Gunboat diplomacy

Gunboat diplomacy essentially what happens when you park a dirty great warship in somebody's harbour and say, "we'll be nice to you, just give us what we want." Then they say, "why should we?". You say, "You see this big warship here? It's a surprise tool that may help us later". This method was successfully used by Humerland against Omari Robusuta to grant the former a trade deal temporarily giving themselves practical control of most of the latter's land. It has also been attempted unsuccessfully against the Fictian Empire by Omari Robusuta.

Recently (1910) Omari Robusuta sent an envoy to Langoustino on the protected cruiser Azuma; this, however, was "friendly advances".

During the Solis Wars of Unification (1700-43), gunboat diplomacy was used by Solis against the rival Yalin.