Shall we juggernaut this bastard? you'll have to define 'juggernaut' and 'this bastard' Basically just "Hey, you wanna work together?" I'll certainly consider it. Do you have any specific requests in mind regarding the Balkans and Black Sea? I'd rather we didn't bounce in the black sea - If you move your fleet to Constantinople then you can get it out into the Mediterranean really quickly, to both of our benefits. I'm not sure I know you well enough yet to just hand you the black sea, though. What's in it for me? Rumania? I'll support you in. If you want me to have Rumania (and presumably you don't want to take any of my holdings), what use is it to be in the Black sea anyway? I'm imagining your being in Rumania as a short-term trust-building sort of thing. You're in there for a year, maybe two tops, and you get builds from that that allow you to build more fleets to flood the Med, and I get the long-term comfort of not worrying about you going to BLA. Once we start picking up Italian/Austrian dots, we can trade Rumania back to me to keep some parity going. I'm tentatively on board with this agreement but I will let you know definitively when I've heard back from our pastry and opera loving neighbor Sounds good. Have you spoken to Austria at all? If so, what have you told them? Told Austria I was gonna be working with them to dig you out, was lying through my teeth. well how can I be sure you aren't lying to me, rather than them? Did you make any specific promises to them? ...well I know I didn't formally agree, but I hope you can see from my leaving the black sea open for you that I do see the value in us working together. ...don't you think it's a little early in the game to cut off communication entirely? Sorry about that, busy morning/afternoon at work. I think we're well set up for the future. I'd like to think so, too. Would you still be willing to support me into Rum this turn?

I haven't heard anything from Austria and that worries me...have you? I haven't heart squat from Austria. Quite worried. And yeah, you've got my support into Rum. if your priority for our alliance is 'flooding the mediterranean', then it would benefit us both for me to have two builds this turn. Would you be willing to support Con-Bul as well as Bul-Rum? Yeah, good call. So ordered.