I heard several EU explicitly say that Strat was broken and EU wanted a reset, NA didn't want a reset, so EU wanted to ruin NA Strat/make them quit so that they'd want a reset.
Also EU failed at PR which is needed in Strat.
Besides EU doesnt want battles, they want the crpg.net site to say that there was a battle and that their faction won. It's why they always quit when the battles don't go well.
Different people may have had different goals for sure and all I can speak for is my own perspective. We were enemies before the invasion you know... We had a completely different plan with Kratos for this Strat. Then it bugged out, we lost our army and our goods and decided to quit like the Tormatuns who found out about the bug (which according to Professor was used by NA first btw).
I've compared this NA invasion to the Iraq war which went about as well. There was this idea to just attack NA but no plan on how to do it and what to do afterwards. The reason there was no plan because everyone just assumed it was going to be reset/rolled back any day as Prof said he would. That was couple of weeks ago now. You can say that's failed PR but there was never supposed to be any of that anyway from my understanding. I don't know if the others tried to reach people or not, I certainly didn't.
For us all of this is disappointing and people are angry and frustrated and the comments reflect that at times. cRPG on EU is completely dead now and the dev team seems to have no interest in doing anything about it. Strategus mechanics are all broken and again there's no interest in trying to fix any of these. And when trying to talk to people about these problems you get called a crybaby and banned from discord when you sink to the same level of argumentation yourself. I don't know why I even bother to read and write on the forums anymore tbh, it's just hard to let go I suppose.
At fifteen, I had the will to learn ; at thirty, I could stand ; at forty, I had no doubts ; at fifty, I understood the heavenly Bidding ; at sixty, my ears were opened ; at seventy, I could do as my heart lusted without trespassing from the square..