Welcome to my world Rob, treaties have never worked ; the lucky ones get treaties and you are simply wasting your time talking to the mods; their help can only do so much but it will never correct bad coding - i have not been able to attack this us the 6th day running and treaties hold for max 2/3 hours on a good day, 5/10 mins on bad days - this game you see was never ready for launch, in my opinion its still beta and being tested on paying customers - someone somewhere within bhg is laughing all the way to the bank!