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If hopsitallers hadn't run and joined occitan when we made 1 month peace and frisians had attacked while we were attacking chaos this whole war would have been different story - as daruvian said earlier "Is everyone else frisians fighting FCC incompetent or something?" The answer is yes instead of doing two random assaults on ayyike week before we ever attacked chaos and then never attacking us while we fought chaos you might have actually made this war less of end of round duels and more desperate as we have to attack on multiple fronts with our active members while trying to take highly defensible fiefs.
Also, technically we are fighting on multiple fronts, 1/3rd of our guys fighting FIDLGB while the other 2/3rds fighting chaos - with no one needed to fight Frisians who only just sit back and talk shit about the way chaos and fidlgb fight.
P.S. Our glorious leader Ecko_ATS is back - Northern Empire and you are fucked now.
We attacked ayyike (which turned out to be absolute shit to attack, the map screenshots made it look easy, that was a mistake) because we said we would. I felt that we left Raven high and dry to a degree so I reckoned it would be proper to come at you even if it was foolhardy. Of course it wasn't proper strategy, but we didn't give any fucks. Essentially, we reckoned it was very improbable that we would make a meaningful dent in your ranks, so we went balls-deep so we could show how we were brave internet knights.
Unfortunately, we're quite low on members with strat ticks. I imagine we've got like 10 folks that are actively recruiting on our end. As it turns out, fighting FCC is a sure-fire way to get your members absolutely fed up with strat. Arowaine told me that and I didn't believe him. I was wrong as fuck. We'd go help CHAOS/FIDLGB out plenty if we were able. However, with very low troop production such a thing is impossible.
Furthermore, you're being a jackass for assuming that Daruvian speaks for anyone but himself. Like, for real. It is a well-known fact that the man enjoys talking shit. It is probably the only way the poor fucker can even have any sort of fun with this game.
The biggest mistake I made is expecting LCO to come rushing in valiantly to kick you FCC folks in the cock with us. That didn't happen so our paltry resources were wasted against you guys. The second biggest mistake (they're pretty close in magnitude) is not forseeing the absorption of AoW and HG. Not sure if Remnant was already absorbed by the time we attacked as fimbulvetr, I can't quite remember. I mean shit dude, you sure as hell can't play the "we're at war with the whole map, we're the underdogs" anymore. You're at war with 3 factions which total roughly 25 active players.
However, I do have a small nice thing to say. I do appreciate sending Acre at us instead of using your massively superior force projection to wipe us in a week. They're actually rather close to our size, although I wish they had some fiefs so we could figure out some front-line engagements with them.
The decision to attack FCC was made because they were the dominant power, the largest group with the most momentum. It's a real damn shame that quite few people are going after FCC at the moment. I don't blame anyone for not warring against FCC; it does pretty much kill a clan's strategus interest completely. I can't tell if the reason for that is Kesh and others extreme dedication and interest in Strategus, the superior simple numbers, or the vassalization of much of the community leading to a great mercenary advantage in any time-slot other than prime-time. Even so, I applaud Kesh & crew for their diplomacy and strategy in this Strategus. You've done a fucking hell of a job and unless the other power-players (LCO, HoC, TkoV) commit gigantic amounts of manpower and gold against you, you've "won" strategus. I guess unless GO/DRZ abandon EU and come wildly hurtling towards the NA map with intent to wipe you. That'd be sick.
