Avakael

I will consent to ford being present in the peace talks, on the condition that I also get to be there for the purpose of trying to make the war longer and saltier.

I'd tell you to mald, but I've probably already scalped every tCW nation within 5 cities of mine over the last 6-7 years.

Criticism of the merge in this thread is so fever dream that I can't tell where the jokes stop and the salt begins

I just want out

I don't encourage comparing t$ to MI6.

As the MoSTa of Cataclysm I confirm this surrender.

I spent a week in Rose, it was basically just t$ with chess tournaments. This bloc makes perfect sense to me.

Your sentiment is correct, but the way you intend to fix it won't actually make anything better. The winner will still be decided within the first round, because there'll be nowhere near as many nations rebuilding their way to try again from beige than there were nations available in the first place. You're just making the process more tedious and expensive for everyone involved. Otherwise you wouldn't be including points 4 or 5 to compensate, because both of them go against your stated intention in this quote- why would you, for example, make your military units 10% less effective when you come out of beige early, when a counteroffensive with everyone choosing to exit beige early at a specific time is the only tactic anyone would have available to try and re-take control of the war? In reality, the issues with the PnW war system run vastly deeper, and won't be fixed by tweaking individual components like the beige system. It should be rebuilt from scratch- not just MAP and beige, but wars themselves, military units, etc. PnW made things interesting over CN by splitting infrastructure, land and improvements out from a single national pool into individual cities- why not think about how to do the same for our armies?

Just don't bring back Utmos.

I will add something here because I was one of the very, very few then members of t$ who actually wanted it to happen. The Syndicate sought to sign the NPO for the specific goal of shaking up the game and breaking the monotony of fighting the same war over and over- which we had done at least 4 times in a row before Knightfall and risked doing again due to how poor relations were between t$ and BK, for example. If you go back to the roots of t$ membership in the alliances we came from in the prior game, you can actually add yet another 3 or 4 major wars against the NPO (or coalition allies) in a row, going all the way back to 2013. For us, that was a montony well beyond anything this game faces now.

Imagine being so pitiful that you have to come all the way to the next war, with completely different parties involved, and project your feelings onto other people there.

Great! Now cancel Thunderstruck as well.

Wait, TKR actually let Malal in? Do you like being acrimonious with t$?

I would argue that almost all of the import alliances are just average awful micros and a shadow of their former selves. I'll except GATO, because I wouldn't call them an awful micro, just a normal one. I'll also except Legion, which is wild, because historically, Legion had a legitimate, long term and deadly serious claim to the Worst Alliance Ever crown, and now they actually look kinda competent. I hope all the others feel crippling shame that they've been leapfrogged, though. EDIT: Also, Ampersand gets a pass because they got pwned by hackers while they still had 150-200 members, so they were never going to become what R&R was.

Scrolled down to point exactly this out. Good video otherwise, though.

It was Oasis for sure. Nothing wishy washy or indecisive about a backstab! 💪

No they don't.

So your own government says that screenshots don't exist, and you say they do, but when you're asked to show the screenshots, we're just being silly and we should just believe you? Is that you, Rudy Giuliani?

Some elaboration might be interesting.

"Alexa, roll a d3".

The fact that there's 9 alliances and 1500 nations in this new arrangement isn't even the biggest crime. The biggest crime is that they're absolutely hot garbage. They're signing this thing because both groups are completely hopeless at leveraging the resources they already have. ...and signing each other won't save them in any 2 on 2 scenario, either.

Petition to exclusively refer to this grouping as "White Chicks the bloc™"