A'right so this isn't exactly riveting news or anything, but on the subject of Diplomats and their unique ability to force peace treaties...
I think this was like, the dozenth or so Diplomat born in AI lands, and the second (Perhaps third) time they've used it to duck out of a war with me - and mind you, ones
they started
This time around, Inca declared war on me while I was pounding on Washington (I guess he bribed them into the war), and a really large stack showed up next to a city I had on his borders. I did my best to hold on to it, but the stack he had was just too large. He captured and razed it, which I found amusing actually since it used to be
his city
(The stack of elephants to the left by the message log is where the city once stood)
Well I wiped that stack out and my isolated commander-led stack in England mowed down a stack that was eying Victoria's capitol. Well, I skipped by some messages and was having my units stop to heal and tried to move a few mounted units into Inca to pillage things but couldn't? At first I thought it was a Zone of Control somehow, but checking the message log it was a Diplomat born in Incan lands
He declares on me, razes a city, then backs out of the war at the earliest chance he gets. True, it was when I had a big army headed his way, but chances are he'd have used the Diplomat to make peace anyway. AI seems to love doing that almost as much as they love spamming Magistrate specialists heh.
Still, I have to avenge the people in the city he razed, so once the forced treaty is over I'm re-declaring and finishing what he started. Every one of his cities will burn