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seleucid empire
11-03-2012, 09:04
post your biggest diplomatic crisis's here. This can be one where you are inches away from war or losing an alliance that you need

https://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8161/diplomaticcrisis.png

this was mine. That was once a seleukid fullstack which got demolished near the south tip of nabatai by a rebel fullstack so it went into my region and there it was attacked by another arabian stack so now its sitting near my cities.

Seleukids are were my allies so I didnt want to move them yet

they eventually attacked me at the worst possible time when I had a fullscale war with the ptolies and I ended up having a two front war with Arche going down both sides of arabia and Ptolemy slaughtering my troops in Egypt

IrishHitman
11-12-2012, 03:45
As Makedonia, I was attacked by the Seleukids after declaring war on an expanding Pontus while continuing to be at war with the Ptollies for invading Karia...

I_damian
11-12-2012, 04:55
I'd love to say I've had diplomatic crises in EB/RTW but I haven't. Any nation I border attacks me at some point and I know the AI is as dumb as a sack of spuds and incapable of using diplomacy. This remained constant until Shogun 2, where I actually have lots of them in every single campaign, which is how a TW game should be in my opinion. As the Uesugi, the clan just below you that is a protectorate (that I'm convinced exists only to draw you in to as many wars as possible) is constantly attacked by your neighbours. Do you:

A. Refuse to help your allies who you previously promised to help (thus the protectorate) and take a huge blow to your Daimyo's honour or
B. Join in yet another war when you can't even handle the 4 you're already embroiled in?

Always a fairly impossible choice that will most likely end up with you being wiped out, no matter the campaign difficulty you're playing on. Unfortunately EB/RTW just isn't able to offer any kind of diplomatic cleverness even close to this.

I guess what I'm saying really is... I've never had any.