T3 External Consulate - Resolve Persian war next turnchat?

We are at war with the Persians and have MAs against them with Spain, Portugal, and Maya. These MAs will expire in 8 turns. For Fanatannia, this war has been a phony war. However, we do get war happiness both from this war and from our war with the Byzantinnes (we have MAs against them which last another 13 turns).

Should we continue with the war against Persia when the MAs expire? The two best options are: make the most favorable peace available or continue to fight an additional two turns and assess the situation at the end of the next turnchat. It’s unlikely that if our allies make peace with Persia after 8 turns, that Persia would have time to march troops to our territory before the end of the turnchat.

I suggest that we fight another two turns and reassess the situation. I also suggest we give the DP latitude to negotiate peace after the MAs expire if in-game conditions indicate this would be prudent.

A poll is open HERE .

i was wondering if we sign a military allaince (as we have) but do not actually fight won't that hurt our reputation? anyway i will vote for the peace

sorry, dbl post

Persia will now give about 180 gold for peace, no techs. That's with alliances in place, it will be less after the alliances are cancelled (I suppose we need to do that first if we want to keep a clean rep).

So there's not much in it, the gold -- if any -- might be less profitable than the war happiness. Can we expect Persia to attack us? Unlikely with China in between. Can we renew the alliances? Certainly with Portugal (tech backwards), for Maya and Spain we'll have to pay. Might bring France in, they are not fighting yet.

Letting the DP decide is the easy way out but maybe the best. My guess is that the next TC might very well be 8 turns long...

I think we can allow the MA's to lapse and take peace for a while. If the others also take peace we can consider new MA's then.

Peace was made on turn 2. We got 2 new Workers out of it. They had absolutely no gold whatsoever.