Blue sleeps with whatever he can get his hands on, we all know that. And Blue admits it himself, quite proudly./
Ok, when will this war get going so I can start rolling in some mercenary cash? :lol:Whenever moonshine stops hiding and meets me on the field of battle
Whenever moonshine stops hiding and meets me on the field of battle
Whenever moonshine stops hiding and meets me on the field of battle
Sure, no problem. I'm outside Suno. Let's go Tristan.
With what? I robbed him blind already. I am a greedy Jew, gotta be quicker to the punch, man.I'm sure he's gotten more gear in the last like 4 months
Jesus christ, I just stumpled past him and he has 1700 shiny. I don't think he's rusting away :shock:
Thats a different moonshine. Maple_Moonshine and THIS Moonshine are not the same person.
In EU? It'll take me a bit to get there and I'd prefer it being on NA servers, but if you insist.
Tristan, you'll have a better chance of finding him in Nova Suno on the NA map than you will at Suno in EU.I could be wrong, but i dont believe Suno is on the NA map
I could be wrong, but i dont believe Suno is on the NA map
Thats a different moonshine. Maple_Moonshine and THIS Moonshine are not the same person.
SO, does anyone want goods from New Tilbaut for like 2g a piece? Fund your wars with cheap merchandise!
No, come to Uxhaul i'm GIVING away goods absolutely FREE!!!Ok, we're going to have to charge you guys for the advertising space.
Terms and conditions apply, subject to tax on resale
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Oh shit, Anakin vs Obi Wan on that SWEET lava planet!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh shit, Anakin vs Obi Wan on that SWEET lava planet!!!!!!!!!!!
Or strike at karkand amirite heheahahehehehaheheh
This was a good conversation... until this.
This was a good conversation... until this.
This was a good conversation... until this.
That would be Mustafar. And yes, it was a fantastic map on BF2, not as great as Kamino though :)
But the shitty rain was awful! If I wanted that much rain I would play cRPG.
Let's face it, Geonosis on Battlefront 1 was the best.
Getting your squad together in a Republic Gunship and fucking everything up without dying once. Sweet memories.
But the shitty rain was awful! If I wanted that much rain I would play cRPG.Ahh, Geonosis was fun. I only really liked Kamino because me and my brother found the BEST sniping spot that overlooked where the other team came up the ramp and you would just headshot them all :)
Let's face it, Geonosis on Battlefront 1 was the best.
Getting your squad together in a Republic Gunship and fucking everything up without dying once. Sweet memories.
Guys ready for the third that DICE is making, or no?
I like the map where Mario has to jump on the moving platforms.
Yeah that was a challenging one... when I was like, 4. :P
I like the map where Mario has to jump on the moving platforms.
Oh. My. God. Mario made me rage harder than any other game in history. Those fricken rotation fireball wheel things that you had to jump through in bowser's castle were absolute bull.
That last underwater level was way worse!
At the moment, an out of breath Tristan burst into the room. 'There you are Bryggan! I have him! I have it on great authority that he's out by Suno. It's a long trek, but I can be there in a few weeks. We can get him!" He raised his fist defiantly as he strode over to their corner.
"Tristan..."
"I know I can do it. I can ram my sword deep into his stomach, and watch the light fade from his eyes... it will be glorious..."
"Tristan..."
"With him out of the way, I think opposition will falter even further! We will take all of Calradia!"
"Tristan!" Bryggan slammed his fist on the table. "You have no clue what you are talking about. Suno is far out of the way, and it would be very unlike Moonshine..."
"Bryggan, I received this!" He reached into his cloak and pulled out a parchment. "It's from Moonshine himself! He has challenged me to battle!"
"Tristan, I've received reports from Camulos that Moonshine was at New Shulus. I heard from Albus that he's in the Steppes. There were reports that he purchased a large order of ales from Sargoth, and Sharpe's special blend out of Veluca. I have even heard he died." Bryggan sighed. "You need to understand, not every enemy charges up the middle. Moonshine is a flank fighter. He attacks from the shadows, and causes misdirection among the army he faces. He lets you see what he wants you to see."
"But...Bryggan, he signed this by his own hand. He challenged me out in the fields of Suno..." A frown crossed the great Lord's face. He brow furrowed in thought. "Surely he'd keep his word and face me..."
"Do what you wish. But if he said Suno, he'd be more likely to attack Nova Suno, and you'd be the fool to chase him out to the other..."
"Regardless, I do not need permission. I will find him, and bring you his head." Tristan folded up the parchment, and put it back in his cloak. "Then we will see who the greater fool is." He turned and left.
As Tristan left the Nova Curaw in a heat, he rode out to where his army was camped. "Gather the camp up men, we leave within the hour." I shouted while riding for my tent. Once inside, I strode over the table and unfurled my map of NA.
"I fucking knew it, theres no such thing as Nova Suno. I"ll need to get more horses for my ride to EU. But where to get them..." I mumbled to myself, before hearing a cough from behind me. Furnavi, my loyal second in command was standing there.
"Talking to yourself and not seeing the obvious as usual I see. However your'e stubborn, so I'm not going to even try to dissuade you. If we need horses, your bannnerman General Swagathor was recently gifted New Kelredan Castle. Rumor has it after the bezerk army broke on its walls they left thousands of horses. Let us go there to acquire what we need." he said, cutting straight to the point.
"Swagathor? He has always been true. Very well, send a messenger ahead of us to tell him of our arrival." I replied, before rolling up my map and preparing for the ride. Furnavi bowed and exited the tent to carry out my orders. Soon after we were out on the road again heading towards New Kelredan. Half a day's ride to the south we were there, and Swagathor met us on the gates.
"Whats up bundle of sticks?" he greeted me. Reminding myself of his crude manner I just let it slide.
"Greetings Swagathor. I have come to request some horses from you to aid me in my hunt of Moonshine." I said as we walked back to his keep.
"Hmm, I could do that. But I like my horses. However, Arms has been camping near my castle and I dont like that homo. So if you kill him I'll give you a few thousand palfreys." I gave it a few moments thoughts before accepting. Killing arms was probably in my best interest anyways. With that I rode out to attack his army...
Vaguely amused James pissed from the ramparts in the general direction of the bootleggers of tash kulun. Turning to Prince Behemoth James said something along the lines of "shitpuppets everywhere, fucking shitpuppets".(click to show/hide)
"Whats up bundle of sticks?"
EDIT: mcdeath how could you downvote patrick.... poor starfish :cry:
Easy now PropoagandalfDoom Carrot was given a fief personally by a member of the HCE, because he seemed very interested in strat. None of us even knew about the transfer until quite late.(click to show/hide)
Also, hate to piss on your parade but I'm nowhere near you, and there are a few thousand of our men with pointy sticks standing in between you and I.
Forgot who I'm talking to. My bad. I need to dumb things down.
One: It was a roleplay piece. I'm sure everyone other than you figured that out...
Two: Roleplay pieces don't always jive with how things actually happen. Example, I doubt Bryggan was in Curaw. I doubt Tristan was in Curaw. I doubt Tristan minded being involved, and i highly doubt he's actually heading to Suno like HIS piece stated.
Three: You were the only defender to show. If you hadn't shown up for that battle, then the transfer wouldn't have occurred. I was giving you a hat tip, and figured I'd involve you solely for that reason.
Four: Even if you WERE in the fief, it's not like I could capture you. Captures don't happen in this game... it'd be cool if they did, but they don't.
Caught up now? Ok good.
Bryggan grumbled, "she's a fine woman. Bloodthirsty and treacherous, just like I like em.
Please put the rp in italics. PLEASE!!!the rp
the rp
This sort of thing annoys me. The Berserks attack us and we fight back, and we get crap from the community for attacking 'noobs' such as Lumetta and VonCrow. Then, when a real noob comes, he gets ganked 2 to 1. A fine first battle.
So, help me out here. A new guy comes, seems interested, posts against our Holy chadzian Empire and calls people to arms against us. Then Moonshine offers him a village right on our borders, so he says 'no'. Then Tristan offers him a village far away from us, one that we had no intention of holding, right in the midst of our other enemies and he says 'yes'. Makes sense, yes?
Then an enemy of us attacks this other enemy of ours, and people get up at this shitty time to crush this poor guy. His first battle has only one kill before we are spawn raped and flags capped.
Ganks happen despite what we have tried in the past to make battles fun, but I feel no one on the opposing side wanted a fun battle. Nobody looked at the rosters and said, 'hey, I'll try even this out'. Is it because I said I will try guarantee Pelagor's independence? Were you trying to stop the expansion of the HCE even though I said I did not want Doom Carrot as a vassal? You all say you want more factions, but yet you force people to join one side or the other.
And that makes Strat boring.
This sort of thing annoys me. The Berserks attack us and we fight back, and we get crap from the community for attacking 'noobs' such as Lumetta and VonCrow. Then, when a real noob comes, he gets ganked 2 to 1. A fine first battle.
So, help me out here. A new guy comes, seems interested, posts against our Holy chadzian Empire and calls people to arms against us. Then Moonshine offers him a village right on our borders, so he says 'no'. Then Tristan offers him a village far away from us, one that we had no intention of holding, right in the midst of our other enemies and he says 'yes'. Makes sense, yes?
Then an enemy of us attacks this other enemy of ours, and people get up at this shitty time to crush this poor guy. His first battle has only one kill before we are spawn raped and flags capped.
Ganks happen despite what we have tried in the past to make battles fun, but I feel no one on the opposing side wanted a fun battle. Nobody looked at the rosters and said, 'hey, I'll try even this out'. Is it because I said I will try guarantee Pelagor's independence? Were you trying to stop the expansion of the HCE even though I said I did not want Doom Carrot as a vassal? You all say you want more factions, but yet you force people to join one side or the other.
And that makes Strat boring.
The problem with this fight wasn't the rosters. It was the time. There's no back and forth number crunching. It becomes a matter of 'Get the most people signed up, and pray people are awake at the time of the battle.' it's not like a prime time battle where you can look at the Steam list and say, 'Great fight about to happen, want in?'
Now if you want to know the reasoning behind the attack. First off, right now, I'm a one man clan. Second, I offered Tash Kulun to Doom_Carrot. This is a direct quote from his response: "It is not that I am hostile towards any of the other factions on the map, however I am allied with the HCE, and will shortly be recieving a fief transfer. I appreciate your generous offer;(relations with another faction here), I would not like to risk offending the HCE by rejecting an alliance that I have already agreed upon."
At that point I wrote to him, and told him, in strat... the last thing you want to do as a new faction, or as new member, is to ally with a faction that is already at war. The allies of one, are counted as enemies in war. As an enemy of HCE, I gave him a two day respite. I didn't know where he was on the map. I didn't know what fief he was getting. I had my own plans, and my eyes were on Dashbiga. Here's his response: "I wish I could revoke my alliance. However, I need the support of the HCE should stronger factions raid my land as much as the HCE needs people like me to tend their land and create buffers between them and their enemies. I wish you luck, should we ever meet on the field of battle again."
At this point, he knows what he's up against. He's holding to his alliance (like a good clan leader), and by all accounts, he's appearing as a vassal to HCE. So is he REALLY safe in the steppes? No. He even acknowledges that the fief is still an HCE fief (hence the 'tend their land')
If he wants Tash Kulun, it can still be his. As it appears, HCE has rejected his alliance. Even then, that rejection didn't come until AFTER the attack had been scheduled. What should I have done? Walked away from my own army?
This was solely a roleplaying decision to hit his fief. The difference is, I'll give him a clean slate, providing HCE continues to renounce his alliance. HCE never gives such mercy. ;-) I can't speak for others though... only the Bootlegger(s)
Now, one more point... stop it with the roster posture.
The battle for Tash Kulun, as an example. At one point, I had 5 mercs signed. HCE had 19. How was that even? 'Oh, but you might have ninja'd...' I'm sure that's what James would say. I don't know how many battles I've 'commanded' this round, but of them all, only one had been ninja'd. That was an undeclared war with the Starks, when they were on their afk run. We ninja'd, we won. I was trying to make a point about declaring wars and what not. I thought the point was received. ;-)
Anyway, we're in constant talks, you and I. That battle ended up as a 17 vs 21 battle, and went down to the wire. It was a great fight.
But take a look at these:
http://c-rpg.net/?page=strategusbattlesarchive#!?page=strategusinfobattleroster&id=4394 21 HCE vs 11 Zerks
http://c-rpg.net/?page=strategusbattlesarchive#!?page=strategusinfobattleroster&id=4362 32 HCE vs 9 Squids
I could go deeper. 'Oh well, they might ninja...' And you know what, valid point. But at what point do you have to look at your own house? When do you guys stop, and say, 'Wait, we should make these things a little more fair...' Maybe if the rosters weren't lopsided, or the armies, or the advantages... then things may balance out... but in the mean time, your enemies are fighting you the same way you fight them.
It was really impossible to get started without a larger faction to help me get on my feet, but for that I needed to stay at least temperarily friendly and cooperative with them, which caused a few people to not like me, thus I tried to.... frighten them into not raping me to prolapse by saying that I am an ally of HCE as of now and they will help me defend against raiders. Which actually is turning out to be kind of true ironically lol :lol:
Actually it was me bitching about you ninja rostering, James was the only one saying you didn't. Doom Carrot is in no way an HCE vassal. We decided to give him a fief since he was new, i fail to see how that is a crime. And yeah you ninja rostered House Stark after saying you were quitting and that we could have all your fiefs, then the minute we attacked you messaged NSIV saying "Lol nvm we're coming back lolol" and hired a roster a minute before the battle started then proceeded to do jack shit up until now.
And the only reason we had 32vs9 for the squid battle was because they attacked us during the tourney and everyone was pissed off at them and merced against them
I never made such a claim Tristan. I said you could have Caraf Castle. Not Assuadi. Not Tilbaut. Not Tadsamesh. So when you attacked Assuadi, unprovoked, you got your asses handed to you. By peasants. Starks had 10 sign, Astralis had 15 sign. Not horribly overpowering. You ended up with 6 guys showing up for you, and we had 11. You were well geared too I might add. Did I mention there wasn't a sword amongst us?
The odds were in your favor, and it was your battle to lose. And you did.
Oh, and would you like to know why I haven't done jack shit up until now? Pretty simple. I let my 1400 man army, with plate, die out in November. Back when strat was supposed to end. I decided, you know what, Strat is supposed to end, I'll focus on the holidays. So did a lot of other people. So when I came back around to strat, I had to rebuild. When you're solo, running around, it can take time to make the trades happen, get some gear, and start doing things again.
You on the other hand, didn't start doing ANYTHING until Strat was in easy mode. You got to take a bunch of fiefs that no one defended. You got to use a bunch of SnD that no one cared about. You went on cruise control. You Tristan, have done Jack Shit in the strat world. You've been active for what? 5 months? Please. ;-)
I haven't done jack shit but have over 200 battles in the 7 months i've been playing, whereas you've provided like what 4? I may have not been active before hand but i've done more in 7 months than you've ever done based on everything I know of past strats from mercing in every single one since Strat 1.
Also since November you could easily have another 1400 man shiny army. As a solo player you'd make roughly 720 troops a month, so you should have almost a 8,000 man army by now not a 200 man. And the reason I didn't start playing strat until it was "easy mode" was because thats when someone messaged me and asked my to join their faction. I would've started playing earlier if someone had asked me too, I just didn't want to play solo and was too lazy to look for and join a faction.
Looks like I hit a nerve. So you've personally provided 200 battles? 7 months... figure 30 days per month, that's 210 days, and in those 210 days you've PROVIDED 200 battles. Oh, you didn't provide them? Oh, you participated in them? Got the participation trophy for them? Not quite as magnificent, but ok. Now let's remove the amount of battles that were afk fief transfers... Or perhaps just fief transfers in general. I know you've participated in a lot of those...
My how your number keeps dropping. So um, what have you done again? Not your faction... you. And if you're going to count participation, well, trust me, I've had my fair share. Just cause you don't see the name 'Moonshine' on the roster, doesn't mean I'm not there. I had decided that if Astralis wasn't an active ally, or enemy, pseudonym was the best course of action. That way I could merc for one side, then the other, and not really get hounded battle after battle.
You must have missed the part where I took a few months off. So the troop count drops dramatically, and I go for periods where I may hit the point and click button on the map, but it doesn't mean I'll log into NA1. I play other games. I go on vacations. And I have a life. Plus, unless I was planning on getting involved in strat, I didn't really care if I clicked 'enter a crime ridden fief' or if I chose to park right outside it. Amazing how many troops can be lost if you're in a fief for a few hours. But oh well. You are correct though... the army could be bigger. I can afford it too, but at some point, an army is lost from flag cap rather than troop death. I'm sure you'll feel that pain at some point. Smaller armies are easier to recover from. :-)
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Btw, unless this strat is different from previous ones, only defenders without gear get free peasant equipment. This means that your attack is ill-fated and I'm fairly certain you will spawn naked with no weapons other than your fists. :?
Oh well, I have nothing to lose lol. It will just be an xp battle I guess lol.
The problem here Bryggan is that while Doom Carrot had many offers on the table, to either join factions or simply receive free fiefs, he chose the one that put him in a sticky situation. I don't think anyone but him could know what was going through his head when he decided to do a 180 and ally with his supposed "enemies," but when he did he lost any support he could have easily had from moonshine/astralis, LL, berzerks, and any other "free agents" such as HoC (the reason he lost the assistance of free agents is not because we are necessarily at war with HCE, but more often than not they are not the ones needing roster assistance). Now that Doom Carrot accepts an allegiance with HCE, he also knowingly gets involved in their wars, and well, he was given a free fief that "belonged" to someone else, someone you were at war with. There was no way that LL or others would simply let him be because he didn't fly your exact colors, you were allies. There was also no way to know that he would be so unprepared for an attack. He has been on strat for a while, and yes, he's new, but since he did hop aboard the HCE train perhaps he was given gear, or maybe the fief had some laying around, no way to know for sure.
The problem here Bryggan is that while Doom Carrot had many offers on the table, to either join factions or simply receive free fiefs, he chose the one that put him in a sticky situation. I don't think anyone but him could know what was going through his head when he decided to do a 180 and ally with his supposed "enemies," but when he did he lost any support he could have easily had from moonshine/astralis, LL, berzerks, and any other "free agents" such as HoC (the reason he lost the assistance of free agents is not because we are necessarily at war with HCE, but more often than not they are not the ones needing roster assistance). Now that Doom Carrot accepts an allegiance with HCE, he also knowingly gets involved in their wars, and well, he was given a free fief that "belonged" to someone else, someone you were at war with. There was no way that LL or others would simply let him be because he didn't fly your exact colors, you were allies. There was also no way to know that he would be so unprepared for an attack. He has been on strat for a while, and yes, he's new, but since he did hop aboard the HCE train perhaps he was given gear, or maybe the fief had some laying around, no way to know for sure.
And for the record, here's my tale of this morning's fight: I spoke to Moonshine lastnight telling him there was a small chance I would be around for the battle, and if so I'd merc for him to fight against shitty nighttime settings. Well, come a quarter of 5, I booted up my computer and saw the rosters. I applied to Doom Carrot instead, figuring it wouldn't do much good but might prolong the battle by a few seconds, with 10 minutes to spare. Time passed, and since I was actually awake with my computer on and all, I didn't want to miss this fight. So with 2 minutes to go, I applied to both sides. Moonshine grabbed me a minute before the fight started. I can't say for sure if others were in a similar position, but being new, apparently DC didn't realize that last minute applications exist, and it could have cost him. However, while I did get a couple kills, I didn't really do my team much good as I sincerely hit teammates over the head more often than enemies... just luckily for me our side had thicker armor. Lesson learned, don't hire me at such ridiculous hours, maybe DC was on to something here... :lol:
Actually, I checked at the last minute, and hired 4 more people, but 3 of them dissapeared when I hired them, and went to the other teams side. I don't really know how that happened but it did. And it was only 4 dudes anyways, wouldn't have made any difference :|
Four dudes would have made all the difference. The final roster was 18v9, exactly 2:1. Had you snagged those 4 guys, it would have brought the rosters to 14v13, and with the defensive advantage you could have held out a lot longer than you did, if not manage to outright outlast the attackers completely due to being able to pick up their dropped weapons. The reason why some guys you hired ended up on the other side is that you didn't refresh the webpage recently enough. If you are lingering on the recruitment page for a while, then potential mercs for hire might have already been hired by the other side if they applied to both. Or maybe you didn't linger on the page at all, and you just happened to get ninja'd.Yeah, I was checking the page every five or so minutes for the last hour up to the fight, but whatever :|
The problem with this fight wasn't the rosters. It was the time. There's no back and forth number crunching. It becomes a matter of 'Get the most people signed up, and pray people are awake at the time of the battle.' it's not like a prime time battle where you can look at the Steam list and say, 'Great fight about to happen, want in?'
Now if you want to know the reasoning blah blah...
But I also didn't know about the pms he got.