Caledorn
Emperor
Your Majesty; I'm still awaiting your orders (if any) in regards to what I should do regarding the CDZ missive.
Originally Posted by Caledorn
I will work on creating a draft for such a letter, Your Majesty - the first draft should be ready tonight!
I thought you were working on a draft
Sorry to go against you Caledorn, but I think I prefer option 1. Of course maybe re-worded a bit, but I like the idea of reminding them of the inevitability that the alliance will break.
But, it's not up to me. I'll leave it up to the King and Caledorn to decide our diplomatic path.
We need to get the message across in a way that is not too passive and sounds true.
I do not believe threats will work at this point either.
The answer is to make an on the side non aggression treaty (even a silent one) with CDZ & to extract the date their treaty ends.
So my option for a reply to CDZ would be option 1. It is not a lie, I do believe that Sirious and Amazon have much stronger ties and are an alliance within the alliance. I feel that is what we need to get through to CDZ.
So if no objections that is the road I would like to take diplomatically with CDZ, wanr them about an alliance within the alliance.
Sir Caledron it is your task to find the right way to express that in the letter.
We need to get the message across in a way that is not too passive and sounds true.
"No doubt you have considered that Sirous and the Amazons have stronger ties within your alliance because of X (give them the real reasons we think this). With that in mind our goal is to come up with an arrangement with you that doesn't conflict with your current agreement and which can be kept quiet between us.
This is in your benefit because you will be able to prosper more quickly then your allies, and of course it is advantagous to us because we don't end up as far behind everyone else - - which is inevitable if all 4 kingdoms are against us.
The benefit is huge for you - another advantage over all kingdoms in the game. The benefit for us is negligible, we simply delay the inevitable consequences of competing with a 4 person alliance.
Of course it also paves the way for us to have better and more formal relations down the road should the terms of your alliance expire. Inevitably with 4v1 you will want to stay in the arrangement for only as long is as beneficial to you instead of feeding the inherent trait advantage of your competitors right till the end."
Off the top of my head something like that would be how I would position it. A win win situation for them which has essentially no cost.
This is in your benefit because you will be able to prosper more quickly then your allies, and of course it is advantagous to us because we don't end up as far behind everyone else - - which is inevitable if all 4 kingdoms are against us.
The benefit is huge for you - another advantage over all kingdoms in the game. The benefit for us is negligible, we simply delay the inevitable consequences of competing with a 4 person alliance.