It's a good life lesson that sometimes people don't follow through on promises.

Probably the best way to think about truces is, that it's your fault if it gets broken. Then try to figure out why it went wrong; did you leave your borders open? did your ally have no-one else worth attacking? were you close to a win if he hadn't attacked? did your messages make you seem stupid, gullible or illiterate, or aged 6? Was it obvious from play on the board that your ally had a closer alliance with someone else?

Or, your opponent is crazy. But that's still your fault, why did you make an alliance with a crazy guy?

When you've figured that out, you'll be closer to not being stabbed so often. But when you are, and we all are, take it with good grace: the best players congratulate their opponents on a good stab, it's an art.

And don't whatever you do carry grudges between games...just makes you look bad, not your opponent.

ps Just looked at the game: it was a sublime stab, won him the game. ALmost perfectly executed.

|> ps Just looked at the game: it was a sublime stab, won him the game. ALmost perfectly executed.

I agree!

This is FFA correct? is a FFA game truces are made and truces are broken. Sometimes without the slightest hint of impending attack.

That being said I highly doubt I'm going to make anyone change their mind, so go ahead and BL him if you must. I'll just give him a "GJ on the Win".

"No Successful Surprise attack was ever executed.. when the person yelled a warning before arriving.."

The reason it happened when it did isn't obvious from the game history, but Moros rather unwisely told me (and I'd been using Recon/Surveillance cards to verify that what he was telling me was accurate) when he attacked skatuny, the player I suspected (rightly) was in third place.

Up until then I'd been thinking the stab would have to come soon; Moros and I were about equally strong, but I was having a fair old scrap with skatuny and Moros was advancing across the map practically with no resistance, so if I'd let things continue Moros would almost certainly have been stronger than me when the dust settled.

Obviously Moros attacking skatuny gave me the golden opportunity to agree a quick suspension of hostilities with skatuny and then make the stab.