That's my point, the entire war was a silly clusterfuck and nobody really seemed to have their shit together. In the battles VRN fought we lost something like 900 of our troops against 1600 of yours (plus about 400 ill-equipped villagers we had captured pretty much for free), but that didn't really mean much in the end. That's why I think it's funny that you guys keep making such a big deal out of it -- a bunch of the clans supposedly involved didn't actually do anything. For our part, the only clan we were ever allied with were the Sea Raiders, and I can tell you right now that this loosely-knit coalition where each clan had different goals and many just deserted rather than fighting was absolutely nothing like the mega-alliance in the west.
It also strikes me as strange that you keep bragging about how many of you there are, but you don't seem to think that gives smaller clans any justification for treating you as a serious threat and banding together. I get that you want to write your own narrative with you as the heroes and everyone else as bad guys, but gimme a break. Also, do you really think Risen/Bashi/Legio/Union would have sent all their armies out on campaign if they didn't have Greys watching their back? Come on, you benefited from their support as much as anybody. Greys didn't exactly do nothing, either; they did wipe out a few small clans that happened to get on their bad side.
As for the testing part, our Polish friends certainly didn't help much that I saw (aside from raising the account sharing issue on the table again), but to their credit DRZ actually discovered a number of bugs and exploits. Unfortunately they did pretty much make the most of some of them, but there you go, it's not like they're alone in that.
Anyway, that's all in the past, next round is a brave new world. Nothing really happened in this Strat that I'd consider very important for us, though we did learn a few lessons from both our own experiences and events elsewhere. We'll see how it goes with the new changes and all.
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