personally we really missed having ravens in our battles, but were actually pretty glad frisians were no longer required to be hired where sandy would beg me to get so and so on. Ravens - very well organized. Frisians - no idea of organization and teamwork. Working together as a group makes a huge difference - its part of being skilled opponents.
It's a good thing that we have 6 players with 9 performance- myself, Daruvian, Jack1, Badoon, Cikel, Apollo (actually cikel has 6 performance now, probably so he can have a 6-9 split which is very admirable) and the players that aren't likely to cut swathes through the bad guys are more than willing to engineer or guard equipment. Yeah, we have some new players that aren't as good at the game as many, but even though they get bad KDs a lot of the time, they don't rack up insane amounts of deaths because they listen to the leaders and play cautiously. Our clan ain't huge, in fact its pretty damn compact, so I'd say a solid half of our players are really high quality desirable mercs with the other half being not so great, but still not gleaming sacks of shit.
However, I make it a point to never disagree when someone says we suck. We fucking blow dicks at this game even though we play it tons, and Ravens are without a doubt better than us in every conceivable facet. Especially cup and carac.
I didn't say anything bad about sandy. Just whenever we were fighting Hosps I wouldn't want to hire a lot of the frisians and he would bug me to go hire them and try to make room. i would always feel guilty not hiring all but 1-2 of you guys when you were sending armies to help out, so I would make a point of doing it for him for irrelevant battles. It was just a counterpoint to your remark earlier - Ravens were both skilled and organized so we wanted them on our roster, hence the difference. You need both skills and organization to be considered good opponents.
Actually, I'll have to bite the nerd bullet and agree half-heartedly with Kesh here. When we were fighting hosp we didn't have too many good players that were active; we weren't that great to have, but we were fighting Hosp who didn't have their shit together at all. There was no need to be ballin' out of control.
I'd also like to take this opportunity to say that in the most recent battles for Hospitaller (which were a while back), they really DID have their shit together. They performed pretty well even while on the attack against FCC, which isn't easy. MrRogers and Aderyn did a great job leading, and they really allowed folks that know what they're talking about like Bonsai and others to chip in, and listened to their suggestions. I was impressed.
yeah the real hate comes when we face equally skilled opponents - that was why real hate came when we fought our counterparts in EU.
I know this was a convenient opportunity for you to make a LOL U SUCK remark, but I'd hate a group that was kicking the shit out of me mercilessly a lot more than a group that I was on an equal footing with. That's part of why a lot of people hold malice against FCC, although a larger part is due to the whole propaganda machine that you enjoy keeping well-oiled and running all day erry day.
