Free Companies of Calradia = 197,438 (156,984 lost+40,454 current)
Kind of shows how inaccurate this is. We have thousands more troops than our garrisons say and of those troops we lost I would say we have bought or traded fiefs or just plain capped flags on over-garrisoned fiefs (captured 15,000 troops that way) for about 90,000 of those tickets. But under your calculation we would have more members with ticks than grey order and coalition, which I can assure you is absolutely not the case - we would be lucky if we have half their number.
To be fair occitan learned EU turtling from the UIF and have done a total of 45 attacks since the start of strategus - some of those in EU. They are the biggest faction in NA with most troops, most gold, most players and most fiefs and they are slowly making NA as stagnant as EU thanks to what arrowaine learned from his EU allies - basically all they do is buy fiefs and never attack, change it to trading simulator game with no real battles.
Its like that one economics game theory where whoever wins the most is the guy that turtles while the other guys doesn't turtle, but then everyone chooses to turtle because its in their interest to not be the big loser who doesn't turtle, but then everyone loses when no one attacks. We gave Occitan an opening by bleeding 50K troops taking all the FIDLGB and most of the Chaos fiefs, while Occitan built up to 120K troops with them and their vassal faction semenstorm by not doing any attacks for months (basically we would be the big loser in game theory). But Arrowaine at heart is scared of us and is so worried about Pixel e-peen they went right back to turtling and stopped marching armies towards us before even 1 battle.
Really - EVERYONE needs to get over their addiction to pixel e-peen. Just risk losing everything and duke it out for all the troops - no one says you have to attack their castles and cities. Just attack every village and field army you see. Even if you lose 60K troops you are not going to lose your core cities and castles with those size garrisons - make mad xp for everyone.
We were on the attacker sides almost 40% of the time during our big war with the VE facing infavorables odds during the entire war and made around 120 battles, most of them 1,5K vs 1,5K. So saying we were turtling is entirely false, i dont consider it to be turtling when we stopped waging wars for a month when we first faced NA faction that build up for months when we just came back from EU unorganized with some troops and golds.
At the moment our clan is not quite active, except managing our strat shit, just like FCC were almost gone for quite a while last year. We are not as active as when we face the VE, these where good times for everyone, but it almost made us putting too much time in this game and we got feed up. To be honest, at first we only wanted to give a show and survived the first month of the war, but it drags on and on and never ended until recently.
