Why Kalmarr?
These guys fled EU because the UIF wiped everybody. They are a small clan just trying to play the game. Forget the NA/EU thing. They've played by NA rules. They haven't been hitting people at EU time. They stay up till 3 AM to be fair to NA.
I'm just not down for wiping small clans off the map. We're not even down for wiping AoW. We just wanted to fight and it's been a lot of fun. I'm not saying everyone and their mother should support Kalmar. But c'mon guys. The whole barbarian horde thing is funny. I give Kesh a lot of credit. He goaded UIF into hitting him and got a ton of gear. It was a brilliant move. But why go after Kalmarr? If it's about xp go hit Curaw. That's a fun battle and at least the gear advantage would make it an even fight.
2 reasons - 1) we really didn't want to use the UIF's gear against any NA clans
2) once it started looking like there was no more UIF intent to invade NA we asked ourselves who to attack, we had no plans for kalmar union. Hadn't even entered our sights, just another random neutral. Then Grandmom the leader of their faction started posting a good half-dozen conspiracy theories about us (we asked UIF for help, we were working with UIF to destroy EUs in NA, we gave the UIF gear we got to AoW, we made a bunch of unarmed britannic armies into shiny using UIF gear, etc. etc. all of which proved unfounded even though he claimed it was all based on multiple spy reports lol) - he made it a very easy choice.
By the way they are not small faction - 30+ players and their ally cooperation has over 40 players. We took 22,5000 eu goods from them, these guys were one of the wealthiest factions on the map (was being the operative word). We actually are an 8-man faction. Taking 2 villages is not wiping them out, they have a bunch of armies hiding inside acre fiefs that ran away from us. They have over 8x as many players in their combined factions as we do, cooperation has 9K troops in rindyar castle alone not counting the 2 cities and other fiefs they hold in EU. Their ally could easily give them 1 of their cities in EU.
