User blog:Linyoa/Remember Remember, the 75th of the millenium

We were playing the game yesterday and Mathieu, in his insanity, offered to give Brent most of his territory in Samarkand. None of us in the Federation thought that this should be agreed to, as even if we won that way, what would be the point of winning a game by having the victory handed to you? Even Taylor, who would usually try to win by any means necessary thought that we shouldn't do it, especially since at this point Samarkand is pretty much defeated anyway. (The point of a game isn't just to hit start and then so the "you won screen") So we told Brent not to accept.

Brent accepted.

Also, Brent recently got in trouble for doing the exact same thing. Negotiating with Samarkand against the wishes of the Federation.

Now this is compounded by the fact that Brent is too foolish to see he has been duped by Mathieu. Now you don't know that mechanics of the game, so I'll explain:

Brent has no (sorry, next to no) troops in Samarkand. He also has no money to pay for troops, and is still losing money every turn. What he does have is a whole lot of land of a different religion of his, full of people that despise him. He also now has a whole lot of enemies (us). All his territory will rebel back to Samarkand before the end of the year, as he has no way of maintaining order.

I suppose it was an oversight on my part, but when territory hates you enough if you can't control them they will rebel back to their original owner, giving that owner a whole lot of troops in the process. So Mathieu exploited this by having a huge amount of territory rebel to him giving him a ridiculously huge army.

But let's presume for a moment what Brent wanted to happen happened. He would still have no money and no troops, but a whole lot of enemies furious at his "cheating" (I say cheating because exploiting the fact that my brother doesn't give a fuck, and does things for the lulz, and doing something that shouldn't even by possible, ie: giving away most of your country to an enemy, is pretty much cheating) But it wouldn't even help him. He would still be much weaker than me, and I would simply destroy him.

The basically the situation has been totally changed by this (if we let this stand, we've yet to decide) by on this ridiculousness.

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">tl;dr: Mathieu pretty much cheated, and Brent attempted to cheat, but instead fucked us all.

<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">So I banned him because I am annoyed at him.