One could always try the Byzantine strategy of using warlords against one another. If you need stuff from Phoenix, are all of those things under just one warlords' control? What if you traded with Warlord A one week, and Warlord B the next month, and so on? It sounds needlessly complex, but it might avoid the dilemma of making Warlord A so powerful that he can dominate the region.
It could also backfire horribly, if Warlord C takes out both A and B, and refuses to deal with SAMAD at all. Especially if A and B wear themselves out fighting over resources to trade with SAMAD.
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My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
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