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So, maybe I'm just being the devil's advocate here, but it seems to me that there is a logical fallacy in the whole idea of forming a coalition to stop one tribe from taking over the continent.
Let's stretch credulity for a minute and say this coalition is formed and wins. The "big mean tribe" is vanquished and gobbled up by the hungry little fishes. But now one of those fishes has gobbled a little more than it's friends and suddenly they're the big fish. And the little fishes get together and pounce on the new big fish. It looks like an endless cycle with refugees just spinning around the bowl and the whole continent slowly goes down.
Would it not be better for the stronger tribes to do what they can to hold out? These coalitions tend to fail miserably but the upside seems pretty small to boot.
Furthermore, if I were a devious kind of person, what if the "big mean tribe" was actually the puppeteer behind the coalition? Bring them all together for a single telling, crippling blow. Use misinformation to set them up and then wipe out everybody but the puppet tribe who is rolled back into the "big mean tribe."
Why yes, I have considered the premise that "fighting among ourselves makes us weak" but frankly you're *already* weak or you wouldn't need the coalition. You'd be stronger if you took over other small tribes through conquest. Especially if you don't share a border with the "big mean tribe" and then meet them on equal footing. . . or are you all not good enough for that?
Let's stretch credulity for a minute and say this coalition is formed and wins. The "big mean tribe" is vanquished and gobbled up by the hungry little fishes. But now one of those fishes has gobbled a little more than it's friends and suddenly they're the big fish. And the little fishes get together and pounce on the new big fish. It looks like an endless cycle with refugees just spinning around the bowl and the whole continent slowly goes down.
Would it not be better for the stronger tribes to do what they can to hold out? These coalitions tend to fail miserably but the upside seems pretty small to boot.
Furthermore, if I were a devious kind of person, what if the "big mean tribe" was actually the puppeteer behind the coalition? Bring them all together for a single telling, crippling blow. Use misinformation to set them up and then wipe out everybody but the puppet tribe who is rolled back into the "big mean tribe."
Why yes, I have considered the premise that "fighting among ourselves makes us weak" but frankly you're *already* weak or you wouldn't need the coalition. You'd be stronger if you took over other small tribes through conquest. Especially if you don't share a border with the "big mean tribe" and then meet them on equal footing. . . or are you all not good enough for that?