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In article <1991Oct20.225229.5998@fawlty.towers.oz.au>, rory@fawlty.towers.oz.au (The Purple Lemon) writes:
> In article <1991Oct18.133530.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> c9106225@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Matt McLeod) writes:
>>
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>>Alliances:
>>
>>If an alliance has been publicly declared and reciprocated in orders
>>(at any time of year) then the allies CANNOT BRIBE ONE ANOTHER.
>>
>>Alliances may also be 'undeclared'.
>>
> I don't know about the rest of the stuff but this bit about not being able to
> do nasty things to your allies is totally against the spirit of the game.
> What sort of game of diplomacy requires alliances to be undeclared before
> you stab your ally in the back? You might as well say "Excuse me, but next turn
> I'm going to attack you"

Woah!  It's only BRIBES that can't be made against an ally...  You could
attack an ally (which'd null the alliance) but you couldn't buy one of
his units...

If you want to bribe an allies units, you have someone else make the bribe.

The main purpose is so that you think a little more carefully before
going into an alliance...

Matt

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