We would win this Strat if;
+ Templars didn't get wiped so easy and stopped showing up in rosters, same as Eques.
+ people sent the armies they promised.
+ We merged with Hobos earlier and make a big organized faction
+ people with 32472364 rounds of Strat experience didn't cancel battles lose troops go afk and shit.
+ people didn't stack 20k S&D in their fiefs and threaten everyone not to take it.
+ we had better players overall.
Other than that, we deceived ourselves every battle, saying we did good, in reality we never did good except first few battles, lack of commanders, spam of orders in TS made me mute myself more than a few times. When we realised that it was the middle of the Strat, yet it still kept being an issue.
We didn't lose this Strat on the map, actually I've seen a few good maneuvers done by our allies. We lost this Strat in the battlefield, like everyone of them.
NA is really superior to EU in Strategus. Roleplay factions, battles over fun, no tryharding at all. We might learn a couple of things from them. Acre tries to form a Mega Alliance with Gobblins (basically Kapikulu here) and they got a shittons of flame.Why? Because it kills the fun.
We now plan to take a castle and attack whoever we see, because FUCK alliances.