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They awoke to a lit beacon atop the mountain, it could only mean one thing....war! The members of IQ started running with their tails between their legs at the site of Prefondue and his merry band of whales trailblazing through their cities, leaving the distinct footprint of a Hippo in each and every one. Once they realised continuing to counter Prefoundation lead to nothing but blubber and an increasing $20b+ black hole they decided to regroup and take out their frustrations on an alliance under the protection of their Overlord Roqster in an attempt to gain some positive publicity and war stats. Unfortunately for them said alliance had just gotten out of another blitz & dogpile and had hardly rebuilt, luckily for that alliance they will gain more than they lose. That seems to be a common occurrence with these masterminds, the Roqster wheel keeps landing on the same strategy. Let's go over it: Find a target that isnt stagnating the political landscape Gather everyone you can Declare on them an hour between a turn change Don't focus air, that's the worst unit! Sit back and relax, the dogpile was victorious! Wait for Ripper to post the net gains/losses from the war Scream in terror and ask the Overlord, what do we continue to do wrong? U do not know da wae is Roqster's response each time. So let this be a lesson to all nations, don't utilise aircraft, don't worry about double-buys and most importantly, don't beg for peace 5 minutes after you declare war(See below). Give thanks to Orange Defence Network when you spot a member of theirs, a year of nothingness leads to nothingness. If only every alliance followed suit, we may bring this NationSim to an end sooner. Assassin Order hereby recognises The Inquisition (and Dragonstone)'s blitz as an act of war and will react accordingly. Lets make that $20b hole a solid $50b Assassins. This would of been posted sooner but Fortnite is much more interesting that this.

A few days ago, we Assassins were doing our usual spying on people, and we came accross a rather interesting video while spying on the nation of T-Ara, no use to us in our current form, but it seemed to have been ordered to be destroyed by someone named “Kayser.” You successfully gathered intelligence about T-Ara. Your spies discovered that T-Ara has 12 spies, $0.00, 0.00 coal, and a Black Box. Your agents were able to operate undetected. The operation cost you $593,969.70 and 0 of your spies were captured and executed.

People who know me know the fact that I hardly ever post on these forums and just casually go around liking posts or on occasions posting a meme here and there but I do feel I should make a reply to what you have to say here. Thank you for your honest responses and while I do not wish to doubt your intentions I am just awed at how much it lacks foresight. Let's start with you claiming to protect upper tiers from fighting each other without an IQ split. Mate that is the entire argument you made against IQ for their mid tier consolidation, why can't people call you out on it when you make the same rhetoric they made. You want to woo NPO with some spectacle while they are parading around believing their own fake sphere split narrative, I don't mind you doing that but then coming up with paperless agreements at the same time you go around telling people to leave their own consolidation has a pinch of hypocrisy. I am not saying your intent is malicious, it could very much be sincere but you are wearing these horse blinders that is even blocking you from seeing inconsistencies in your own narrative. I specially liked the part where you claimed that you are against Nuke bloc kicking down the barn door before addressing mid tier consolidation and calling it premature. Did you also consider it premature when you discussed with tcw and kt your plans on addressing upper tier consolidation after you make "relevant member from IQ" leave. Again goes back to my statement about horse blinders. Just take a lesson from people like Partisan who have been leaked on sharing conflicting narratives to people in private and you are the second in command of the biggest alliance in this game, if you tell one person one thing, a third person is 100 percent guaranteed to know what you are also telling the second person. Stick to a narrative and be consistent with it for yourself and for your allies. So lets assume with some God given miracle an alliance like NPO that has for several months now told you they have drawn a red line and they won't leave IQ under any circumstances. You will have a Sphere that contains your core allies Pantheon, The Commonwealth, NPO, your peripheral ties contain Knights Templar and their allies who you were talking to about addressing upper tier consolidation post NPO joining and then there are some paperless agreements you have with tS and CoS. You are telling me mate that is a minisphere? Are you gonna do a split with them as well and we will start calling this game agar.io. Every time you make alliances leave their spheres you will make your sphere smaller or just call it a win for dynamism? I still can not even believe you guys are still thinking Roquentin is gonna do anything on any level without IQ being part of the equation. After leaving your former allies in particular allies of the bloc Bad Company and Nuke bloc, the circumstances of which are already so questionable thanks to the damage control you did that you even went back to Bad Company for a treaty only recently and expected some to just say yeah sure let bygones be bygones and we can all move in together again. Mate like who do you think you are outsmarting here or if you aren't then why do you not see anything from the perspective of the people you cut off. And after cutting them off your biggest move to work for dynamism is to jump in when Polaris comes to you for a chance to hit arrgh. Forgive me if I feel disappointed but I at least expected you to hit a major alliance with enough defensive slots to be considered a blitz if you truly wanted to build bridges. I am just impressed by the fact that you think rolling 12 people in arrgh can build bridges with IQ peripheral alliances, I really lack that type of optimism. Mate they are laughing their ass off in the back channels at the capital you burnt to roll people that are so irrelevant to the political game. This last paragraph really made me laugh. I don't think you want to aim for hegemony but you definitely want to prove something and you keep doing these questionable things that make me think Roq doesn't even have to do any work anymore considering whenever he makes a disappointed face you are ready to say you are wrong and I will prove to you how wrong you are. Any actions you did after the split is what many consider sunk-cost fallacy. On your quest to prove Roq wrong about your intentions, you split from EMC, burnt bridges with your former allies, even when he is saying there is a red line that he will not leave IQ you are still telling us you will get "relevant IQ alliance" to join you. Its reached a point where you don't want to or can't pull out anymore that you are doubling down on it. Its the classic sunk-cost fallacy. I am willing to say even the attack on arrgh to build bridges is part of the political equation in your head in regards to the sunk-cost fallacy. Maybe Polaris has shown they no longer want to be tied to IQ alliances but seriously that still doesn't achieve the goal of you setting out to convince "relevant IQ alliance" to join your minisphere or even make their own sphere for that matter. You laid out a plan that you could have done to make sure you at least have some bargaining chips to negotiate with "relevant IQ alliance". According to yourself you not only actively handicapped yourself so you could appeal to the koolaid Roq served but you even antagonized the people that stood up for you as an ally. Again goes back to sunk-cost fallacy. By any objective metrics they are aware that their economics is suffering in low tier consolidation and their membership is suffering as well. Only NPO has been able to benefit from IQ with their per day revenue at 400 million cash and 25k refinement of each resource except steel with -17k with a -300k food deficit. No one in IQ is even 1/3 close to those numbers for resource even during peace time but they want to be allied to NPO so what kind of an offer can you make to NPO that they can simple accept to abandon their clique and their thriving economy and their low mid tier consolidation. You can not even make an offer to economically and internally struggling alliances to leave IQ much less thriving ones. Forgive me if I think Roquentin is more pragmatic than you. Time and time again some IQ alliances have told you their alliance success is in line with IQ success so I don't know which part you are ignoring and which part you are accepting. Like sure polaris likes you and aren't invested in IQ that much and might even jump with you but that doesn't achieve anything you set out to do. If 22 people fighting IQ is persecuting them, a war they continue to claim is not even a conflict and they are just casually ignoring it then neither downvoting your most loyal ally's meme will instill confidence in them for your good intentions to change the game. Like sure I know small acts matter but how would you pitch that to an IQ alliance, "look I downvoted my own ally's meme just to make sure you guys know I am not bullshitting to you about my intentions". Yeah that's gonna be something they will say "good job, yes you are doing things that show you are genuinely interested in working closely with us for the betterment of the game" and they for sure aren't laughing their asses off at you pandering to them in such a petty way.

I'd provide some text here, but already spent 3 hours to many on this so.

Be Roquentin Browsing the OWF as one does. Sees thread about TKR and clicks on it. "TKR are actually cowardly pricks who are worse than NPO and are sucking up to Roq to not be losers." Roquentin:

Recently, The Holy Covenant declared its existence to Orbis. We would like to formally announce our founding government and charter: The Holy Covenant Government Prophet: Bumstead Messenger: TheKaiser Seeker of Disciples (IA): PlainKiller02 Seeker of Friends (FA): Greater Austrian Reich Seeker of Coin (Econ): ChaoticGamer Seeker of Protection (Defense): EHSorvvson THC Charter Prop

What the hell did I just watch

...... ...... ...... Shit.

To all the people posting in support of Arrgh and trashing TKR for wasting a ton of money: Thank you for you support, but let's keep in mind that going to war and doing something off the cuff shouldn't be limited by who's gonna lose more money. If you wanna declare war on someone, go for it. Hold a grudge, make an enemy, fight a battle, shake it all off afterwards. Arrgh is living proof that you can survive through wars just fine. Just have fun.

Welcome to the shit show.

Doesn't he realise that he is talking to Lordship? Just because he calls himself Kastor doesn't mean it is actually Kastor. Look at the Avatar! It's clearly Lordship. That devious Lordship. Tricking his own subordinates into thinking there can be no peace.

No, we left CoS when we found out Manthrax was Canadian. Can you blame us?

>be tkr >be criticized for writing a wall of text garbage that says nothing >write another wall of text garbage that says nothing smh IC died for this?

Nah @Micchan TKR didn't dissolve the biggest bloc in the game, it was already crumbing when you dropped Guardian. My issue is that you're blatantly trying to cater to IQ, otherwise you wouldn't have made a DoW with 3 alliances that are nowhere near you on the treaty web, 2 of them have fought against your side in the last world war. Otherwise what's the point of declaring war on Arrgh? When just a few months ago, Hades went crying to Lordship about Arrgh raiding HBE and TKR naturally didn't bother mass building up nor writing a DoW, since Arrgh is pretty much always rekt. I'm not a hypocrite like your alliance's gov members, so I obviously acknowledge any war on Arrgh is justified. The fact that you're dogpiling just shows how sad you are, even sadder is trying to glue yourselves to IQ after knocking on almost every door, but I guess that just comes with being spineless. What makes this even better is that, before and during NPO's First Time, TKR had an M level treaty with both NPO and t$, having purposely withheld intel from NPO to plan a war against them, now they see NPO's sphere as a threat so might as well try to save your pixels by doing something for their current allies and remove a target from your backs. Everyone can see what your alliance is trying to accomplish, so your gov doesn't need to drop the act because they couldn't be more transparent in their actions which contradict their speech and supposed intentions in cancelling Guardian. TKR is still the same hegemony prone and risk averse alliance it's always been. In this case the risk was remaining distant from the only threat to you (IQsphere) after EMC imploded. But sooner or later we'll be able to witness the outcome of all this, so I guess we'll have to wait and see.

A visual aid if anyone doesn’t understand what’s going on.

You refused to peace out the individual nations from IoM when they left JEst. You did not declare on IoM as an alliance. Vosunda joined the Knights Templar after leaving JEst. I have been informed that you have not even attempted to go after him. This looks like a classic case of selective application of policy and flexing on the weak. Are you afraid?

Nowhere in my post did I claim TKR was trying to join IQ. Trying to pretend I have a narrative to push is rather ignorant considering how vocally outspoken I am towards the very same things. My criticism is fairly simple. You are making moves that are inherently in contrast to your claimed goals, either on purpose or via a misguided error. You can use any combination of word salad you like to justify it but attempting to sign the second largest alliance in the game in the pursuit of forming "mini-spheres" is preposterous.

don't wish that evil on me also lordship you suck

Still no weed references, huh? Sad.

In case Kastor's is too confusing, I've made my own:

Good luck in your battles, Assassinos!

alexander skarsgård is such a babe

Eh wish you guys luck, yup it sucks when your adoring fanboys turn on you with a drop of independence...

get off my lawn

Partisan you like to do a lot of shit talking about the effectiveness or dynamism of other alliance's FA directions but let's take a look at your track record since leaving t$. The only conflicts you've been involved in since leaving The Syndicate were fighting wars where you had an overwhelming tier advantage and you knew your enemy couldn’t muster up a good defense (oh and you were the 50th person to hit Valkyrie congrats). You've accomplished literally nothing else since then except giving billions in loans to the hegemony you now oppose. I'd say that's ample evidence you always desperately needed the direction of people like Jr, Thrax, and Chaunce to get anything done. - Smith, former FA current ad hominem user

It's happening

I got cancer in places I didn't think you could get cancer. Well done.

I don't understand the idea of imploding a sphere to end stagnation. Now there isn't a centralized sphere to challenge IQ's "dominance". Why would they give up their current position? Because you said please?

That phone needs to be charged. Just like TKR leadership. Especially @Kayser

If people were to drop a chat log and it had Dutch on it, everybody would know the source of it. The creator of this ad did Arrgh and TJ more of a favor than not. It's a brilliant ad. Can Sheepy implement a way for players to upvote/downvote an ad?

We all know that all this public bickering, smith showing his ass, TKR hitting Arrgh, all of it... It's just EMC trying to convince IQ that the split is real and at the end of the day it's a trap trying to lure IQ into another losing war...

Lordship with another unprovoked and brutish assault.

Jesus fricking Christ on a pogo stick, you idiots are trying to suck up to Roq so hard you're starting to write like him. Except he's starting to embrace the power of memes so you're a year out of date, as per usual for your FA.

Good posts Kal. Clearing up some specifics. You kept your paperless ties/protected them from a possible nuke bloc hit. Yet in the same breath, you're out claiming you want to encourage mini-sphere wars and small scale conflict? We were willing to protect those alliances from a nuke bloc hit because upper tier fighting each other without an IQ split will only give them more leverage not to split "why leave when our enemies are fighting each other, we can just grow". EMC has already split and the divisions are real. Anyone looking from the outside in should be able to tell that by now. What will not help is if during negotiations one side gets everything thing they want without concessions. So, we were willing to step in. The end goal is of course smaller scale wars and smaller spheres, but we obviously consider the smaller spheres part to be the gatehouse to smaller wars. The split of the mega-spheres has been a long term goal of ours for a while now, this is known. Nuke bloc kicking down the barn door before we can even get the mid tier consolidation addressed is premature. Which is why we were willing to discourage it. You speak of mini spheres, yet in the same breath are trying to talk to/ally various top 5 alliances? We're not attempting to sign a mini-hegemony (tm) we're attempting to create an environment where IQ can be split and it so happens a number of relevant IQ alliances are top 10. Its well known we have talked to these alliances in an effort to get them to split. At the moment IQ as a sphere will control everything below 17 cities if they exist as is. In order to bring some sort of significant competition to those tiers, splitting up relevant IQ alliances is a must. And talking to these alliances isn't cozying up to them or at least not the connotation of it. We're not talking to these alliances at the expense of our former allies. It is in pursuit of getting them to believe the changes we have made and feeling comfortable enough to take part in it. Not even necessarily with us. If they want to strike out and form their own thing, that is just as well. It just so happens that the most other alliance on the web are so hypersensitive to the idea of working with an IQ alliance (gross, I know), that it seems no one else has even approached them in order to help facilitate this. So we suffer the rain of criticism while certain keyboard warriors sit on their hands (and type with their epeen). If we wanted to keep or aim for hegemony, we would have stayed with EMC. Double down on the sphere by consolidating, encourage growth by funding all of the smaller alliances in the sphere and building enough of a lower tier threat to overwhelm IQ in all tiers. But a hegemony isn't what we wanted then and its not now despite what some prominent posters would have you believe. We did not cut those ties for nothing anyone who knew the state of our relationship with those alliances we parted from should know this and it certainly would not have been done just so we can form another hegemony with folks we haven't been chilling with since our inception. Keep recycling your narrative though cause I'm sure there is not a better use of your efforts. You speak of small scale conflict yet in the same breath actively discourage elements like JEst, Arrgh etc. from engaging in such warfare? Small scale conflict is eventually the goal but wars such as JEst's and Arrgh's actively discourage the actual viability of a world post IQ mid tier supremacy by continuously antagonizing them and creating a game environment that encourages them to continue to stay together. This is of course, against our vision and preferred outcome so of course we would disagree with those actions and take steps against them. In JEst's example, we cut our protectorate that ghosted them. For Arrgh well, Arrgh was just a chance for us to show that we were willing to work with IQ alliances in pursuit of a goal (In order to give credence to our stated direction, not as pre-application ( see you typing there)). No, we don't think Arrgh is the evil of all evils, and neither is JEst but you guys are going about this the wrong way. Aggressive action will always be met with a defensive response and persecuting those IQ alliances will only make it more likely that they stay together. So, if your goal really is to have more fun in a world with multiple poles so you can swim in all of the intrigue, stop fricking it up for those of us actually working towards that goal.

Wait. Polaris, TUE, and Cerberus needed TKR to join up with them against Arrgh?

From a super high quality source of course!

What results did you get? Asking for a friend.

Too long have lazy and complacent alliances been allowed to farm taxes from inactive whales, instead of returning them to the dynamic™ lifecycle of the natural food chain to be recycled into ambitious and active nations who fear neither risk nor retaliation. Too long has the pirate playstyle been surpressed by those who prefer security over freedom. And to add insult to injury, those alliances even conspire together to sink that small fleet of the defiant underdog. Yet there is one salty dog who dares stand up to them... The Wrath of God declares war on TKR. ...too bad all my slots were already full.

Another day of frightful staleness plagues the world of Orbis The players clamor for the next great hero of Dynamism™ A glimmer of hope shines, why on this day does TKR stretch well beyond three-hundred-twenty-thousand? Will Orbis finally be saved from the clutches of infinite boredom, by a long awaited skull smashing? Alas, it was simply not to be For all the hope which the people of Orbis had born on that day, was indeed slain in a fell instant As TKR unleashed their anticipated wrath, not against anyone relevant of meaningful, but against... Arrgh? For... raiding? Seriously? Oh boy. The people of Orbis shuddered, and desk manufacturers quintupled their sales to meet demand for objects to smash ones head into due to frustration. From her perch on Mount Olympus, Akuryo too was most disappointed, until it occurred to her Only an idiot would declare war on Arrgh with a bunch of useless nobody's to stop raiding! Thus she took herself to the Oracle, for a real answer. The Oracle obliged, and all became clear! Akuryo must warn the people of Orbis, do not fret! There is something interesting after all! Look, upon my vision given by the Oracle! Indeed only a fool would declare war on Arrgh with a bunch of people who can't even hit them, just to stop their raiding But it is clear, the issue is Arrgh's unfaithfulness! From the very beginning, Arrgh could never keep itself to one alliance! Always going to and fro, looking for the next exciting conquest! It was only a matter of time, before a few scorned alliances would punish them for such behavior! Though, in the future, pick a punishment they don't enjoy... This concludes what is probably obviously my first attempt at making a meme. Special thanks to @Dr Rush who taught me some crash course video editing to even make the attempt. If this is terrible, i highly suggest you blame him, it's obviously his fault and i am completely innocent and should not be held accountable in any way. Good night, Orbis!

Or you know, giving allies less than a 24 hour notice. (I think it was more like 12 hours notice)

Azaghul join Arrgh

Well, if you paid any attention to pirate tactics, you would see that coming. Raiding is about profiting from attacks while keeping the losses to a minimum. I know that it may look strange for someone to sell his tanks after getting 3 downdeclares on him, but not everyone is willing to help you just increase your tanks destroyed stats with airstrikes. So, have fun hitting turtled nations, the infra of which is cheaper than the actual gas and munitions you spend on your attacks. People have to realize at some point that there are no "Arrgh friends" or "Arrgh enemies". Each Captain has a DNR or a raiding of his/her own. His own playstyle, goals, interests, friends, enemies. You can hit all 60 members of Arrgh for a raid of one member, but this will not cause any pressure to the group. There is no leadership to corner and make it submit to your will and "impose" restrictions on the raids of the members. And there is no sense of "responsibility" towards the alliance in the classic term. Every Arrgh member just accepts it may be hit by an alliance that it has never raided before just because of the raid of another member. Even if Arrgh did have friends on an alliance level, in the way you have in mind, there would be no need to call them out. As it has been stated again and again, this is just a typical day for Arrgh. Even if Arrgh did have friends on an alliance level and did need some kind of assistance, again it wouldn't call for them, just to get killed by you. But of course, you know that, and that's a reason TKR attacked in the first place. With some help too, just to be on the safe side. I didn't really get that part, but it sounds offending. If you mean that a pirate is too busy to think about friends, look at my previous point. By the way, I am neither a pirate nor an Arrgh member anymore, for the past month. The past two weeks, I've been busy fighting your new best friends in IQ, as a Terminal Jest member.

Why are there 4 alliances fighting pirates with no infrastructure? entirely a shitass waste

Saying 'dynamic' that many times will not speed up the approval process, just so you know.

Your narrative and the effectiveness of your actions have already been torn to shreds pretty effectively. Plus your designs on a NPO treaty are practically public record. You are so far behind in the PR battle that your detractors have already taken home their gold medals and are filming Wheaties commercials. Just form the new hegemony already so we can all work on getting past it.

Let's see who cares less!

And you got meme’d to death and beat up by a 23 man alliance and your allies are trying to make a major move by hitting Arrgh! You can have several seats. AO wasn’t even a thing 172 days ago.

I expect you to hit some other alliances too then. But that would require some balls from IQ. Go with the paperless micro instead.