In a message dated 5/16/01 3:52:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
laurence@lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk writes:
>Seemed to have opened a can or worms here... 
Indeed you have.
Your mistake, if I may be so bold, was to ask a very loaded question:
"How to woo a neutral?" as a proposed article title. It assumes that
wooing a neutral is normal and desirable. Unfortunately, apart from we
two Clint, there seems to be nothing but anarchists and psychopaths out
there. "There's nowt as queer as folk, 'cept thee and me... and thou's
a bit peculiar."
So you need to adopt a larger brief when you begin your article:
How to deal with neutrals. You could have sub titles:
How to really upset a neutral.
How to really upset your team.
What neutrals are for - gold, spare MTs, avoiding the real enemy.
How to attack a neutral effectively.
How to attack a neutral without provoking the others.
How to attack a neutral AND provoke the others.
Why you never need to bother with diplos.
Divergent thinking - why you just might decide NOT to attack neutrals.
Regards,
Laurence G. Tilley http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk/
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You left out, "How to Upset the Northmen if you are Rhun Easterlings in ME
TA2950"
Talk to the Northmen player, let him offer you anything you want, act
friendly, string him along, tell him you are considering joining the FP and
then, just when the Khand Easterlings and the Dark Lieutenants armies have
arrived, sneak attack him. How would you expect Northmen to take this
experience into account in his next game as Northmen? Considering that ME is
only a game, would you consider that being less tolerant of the Rhun
Easterlings in your next game as Northmen makes one a psychopath? Get a
life, perhaps you didn't really mean it the way it sounds but it sounds like
you take the game far too seriously.
Ed
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