Nordmens Reconquest of Fenada.

[Molly]

Just my 2 cents:

The last time I applied for any strat battle was the first one Bagge did. And I even got into the roster despite my 15/27 and being bad overall. Unfortunately I couldn't participate since I had to re-install crpg and the download server was down/broken.

The reason I applied for their side? Cuz I know Bagge from EU1 and that he's a friendly guy. Simple as that.

Maybe I should apply again cuz let's be real here... I am a handicap for every strat army Maybe I can "balance" things out with involuntarily wasting a few tickets

[Butan]

As much as I hate the Strategus Battle roster mechanism, I quite enjoy seeing the underdog strategus faction raping some ass in a village through sheer roster strength.

I hate the plain 1:1 ratio open field battles, everyone in the same outfit with the same tactics, same commanders, same same; much more than a 2:1 village fight with nordic items (could be more nordic too! would feel even cooler) and in the same teamspeak with a lot of very good players.



I understand your point of view Teeth, but if you had complete and fair balance of roster strength in every battles, seeing we already have gear balance between all but the poorest of factions, it would only mean that you can predict the outcome of a battle even before it has been played (the only other important factor is the commanding efficiency)... Which is almost already the cases throughout most strategus fights today! So dont ruin it for Searaiders, I say they are doing a good job of bringing fun to strategus, and this is why I lend my arm to them.

Apply to searaider Teeth!  Join the Dark Force! Become a hero today!

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Teeth does make a great point tho. The commanding was decent on Balde's side, it surely seemed on par with Nordmens' commanding.

and thats a nice thing you are trying there.  however i dont agree with your insight on the motivation for the guys fighting with nords.

I agree with Teeth. Why would you have a hard time, when you can just pick the winning side and improve your stats while doing so? It's so much easier.

[Thovex]

Because, well, if you have friends on one side what is the point in fighting your friends when you can fight with your friends...

I'm sure most people on one side know eachother far better than the other sides.

[Nessaj]

You're not advocating fairness you're advocating a quick boring predicable outcome.

I don't see how Nords are the strong ones in Strategus values when literally outnumbered like 1:10 plus grossly more when counting allies, we literally have no allies (little one in Osiris ), and now we have to give away half our roster for it to be fair? *Insert Jackie Chan "mind blown" image*
In the first two battles I saw plenty of people who would have been signed for Nords be signed for Balde because they were accepted there first.

If balde didn't have to go through a meat-grinder it'd just be boring and predictable, and we never thought we'd hold a village for this long. Their allies ran away after the second battle instead of persisting, keeping the village locked down from 19 to 22 every day, they would have had it by now then, ages ago.
Major kudos for not attacking at obscene hours though, or using trickery.

Also most importantly, some balde guys were mean to bagge; YOUZ NO MEAN TO LE BAGUETTE!!!! SUDOKU!!

[bagge]

Who the hell told you I was around at peoples teamspeak, "smooth talking" all the skilled players Teeth?

Anyway, from the very start we were 4 people with 1,5k equiped troops each, with around 200k each, for upkeep. I just wanted some funny battles and I make some lame RP after the battles, just for fun, not to brag or provoke anyone.

There was some Baldes that were rude to me when we first attacked and also when I simply asked for a tiny favor. I also had a reply that they had access to around 50k troops and they already posses a city, castle and two villages. How does that make them the underdog?

We can't even loom gear, we can't do proper trading and we don't have access to such a huge ammount of troops. We are without allies, except for our dear friends and independant strategus players Osiris and Torben. We don't have the same player base as Baldes either, so we can't grind as many troops as they can.

Let's be real now Teeth. We might have quality, but in the long run Baldes will win the "war", unless they accept the Danegeld.

For the rest of you fighting for Nordmen; I hope you enjoy the battles as much as I do. TS can be a bit noisy sometimes, but yeah with 50 players there's no suprise there. I try to make my commands so our players have fun. I know we could probably spare more tickets not charging out, building forward spawns to attack Baldes spawn etc. But hell, I don't want our battles to be boring and sitting in a god damn village waiting 20 minutes for someone to attack is max boring

[Eddy]

we literally have no allies (little one in Osiris )

Anyway, from the very start we were 4 people with 1,5k equiped troops each, with around 200k each, for upkeep.

Fenada
Population: 200
Owner: SeaRaider_bagge
Army: 9967

So how the fuck did you get in that fast time with a low playerbase (like you stated yourself) that amount of troops? With no allies? Someone is obvious lying here

[bagge]

Friendly donations, tho we cannot really depend on them to give us troops and equipment all the time.

And even with 6 players recruiting you get 1k troops per week, and it's been like two weeks or something

[Siiem]

I don't know about all that but take one look at the rosters of previous battles:

http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=strategusbattlesarchive&view=list#!?page=strategusinfobattleroster&id=5915
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=strategusbattlesarchive&view=list#!?page=strategusinfobattleroster&id=5922
http://c-rpg.net/index.php?page=strategusbattlesarchive&view=list#!?page=strategusinfobattleroster&id=6000

Consider the last battle and compare the amount of big names.Without trying to be condescending about the respectable efforts of the fighters for Balde, there were probably 3 players on their side who I'd consider top notch, whereas there are probably close to 30 top notch players on the side of Fenada. Now of course securing roster support is a part of being succesful in Strat, but this goes a little far. As far as I know Balde are a little German clan who keep to themselves mostly, they just can't compete with bagge sweet talking everybody into joining his fights. Not sure about all the diplomacy ties but it saddens me that independent(?) players like Knitler, Heibai, Qoray, Panos, Steevee and so on bandwagon with the faction with the already strong roster allies instead of taking a glance at the roster and deciding to help out poor Balde like I did.

I can tell you that always trying to fight for the weakest roster is a more fulfilling experience than padding your k/d with the rest of the big names. Also OdE Butan is fighting for Fenada?

[Gurnisson]

That's your opinion, Teeth. Feel free to stay on the other side so that someone more likeable can get the better xp visitors can't see pics , please register or login

[Teeth]

Damn right I am a fucking hero when it comes to Strat battles, always signing up for the Chinese, the peasants, the unorganized and the moonspeakers no one likes. Equalizing rosters like a boss since o 12.

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If dislike people that prefer decently fair and interesting battles more than people who bandwagon on the rapetrain, who am I to take that away from you?

[Osiris]

someone needs to donate me some troops its hard being solo man!

[Conquisitore]

Hello guys,

Like I said before, it's not fun fighting you, but this doesn't mean I wouldn't fight you. Balde is a small German clan, like Teeth noticed, and its realy hard for us to grind all those troops, like for all the other smaller clans in strat.

If Bagge comes up with his 4k troops or something it's fine for us, it wouldn't be a hard story at all to fight them, normaly. But if you grinded 20k troops in almost half a year, and all those troops are nearly family members, it's not fun killing them. But in a 1:1 it still would be fine.

But after the first battle we saw we would hardly reach a 2:1 in equalent gear. So we decided to go on heavier gear, full plated strong german tribes men fighting some Vikings, what happens, same result - but even less players applying.

At this point of time Bagge had 2k troops in his fief left, 4k troops for us. High price but we would have paid it.
After the last battle we saw more Nordmen coming to Fenada and at this point, with 9k troops inside the village, which would mean 18k troops for us, I decided to stop it. We don't have the recourses to waste 18k troops on a village

-= I'm sry Bagge, we wont keep this war going on, you showed us in a great way what would happen if we fight against old and well included players of crpg =-

Best Regards

Conquisitore

P.S. Thy Teeth for this nice forum support

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[Gurnisson]

Equalizing rosters like a boss since o 12.

the disgustingly stacked roster made that battle a boring and sad rape. the side where you can get a 5:1 k/d and look pro, the side that gains much more xp due to much higher kill rate. Winning the war because nobody wants to fight for the losing team

^
Saying that as a Byzantium member... Drop your Byzantium banner when there's a lot of Byzantium players online and fight against the op stack like oh glorious Teeth, protector of all the weak teams, would do. You don't need the banner to be in ts with them.

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Yes, I know you said in strategus, but still looks stupid when you play with the rapetrain on eu1 every time there's a lot of byz online.

[Butan]

-= I'm sry Bagge, we wont keep this war going on, you showed us in a great way what would happen if we fight against old and well included players of crpg =-

Best Regards

Conquisitore

Well, it was fun while it lasted    only fought once atm 

Guess its time for the offensive