How doomed am I?

**Flying Pig** · 06-05-2008, 16:13

Let that be a lesson - don't mess with the Koinon! You should probably move out, and fight back in. Or hold and pray, but that rarely works except like a life-support machine. I have fought massive and mighty alliances off on occasion, like all of the vanilla romans [urk!]at once[/urk!] but only with a really productive and fortified state. My advice is, although the brits in 1914 did this, is to bring all of their forces into the field at once in a huge battle, win gloriously and push the frontier. However, this requires a huge army, and the risk is potentially huge

**Dumbass** · 06-05-2008, 17:01

With great risk comes great reward. Blitz the bastards, throw in everything you have, force them back, give them no respite!

**Arutima** · 06-05-2008, 17:45

time to crush both ot them to the end of the world. Really. Just take whole asia minor

**Irishmafia2020** · 06-05-2008, 17:56

If you capture two or three cities from AS, and destroy their major forces in Anatolia, they will be willing to return to a temporary ceasefire... If they do not, you can use the "Force_diplomacy" cheat to get yourself some breathing space. Truthfully, you are facing a lengthy series of wars against these two powers, and your best bet is to capture all of anatolia, using Force_diplomacy to to keep the wars limited in scope (versus the epic world wars the a.i. prefers). Force diplomacy is useful, but the enemy will attack you anyway the very next turn if you have not destroyed their regional forces. The AS has the most reasonable diplomatic personality of any a.i. so if they refuse to make a ceasefire with you it is usually because they have a major stack already targeted onto one of your cities. If you defeat that stack (destroy it completely) they will probably agree to a ceasefire until they train up a new stack. Since they are allied to the Ptollies, you will face an unending series of stacks until you break their alliance. To do that, capture a key city of either one, and gift it to the other. They will fight over the city, and that should outbreak into war. You should also sack said city and sell all of its buildings, for $$ and also to increase the likelihood that it revolts and sparks a war. Then again, you could also retreat to the Crimea and play a whole new style of game...