03-07-2005 22:33									#1
	Reverse ROP Full PM-box? Change here!

The talk about ROP attacks caused me to remember a favorite tactic. I've used it in a Random Civ Emperor game (Egyptians) that I am playing right now.

Situation: I'm at peace with the four other civs on my continent. They are all, well, except for the Japanese who triggered my late MA GA, Gracious. We have had ROPs for a while which has kept them happy while I nicked off parts of Japan.

Boom, Carthage tries to ROP me with no success. I quickly pay Babylon and Spain to MPP with me which denies Carthage most of its access to me. I clean up on CArthage.

As the AI sees Carthage going weak, the Japanese on the other side of me declare war on the Carthagenians and start sending all manner of troops across my territory. I place riflemen in the cities they pass and let them go.

The Japanese troops just reach the far side of Egypt as Carthage capitulates. Spain's MPP expires and Babylons will in two turns.

I heal and prepare for 2 turns, demand the Japanese to leave - which of course they won't - and massacre every unit in my country. Babylon also has a MPP with Japan so I don't want to trigger that. Next turn, Babylon declares on Japan, the MPP ends, and I have minimal forces to deal with in my conquest. Certainly, ALL of their cavalry expired on the plains of Thebes the turn before.

This would be a story that Paddy might like if was not too lazy to turn it into one.

I call this tactic the Reverse ROP.


Golden Bear

	20-07-2005 12:02									#2
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I like it when someone tries to attack me using a ROP with a neighbor. I use heavy diplomacy to get the ROP canceled then sit back and watch the attack fizzle, hopefully with the added benefit of a conflict that punishes both the attacker and my neighbor. I called it Revoked ROP.