I DO have an army, and gear, but it's a garrison and not to leave the castle. I've been building/gearing up armies of ours for a bit, but our guys generally do it themselves. IE: Each army/trader is his own gear, time and effort, and not coordinated at all from up top beyond targets to attack.
Okay, leaving an army as garrison is understandable. But why do you blame everybody else for Strat being dead? You technically could help by using your army. Obviously you won't, because it would be stupid, no doubt.
At the moment our faction is running with a very flat command structure as well, people ask for goods, whoever owns our city distributes them to our members and they run off and go trade and shit. I know it takes ages like that to actually get decent armies going. But apparently so do you. So please stop shoving the blame over to us EU people and other NA factions who have not yet had good battles. Maybe they just need more time. Blame the devs instead, they raised the gear prices to insane amounts so small factions cannot afford decent gear for months.
We are trying, but we cannot create gear out of nothing.
(Obviously, this does not go for the factions who do have gear, but just don't use it)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Anyway, I guess I can give some overall unbiased input. I think I have played for literally every faction that is currently active on Strat. I cannot say that I dislike any of the leaders, in fact I am pretty sure that I like everyone of them. So I am holding no grudges whatsoever. Neither have I bothered to read all the propaganda or anti-propaganda of anybody so no bias there either.
(The following is solely based on my observations, if anything I say is not true, then I apologise, and feel free to correct me, thank you =) )I do not know which faction has how much gear, how many troops etc. All I know is that certain factions have loads of fiefs.
Squids and Acre have had some really nice battles, unfortunately I could not make it to any of them pretty much
Anyway, I think nobody can complain about them at all.
Then I see KbW and Occitans owning quite a lot of land, and I have not seen many battles of them. I am sure they have a lot more potential than they are showing. So please guys, even if you do not use the best gear, just make some battles happen
Wardens of the North (That grey bunch in the North-East and Northern Steppes) have a few fiefs as well, and quite a lot of troops. No idea about the gear, but I really hope once you have the financial possibilities that you will buy gear and just start some shit.
Black Company and this weirdo blue-ish faction that owns Kelredan Castle seem fairly small, so I assume they need a bit of time to actually get decent gear for really nice battles.
Bro's certainly have quite a bit of gear as far as I know, their attack on Rindyar Castle could have been a nice fight, but they chose to attack at a ridiculous time. Quite disappointed about that, but I hope in future you will decide to attack at nice NA times, rather than EU times (We are in NA after all guys, please show appreciation that you are not instantly driven back to EU by all of NA)
Birds, very small and I doubt anybody expects them to actually start conquering the map. However, a little bit of activity is definitely appreciated
PS: BIRD CLAN BEST CLAN *flap flap*
Legitimate Businessmen (Blue down in the desert, assume they all belong to the Legit B.men) own quite a lot of fiefs now as well. I cannot say whether those fiefs are bought or taken, did not get round to playing many NA battles lately. But I hope to see many nice battles from you guys soon now that you have many fiefs and all
Special Ed is doing a great job, hated by many at first (Thanks to Murders GoT spoilers
) but I think everybody appreciates the nice battles you have had.
Balde: I know you guys had a lot of gear, no idea whether you managed to bring it all over to NA. But I hope you will not be picking your nose only while sitting in your castle down in the South-West
Sloths: Recently had to settle in the Steppes right next to us. Like us they are a fairly small faction, but we are together working on bringing you guys a nice fight or two
Foxes basically belong to us, we gave them our village after they were forced out of their homes in EU (Nope, not by DRZ, by the Seljuks
) So if we happen to have a nice fight, credit goes to them as well.
Super Friends, small faction like us, and Kesh certainly does not put as much energy into Strat as last round (Unfortunately, but understandable) But they have helped small homeless factions and all so I dont think anyone can blame them for Strat being dead. (Just seen Bales post, so I guess we can expect nice battles there soon as well
)
Free Trade fiefs including Sungetche Castle, Reyvadin and Halmar (I assume they all are one faction) Well, free trade fiefs. Cannot expect them to go on a Crusade, especially cause they are basically a one man faction belong to each fief.
Kalmar has a bit of gear left as well, now that Squids are trying to wipe them I expect nice battles to happen in future
