Cetashwayo
Lord of Ten Thousand Years
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- Across the Horizon
Y'know what? No. No, I'm calling their bluff. Metapontion probably would march on us to ensure the status-quo, but it would be trivial to undermine any sort of greater Italian coalition. We've won this war, and having the result be us getting threatened into a white peace and Taras getting even more land as well as consolidating their position in the peninsula is unacceptable. Crack open the sacred treasury and triple the troops' pay in order to ensure morale and prepare for a Metapontion intervention, and starve Taras out.
LINOS: Citizen, please be advised that there still remains a sizeable force of Tarentines in the city that would surely be able to escape were we to embark on a war with Metapontion, given that they will only engage us with their allies, and we would thus be forced to abandon the siege in order to fight them, perhaps as many as 3,000 additional Hoplites and 200 cavalrymen. We must take them into account.