Morkin Assured Destruction

[domhnall]

sol said:

Unfortunately, I think the best course of action morkin and family can take now is to avoid war with ORC and possibly prepare war with DIGG.

If DIGG are looking for a fight I say we give them one....with Pantheon.

This is the idea; we engineer a Mexican stand off. We let it be known that when (NB not if) war comes between Pantheon and DIGG we will side against the aggressor, whomever that may be.

Being a potential ally for both sides in a war which everyone think is a distinct possibility (and we should "help" any rumours to this effect), should dissuade DIGG from anything rash, while giving Pantheon an interest in coming to our aid.

Make both sides paranoid enough and they might even arms race themselves to death. Maybe.

Thoughts?

[SkulkrinBait]

I like it, nice and devious!

;D

[Clausewitz]

Maybe we could encourage the war by pledging aid to the aggressor

But declaring we will stand by the defender, without committing ourselves militarily (i.e., carefully phrased so they can't require us to fight alongside them), is pretty devious indeed.

[domhnall]

I don't think that's even a worry- the idea is that neither side can make the first move and that both will treat us with kid gloves.

Of course, we will canvas tirelessly for peace if war looks like an actual possibility. We just want to keep both big boys off our backs.

Anyway, could we really stay out a war that big? Never mind the politics- who would we WANT to miss it?

[Shendemiar]

We could take role as a referee. In case of a war we would say when the other has lost and when its time for the winner to stop attacking.

[Sol]

shendemiar said:

We could take role as a referee. In case of a war we would say when the other has lost and when its time for the winner to stop attacking.

I think this would make us look bad since the server is angry because DIGG is policing, they might feel we're going to do that as well.

I like domhnall's idea...very sneaky. But, I'd personally rather side with Pantheon only if they decide to break down into their original alliances after a possible war.

I have no desire to aid DIGG in any way...So I dunno how this would work.

[domhnall]

The advent of war would essentially be a failure of MAD policy- in the same way Thermonuclear War could have been a failure during the Cold War.

If war did occur-
War on DIGGs side would be profitable and we wouldn't have to do much- just not side with Pantheon.
War on Pantheons side would be more fun and possibly better for the future of the servers. A lot riskier tho.

Looks win-win to me.

[Sol]

Head diplomat of SANCT and other SANCT members (most of SANCT are in Pantheon now) are thinking about leaving Pantheon and joining their original alliances.

Looks like Pantheon is falling apart...maybe.