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so what are you angry about? just ignore those mega alliances and look for one of your own size to battle.
But If you fear the ^^ mega alliances would come after you then join forces with others.
As Garem stated, someone stood up, others followed. Desert Alliance was a reaction onto Fallen/HRE/GK/others UIF etc and propaganda in strat 2.0. Desert Alliance had roster support in some cases by DRZ and Grey Order, but
wasn't resupplied by them. Desert Alliance made trade with Grey Order which later was used by Grey Order to resupply Nords and their own troops to attack the Desert Alliance while Chaos and others were busy with Hospitallers/Occitan. I would have preferred for that attack to wait till we were out of the other war, but strategicly it was the best time to attack the Desert Alliance, well played.
On the lying part, your Matey tried several times in Strat 2.0 to make me brake my word and he didn't succeed. But what if he would have succeeded? I would have switched sides to FCC and in your eyes i may have been a great help. Morally but wasteland. I am still totally fine with my actions in strat 3.0, because you see, honor comes from within, reputation is that how others see me, but i know i stayed true to my friends in strat 3.0 so i kept my honor but lost a lot of reputation, when i tricked the other "Mega Alliance". When strat 3.0 started, i had a plan and i found alliance partners. But not all i called on became alliance partners. Nords even decided to settle next to me as did Byzantium after i told them where we would be and whom we would go against. I know that Okin rattled the cage and openly called "whoever is for Fallen needs to fight the Wolves in the desert" as told to me by a former contract partner. So there were several clans who knew what the Desert Alliance was about, where they would be situated and who would be involved against whom. Ujin later on appologized that they went also into the desert and as he claimed he forgot about our talk, well human nature can be like that i know, i recognize his appology and hope he will come back to strategus at some point. Mercs wanted to stay in the same area they were before but had a problem over Tshitbin with the Union the Strat before which ended in a diplomatic desaster as i was first hand witness. When then the Desert Alliance with strong numbers formed in the desert and Nords claimed the same space and Byzantium and Kapikulu also, we first waged war against Nords. They but were resupplied by as far we know Byzantium/Kapikulu and i was also told by HRE(not too sure about the last part, Rogue perhaps you can clarify that?). Meanwhile our NA Friends Hospitallers scrimished Fallens, as it was the plan and our believe that they may have problems to be suddenly in the front line while they had all the time in the world to build up in the strategus before. Hospitallers and Occitan did a great job there and yes sometimes when it got close they got resupplied by their EU Friends as happened vice versa, that is the nice thing about an alliance you don't really care that much who has what aslong everyone gets something.
We succeeded with "our" plans! The only clan involved there which didn't earn what was coming at them were and still is in my eyes Kapikulu and i will repay them this strategus.
And if Canary and Phantom Zero would have be a bit more willing to cooperate, after Fallen/HRE/GK/Nords/Kapikulu/... were taken care of in strat 3.0 and also a bit more clan disciplin on hopsitallers side as far as i remember ;) , there would have still be the chance to take the UIF on. Something afterwards Crusaders kept on working towards with me explicitly supporting it, but me not taking part in it anymore as i was exhausted then.
So Kesh, deal with it. There are alliances on NA.
They even made it public, that is a good thing. Nothing worse then planing a war or an attack and you don't know what to expect ;)