History lesson, dudes. Strategus 1, I believe, was mostly fought on Teamspeak. Strategus 2 was fought more over the forums than on the map, and there were 3AM battles that people attended almost every day. Flame wars were a lot worse then. Anyhoo, it's ugly, but it's part of the game. Ultimately, Strategus is a propaganda game, after all.
I'm not defending my clan or anything, mind you. I'm not involved in that stuff at the moment. Just telling y'all what motivates the flaming (some are obviously better at it than others; we as a community like to laugh at the train wrecks among us) that seems like negativity. To give you an example, FCC and the Mercs exchanged thousands of unpleasant words and pictures that were far more invasive and distasteful. It seemed like we truly hated each other, because, despite what anyone might say, everyone who plays Strategus and owns land in it for more than a month or two takes the game very seriously.
Next Strat, guess who worked together? Yeah. Families get ugly, y'all. The cRPG community is no different.