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They didn't do anything I (probably) wouldn't have done.
Plenty of people have said that the objective of war is to make the other person regret his choice to fight. That's what FCC did. It wasn't the fact that they generally had a numerical advantage on mercenaries. It wasn't the fact that they were mostly fortunate on field battle maps. It wasn't the fact that they're very good at battles, having perfected the tactics necessary to win.
It wasn't any of that alone. It was knowing that there will be at least one battle, sometimes three or even four on each day. In those battles, you're almost certain to be unable to get 50 players on your side that will stay for the whole battle while the enemy is very likely to. After the first few days in which we held our own, EVERY DAY we got to look forward to getting spawn-camped for at least 5-10 minutes until the bad guys grew bored of spawn-camping.
I don't blame them for doing that; when it was my faction along with LCO and LL on the offensive against FCC we spawn-camped them mercilessly and brutally in every battle we could.
The reason that we called it quits isn't because we lost, at least not solely. It was due to the sheer tenacious nature of FCC which caused them to initiate at least one battle nearly every day. A lot of people were pleased by that; mostly these people primarily see Strategus as a source of XP. I don't really give two shits about the XP and neither did many of our faction. We played Strategus because the battles are usually fun and to test our mettle against a faction that's arguably only lost a single campaign in Strategus. Sure, multiple battles per day are fucking awesome to someone who may or may not mute TS, and are most likely going to have a good time. They fucking blow dick for the people leading the battles, organizing rosters, and most especially recruiting people that probably don't even want to fight for you. I've got an over-active conscience; I'm mostly unable to go to people's teamspeaks and ask them to fight for us over and over and over. The only place I can really go to do that without shame is Hospitaller, because I usually end up talking to Peppovitch about Trailer Park Boys when I'm there anyway.
Come to find out, it sucks DICK. We didn't have fun from the first few days onward. Is that because FCC is better than us? Sure, probably. Is it because we're bitch-ass hoes that can't take a beating and keep on going? Some people would think that. But at the end of the day, we were playing a video game and having NO FUN AT ALL. We decided to stop doing that, even if it meant giving up some internet pixels. Yeah, I wanted to keep fighting FCC and still do, to an extent. I'd like little more than to make Kesh's nerd-boner go flaccid for once like when we chased FCC into their castles many moons ago. I'm not going to be able to do that when tons of good players would rather fight in NA1 15v15 than fight in a battle against FCC.
Anyone else care to fight FCC, besides LL/Dutchy because he's fucking nuts? I really don't think so.
