MTW2 Multiplayer Campaign Diplomacy thread.

[Ignoramus]

Here you may publicly engage in diplomacy with other players. You may privately discuss with others(and this is recommended), but if you anything you wish to be known or discussed publicly can be posted here.

Declared Alliances:
England and Denmark; France and Scotland
Current Wars:
England vs France;
Current Leagues:
The Catholic League - An alliance between Catholic kingdoms to further the spread of the Roman church and to defend each other from attacks of the infidel. Members: Poland, Sicily, and Denmark.

[Cecil XIX]

Is this in character or out of character?

[AussieGiant]

Deleted

[Ignoramus]

It's the multiplayer campaign thread.

Cecil: It's IC.

[Cecil XIX]

You should join, AussieGiant. We're doing a hotseat multiplayer campaign with all battles autoresolved, and the HRE is still available.

Anyways... *ahem*

His majesty Alfonso VI, Emperor of all Spain reminds all that any interference in the internal politics of Iberia will be considered an act of war. This reminder stands in perpetuity.

[sirnoob]

king malcolm of scotland expresses his love of fine french cuisine and wishes to offer a scot-french alliance.

[Ramses II CP]

Poland is pleased to offer an exchange of trade rights and maps with Germany and is open to further discussions if required.

[sirnoob]

King Malcolm of Scotland wishes to offer an alliance with the holy Roman emperor.

[Ferret]

The Grand Duke of Novgorod wishes to form an alliance with the mighty King of Denmark

[Ferret]

The Grand Duke of Novgorod wishes to form an alliance with the mighty King of Denmark

The offer still stands

[pevergreen]

My dear friends, I wish to extend my gratitude to those who have put forward wishes to the Danes.

To the Duke of Novgorod, our apologies for missing your message. It is accepted, let us now figure out which one of our delegates will contract this alliance.

To the French and Scottish: You have beaten England in a fair fight. All is well now.

To Wladyslaw, your invitation must be turned down at this point. I am christian only to a level. My people are still not fully converted to the true faith. Once churches spread the land, the offer will be accepted.

[_Tristan_]

Emissaries are sent to each Christian court bearing the same warning :

To all Christian Rulers,

Be advised that allying yourself with the Duke of Milan will be considered as a declaration of war against France.

Know that the deep invasion of our soil from the Milanese shall not go unpunished and any supporters of those attacks will incur the wrath of France.

Philippe
By the Grace of God
King of France

[Ignoramus]

To all the courts of true Christian kings.

Let it be known that I, William, King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Maine, am absolved from my agreement with Malcolm, King of Scots, to hand over the castle at Nottingham, due to his un-Christian behaviour in the eyes of His Holiness and God.

I call upon all true Catholic kings to withdraw their support from the Scottish king, and support the true champion of the Christian faith in the lands of Britain.

William, by the grace of God, King of England, Duke of Normandy(titular), Count of Maine(titular).

[_Tristan_]

My Lords, True Followers of the Cross,

I prevail upon you not to be dragged in a unjust war against Scotland...

William, our unruly vassal, wishes to make you forget that he himself is not far from excommunication, dragging us to the brink of Hell's domain mainly through the war that he himself started against us and that has seen him almost defeated... His ruin is only a prolonged issue...

Now he adds parjury to his many sins and he the King of Sinners wishes to lead you in a "Holy War" in nothing but name...

Let wisdom rule your decisions as I know it will

Philippe
By the Grace of God
King of France

To all the courts of true Christian kings.

Let it be known that I, William, King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Maine, am absolved from my agreement with Malcolm, King of Scots, to hand over the castle at Nottingham, due to his un-Christian behaviour in the eyes of His Holiness and God.

I call upon all true Catholic kings to withdraw their support from the Scottish king, and support the true champion of the Christian faith in the lands of Britain.

William, by the grace of God, King of England, Duke of Normandy(titular), Count of Maine(titular).

[Tran]

The King of Denmark accepted the trade rights but rejected the alliance and marriage proposal offered by the dubious King of England. Unless you settle your quarrel with Scotland, our peace-loving kingdom cannot accept your offer for alliance. We shall no longer support any dubious King and proof of English treachery worried us more than ever.

[Ramses II CP]

With the first crusade underway it does not seem necessary to call a conclave for the Catholic League (Re: None of us seem involved enough to make it interesting), so King Wladyslaw urges the members of the League to join the crusade and to assemble their spare priests at Constantinople for a grand mission into the lands of the infidel.

[_Tristan_]

My lords, I, Philippe of France have a grave announcement to make...

The treacherous and villainous William of England has no more country to speak of...

He has gone back to his old ways and has turned brigand scouring the lands of Scotland.

This is what happens when you try to cross the French.

[Ramses II CP]

This is what comes of warring amongst ourselves, my fellow Catholic lords. Better by far that we should turn our intentions against our enemies of other faiths. I pray the brigand can be brought to heel peacefully in good time, that the lands of Scotland may no longer be troubled.

King Wladyslaw

[FactionHeir]

King Roger of Sicily congratulates his noble ally King Philippe on ridding our holy lands of such unholy men as William. May he soon be found and burnt at the stake for his crimes against Christendom.

[Cecil XIX]

The destruction of William's kingdom is regretable, but necessary. We would be very interested in hearing the final fate of William.

[Tran]

Despite our recent discrepancy with France, we still consider the destruction of England as a triumph for all of Christendom.

[_Tristan_]

I would remind King Roger that the Milanese attacked our former Crusading army stationed near Milan without cause and were punished for it...

The Venetians started the war by attacking French-held Rhodes and are now themselves paying for it.

As for Sicily's merchants, their presence on French soil had been tolerated long enough without due payment.

His Holiness has nothing to say about France's actions and endorses our policies.

[EDIT] One more thing, on the subject of merchants, we sent you a letter about the agressive ways of your merchants around Milan and required of you compensation or removal of such agents...

This letter went unanswered and we acted accordingly.

I hope our alliance still stands...

[EDIT#2] My scribes have found a copy of said letter (OOC : 24th, Jan)

King Roger,

I would ask you to keep your merchants on a shorter leash...

I tolerate their presence in my lands around Milan but not at the cost of my own merchants being taken out of business...

If you want to go on a commercial war, I'm up for it... Otherwise, I hope you will compensate my loss.

If no agreement can be reached, I will ask you to retreat your men out of French lands or take the risk of being taken out of business forcibly...

Hoping we can reach such a trade agreement,

Philippe
By the Grace of God
King of France

[FactionHeir]

The men reporting to King Roger have noted that the Milanese were not the aggressors in the conflict nor were the Venetians. While they may be fallible, so may any Frenchman. King Roger however does not wish to bore this chamber.

As for the merchant matter, only one French merchant had been taken out of business and if I may say, he was of little value (OOC: Finance 0 iirc). Indeed I believe my actions were beneficial for France. However, your nation has robbed two of my more experienced merchants, which is very regretful. I believe that I should be the one asking you for compensation now. Further, as allies, I do not believe that there is any reason that you should not tolerate our merchants, who are unarmed, on Italian lands.

[_Tristan_]

King Philippe wishes to inform King Roger than in order to make amends for the past events in northern Italy his diplomatic offer has been accepted.

[Ferret]

May I enquire as to why there is a large Danish army on my lands? This violation of our truce will be tolerated if they have left by next year, but stay any longer and there will be retribution.

[Tran]

Truce? Have we ever made truce? Retribution? You must be joking, we shall smash your weak and cowardly troops to pieces before you even know it...























My apology for the Russian Duke. We were not serious with the recent statement Our troops were pursuing a group of brigands and accidentally crossed into your territory. We shall immediately withdraw our troops back to our border.