... hey all. I´m really a friend of alliances.
There are different points to deal with a truce:

The best truce is between neighbours, who are eqaul with their forces and have only two choices: two fight each other while the rest of the table grows and no-one of you will have any more chance to win this game, or to ally and avoid this situation.

Or to truce with trustable players you know from previous games... but this is really near to a PGA - so be carefull. I don´t care about, but the others would be pissed of perhaps.

But what´s the case, if 2nd ask the 1st player for a truce just in this moment when all are stacked up? The game is done in this moment. yo can´t do anything - especial if you´re the 3rd player and the rest is quite small and weak - you can´t do anything!!?!??

But yes - you can! Take care, that this player, who asked for such a lame truce, won´t be better then 2nd!! That´s fun and may avoid such situations in other games - like this "counter-trucing" against truces in to early phases of a game... (in my opinion they are very silly in most cases, so I prefer "unspoken" truces - but they are still risky of course!)