Ultimatum for Yottael and Maho!

Today the unthinkable has happened: without warning or reason Yottael (Silesians) has suddenly attacked the alliance of Holland, Sweden and Ukrain! The attack was small and will easily be droven back, but it's consequences can be huge.

In a final sign of goodwill we offer Yottael peace if he immediately returns the city he captured, and pays a reasonable damage repayment. If not then he will be crushed without mercy.

We call upon everyone who wishes to be friends of our alliance to cancel their alliance with Yottael. Such a sign of friendship will be remembered and honoured, and everyone knows how far we go to assist our friends.
We will stay at peace with those who remain Yottael's ally, but our goodwill for those players would be gone.

Maho is a special case: you obviously helped Yottael in his reckless attack, as I see your trireme right next to the stolen city. That's what they call a smoking gun. So we present you an ultimatum: declare within 2 turns from now that you reject and condemn Yottael's attack on our alliance, and cancel your alliance with him. Otherwise you are at war with Holland, Sweden and Ukrain.

maho's picture

First of all, I'm only

First of all, I'm only looking around. No helping. But I thinking about start after such ultimatum.

Second: I don't see reason why I should broke alliance with Yottael. He did nothing against me, in opposite to you (see below).

Third: you're obviously helping Haken to bite us, and nobody is making big halo about it.

Fourth: you obviously killed part of our alliance (Nero) (not saying about situation near Romans' border)

Fifth: You're threating members of our alliance, trying to force them to give you one-side shared vision to spy us.

So ... it doesn't look like goodwill :). As I said before your other comment, nice propaganda text, but not very consistent with facts.

Marduk's picture

Maho, you can't be surprised

Maho, you can't be surprised that I suspect your involvement in this attack. You are an ally of Yottael and your trireme has been in exactly that area during and after the attack. But if you are really just an innocent bystander then I can withdraw the ultimatum to you. But why are trying to put more oil on the fire? The purpose of an ultimatum is to give peace a chance rather than attacking right away. I understand that your alliance is not like the one of Sweden, Ukraine and me: our alliance gives full military support and coordination, while you don't even seem to know what your allies are doing.

Just tell me this: do you condemn the attack on our alliance? Can you declare that you have not and will not give support to the attack in any way whatsoever? If yes then this is not your conflict, and I'll fight it out with Yottael alone.

ps: To prevent these things in the future you should be more clear about your alliance. When any member of my alliance attacks someone, all of us can be held responsable because the attack must've had our support. How does this work for your alliance? Are you guys just a loose coalition who don't coordinate anything? Or do you only coordinate with your real allies? Ah well you wont tell the last thing in public..

pps: about point 2 to 5, we've allready talked about it. Haken is not our responsability, we supported him when we were at war with Nero's alliance (which Krwawy was part of). And everyone knows we had good reasons to attack Nero. And no we're not threatening anyone, but we welcome every trustworthy player who wants to join our alliance. Anyway this is all offtopic here.

maho's picture

Yeah, sure :)

Yeah, sure :)

emj's picture

That sounds like your style

That sounds like your style maho.. ;-)

PS. I'm kinda biased

hi Thanks for your sign of

hi

Thanks for your sign of goodwill, it is fine that we can make such a conciliatory gesture in this situation.

And i also want to make it:
I can send you beck your city but for a few conditions:

1. You and your alliance must retreat your force from the border with Roma

2. destroy a part of your road form Sweden to Roman

or I can sell you this city

You know i must change my production in my city and stop grow up when you strat you expansion now i want beck my many.

cya
(by admin: yottael, please login before you put reply, or every your comment will wait to admin approval (1-14 days, depending on my mood))

about my addition to

about my addition to comment: I mean that comment is by Yottael (I think so), but posted without logged in, so was waiting in approval queue. Just to clarify, if someone think that I'm an author of whole post.

Marduk's picture

Yottael, I want to hear your

Yottael, I want to hear your reaction to my ultimatum. My conditions are that you give the city back, and give me a damage repayment of say 100 gold. Tell me whether you agree or not, instead of starting to ask things in return. If I hear no sensible answer by next turnchange then I assume that you reject it.

My answer is "no" for your

My answer is "no" for your ultimatum

cya

emj's picture

did you just attack a

did you just attack a worker?

Marduk's picture

Yep Emj, Yottael took your

Yep Emj, Yottael took your city without warning.. How courageous of a 25 city moloch to attack a defenseless 2 city player without warning or reason.

And how glorious of Maho to just give all his cities away to Yottael, who suddenly becomes the biggest player in the world. What a fun way to win the game.. But you wont win Yottael, our alliance is determined and able at warfare, we will drive you back.

Those who are still allied with Yottael, please reconsider. He's the master of a prisonhouse of nations, who fear eachother just as much as they fear that 25city monstrosity at their border.
Those who were allied with Maho, there's a new world for you now! Maho is gone, he gave up. You have no obligations to Yottael, you can finally escape the prison that blocked your expansion! It's time for Machiavelli: we are the enemy of that monster looming at your border, so we should be your friend. It's time for glory and expansion, break free from the strangehold that kept you down since the start of the game!

krwawy's picture

> Those who were allied with

> Those who were allied with Maho, there's a new world for you now!

does this includes me? (Roma)

Marduk's picture

>> Those who were allied

>> Those who were allied with Maho, there's a new world for you now!

>does this includes me? (Roma)

Yes Krwawy, it does :) It includes everyone who is flexible and willing to adapt to the new situation. The prison has been opened, and every prisoner can now decide for himself what to do.
And know that we are not like Maho and Yottael, who attack their former ally Emj because of a thousand year old conflict.. We don't have the memory of an elephant, we're open to new situations and new proposals.

So I wish you good luck with deciding your new plans for the future. Please contact us if we can play a role in them ;)

maho's picture

Marduk, if you want to give

Marduk, if you want to give new world for our allies (former allies in your meaning), so I have proposition:

Give back territory of Nero you stolen from our alliance, stop supporting Haken, and destroy attack infrastructure against Krwawy and Wolf. Then we can give your cities back.

When I'm saing "you", I mean your Dutch-Ukrainian-Swedish axis.

ela's picture

"When I'm saing "you", I

"When I'm saing "you", I mean your Dutch-Ukrainian-Swedish axis."

Well.. we prefer to be called : "The Empire" or "The big fat Empire", or again "The evil's one". You may also say "The bad guys" if you wish too or even the "You-know-the-ones-that-we-must-not-say-the-name-too-loud". And please do your cross sign when you prononce our name in a Kitchen... never know if we are listening. ;-)

But please don't use "Axis". We are more like a Battle Axe than a little Axis... "Battle Axe" is better corresponding to Sweden values (in this game only of course;).

Yottael, it will be an honor to fight against you. Your surprise attack.. well surprise us. :)

I will also say : "yeah we are not subtil in warfare, but we are funny sometimes" :)

> We don't have the memory

> We don't have the memory of an elephant, we're open to new situations and new proposals.

i'm not making proposal...

thought you'd be willing to do a one

my ears are open :-)

krwawy's picture

> we're open to new

> we're open to new situations and new proposals.
i thought you'd be willing to make proposals, not me

my ears are open :-)

//to Maho: przepraszam, zapomnialem sie zalogowac ;-)

maho's picture

:):) 25city monstronsity,

:):)

25city monstronsity, monster looming at your border, prison that blcoked expansion.

very nice Marduk. Anyway, I think that monstrosity near our borders is your alliance, and it's the real prison.

I see that you want to free us, like USSR gave freedom to Poland, Latvia, Lithuania. Like China freed Tibet, Vietnam and Korea :). Oh, yeah, give us freedom like that :):)

Marduk's picture

Haha now who's making

Haha now who's making propaganda!

You are the one who created a Warsaw Pact. A dozen players were tied to you, affraid to leave because they fear their neighbour may be forced to fight against him. But no more, your prison is open and the situation has changed!

By bravely surrendering your cities to Yottael you showed us who your real ally has been all the time. And you left your 'semi-allies', your 'peripheral-allies' behind.
The alliance I'm part of doesn't have real and fake allies, we are all equally important and equally influential. We will see which model works out best in the end. Or maybe a 3rd worldpower will come and open up the game, we'll see.

maho's picture

> You are the one who

> You are the one who created a Warsaw Pact.

Yes, I was one of initiators of our big alliance. Is it strange? Your alliance had some initiator too: you, Mambru or Elavoie.

> A dozen players were tied to you, affraid to leave because they fear their
> neighbour may be forced to fight against him.

As far I know, most of our alliance isn't my neighbours, and it would be very hard for me to fight agains them. And AFAIK nobody is afraid of me. They are rather afraid of you.

> But no more, your prison is open and the situation has changed!

The only substantial change I see, is fact that you have 4 cities less. About what change you're talking about?

ela's picture

Dear Rebels, Dear Maho ruler

Dear Rebels,

Dear Maho ruler of Poland (third place is not so bad, so we are cautious;),

I heard "And AFAIK nobody is afraid of me.". Well dear ruler, respectable opposite, enemy, strong and fierce warrior, you are a little bit wrong on this one. We are glad to say that, we, Swedish peoples, are very very afraid of you, Polonese peoples.

The ruler of the inconvenient-tiny-buffer-zone, Krwawy, can testimony on this : when he asked us, after the surprising surrender of the Mighty (but childish attitude) former ruler Nero, what was our next target... Sweden answered very honestly : Poland. In fact, Poland is at LT6 what Nabuchodonosor was for the Ancient Babylone kingdom's neighbours.

That's the pure and simple true, despite that's rarely pure and never simple. :-)

Ela, ruler of the "afraidians" Swedish

krwawy's picture

... like Xerxes in "300"

... like Xerxes in "300" =)

regards,
krwawy

maho's picture

And take care like Don Vito

And take care like Don Vito Corleone :).

ela's picture

That's not correct sir. Ask

That's not correct sir. Ask Kenya and Japan they are very fine. We are very peacefull neigbours. And again for your sentence : "I think that monstrosity near our borders is your alliance". Sweden will prefer that our alliance will be called "The atrocity" more than just "monstrosity ". It will be better describing us. Thanks a lot :)

Krwawy, I apologise : I was a little bit rude last time. You can still switch side and I promiss we will protect your country from Maho and Yottael :-) What they give you so far ? You are in a big warzone between two alliances, nothing more. It's not "freedom". Did they give you full support to expand yourself ?

krwawy's picture

> Krwawy, I apologise : I

> Krwawy, I apologise : I was a little bit rude last time. (...)

no problem sir :-) not holding the grudge (in fact i don't remember you was rude to me last time)

> You can still switch side and I promiss we will protect your country from Maho and Yottael :-)

good, i mark your words... however:

> What they give you so far ? You are in a big warzone between two alliances, nothing more. It's not "freedom". Did they give you full support to expand yourself ?

well... they filled my garnizons with troops (to be honest - against your potential agression), they support me with technology and gold, helped me to secure from Haken's raids...

so, how does this sound to you compared to:
trespassing my territory without permission, destroying my ally (decreasing my income), deploying troops in my country, making military installations, bringing more troops (i've noticed recently you stregthen your forces at my border - i see more agressiv units like horseman and chariots)

lets peer at the score board - even it is not ideal it gives insight who made better bargains -

Romans (115p)
Kenyans (54p)
Japanese (49p)

who is more independent?

so tell me my dear "atrocities" - who is blind, I or you?

regards,
krwawy

edit: ah i forgot - Prima Aprilis, isn't it?

ela's picture

Dear Rebels, (beware,

Dear Rebels, (beware, nothing personnal, just game attitude ;)

Dear Krwawy, ruler of a tiny-buffer-zone in the middle of somewhere.

I recently noticed your statement : "agressiv units like horseman and chariots)". Well if you think that a horseman is "agressiv"... you are in more troubles than I thought. I mean... we are at "rifle age", and you consider some foolish buddies on horses, without any guns (maybe a stick or something..), to be agressiv ? I prefer call them "circus tour" units. But it's ok, free speech, you can call them "agressiv" if you want, I respect your opinion on what is "agressiv" or not... oh look! protect yourself, there is a fly on your shoulder !

(again, nothing personnal, just the funniest game ever played ;)

Ela ruler of the Mighty Swedish

krwawy's picture

well, i could expect that

well, i could expect that you will reply only to that statement...

however the fact is that indeed horseman/chariot are more agressive units than pikemens and or rifleman (musketers?) - their purpose is not to defend, but to attack - especially considering their greater range comparing to 'defensive' units

above implicates that i'm feeling *less* safe at my border with you guys;
question is, why do you want to escalate situation there?

ela's picture

"why do you want to escalate

"why do you want to escalate situation there?"

One of my soldiers said : "Just to climb a little bit higher" :-)

Ela :-))

krwawy's picture

i assume you're speaking for

i assume you're speaking for the whole Western Alliance now? not only for you?

ela's picture

I'm speaking only for

I'm speaking only for Swedish peoples (living in LT6 of course). Nothing more. Especially if I say stupid things like "to climb a little bit higher". Let's have fun : By the way.. are you prepared? I have a whole bunch of "circus" units who are unemployed!! It will be very very kind from you if you accept to babysitte them for a while. May I send them to you ? Please :-)

(Hope you dont mind if I upgrade before ;-)

ela's picture

"2. destroy a part of your

"2. destroy a part of your road form Sweden to Roman"

In Sweden, we prefer to call it "Nero's avenue" in memory of a respectable, honest and incautious warrior.

That's justice because the road was built specially for him. So please refer it now as "the Nero's avenue in LT6", forever. Thanks.

:-) in memory of those we fought once :-)

Ela ruler of something called LT6's Sweden

to marduk and all his

to marduk and all his friend

pleas stop talking this fairy tale that i am a man who want control all this word, kill all nation and attack only weak and defenceless nation.

All can see that I start war whit your alliance, and you aren't weak (look on ranking) and they know the reason why i do it. If i want to control all the word i can star attack weakens nation like Japan but i didn't do it. t.

As you can see only me nad Maho start this operation against you, and we didn't force anyone to help us.

you write a very beautiful story but a facts discredit you:
How many nation kill your alliance?
Who attack weak nation?

me and my friends alliance got better answer for this question then your alliance.

that is all from Yottael

ela's picture

"i am a man who want control

"i am a man who want control all this world,"

Sweden must tell the true. Yottael is a good and courageous warrior. Attacking the strongest alliance prove some guts.

So Sweden's King is happy to annonce that he will dedicate his next city to Yottael. There is a "Nero's avenue". There will be a Yottael's city. So we can remember this respectable opponent long time after he will be defeated ;-)

"There will be a Yottael's

"There will be a Yottael's city"

give same photo (or a share vision) i didn't see it,
and this time i can agree with your words, this city will be my ;)

ela's picture

Actually it's called

Actually it's called "Yottael's Beach Club" and the city is not very far from your border. So you can easyly find it with a good ship... If you have any left of course ;-)

ela's picture

Survey !! :-)) 1) Alliance's

Survey !! :-))

1) Alliance's name : The big fat Empire, or more shortly The Empire

2) Alliance's most fear ennemies : Maho's and Yottael's Rebels

3) How many nation kill your alliance? : 3 so far

4) Who attack weak nation? : Almost everyone in the game did

5) Did YOU ever attacked weak nations in the last 6 month? : Yes

6) Which one (please confess it all) : Russia and Brazil

7) After your confession, do you feel guilty or free? : A kind of both :)

And the last one, you win the game if you *honestly* answer "yes" .. ready ?

8) Did this servey help you to understand the role played by the weak force (nuclear physics) very especially in LT6 ? ....doh!...

emj's picture

Best-Post-of-the-Year Award.

Best-Post-of-the-Year Award.

Marduk's picture

Haha yea, u got my vote :)

Haha yea, u got my vote :)

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