There's no need for the condescending tone, there's more than the two of us reading this hence laying out things in detail for people can be able to comprehend the full story.
I think you're misunderstanding though, if it is only that specific post with the Pecores battles you detest, I wasn't calling you nor Templars/Crusader-Alliance pathetic, neither do I believe I've ever written anything where I'm putting you guys down in any way for real, sure we've bantered in the past in regards to the balance between our teams (people claiming the high road) but never anything in malicious regards as opposed to what others have commented on and posted. I was simply fronting the fact that it isn't like UIF factions' been behind us specifically from the beginning, nor that "all of EU" was together - as plenty believe and spew nonsense about.
We know there was never an actual Alliance between Desert/Crusader Alliance and UIF factions, but you were on friendly terms and working on keeping it there. We had absolutely zero help nor support in any way from UIF in the First Desert War, those few fighting for us did so because we're on friendly terms with a lot of people in these clans (and I was asking specific individuals to fight for us, which you were too, which everyone does when there's battles...), in the end we did get a few on our rosters sometimes but you always had most - of course - since we were with Byzantine/Kapikulu who are enemies of factions within UIF. Even when we returned to the desert, we asked DRZ if they'd send some people to help us with our rosters and they told us they would allow their people to fight for whoever they would want to. Plus even with Grey Order behind us when we returned, I had issues getting other "UIF faction" players to fight for us (for example BashiBazouks and Legio).
If anything Nords been the variable in Strategus that's allowed for it not to become completely stagnant on the EU side, and possibly also NA given DRZ/UIF was helping Hospitalliers prior to us butting heads with Templars for a second time.
Anyway yes, sleeps, going to get it right now too.