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@PirateNinja said:
I mean you can only have one unit in a city at any moment, so even if you can buy mercs in a puppet (I forget if you can buy units in a puppet city) it would be 1 per turn because your city tile would fill up. I also have your city entirely surrounded by foreign legion, canon, ironclads and an elephant for good measure.

Mercs can be built in Puppet cities, and they can move and attack on the turn they are built. The ramifications of this are: I don't need a standing army to defend myself. I can just throw coins at you until you go away.

O RLY?!
Rebuttal points
1. You can't compare me to North Korea, they only talk and never deliver
2. I get it now, the way my post was formatted it was as if I was listing three reasons to go to war. That's my fault for not considering the post could be read that way. I never declared war on you Rob. We can make peace right now. As I already stated, I had no idea you were still doing defensive pacts with Joe. I am not going to keep warring. I'll be in this about 10 turns top and then I'm out. Just like the first war this game. I exist to slow Joe down a bit and then see myself out.

3. You, Rob, have been my friend since the beginning of this game and the only mean thing I ever did was spread my religion to your city last turn. We have had good trades and I've shared info with you.
4. Once you use aluminum to build dams, and if you lose the resource, you still keep the building and the production bonus. Just like coal and factories. If you want the aluminum for 25 turns so you have a ton of time to build your dams, make peace with me and you can have it next turn. If you need more time to develop the tech let me know and I'll give you the same offer in the future if you want it. I'm not a shit and if you think 700 is too high (which is kind of nuts) then make a counter offer.

5. @CB did play the way his Civ was designed by taking my city state ally BUT I am Siam and my primary benefit is my city state Allies. There are a lot of CSs CB could have choosen from early game and he sent his merchant about as far away as possible to snipe the CS that I allied with early game. There had to be at least a bit of, hey Dan may not like this that crossed his mind. And like I said, I have zero interest in war with CB I just want my ally back so I can control congress. I finally got enough military together to take my CS ally back because I'm also playing the way my civ is designed, but I've spent the last few hundred turns building wonders and buildings just like you and CB. I only blew up militarily suddenly because I rushed foreign legion via cultural policy.
6. I won FFA001 with science after spending the entire first half of the game with shit demographic ranks and a handful of mediocre cities. I ended up fighting you in what seemed an absolutely necessary power grab to deal with the MASSIVE Joe empire that was encroaching upon me KNOWING that the CB/Joe/Rob meta alliance would exist and I would get fucked with you as my neighbor once Joe finished China. There was nothing between Joe and I in FFA001 until late game. I never did a domination victory. I beat Joe in a very narrow space race and I wouldn't have if you were alive next to me.

7. Now let's look at this game. I declared war on Joe once and razed some tiles of his then quit. I just helped Garg a little bit. Joe did what he always does, this is true. He overexpanded by raping AI but oddly stopped short of killing you and CB. Why is that? CB has a beautiful capital with no army yet Joe didn't go one more city over and kill it? Then it would have been easy to corner you and take half the world. Anyway, Joe decides it would be funny to build up the biggest empire in the game and at the same time shamelessly steal land from Gargoyle instead of doing what makes sense which would have been killing you and CB. Gargoyle and I look at the game, where I have 2 shitty desolate cities ranked 6 in demographics in everything, and say we need to team up to slow Joe down otherwise he is just going to end this game (for us) quick. The war starts, Joe loses stuff and has a hard time because he is over extended and cocky and didn't know you could connect cities via harbor. I take my leave and do a massive tech and culture build up, which is how I am going to win if you guys don't all start fighting me together soon. I'm not going to dominate anyone. I had the second smallest military in the game until 20 turns ago. Now I jump back in to help deliver a KO to Joe because you know Joe will seek revenge later if we don't and suddenly I'm ole Kim? I'm the mad north korean leader? You have Joe and I seriously confused but I still dig your view on it all.

8. I have 2 cities and I will never have more than 2 cities. I'm not going to win by domination. I'm not going to fight Rob or CB in this game except this one moment where I take my CS ally back.
9. Soon this game will take a turn and all of you will team up against me so I don't win by science. It's going to be a far more interesting game than you think, but you already mentally decided I'm going to military dominate everyone which is a hell of a compliment but I will sadly have to disappoint you.