Ah, another non-agression pact. Just great. Don't get me wrong, I have great respect for all the work and patience everybody here is spending on relationships with the other races. But I am TERRIBLY disappointed in those other races.
For them, a non-agression pact means this; We help them accomplish their goals, we fight enemies they're too lazy to fight themselves, and if we bother them they'll kill us. To them the non-agression pact is simply an exuse to invade our lands and do as they please, without us getting in the way.
The dwarfs, elves and bretonnia have allied with one another, leaving us out of the deal. They march into our land practically shouting "get out of our way or die!". All this over some crown that we would have given to them if only they'd asked for it. It has come to the point where we actually have to beg the other races not to hurt us and promise them to help them and support them in any way possible, without asking anything in return.
Let's face it; the former "Council of Light" is attacking us. It is now that we must make our stand against this arrogance! I hear others shouting that we must not forsake our Sigmarite heritage, but by letting these non-allied armies into our lands, that's EXACTLY what we're doing. After all, the Empire was founded by Sigmar. Sigmar united us all into one empire, for his dream was a unified race of men, defending their land and their unity against ALL invaders, not just those from the north!
To think that the dwarfs, elves and bretonnians are still following the light is to deny the truth, to say that the dark races should be deemed evil is to be naïve. Yes, the races of Chaos, the undead and all those would attack us too, but to them, we are but
random targets. The council of light has targeted us directly. The only reason they're not fighting us yet is because we sit back in fear while they take what they want from us! Men of Sigmar do not give in to fear!
Now, what the dark races could offer to us, and what we could offer to them;
VC: Again, a Vampire trapped in the Empire will help us if we do not threathen us, help him in fact. We promise him that we do not attack him, that we recognizetheir rule over Sylvania, and in return they only have to strengthen their armies by fighting for us instead of against us.
DE: Again, they raid chaos coasts instead of ours. Chaos will be a very big threat to them should they conquer the nemesis crown, so it is in their best interest to fight chaos, and not the one trying to stop Chaos. To round the deal off, we offer them a large percentage of prisoners. If the council of light openly attacks us, then that percentage will include the high and wood elves they hate so much (after all, once those guys start attacking us there's really no point in showing them any mercy).
Skaven: We will make it clear that we will not give them the crown, nor help them in any way, but if they agree to help us then we will not stop them either. As leverage we will let them mine their precious warpstone from one of the mines we guard so closely, during the duration of the alliance. If the deal with the dark elves goes off, we might use this to trade warpstone for slaves, just so the dark elves will have even more reason to join us.
Edit: @cisse; I'll get on the contracts, then. After all it was my idea
. Though it might be best if I do NOT negotiate with the dark races. I pissed off a whole lot of skaven and dark elves in the past (I do have a friendly contact on a VC site, though).