The Will of the Senate PBM - out of character thread IV

**TinCow** · 09-11-2006, 23:33

Originally Posted by Mount Suribachi

Unless Postman Pat or Fireman Sam served in the legions, I doubt little Suribachi will be very interested just yet

Well, perhaps he'd be interested to know that the Roman vigiles were the world's first professional firefighting force.

**Dooz** · 09-12-2006, 04:03

Lucjan, Arthurian mod's diplomacy sounds good. Keep us updated if you would if everything continues to go well. I'm thinking it might have something to do with core attitudes, which are adjustable in 1.5 and EB has been working with heavily I believe. Perhaps RTR didn't delve into that as much as they could have?

**Lucjan** · 09-12-2006, 13:11

I've actually had 2 straight years of peace right now in Arthurian TW.

I'm playing Goddodin, I'm allied to Ebrauc and Alcuyd. Neutral with Rheged but have trade rights (crushed the buggers in a year and a half, took three towns and sacked their capital, they accepted unconditional peace), and neutral with the Picts (although the picts have been at a constant state of war with my ally Alcuyd, and we fought briefly for a time before I sacked their capital too, hahaha).

Oh..and then there's Ynis Manau, once a decently powerful faction that my ally Alcuyd absorbed all but one province of. They landed an army on my coast once to try and take a town but were duly crushed, and subsequently offered me a peace treaty. I had no land borders with them, Alcuyd had absorbed them almost completely, and I had no interests in building a fleet solely to attack their last province....an island province.

I've been playing with the no retraining units rule and the must have one ship per unit rule like we do in the pbem here, because it's more fun to me, and a bit more challenging.

I'm actually kind of disappointed, I'm so happy that I'm not completely surrounded by horribly hostile nations, I almost don't want to declare war on anybody...but the picts are getting a bit too strong, and I think they're due for another sacking in a year. They had lost two provinces to Alcuyd but have recently taken one back and snatched a few rebel territories too, so I think it's time to put them back in their place.

**Mount Suribachi** · 09-12-2006, 19:29

I like that last paragraph. Occasionally, very occasionally, you'd get that state of affairs in MTW. Lots of big sprawling alliances, with everyone afraid to start a war for fear of half the map coming after them. Could last for decades until something triggered a war, then all the alliances would unravel and all hell would break loose.

Going to war with another nation should be a big decision.

**Lucjan** · 09-12-2006, 19:56

Yes, but unforetunatly, the Picts decided not to give me that choice, they just seriously romped an Alcuyd army and decided, since my settlement was closer than the Alcuyd's, and I'm Alcuyd's ally, they'd come after me instead. I half expected it. But I'm still maintaining a solid peace on all other fronts. The Picts are more like a minor annoyance, they swarm you, you swat them down, burn a settlement or two, then they go away until next summer.