Others need more self-confidence and strat managing skills.
We all know that "anti-uif" block has (may be) even more skillfull high level guys (no lifers 
). But disorganized.
Compared to theirs foes UIF-forming factions were small and noone expected them to crush enormous Templar block in just one-two weeks.
The 5 biggest factions in strategus(edit: on EU map) i know of sofar are wait for it
Grey Order 85 players
Druzina 66 Players
Kapikulu 49
Cooperation 49(Barabe & others)
Wolves of Fenris 42(36 Fenris, 9 Guards)
Now the top 3 had been thick as thiefs, the past round and from the looks of it, they are this round together with Shogunate(30 players in faction).
Those 230 players are already controlling/claiming more then 50% of the existing fiefs.
The Friends of Calradia(FoC), try to establish for smaller clans claims. I am their speaker, "not" their leader. Those clans will have their own fiefs, within they have autark sovereign rights.
I have made this post after the evil eques supressors have tried to take my home land, with threats of war.
Strat is becoming ever more impossible for small clans to play in due to the oppression of much larger clans. This came as a shock as Fenris Leader kinngrimm is supporting smaller clans since ever, and now his vasalls make war on House Rouze, OVER ONE VILLAGE! It is disgusting and strategist is becoming an elitist game where only the biggest and best clans can take part and us smaller clans have no chance and have no fun.
Where is the justice? Us smaller clans need a chance in strat!
Regards,
Duty Calls.
Have you talked to me or got in touch with me via pm? Nope. Only that you know, I offered at Start Sfriend, who is the leader and only member of Thule a cooperation, as i liked his Theme and we got to talk in several pms. Within FoC the currently smallest Faction has 3 members, and they will be ready to take their first fief within the week.
Talking with a small clan, does cost time and energy exactly the same way as talking to a big clan, with sometimes not the best of outcomes. Also smaller factions can become rather inactive while big factions can put their hand in their huge playerpool and drag someone to the surface who takes over a task. If you would become inactive out of the 2 players in your faction, then 1/2 of your faction is not doing their job so to speak, if in Grey Order one person becomes inactive then only 1/85 are doing nothing.
I think DutyCalls you are barking up the wrong tree here.(edit: btw why is your faction color shown on the battle roster, "exactly the same" as that of the Mercenaries(36 faction members)? Are you a supporter of them and vice versa? If so then nice propaganda show, mercs always were doing their very best in that area and have quite some expertise you can rely on to stear shit up
)
Yes we are not as "efficient" as bigger factions allying to other bigger factions, our organisation still is sound within FoC. While shitloads of people within the last strat gave up on their faction and went f.e. to play for Grey Order, so they too would be pehaps at one point on the winning side, i see the game mechanics still flawed that they dont do shit about these things. chadz admited that when he would have found a way to better balance down big factions and alliances, then he would do it. I am still of the opinion that would only be doable with a built in diplomatic system as base for calculations, with uniq advantages for those who uses and participate in such a system and therefor but become open for balancing mechanisms.
If you have any *working* suggestion to stop people from creating large factions, feel free to tell me, because I've been looking for a solution for years now.
I made 2 1/2 years ago a few suggestions into that direction, surly not perfect and a lot more complicated then described here.
Account sharing & overproduction & players without factionsWhen i asked Guika last round to start programming a shared LoS and other things, the shared LoS was ment to be the carrot, to get factions to officially ally due to a built in diplomatic system, as that is one of the things which is an advantage of account sharing. So you take that advanatage use it as an insentiv, make account sharing less viable and get people to use a diplomacy system which when used, then can enforce to slow down the big factions and carebear alliances.
