Lastly, kind of hoped you might have sent some of those troops our way - I can promise we'd have made use of them.
Nah... With all respect to NA, I think that in the end you're like us EU: if you had more troops, you would turtle more, and give up wars. Just like EU did
I'm glad to see burned tickets, if we want more fun we need lowered overall troops/silver/S&D => a come back of the first months of strategus. We cant reach that far in the past but sending 120k troops to hell is a good beginning. Burn the rest in battles guys, we still have a fucking million troops to go, 3 big battles a day and we would need months to kill them all.
Less tickets/less players/less troop farmers; for the same number of fiefs = less grind to get fiefs, more wars. If each castles/cities hadnt at least 5 defense waves worth of garrison, the boredom would vanish. Fun in strat = seeing fiefs change hands + some open field battles for the lolz...
Conclusion: really glad for what Coa did, even though it was just to say "fuck you" to those who didnt like what they wanted to do in the first place. In the end it doesnt matter though, us players still doing things on the strategus map have new fiefs to conquer, with less troops to bother