I haven't been in Strat 4 at all, except this last battle. I have no idea how it went, what the diplomacy is like, or how we conducted ourselves.
I do know, though, that it didn't sound as vicious as any of our other Strat iterations. So live on. Strat is a round-based game, there's always next time. Old friends and allies become enemies, & vice versa. It's just like RISK, you have to fight, or there is no game. Anyway, if this was Strat 2, it would be around now that Matey or I would ask you to join us in order to fight the UIF.
Which got me thinking...are we the UIF?