[Discuss] cheating or just smart?

[Jeff J. Wilson]

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Subject: Re: [Discuss] cheating or just smart?

Jeff J. Wilson wrote:
>
> But is breaking up a realm for the sole purpose of getting around a treaty
> believable role-play?  It sounds like power-gaming to me.
>   
How is that power-gaming? Deceitful, yes. Evil, possibly. But it gets 
around an IC treaty, not any game mechanics. Things like that happened 
in real life, too. <wryly points to his own country financing puppet 
states to fight communism, and to the Crusader states for more period 
examples>
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Chopping off a portion of your country so they can fight without hinderance
of a treaty is believable?