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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1368410" data-attributes="member: 6929">Limited resources.Our cattle are vital for keeping the populace of my capitol fed. They must drink water to grow big and strong. The only waterhole is just over the border with Antagonia, where they have the same food limitation.Now, logically, I'm a good baron, and I don't want my people to starve. We don't have the resources to build aqueducts, so I set about gaining access to this waterhole. Unfortunately, Baron Antagon is concerned: he keeps the roads in his barony in good repair from taxes he makes off border tolls, but if every one of my drovers is crossing his border twice a day, either he drops the toll to ludicrous lows so my peasants can afford it, in which case the real merchants don't have to pay as much and his economy crashes; he keeps the toll and wipes out my economy; or waives the toll entirely for people driving cattle, and suddenly everyone crossing his borders has a cow in the wagon. Not to mention border security.So I wonder about a new solution: perhaps I can gain provenance over Antagonia up to the waterhole, and he can gain equal regions of Meland. But that's no good; I gain all the advantage, unless I give him my prime farming land and crash my economy.The quickest way to keep my people alive is to march on Antagonia and take the waterhole by force. I won't go beyond it. Unfortunately, to pay an army, I'll have to allow them to loot the Antagonian village beside the waterhole - I wouldn't have this problem if I were superrich. Now Antagonian citizens are part of Meland and turning bandit or guerilla, Antagonia is trying to take back their waterhole, and within a generation we're bitter enemies.Does that sound realistic?</blockquote>

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