I still feel you've failed to understand the situation. Your working under the premise that we were somehow coordinating with theses "UIF" factions.
You're trading with them? If you're trading, you're not fighting.
That's, by very definition, coordination. Casimir, you're making this too easy for me.
As I've said our only agreement with the "UIF" is that of trade with the Grey order, their only support has been that. Other than that I fail to see how they were involved in the fight against Fallen/HRE. I do agree that strategus has reached a bit of a stalemate, but the few people willing to actively partake in strategus will always govern to masses who only look to fight.
ARE the Grey, DRZ, both core-UIF and lackey-UIF (that plethora of clans that refuse to fight a decent war like yourself) the MASSES or not? Goddamn, you flip flop from saying "poor us, we're not that big despite what the numbers clearly say" to agreeing that you and your Non-aggression buddies are indeed as massive as everybody knows you are. You have MASSES of people. MASSES. Even if they only want to fight, they still make troops and trade goods. Stop pretending otherwise. Remember that term, intellectual dishonesty? Stop it.
Most people are not going to plan to go to war, and expect to loose. That is why people cooperate against a common enemy. Having fought the actual UIF in the first strat I'm more than aware of how powerful it is as an entity and realise the problems faced when fighting an overwhelming force.
If you can't beat them, join them? Or just puss out and refuse to fight them? How exactly does your brain justify this nonsense when you argue that those who are significantly weaker than you are inferior for fighting against an enemy you refuse to fight, but they simply cannot defeat (again, look at the NUMBERS)?
Last round of strategus we were approached by a number of people involving us with the forces fighting LLJK. We found that unless you take a firm stance and a commanding role you will be vulnerable to treachery. As such we chose to cooperate with those that we trusted and relied upon. our friends in the Wolves were an obvious first choice but some others did not wish to work with us, or simply ignored us. All in all to have the ability to wage wars you have to survive, you need security. You call me a coward for not attacking an enemy which would vastly outnumber us, i just think its sensible. Its not that a hard fight inst interesting, in fact the battles fought against HRE were highly enjoyable and showed excellent coordination by the defenders.
Please be more mindful and edit your posts for clarity. Yes, coalitions against larger opponents do work- especially with your coalition can outnumber them with only a clan or two such as the Strat 2.0, the counter-LLJK coalition.
So hear me one more time- LOOK. AT. THE. NUMBERS. Getting bigger than the UIF and its NAP forces is out of the question. Even the Grey Order ALONE is larger than LLJK.
So apply your own fucking logic. Form a coalition, and attack the Grey Order! That's essentially what you're telling everyone else to do. Grow a pair and bust a move you twit. Show me you can do it. I eagerly await to see your glorious crusade coalition fight the UIF. I double dog dare you.
I really don't know who yo think you are to be analysing me personally, i've never spoken to you in person, i believe this thread is the first time i've ever replied to one of your posts. So for you to judge my character and personality on the basis of a few forum posts really makes me question whether your insight is worth listening to. I'm more than willing to have discussion with people who are reasonable and capable of not talking about individuals. If you actually knew anything of how the Crusader alliance worked you'd know that i am not in charge at all, that we work via a council system and that our most active member is ryan. Therefore to assess my character based off the actions of our entire alliance really does seem a little out of place. I also take offence at being called Intellectually dishonest. My only intent when posting on these forums is to express my opinion and hope to allow others to see things from my perspective. I don't expect personal insults because of it.
I am marginally regretful for personal attacks. I truly want to talk to you in person. Come over to Fallen Teamspeak sometime, I'd love to chat.
That being said, marginally regretful is all you'll get. I've seen what the Crusaders have done (and not done), and I know that you have strong influence in that circle. Based upon the glowing descriptions of your own logical justifications for your actions, it's still appalling. It's boring. Your "advice" is unabashedly riddled with hypocrisy, "I don't want to lose by fighting them when I know I can't win!", "You should go do 'this or that' and then you'll beat them!"
Do you even realize it? You're so defensive about your actions, you've blinded yourself to the abundant failures of the political maneuvers that have turned a potentially awesome game - Strategus - into a nitwit's bargain of who can shake the most hands and avoid fighting until the numbers are overwhelming. And then, you expect us to be
impressed?
We're not. Because that's lame as shit. I stick by my guns, rude as it may have been. You're unimpressive and intellectually dishonest. Prove me wrong.
I think you show a great ability to add up numbers garem, but expressing your opinion of my character really detracts from your points. I'd like to offer the same advice that was given to me after the Templars had been defeated by UIF. Wait for the wipe, or do something about it.
Again. "Wait for the wipe" is a lot less fun than playing a game where wars and intrigue are abundant. Where power actually SHIFTS from time to time. The UIF was founded in 2010. They've been singing kumbaya together ever since.
When I'm wrong, I'll admit it. Maybe I tip toe the bounds of decency, but I will not yield my honesty to civility.
