In the game in question, we were undoubtedly the two biggest powers, and as such, a legal alliance made sense.
In such an instance it is less fair to make an alliance... i see lots of times when the weaker players team up to try and stop the larger powers, but the larger powers teaming up to crush ...

Quite a few folks have added their opinions here, so I've got to go ahead and throw in my comments again. General Stoneham is making a LOT of implications by looking at the fact that ngleichman and I:

1) play a lot of games together
2) are usually ordered one after the other in the game
3) many ...

I would also like to note General Stoneham's aggressive homophopbia which falls under the category of bigotry in the forum guidelines. Not only is his language offensive to me and the other player in the game it was directed at, but it could be offensive to the other players in the game who weren't ...