I think one of the funnier parts is how much Aldo has emphasized how little they care about strat - yet they have been the most active traders all strat building up to plate armies and as soon as they started losing to a tiny faction he runs begging for help from another giant faction to bail him out of his own ineptitude. We are laughing pretty hard right now. 
Not sure if anyone in LCOH has been in contact with you or your faction, but Vue sent a PM to some of our members on Aug 30th saying he was making the decision on his own to attack you. The reasoning he gave was that someone in MB had barely survived a battle, had a lot of valuable gear, and he didn't want you to get your hands on it since you had already taken a couple villages near his.
I don't really know much about what we're doing in strat, but figured I'd at least set the record straight. It doesn't appear there was any conspiracy to have MB and LCOH team up against you guys. I sent a PM asking if I should attack Matey or Bale (not sure which one it was) in the area, and was told to leave you guys alone.
I'm assuming we've had some sort of talks with you or your faction, but if not, there you go.
Personally, I don't care what happened or happens since I can't ever make any strat battles. But I want to thank you for bringing battles back to strat. You know, the whole reason for moving our gay little pixels around.
The way people are playing this round of strat is the same as playing Civ 5 and going for a diplomatic victory. You're doing it wrong.
*EDIT*
Actually the way people are playing is actually probably closer to people playing Civ 5 and not even going for a victory, just playing to enjoy building up an empire.
