Paths of Civilization
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keenscythe
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- WA, USA
100 years is roughly 5 turns, I don't see us being at peace that long with either Thunderdome Round 2, Payback: Highlander Edition or Nomads setting things on fire again.
Not forking over more than 50% of our wealth cap in tribute is looking out for our people
We aren't holding them at Spearpoint to fight for us, and our people would be willing to lose ten times that if the Gods Call them to their Side.
Now tell me why you think that Spitting on the Ashes of all those who already sacrificed all, the remaining luxuries we would need to buy to help in this "peace", and that at best it only buys a few turns while our Tech Advantages Drip away.
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Let's keep this event in mind when hiring out our own mercenaries in the future, ok?
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- USA
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The Trelli can't do shit, because they're trade-dependent right now. Five turns on, though, I wouldn't be so sure about the Trelli, since they didn't learn a lesson through blood and we don't know what'll happen with them.
We still have two potential fronts, however; I think we should stick on Offense policy and fight those hard.
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Reshem was explicit that if the engravings don't show him desperately fighting for his life while his beloved bodyguard sacrificed themselves to save him, he'll have the artisans flayed and replace them with people that will do it right. The Khemetri's historical records of the fight will show a God-King injured. For a culture like theirs that's a hell of an impression.
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- Usa, pittsburgh pennsylvania
They are getting reinforcements, and if I've done my math right they will have more martial than us in the next clash, which means at the end of the day we will be the disadvantaged ones, not them.
I refuse to believe that the Trelli mercs have 9 martial a piece. They would have been described as equal with the Red Banner if that was the case. Which they were decidedly not.
Not with Nomads prowling around the border. Not yet.
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- Mists of Albion
They have at gedt one martial more than us and have just gotten lucky in their rolls. We will regain are martial faster. Hell we can win this and by the way, trade won't make them stop. Their system needs constant expansion, they will look to us again, onoy next time they will be even larger and stringer
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
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- USoA
From the Klingons themselves.
Kahless the Unforgettable said:
I wouldn't be surprised if they were around 5 each.
But that's still in "probably not worth the price" territory.
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- Germany
And then we got round two and they will probably field iron weapons by then. I've mostly switched over since I hope the hype about getting steel will actually work out and we keep the advantage.
The most important thing right now is to murder the HK and turn them into a march. Without the backstab and the area getting cut off from supplies, we would have won this.
Removing that obstacle and focussing on military for a while should mean that we will win this when they come back for the rematch.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
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They lose KOTH, AN said so
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- Mists of Albion
And next time they come they will be larger, probably have iron and will likely not be susceptible to collapse as they are now. We arent the only ones who will get far stronger
Yes, and we keep it. They'll think they deserve it since they won the war. So they'll want to take it back.
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- Mists of Albion
Um. Actually he hasn't, read his post, they will come again, they'll just wait to strike, like the Highlanders did, except several orders of magnitude worse.
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- United States
It is spitting on the ashes of the fallen to continue fighting over pointless posturing when we can facilitate a regime change instead and save more lives.
Just because our people are grimly willing to fight if they must does not mean that they want to fight, or that encourage more fighting.
Also, what tech advantages? The Khemetri do not have iron, and they never held our lands long enough to learn how to make it. Five turns is actually a pretty long time, and we can use that time to foster good relations with the Khemetri to encourage them not to pick a fight with us.
If you want to sacrifice lives over pointless dick-waving, be my guest, but at least be honest about it.
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- Mists of Albion
the Khemetri will get broken if they lose here. Their empire runs on the idea of a invincible god king and high prestige, losing this war takes both those away and they will shatter
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- Usa, pittsburgh pennsylvania
we have lost tens of thousands of men, more than a percent if not more of our population, we have created tens of thousands if not more orphans, we have bled far too much, it's not worth the blood.