Lu Xun

I'm telling you this only because you are TOP or ex-TOP, but because aircraft and tanks are highly correlated in most instances, and especially on a complete coalition level, having the figure for one can provide the number for the other, which, say, you can't do for soldiers, nukes, and ships. Also, did you just say that aircraft are more important than all other factors in war, including the beneficent will of Dio Brando? I see Syndicate does not take its Mensa relations very seriously.

Good. I have 486 posts. Like them all.

I'm liking your comment because it shows a complete lack of comprehension, and this is new from you.

Because you're terrible at insults. Perhaps a 3rd grader could help you out at that. Why don't you try denying my points instead? So is the observation head on? Possibility #1: tC already has a deal cut with SK, so this is going nowhere. #2: the SK attack was an attempt to bait tC in for a beatdown. #3: no deal was cut, but tC is too cautious to fall for the trap.

Yes, I am. Does this mean we are no longer friends?

Zoot, why don't you take PiZ's advice?

If I have the ability to piss you (and so many others) off, that implies I'm doing something right. SK, for instance, if it were concerned about a UPN response, would simply not have attacked. So either one of two things is happening: someone is claiming that SK and UPN already had an agreement that the attack on NAC would be "permitted", or, SK does not care if UPN intercedes; at this stage, with Rose mostly disabled, offensive slots will be opened and prepared to dogpile UPN intervention. Oh, and BK? Don't make me laugh.

Pearson's R for tanks and aircraft, within the data given, is above .9567, which is far above the critical value for the dataset I have available. The point is that you can infer aircraft count for a given alliance from its tank count with a high degree of accuracy.

Well, you do have NPO beat there, back in the day, so the rumor goes, the NPO IO staff made all of their decisions while drunk.

I literally don't play and the only war I was in was against Hawkeye a couple of months ago. I absolutely do not recall whether or not planes provide ground control or other factors; but in any case, they're highly correlated with tank count as a representative of military industry.

Actually, I'm implying you'll roll tC next war; the Mensynd axis is simply too useful to be discarded. You'd only go after your allies if you were really, really, hopped up on some of those Amsterdam brownies. You know how it's like, you eat a few, all of a sudden you have the munchies, you eat a few more, and before you know it you're orbital.

I'm lazy, #1, planes only destroy infra and at a relatively low rate. I'll update this with as many combatants as I can find on the Conflicts screen closer to update, got to fix up my motorcycle.

Let me be the first to say that no one cares about what happens to Rose, so I'm not being a Rose fanboy when I say this. However, I think tC, if they wanted to intervene, screwed up through a terrible passive play; the first wave of offensive wars on Rose expires tonight, so Rose locking up people's offensive wars ceases to be a factor starting the 8th. If tC strikes any of the Mensynd coalition members, they can be expected to be countered by everything other than their perfidious ally, Black Knights, and even their absence is not a given. Taking the entire tC bloc in, they have a better chance, but if tC had allowed Rose to function as a meatshield, tying up offensive slots, tC would have had an easier in. Now it looks like an attritional stalemate. If tC, on the other hand, delays its hand further, the offensive slots will be redirected to VE, which I imagine tC actually cares about, or others. As I've mentioned before, as the war continues to grind the Paragon side down, tC could find any intervention irrelevant. At this point, VE is fighting the good fight, despite being outnumbered, in part by focusing weaker factions on the enemy coalition. Rose is just a bloody meatshield at this point, and within its coalition the only other alliance that still matters is Alpha. "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh my god, this is like the !@#$ing Nebula awards all over again. Can someone please retract their vote for me and give it to someone else, say, like Captain Vietnam?

This seems strangely appropriate.

Shellhound, did you just make me like Pfeiffer's post? Shame on you. Fight who you want, kill who you will. The strong do what they can, and the weak do what they must.

@Saru: I said that would never happen, right? Sources claim that tC - Synd diplomacy involves Cov thinking that Paragon will get double-tapped next war, which gives tC time to grow and sit things out. However, given the uselessness of the coalition, what prevents Paragon from dissolving or defecting? If tC does not intervene, at the war's end, the biggest and most powerful actor outside of the Mensynd axis is The Covenant. The Covenant has repeatedly shown an inordinate pride and occasional hubris; Mensynd works because the axis represents a co-dependency; Mensa cannot operate independent of The Syndicate, or vice versa. The Covenant, on the other hand, has a strong tradition of independence and may pose a threat to Mensynd; the best course of action then would be to then throw Paragon or ex-Paragon at tC, then either double-tap tC or crush Paragon again after this war cycle. Even if Paragon is aware that it'll be chewed up afterwards, Paragon needs a respite. If the choice is between being double-tapped and taking out tC only to be killed themselves next war, the extended survival is preferable. === That said, of course, I have no clue what your internal discussions look like or what tS's internal discussions look like. You may have plans (that hopefully will work better than your last plan to crush Mensynd after using Mensynd to destroy Paragon). Perhaps they will work, or perhaps they will not work. I'm just talking about what I see as optimal strategy; right now, the ball is in your court, and maybe you have a better move. If you succeed, congratulations, if it blows up in your face again; well, many people need to learn their lessons twice. Whatever, I said I wouldn't comment anymore, and I'm still talking. Have a good one.

Get rolled by NPO repeatedly

Ah, I've seen that you've moved to Syndicate. Congratulations.

You have no sense of how military targeting works. Not surprising, given that you come from an alliance that overstocked nukes and became one of the first examples of the uselessness of nuclear arsenals, and despite being on the winning side of the war in the past few wars, you've taken massive damage from VE et al.

Format: Score / Soldiers / Tanks Covenant "Reserves" UPN: 165,956.06 / 12,985,278 / 640,641 BoC: 63,038.49 / 4,348,589 / 209,622 DEIC: 54,364.01 / 4,171,001 / 120,090 Total 283,387.56 / 21,504,868 / 970,353 I'll update the additions later; with NAC reinforcements Paragon is holding even, but if Covenant does not reinforce within the next few days there will be no point to do so.

Well, why not. I'll do an update and I'll include coalition tanks and soldiers. Just want to see which way this war is going without getting into alliance tools. Format: Date Coalition Alliance Name Member Count / Average Score / Total Score / Percent Change Total Member Count / Average Score / Total Score / Percent Change Total Soldiers / Total Tanks Mensynd vs Paracovenant 8:39 PM Server '16.Feb.6 Mensynd The Syndicate 61 / 1,531.27 / 93,407.61 (-3.3%) The Knights Radiant 90 / 996.49 / 89,683.96 (+9.7%, perhaps I accidentally included BK's figures? But they gained 9 members, so it could be accurate) Black Knights 103 / 802.21 / 82,627.90 (-0.1%) Seven Kingdoms 42 / 1,607.87 / 67,530.42 (-0.3%) Mensa HQ 56 / 1,040.92 / 58,291.34 (-2%) Roz Wei 81 / 573.26 / 46,434.11 (-11.4%) Guardian 16 / 1,562.45625 / 24,999.30 (-11.5%) The Kings Parliament 30 / 801.99 / 24,059.67 (-7.1%) The Coalition 9 / 1,640.02 / 14,760.22 (+0.3%) Total 488 / 1,028.27 / 501,794.53 (-1.5%) Total Soldiers 40,287,361 / Total Tanks 2,419,079 Paragon Viridian Entente 109 / 1,273.74 / 138,838.00 (-4.4%) Rose 80 / 1,174.17 / 93,933.23 (-8.7%) Alpha 28 / 2,509.25 / 70,259.02 (+0.3%) Arrgh 73 / 549.65 / 40,124.41 (+0.1%) The Light Federation 39 / 839.45 / 32,738.58 (-16.8%) Fark 25 / 1,031.84 / 25,795.94 (-10.4%) Vanguard 20 / 918.39 / 18,367.81 (+1.5%) Charming Friends 17 / 626.95 / 10,658.16 (-20.8%) Total 391 / 1,101.57 / 430,715.15 (-6%) Total Soldiers 24,951,796 / Total Tanks 1,443,596 I'll add the additional reinforcements next.

More important is NAC's entry. Once Cornerstone comes in, all reserves of core Paragon will be exhausted. Mensynd has tEst, that's it.

You know, if forced to choose, people can even decide whether they prefer elliptical shit or spherical shit. As long as each option is not identical, there is always a best option. But #null2016.

For amusement's sake, though. Let's say, next war tS decides to ditch the Mensa-bloc faction. tEst and Guardian are in decline; Mensa is relatively stagnant, with membership staying around a certain level. SK seems to be doing fine, but on the other hand Mensa-bloc has an upper-tier superiority that tS might covet. The option, then, is for tS to link up with tC. It's a diagonal link-up; and potentially UPN, as a 160k score force, as well as a mass alliance, could be more potent in the long-run than SK + Mensa. The main problem with this, though, is that tC is unreliable, and Mensa is highly reliable. It could be worth it for shiggles, but as I mentioned in the other thread, this represents overreach and could easily backfire in the long-term. tl;dr: this entire post presupposes things that won't happen Well, you've always been challenged at reading comprehension, even for a hippo. Good night.