We never bitched about being attacked, we bitched about time zones. Well, yes, we bitched, but it was all tongue in cheek propaganda. Kinda like the pics of a fat guy eating MacDonald's and firing off an M-60 at a deer. 'Murrica, dude!' But it was so obviously ironic that I', surprised some people got offended. At the time the general consensus was, 'if we're going down, it is to Eu massive armies and money'. Not a shameful way to die at all.
But we found it kind of sad that you would boast about your early victories. Or any victories. Not quite cool. Is it a Euro thing to try demean your enemies? You scoffed at the stupid NA commanders, but I asked your mercs what you did different. All they said was you used more siege equipment. So please shut up about German efficiency.
But I will admit that if you had layered your attacks, you could have won Durquba. But I won't believe you never tried capturing the flags. I watched (because I could never make the battles) your guys drop flags, and our guys frantically put them up again.
In this case I agree with HOC Zeus. And, actually, I always have. Play to win. Quit pissing about. XP battles are silly. You push to own the map, and it is fun... and futile. The more you win, the more people are against you. But it is fun trying. We had planned for you to steamroll us, and when you didn't, it fuct us all up. So try a little harder. No one believes your 'WE culda won but we chose not to,' Bullshit. Fight like a man. I challenge you.
Oh, and far as propaganda goes: yes, HCE ninja rostered. McDeath got mad at me for signing people, but he's not with us anymore. And yes, village battles. We did that. But who cares about villages? And I will admit the Natzi thing was a little far. But in North America we got over it. Elie Wiesal stopped hating the German people, so so did we. I know Europeans still take it seriously, but in America we let it go. Personally I'm still a little pissed about the 30 years war- WTF! But my parents and grandparents were in Holland during the war, and while they hated the SS and the Gestapo and the Dutch Collaborators, they were ok with the Whermacht- ie the regular Germans. My grandma fed some fleeing kid out of pity. So no worries about that, for us NAers its all cool (we have notoriously short attention spans), and already worthy of joking about.
But the only thing we hated was that you came in with 30-60K shiny troops. NA altogether did not have 30K troops. Once we got 2-300 men, we went on the attack. We had some excellent cat and mouse games (Yruma castle, anyone?), and, honestly, if it wasn't for the shitty rosters, it would have been great.
So, TL;DR:
Eu brought big battles: good
Eu boasts too much: bad
HCE brought down by massive Eu armies: honourable
Eu boasts about that: dishonourable
Eu wants Eu time zoned battles: sucky for me and west coasters
Eu holds off til 1-2 am their time: nice for East coasters, sucky for most Eu and NA, but wtf can you do?
Northern NA map has typical tiny NA field battles, where every game is close, and no one is ganked (Hounds of Mithrim genreally need ten less mercs to make it not a gank): thanks Eu, for getting people to actually look for battles.
So sez I!
