I support Cruise in this too. If I'm the last one in a game, I'll play it out. No easy wins here! Respect a player for playing the game, rather than getting angry when he doesn't surrender immediately when you tell him to.
Funny how I had already blocked the opening poster... :)
To be honest, the amount of respect and diplomacy needed to convince most people in Cruise's position to surrender is really not that much... just a lot more than Cacao was showing... :)
Wow, having watched the history of the game, even knowing how much Cacao was earning, and how many armies he had, he just seems even more pretentious and rude...
perhaps he feared his own 22% boot rate, twice that of cruise? :D