In regards to HoC's attacks on New Unuzdaq Castle and New Amashke, we started taking those places even before the Gobblin Realm was a thing. If anything HoC was the first to provide battles and XP against inactive but fortified fiefs, despite being 'broke, so crusty, disgusts me'. We took Amashke on the 3rd attempt, with the third being a walk-in because of the damage we had done before. Keep in mind too, that for our first attacked we had few friends and our roster was nearly 100% EU, and these were some of my first commands. A mere 200 men sat in that village for days, and no one reinforced, no one attempted to take it...nothing. So we came back and now we own it. As for Unuzdaq, we sent 3 armies up against Chaos's full-plate garrison. A castle that can only be attacked from one side, with fixed spikes and trenches in all but one location, a place where defenders can move outside of the map but attackers cannot reach, where siege towers are useless and the walls must be taken with ladders and steel. A place the Gobblins did not pay the price of blood for, but rather walked in as a transfer without losing a man, acquiring the remainders of the garrison after our 3 sieges. Indeed, this so-called 'broke-ass faction', the faction that many mock and jive at, has done more in strat with more success against more opposition than any other in a very, very long time. And though we do not control Unuzdaq yet, we are not defeated; oh no. For while our own forces and our allies' forces combined total to ~12,400 men sent against those walls alone, a whopping ~10,100 men, including the Chaos garrison, have defended those walls while we assailed them. After all was done, the garrison was less then 2,000 men, including pop of course. So, Daruvian and onlookers everywhere, I show you these figures in truth, and even as I write I feel a change of opinion, for against the thick-shelled nut that is Unuzdaq with its endless plate and overwhelming number of defenders, we have gone nearly 1:1. NEARLY. But do not think this price has been paid in vain; oh no, we will return, and when we do take the castle, you will look on and see HoC soar higher than ever before. We are not out for conquest. There is no envy that compels us. But with control of the area, every Gobblin army that dares enter our land with be smashed to fucking pieces and sent running to their mothers' breasts once more. Beware, Daruvian, lest you be caught holding limp-dick in hand; relent, for we will not.