Greek communication thread

[BCLG100]

yer but it doesnt actually do that much, gives us a happier person in semtex who could then work an unimproved tile.

 

[BCLG100]

Dear TNT

We have sent you 2 luxuries to assist with war weariness and other happiness issues your population may have ... we ask nothing in return, no strings attached.

We are interested in any military intel you can supply about our rivals ... and also wish to extend an invitation to join us when the inevitable happens and you have been overwhelmed by KISS and Nuts forces ... take as many out as you can in your Custerian effort

Talking to Donsig, with our trade link open, you may wish to consider sending us any spare cash or workers you have just to keep them falling into enemy hands.

Anyway as mentioned there are no strings attached to our lux gift ... give 'em hell

All the best MIA

Well greek ambassador, any thoughts?

 

[greekguy]

i say we don't respond and ignore any future messages they send to us. we should take the luxuries though, since it will make them realize we were friends with them to the end, but by not responding we show our anger with them for not sending troops to help us.

 

[lost_civantares]

How are we "friends to the end" if we don't bother to respond yet take their stuff?

And any way, when we finally are eliminated most of us (or at least I) want to join MIA, so doing something like that is only going to cause trouble will only hurt us and do nothing to the end of telling them of our anger, MIA will just figure that we are being sullen about lousing first.

 

[BCLG100]

I dont plan on writing up a reply to a team that offered to spy on us to a far superior enemy,

 

[Donovan Zoi]

Do NOT send them cash. Theirs was a relationship of convenience.

It's quite easy to send surplus Luxuries in a game with only 4 teams, so do not send them anything.

How about this?

Thanks for the surplus luxuries. I was going to send you some cash in return but I already sealed the envelope. Sorry.

We need to make a statement and join KISS instead of MIA, even if we contribute nothing there. MIA doesn't deserve our talents.

 

[donsig]

We need to make a statement and join KISS instead of MIA, even if we contribute nothing there. MIA doesn't deserve our talents.

C'mon DZ, let's join the Greeks. While it is true the Greeks haven't done much to help us, it is the Galls and Nutters who both made unprovoked attacks on us. Wouldn't it be more fun to help MIA trash the Nutters and KISS? I'm still lobbying to keep us all together.

 

[BCLG100]

I accepted.

 

[BCLG100]

we could do with some gpt or just about 50 gold off MIA so we can keep our army up for the next few turns and kill as many units as possible, greekguy want to ask for that?

 

[greekguy]

sure thing, i'll write up a message in a couple of hours.

btw, i was gone on vacation for the past 6 days, which is why i didn't post here at all. sorry that i didn't mention i'd be gone beforehand.

 

[BCLG100]

no problem im going to play the turn now but hopefully we could get some gold before the end of the actual turn.

 

[greekguy]

here's my proposed message:

Dear MIA,

Thank you for the generous luxury gifts and the recent gift of much needed Iron to help continue our cause. Hopefully this will keep us alive and fighting for a few more turns. However, we are currently running a negative gpt at the moment, and will lose troops from a budget defecit next turn if we don't supplement our income. So, could you please send us 50 gold to help keep us in the game for a little longer.

greekguy, TNT Greek Ambassador

 

[BCLG100]

probably only need about 30, with the losses our negative gpt went down to minus 6.

theres also a fair chance we wont be around next turn.

 

[greekguy]

ok, i changed it to 30 and added in "gold per turn" so they know that's what we need.

 

[greekguy]

Reply from the Greeks:

Dear beleaguered TNT

We received your message, it came unexpected after such a long silence and I am unsure if we can assist with gold as we have our own projects to fund.

So I have to ask a number of questions, before we can even begin to entertain sending additional support.

1. Have you sold off ALL non defensive buildings in your remaining city ???

2. While we gave the luxuries and iron freely, we also requested Battle Logs so that we could build a picture of our rival's military strength ... this has gone unanswered for some time now.

3. What are your thoughts about refugee status (if your team scatter to other teams we fear the intel that will be revealed about us) ... therefore we would like to know the number of actives you have and if possible who, if any plan to join MIA.

4. How will you handle the final turns ?!!
... will you sell ALL building for the gold?
... will you send MIA any remaining gold you have prior to your eventual fall?
We would hate for us inadvertently add to our rival's treasury.

5. I assume you have no workers left, but if you do will you gift them to us?

6. What is your exact status? ... perhaps sending us a screenie of your city would be good for evaluation purposes.


Therefore before we can even begin discussion on increasing our level of support we need these questions addressed.

Know this however, even if all the information required is sent does not automatically lead to us sending gold.


Sincerely

Feaurius III
MIA Foreign Offices

so, how should i answer their questions, especially the one about how we never gave them the battle logs?

 

[BCLG100]

Just send an entire reply of ''

were not going to need anymore gold were down to -6gpt.

I cant be arsed sending them battle logs as well.

 

[greekguy]

since most of our team here is going to join MIA once we lose DB, we need to at least be nice to them and respect them in messages, so i'm not gonna send a message full of smilies.

also, if we're at -6 gpt, aren't we still losing units?

 

[BCLG100]

no as we already have 10 gold since the barracks got sold. And yes it was a joke.

I dont like the idea of giving them a screenshot, flirting with the rules but also they were offering to spy on us to KISS, dont want to make it free for them.

I also see no reason to tell them which was team members will be going, until we are dead we are still team TNT.

No workers, no spare gold question answered.

I'm not sending them battle logs its bad enough remembering to do them and then send than giving them to someone else.

And every building has been sold, we dont have anything to give them anymore other than to kill a few of their rivals units.

 

[greekguy]

ok, then how's this for a reply:

Dear MIA,

We apologize for keeping out of contact for so long, but matters of state kept us busy and the shortage of active members was not helpful either. We are currently at the point that all we can do to help you is to kill more Iroqi or Galls, as we have almost no assests to speak of. We don't need any gold, however, as we sold our barracks to keep our gold levels above 0. Here's our answers to your questions:

1: Yes, we have no buildings left and were even forced to sell our barracks in Dancing Banana last turn to keep us out of a budget defecit.

2: Our turnplayer currently does not have the time to gather the Battle Logs together. They aren't worth much anyway, as they just show us losing cities and troops at a rapid rate.

3: Most of our team is not sure who they will join as a refugee once we are eliminated. You can expect these people to join new teams when we are eliminated: myself, BLCG100, donsig, Strider, Vind2, lost_civantares, and Donovan_Zoi (maybe).

4: We have no gold left to give you and we have only 1 city left, our capital Dancing Banana. We managed to kill some stacks of Iroqi recently with our remaining Immortals, but most of our Immortals died in our last charge into enemy lines. We plan on fighting to the end, defending Dancing Banana until the last No-Namer falls in combat.

5: We have no workers left, they were merged with our cities many turns ago.

6: 1 city surrounded by stacks of Iroqi Swords and MWs, and Gallic Trebs, Gallic Swords, and other KISS units.

Bye for now.

greekguy, TNT Greek Ambassador

 

[BCLG100]

could say that you didnt want to breal the rules by sending a screenie.