Casimir, you're right. Templ-- Crusaders are several smaller clans making a larger one. If it makes you happy for me to call it the Crusaders, so be it- I just know you and yours as Templars, having once been major enemies of my own faction so long ago.
However, nothing within your post makes any argument against my point- only affirming what we all know. You see the big dog, you don't bother fighting. If anything, the Crusaders are the greatest offenders. Why the hell are you helping the UIF with this giant hand-holding peace nonsense? Why the fuck is that fun for you, or anyone, to take the easy path and make a treaty with the strongest faction in the game?
It makes no sense! You get more gold, so you can... win an advantage over already smaller opponents? You're the THIRD largest clan in the game, you big wimps! Why the hell do you need the UIF's trade agreements to win fights? It's a goddamn shame.
Also, didn't you take Tulbuk, then give it to the Hospitallers?
I fail to see what we'd gain by entering a war that'd lead to our defeat. Surely it makes more sense to fight against those who are incapable of defending their vast claims than assaulting those who are active and have a vast number of supporters.
For efficiency it makes sense to trade with the grey order, if you fail to see that you clearly fail to grasp the basics of the system in place. I look back over the history of templars in strategus, we were originally hated for being to large, and forcing people to join us. Then we were mocked and betrayed by people who pretended to support us because we were too small and incapable of harming larger clans. now we have sought out allies,through need, we are accused of being "carebears".
What the fuck do you know of our plans. the only one we had this strategus was to destroy Fallen/HRE, being our oldest of enemies (HERETICS). Kinngrimm was thinking along the similar lines and Hospitallers made an bvious choice for fighting on NA pings against a largly NA clan.
m so sorry if you didn't like the fact that your clan lost all their villages, but you guys weren't exactly all so interested in fighting the biggest enemies you could find last strat. If i remember correctly the few fights i saw being initiated by Fallen were against small, unarmed armies in their lands.
Your forecast is just that, you do not know what may happen tomorrow, war may come to any part of calradia.