Coalition building

Or how I learned to love Alliances...

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Hey everybody!

I was dicussing this with another player the other day and wanted everyone elses take on this:

Somtimes you really want your AI allies to declare war on another AI but they refuse due to the enemy AI's vastly superior forces. Wouldnt it be nice to form a coalition of your allies against a single enemy? That way all the smaller, weaker races are able to contribute a small bit to the war and take down a much larger foe. I know that this can happen anyways when your attacked, but wouldnt it be nice to be able to do this offensivly?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In my last game the Terrans were in the military top dog position, with a military rating 3-4x the next highest. I was near the bottom. No one would attack them at any price.

So I paid the Terrans to attack everyone else. Since they had a huge a military advantage, they had no reservations and gladly bit off more than they could chew. Within a dozen turns their military was crushed by four races attacking at once. I came to help at the last minute and scooped up a few new worlds.

When a new superpower emerged, I repeated the tactic until I was the top dog.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nice one
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Nice I'll keep that one in mind!
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Great Idea. Nice to think outside the box and realize that every coin has two sides, and there may be more than one way to achieve an objective.
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Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I often do much the same thing. If I am concerned that a given race is likely to target me, I try to get him tied up in a few ohter wars. And if I cannot get that race to attack someone, I get someone to attack them. It does not matter which side starts the war.

I often like paying off one race (say the Drath) to attack another (lets say Terrans), and the Drath agree because the terrans are weak. I then start giving ships and tech to the terrans, because its not the Terrans I want killed. I just want to wear down the Drath.

On a separate occasion, the Yor were being a pain in the ass. I was playing as the Drath, and I had a massive diplomacy score, and the Yor were pretty poor diplomatically. After rejecting a threat, I paid them to go to war with every other civ in the game, including the minors.

Its good to get other civs bogged down in wars. Even if they make peace quickly, they will lose any trade with them. By staying out of wars. And those minor wars that you kick off early between other civ's result in grudges that tend to linger for a long time.

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