[Discuss] Region claims during wartime

[AJ]

On 9/25/06, Dorian Gray <portrait.of.dorian.gray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/06, Tom <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dorian Gray wrote:
> > > The other realm may prefer to be stubbon and demand, say, three or
> > > four regions back,
> > We were assuming you are winning the war. So if they demand three
> > regions, conquer a sixth and say "ok, here's your three regions".
> >
> > Damn people, be a little creative! Diplomacy is an art, not a science.
> > If the other realm, the LOSERS of the war, demand something, and your
> > ruler can't talk them out of it, it's high time to get a better ruler.
>
>
> And if they then change their demands for a fourth? You can't keep taking
> regions like that, you'll run out of them and eventually destroy the realm -
> the very thing that was meant to be avoided in the first place.
>

It's to avoid not prevent.
Why not play the game instead of trying to play according to how the code
is? Why should the code do everything? What would be the point of playing
then? As Tom said, use diplomacy. If the other ruler does not listen, use
some other bargaining means, or if nothing helps, then destroy them. The
claims will eventually go away.

aJ
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