but any accusation of "ganking" is really just a whine about not being on the winning side of politics.
But is a 3-on-1 war really "playing with friends"? If you were playing, say, Risk, with 4 friends, would you feel totally fine about getting two of your friends to gang up on the odd-man-out?
In character, yes, it's all politics, and/or Lukon threatening/bullying/bribing the other realms to do its' bidding. Out of Character, you still have the social contract to consider. No, I'm not threatening you, I'm merely asking you to go read the Social Contract, think about how you play, and how your actions effect others, and then do what seems right.
I
urge you to leave the war as a 3-city-realm versus 3-city-realm affair. I think it's been a lot of fun so far, but the amount of fun would drop considerably if you just brought in the other realms.