The point of the taunts is to get our erstwhile foes to fulfill their promises to return and give battle! Why should we leave the desert? It's their homeland to reclaim, or so we're told. In the last war we were attacking all the way, now we want to defend these villages for a change!
Well my honest opinion to you without trolling, without RP.
You remember our conversations before all the shit storm (pre-December), my opinion remains the same. I understand that you want to defend and have fun. But unfortunately from the current position its impossible to come down there except the Hospitaller lands. UIF partners wouldn't let the enemy armies march (doh). Even if that happens you, I and everybody who is involved in this mod knows, you won't be left unprotected. Your political power makes you an interesting ally. On top of that you got formidable players like Cooties and Tor, whom everybody would like to see on their side.
Even if you were unprotected, nobody would waste tickets on Nords : it would only help your business partners to reclaim the lost villages. Dhirim is surrounded by enemies on three sites and yet its not totally conquered. Sow hat do you suggest? everybody should leave one of the most dangerous places on the map and come down, into the middle most protected place like a sheep in the wolves' den?
As far as I can tell (not speaking in Crusader's account) : Nords are not priority. Excuse me for jumping into your conversation with Templars, I hate when people do that to me : But if you really wanted to have fun with battles you could choose the hard way from the start as some of us did. So enjoy the boredom