Too bad about that edit Nocti, since I have the eye of the tiger:
What a load of complete and utter baloney. I wasn't going to participate in this forum nonsense but what you wrote there is just ludicrous.
Let's get the facts straight:Strategus begins, Desert War is on.
Affiliations [The beginning of the Desert War, October last year]
Side ANords
Byzantine
Kapikulu
Roster Support in Faction BattlesHRE -- Mostly
Fallen -- Few
Side BTemplars
Wolves/Bandits
Varangian Rus
SchildBruders
CotGS
Pecores
Cochons
SandGliers
OCF
NA AlliesHospitalliers
Occitan
Lost Legion
Roster Support in Faction BattlesDruzhina
-- Supported Hospitalliers/Occitan/LL against Green MachineLegio Italica
-- Supported Hospitalliers/Occitan/LL against Green MachineUNION
-- Supported Hospitalliers/Occitan/LL against Green MachineGreys
Merciless
BashiBazouk
22nd
It is worth noting that we only fought with UIF people when defending AI fiefs, never when we were faction vs faction, then they were with the Desert Alliance against us.
We even had a roster agreement with you Nocti but rarely saw any Mercs with us (except Black_Holes and SlickyRicky).
First ContactThe French Connection siege Mijayet (AI):
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=173We organize a defence for the AI fief and win the battle, afterwards we swoop in and claim the fief
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=187Wolves tries to counter-attack 3 days after:
Wolves_Dado_the_Angry vs Mijayet - Hide Details
- Battle time: 06.11., 08:00
- Battle duration: 56m38s
- Army size: 1483 vs 1961
- Battle result: 0 vs 1065
- Winner: Defender
It is worth noting that we only fought with UIF people when defending AI fiefs against them, never when faction vs faction, they were with the Desert Alliance against us then.
Ujin then (without consulting us btw) tries to forge an alliance between everyone in the desert. An alliance that several involved in tried to sell out to the opposition.
This is also the Alliance (and meetings) where Kinngrimm lied to everyone regarding his intentions. All this lead to Ujin pulling the Byzantine out of Strat (thanks for leaving us hanging for a second time guys
!) leaving just us and Kapikulu in the desert.
Crusader Alliance/Wolves then picked up Kapikulu for just to ambush them later when BashiBazouk came to wipe them out, making it a total walkover massacre.
When the war died due to the alliance nonsense we completely lost faith in Strategus since there was no option out. We could not get help from anyone to the West and the Crusader Alliance was doing everything they could to secure friendly diplomacy with the UIF.
Therefore we took a vote in our forum whether we should continue or not. We had gathered a lot of gold due to grinding caravans - which was the only thing we did, no equipment, we only had what the war "ended" with.
Here's the screenshot from our forum at the time:
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loginThe plan was to grind as much gold as possible via caravans and then turn it into C-RPG gold for a clan bank or otherwise clan activities.
Templars break the unofficial cease fireNow that's settled we can fast forward to when the Templars attacked Mijayet, where they violated an unofficial cease fire agreement they approached us with weeks prior.
When: 21/01 18:39 until 18:58http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=battlesparticipated#!?page=battledetail&id=1251We had evacuated to AI castles (mostly Unuzdaq) prior to the attack due to being warned
Now in-between this time the evil donkey lord has disabled the "Send Gold to Distant Relatives"-option (Strat gold to crpg gold), ruining our master plan at being the 1% in C-rpg, however when the Templars did attack it motivated a lot of Nords to join and rejoin Strategus and we therefore decided to spend all the gold we had accumulated on an attack on the Desert.
We were then looking for options and were able to rent -- we did not get them for free -- the old Merc fiefs where we built up our armies for the great return. In the meantime we had some fun defending Samarra Castle against the Templar attacks.
Fast forward again, we've expended more than 2 million gold equipping our new freshly recruited troops and were ready to move in on the Desert:
We struck a deal with the Greys for support given the sheer number of Nords vs the whole Crusader Alliance, plus we secured some roster support. Everyone was extremely tired of fighting on NA servers with NA ping which also helped and good riddance on fighting with Strategus lag...
The Templars had -- as far as I recall and have read from Alpha I believe it was -- just spent a lot of troops on Samarra plus sending reinforcements to NA lands, so we attacked at the worst possible time for them
The Nordmen returnsAffiliations [The second Desert War March 2012]
Side ANords
Grey Order
Roster Support in Faction Battles22nd
BashiBazouks
DRZ
Legio Italica
UNION
Side BTemplars w/ wolves remnants
CotGS
SchildBruders
Roster Support in Faction BattlesHRE
Kapikulu
Pecores
Pillagers
Mercs
Conclusion: With over 50% of the players being Nords in a majority of our battles I would definitely conclude that we've been well represented both on the battle field and in the rosters.
Diplomatic factsWe were asked if we would like to join the Desert Alliance. We declined.
We were asked if we would like to join the Byzantine Alliance. We declined but worked together against the Desert Alliance.
We were asked if we would like to join the Backstabber Deluxe Alliance. We declined.
Crusader Alliance had diplomatic ties to UIF (Trading/Roster).
It can all be concluded that we never submitted to anyone, unlike those who currently follow the Crusader Alliance/NA alliance.
Remember that DRZ helped Hospitalliers/Occitan against the heroic Green Machine, where-as a small handful of Nords fought for the Greens (<3). We never had a relationship with any UIF factions until we were forced to make a decision, which was between going to NA and shack it up with the Green Machine or try and shake things up in Europe.
Those of us who dislike you Nocti do so because you're rude and obnoxious, coming on to our TS insulting people verbally with profanity due to having played a strat battle. You are way too emotionally attached to Strategus. That incident is also the reason why I personally played every battle against Mercs I could at the time. Other than you though we only got love for the Mercs..
So far we've worked with almost everyone and DRZ + Greys have been nothing but friendly and trustworthy, even though we've fought each other plenty and had randoms from our clans fight each other.
Whether there are shenanigans though, on either sides, I don't know, but that is for the admins and not me anyway.
