Errr, what?Calibron wrote:I wasn't gaining intelligence, I already have scouts all over the area, but whatever, if you're determined to think I am dishonorable that is your decision; I didn't have any pacts or agreements with you so I didn't feel I was under any obligations, militarily, if that's not the way you play then I'm sorry for the surprise. I wasn't lying about wanting to take the war to Ryleh, I was actually quite put off to find you had blocked my path to them as I was about to initiate the war, though I certainly don't blame you for striking as they were essentially choking your empire to death.
If I can't get to them I'll have to take you instead, simple as that. This is a war game after all. I'm having a hard time understanding why you feel "Goddamnit that guy's an asshole" as opposed to "Godmanit this sucks".
Ry'leh attacked me first and took provinces I owned and tried to take my home province while trying to Dom-kill me by sitting their god on my home province. I then killed off their land forces and SC god and retook those provinces.
As for you being able to initiate a war, you are lying. I "blocked you" in the sense that I killed off all their forces on land and told you I'd be taking their last land province next turn (the one three turns of movement away from you and on the other side of my tiny empire). You never had the ability to fight them. Ever.
If you had some ability to send large forces underwater and actually attack provinces they owned, then I might have let you through to get to them, but as it stands you are being disingenuous.
If you wanted to attack me, you should just have attacked. Waiting until I had killed off all of Ry'leh's forces and then approaching under the cover story of being an ally who was only moving forces to the border to fight against a common enemy is just bad form. That kind of tactic makes you look extremely untrustworthy.
I know that I'm not going to trust any diplomacy from you. I leave it to others to make up their own minds. At this point it looks like you were going to take my provinces to get close enough for a sneak attack on my home province and never had any intention of attacking Ry'leh.
Deception and lies are the problem. Those are pretty much the definition of "untrustworthy."