out-settle, out-commerce, out-defend me - BAMM there comes an offer that I found initially too good to be true:

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