Diplomacy in ETW?

[Rhyfelwyr]

You should be able to negotiate with besieged settlements to come to terms for a surrender, save the hassle of boring siege after siege...

Their decision would be basde around agreements such as letting soldiers live, agreeing not to sack the settlement, faction reputation (eg. will they kill everyone anyway), and any religious or cultural differences should also cause distrust in the negotiations.

Perhaps the above system could also be used when armies meet in the field.

[Mailman653]

I think it's been also said that military will do as the goverment will when it comes to diplomacy, in other words you can make peace with a general and have war declared on you again on the next turn by his faction, or something like that.

[wumpus]

There was a time, MTW to be precise, when you drop your emissary onto a princess by way of asking her hand in marriage, or drop your princess onto the king by way of asking to marry into his faction. How come I find this difficult to do in M2TW? I wish this feature--or at least I could do this more often--in the diplomatic transactions of ETW. What say you? Hawooh.