Diplomacy - Defensive Pacts all around!

[Huaojozu]

In my current game on Pangea Plus, Small, King, Standard speed, I managed to befriend all nations as Ethiopia despite having just two cities and two military units (Swordsmen). Now I also got Defensive Pacts with every single civ in the game!

I spread my religion to every city on the map and got positive modifiers for having same religion. However soon thereafter Alex, Askia and Ramesses founded their own religion and began asking me not to spread mine. Ramesses declared war afterwards but I managed to pay off Alex to defend me and Ramesses soon sued for peace, became friendly and signed the Defensive Pact!

Seems like an improvement to me!

 

[blackcatatonic]

That. Is. Amazing.

Even more excited for this XP now!

 

[Andulias]

Except the Ramesses became friendly and signed a DP part. Oh hey, we wanted to conquer you, but you bribed another country to fight against us, so we love you now!

 

[Huaojozu]

To be honest, we were friends before he declared war on me. The tooltip also said something like "You have been at war in the past but they don't seem to hold a grudge."

On an opposite note, in my current Islands game as Carthage, Washington declared war on a city-state. Since I was just sailing nearby with my UUs, I waited for the last moment and then swept in and claimed it for myself. Suddenly I am a warmongering menace to the world to all the Civilizations in the game. That seems a little bit over the edge. I could understand Washington being pissed off but why the other civs would even care, I don't know.

 

[elprofesor]

The "good" thing about signing Defensive Agreements with every other civ is that you will quickly become a warmongering menace to the world because every war will necessarily include you...