I was wondering, will the UIF exist after patch strategus wipe?
AFAIK, there will be a strategus wipe, what with all the economy being brought in and so...
Honestly, if UIF exists, who will oppose you? Apart from some massive alliance between the rest of the clans... Which would be boring :/
I admit, my reasons for asking this are selfish, a two-sided strategus (UIF vs World) would be boring for us, Mercs :P
Boring was the pub crawl for us, really boring. No medieval RP etc.
Some big clans have more land then a lot of smaller clans so its normal when they grouped up. Remember the templar lands? Fallens? Mercs? A lot of land, so ofcorse its better for them if everyone split up.
I'm not speaking for every clan on strategus or UIF but your opinion Bulzur doesn't count on a matter who should DRZ be friendly with or in alliance with.
For everyone I've asked so far, in our guild and some others - Pub Crawl was boring, we wanted proper war, some good tactics, not just 1 big army with drinking beer attitude who got trappend in 3 towns until kicked out. But again, that was not for us to decide, that you turned war into a joke. :)
I never said my opinion was important, i'm just saying that if UIF stays as it is now, i'm pretty sure there's gonna be another big alliance grouping against them, and it will be a 1v1 big war. And i doubt people want that. If we wanted such a 1v1 war, what would be the point of having multiple factions and all ? For them all(or nearly all) to regroup under two banners to do a big war ? Hell no...
And don't quite this "big clans have a lot of land, so of course smaller clans group up". Since when where the DRZ a small clan ? xD
And finally, don't give me this Pub Crawl was boring bullshit. I think it was rather interesting. After seeing, boringly, the templars being crushed by an alliance of clans.
And even if Pub Crawl wasn't that RP, at least :
-It tried to be. Let's drink in all taverns.
-It consisted of clans who were friendly with each other, and since a pretty long time.
I never ever saw one RP reason for you all to form UIF.
But enough with this one sided discussion, i don't care who the DRZ are allied with, or whatever, as you don't care about us.
I'm saying that if UIF stays as it is, or gets even bigger, then strategus will get boring, since you all act like one.
Then again, strategus is less going to be a risk game, but with more option, so much more interesting.
Fallen_Boss_Awesome, +1
I think a large 2 sided alliance type war is more boring, but I also think that is what will happen regardless of whether or not UIF stays together. It's just political science. If one side finds itself losing a war, it will naturally try to find allies. I made a post about win conditions to try and give individual clans reasons to break their alliances and go for a win.
I find strategus fun as it is right now, though I can understand why some can't. An all out war in strategus can be incredibly taxing. You may need to reschedule your whole life around to make the important battles ect. During that time Nebun mentioned when we attacked multiple DRZ targets, it was exciting but it was also a pretty horrific weekend. We had battles scheduled every few hours and by the end of the night there had been so much fighting that we didn't have anyone physically able to show up anymore.
I personally wish that the Pub Crawl hadn't happened as it screwed up the natural progression of the game. The UIF formed between smaller clans trying to fight a big alliance. The Pub Crawl essentially gave a huge amount of land to the UIF and turned an alliance built on necessity into a truly massive beast. We fought alongside the UIF clans when the Templars were a major threat to the free world and we turned on the UIF when they were suddenly overwelmingly powerful after the Pub Crawl. I think the game would have been a lot more exciting with more war, intrigue, and overall action if the UIF had been left with just Templar lands.
If strategus is wiped I can understand why clans would want to keep the same relationships. They have built a friendship through war and know that they can work well together. Why wouldn't they? I'm guessing we will probably look at a reset strategus with a clean slate though, because it would be more fun that way. But of course, you never know :twisted: What i really hope is that there is some way for smaller clans to have more of an impact and that there is a way for them to take and hold territory when the enemy holds more fiefs. Perhaps by reducing the amount of troops generated by fiefs and increasing the amount generated by recruiting players?
Proper war, good tactics... from who do you expect that? Well, unless the other alliance decides to hire us :D
I still would pay to see a DRZ - 22nd war :D
I saw good tactics and warfare from UIF and some opponents. As far as Mercs are concerned... Huh? The battles you initiated and I was part in were neither good warfare nor a tactical "masterpiece". Your individual fighters might be as good as few people are, but regarding teamwork, you generally fail, even if achieving the goals you set yourself. That's at least my opinion, which nobody is interested in anyways.
I cant foresee the future, but as Guards/Merchants probably will try to stay as Neutral as possible to every faction. We want trade contracts, not war. Our Guard-part will be kinda like the Mercs, just not as heavily focussed.
Btw, considering Mercs,they are good, but they don't show great things about tactic and teamplay, i remember a siege with horses...
Huh. You obviously weren't there for the Merc battles that i was in.
Mercs look cool, but even Templars and Fallens did on the sheet. They still have to pass the test of the battlefield... So far only few factions proved to be strong enemies despite the numbers
Thats funny. Every now and then I heard or read from some people (whose names I never saw or heard before, mostly) that we, the Fallens, are the "weakest" of the bigger Clans and things like this.
I am Fallen Member nearly since the beginning, and I know all our active players from the battlefield and mostly from personal talks in teamspeak, too.
And all I can say is that we´ve got a A LOT of skilled and active players. And skilled means skilled, not just high level.
So everyone who´s making the Brigade looking small - never underestimate us.
thanks and sry for crappy english :D
I can't believe people are still remembering that one siege where we had horses... Honestly, it was done for the lulz.
Meh, but then people always remember that one fail, never the countless wins before and after that.
Anyhow, done offtopicking on your thread, UIF, GL with whatever you do.
Oh, and nice thread UIF folks.
+1, it's a lovely thread.
It is indeed fabulous.
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Oh, and nice thread UIF folks.
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Not really.
I can understand that wars were going to take too much commitment and that stockpiling is boring, but Pub Crawls simply cut off the only enterteining thing of strategus: the plots.
After Pub Crawls there was no need to keep with those TS meeting, irc contacts and all the things that were working. And I'm not part of any big clan since AB counted half a dozen of members active in strategus and that the Legio has always been the underdog.
My point is, strategus has many flaws, first of all the chance to get attacked at absurd time, but pub crawls just turned it in a joke. I didn't play crpg nor strategus after the siege of Yalen until now that new patch came out.
About the current boredom: weren't the Fallen at war with UIF? They seem to be enjoying their stockpiling considering that UIF is stil busy clearing crawlers out of the map....
I hope that with the wipe there will be new alliance and new intrigue, just a new game. Ofc clans will not attack a former ally (even if it happens in the past) but there are many new clan.
We are but simple monks. You should not kill us. We just want to pray. :(Although I believe you, your avatar is not exactly what comes to mind when hearing "monk". :o
Balls! Thats how all monks look these days, its fashion don't ya know.