really can not win in this community... When we were marching and (yes taking castles and cities) we were harassed for being war mongering assholes.. Now that a very large portion of the map is allied we choose defense and get harassed for it as well.
In the tkov/LCO war how many times did LCO come out and fight in the open field? You guys are the aggressors... Try being aggressive! How the hell do you think we have all these castles and cities?
As Matey said if you want to attack somewhere we can arrange to have the troops in it lowered so you can attack with a decent amount of troops. We offer that and then you complain that we are doing that to our benefit! Really? It would be to the benefit of the community since we would force everything into prime time.
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Exactly, we repeatedly offer these things, hell remnant has been offering open field battle to chaos repeatedly, but somehow we are the devil for not doing exactly what people like sandy, daruvian and aderyn want us to do. We had to do 6-8 sieges to take a lot of these castles and cities, which we later sold or still retain and they were fun and challenging. Weird that anything that isnt incredibly easy like running over medium, armored opponent while riding around in full plate on a heavily armored horse or stabbing from 30 feet away with a pike is too much and you just give up. Its not like most of the cities/castles we attacked havent been brutal and difficult as attackers (hell just talk to remnant and try derchios even once, they also have offered to lower troops).
We cant just leave 6K troops ona fief owner indefinitely for 4 months and bleed millions of gold because you might attack that one fief - we already tried that after we lost 50K troops attacking fidlgb and chaos and saw 4-5 months of almost no attacks to the point where now our castles and cities have very slowly built up to 10K troops. Your alliance has 200k+ troops and is bigger than velucan empire ever was, its not like you have to ever worry about running out. hell even VE had twice your balls and attacked defensible fiefs as many as 12-13 times. I guess imaginary e-peen using the easiest gear setups is the only way you can play this game - tactics and strategy dont matter.
P.S. i don't actually include hospitallers in that estimation - they put in the effort and deservedly should have won eventually except their bigger ally didn't even do one attack the entire month they were attacking - thus freeing us to easily reinforce the city with 7-8 more armies. And i dont buy the inactive thing lancer - your S&D is used up daily for all your desert fiefs (we were considering grabbing some), never more than a few hundred, which says the fief owners are very very active when it comes to trading simulator, it takes far less effort to initiate one attack than to have 15-16 guys checking strategus daily to buy/sell their S&D. Its one of the reasons ve (and i agreed with their viewpoint) never wanted occitan to come back to na - they buy fiefs and turtle and never do anything, very similar to what their vassal lords did for multiple strategi - more focused on carebearing with most of the map than actually playing a war simulator and then patting each other on the back over beating up someone they outnumber 10:1. I miss people that actually play war games for challenges like tactics and strategy.
