02-05-2004 18:38									#1
	Time to talk with Sunshine and MAST Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

Guys, the lack of any type of response from LL re our chat with WIA - likely means that they have rejected the alliance offer - or had no intention of accepting.

Therefore, it is time to prepare for war with LL.

We should talk with Sunshine and MAST about the situation - see if we can get allies out of one (or preferably both) of them for this effort. Perhaps we can even try a combined Tabe-SS-MAST chat if possible.

Another thing we need to do is to sign a formal "non-interference on our continents" treaty with Python and CoD to lessen the chances of their involvement or allying with LL when we attack them.

IMO, in any war our initial objective should be to wipe out the LL tail - that would cripple them for a while at least - depriving them of their spices and more importantly - their horse resource (we should sign a treaty with Sunshine promising to NOT trade horses to LL as both of us have access to all but 2 horses on the map - that would continue to make LL weak in the knights/cavalry age).

In order to get an alliance with SS and MAST , we will likely have to agree to a reorganization of the continent's territories. Sunshine will likely want to avoid war, but we could use them as our research arm and promise them more territory for their assistance. For MAST the bait is obvious - more territory especially access to some luxuries and iron (admittedly they do have that iron in the far south however).

Any opinions or suggestions or contrary views on this?

	03-05-2004 22:17									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Ok, we need to get on this. I think the best bet is to get a military alliance with MAST, and probably score a neutrality agreement from Sunshine. As far as I know, our agreement still stands with Python and CoD to not get involved in our continental affairs, am I right?

We need to start thinking about a timeframe for the attack, and how we want to go about it.

* ZargonX gets his war-hat...

	03-05-2004 23:40									#3
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Can't/wont have time folks. Wife tells me we have another offer...

Probably be seriously packing cleaning and moving for the next month.