Avakael

I haven't had that issue in years, myself, but that'll be because I'm usually on the outnumbered side.

Was the main event, then. Not sure why we didn't put you in the ground, but if you're supposed to be our ally now, I guess that's not a problem? O.o

Who, Alpha? You're not training. You're the main event. I've not been in The Syndicate since the beginning, but I can think of no alliance we hated as much as you. Your fate was always going to be at the bottom of the biggest, thickest boot we could put on, preferably pre-smeared in dog shit. I'm surprised nobody seems to think of them. At minimum, it'd be easy training for alliances looking to blood rookie members, cheap too if they didn't have many cities. Also, my understanding is that our assistance was specifically requested, and that we had a pre-existing friendship with tC. What a weird fricking day, man, a day when people are actually insisting that the ancient treaty web monstrosity that certain roots of the PnW community thought up of needs to be less ambiguous. As for "BSing points", well, you'd definitely assume that from me. Feeding you BS is what I do. Remember when I told you back in that INQ v t$ fight that our bank was running dry, and nobody could get their hands on the shit needed to stay in the fight, and that our leaders were incompetent and sent us on a suicide mission, and everyone was accusing the people who'd managed to stay out of the shark tank of war desertion? Good times.

I was underneath the impression that with just a few exceptions, there's virtually no beef between any of those alliances.

If it's too hard to set up practice, and you can't be arsed to wait for something else to jump in on, then you kind of have to accept that it might go pear shaped. Demanding conformity to the appalling decade old CN treaty system is lazy. This is a different game, damn it. At least come up with some new ideas. Even going "paperless" is just a term devised under that system to define people who don't follow it.

This doesn't actually address my point at all. They were looking for a fair fight. If they'd made an arrangement instead of blindsiding someone, they'd have one, and the presence of treaties, secret treaties, paperless agreements, out of context friendships or any other thing the people of Orbis can think up of wouldn't matter.

What, that we showed up with 180+ nations? I did address that. We didn't show up with 180+ nations. We showed up with whoever was online with 45 minutes notice that felt like it, which at the time was 8 nations followed by 2 stragglers later on. That was all that was necessary. If we wanted to truly burn them to the ground, we'd have waited another day, brought in twice as many fighters, and made literally any effort at all on beige staggering.

Hello there, Oblivion members. You were plainly not incompetent in-game, despite what your communication skills on this forum and the main PnW Discord server might otherwise suggest. I saw you make intelligent decisions about not wasting resources on a fight you felt you couldn't win; I saw you protect your bank, as none of us pulled much loot out of y'all. I saw none of you had wasted money going above 2,000 infra on any cities. I saw your national damage ratios, and they were mostly comparable to what the average Syndicate veteran would have. Most notably, I saw virtually every single one of you log in within 10 minutes of being struck by us, which almost no alliance would match. So to credit those things- nice work. Instead, you were undermined by a lack of political understanding. I feel like you don't seem to be connecting the dots, so I've gotten my crayons out to put a few paragraphs on the walls. When you first-strike an unaware and unprepared enemy alliance, you usually win. In fact, you have to do a piss poor job to screw it up. The military advantages of even a double buy over absolutely nothing are usually nearly insurmountable. You'll notice that this is why you got off to such a roaring start over tC. To flip that on it's head, and to continue my point, you yourself felt you were struck unaware (and underprepared at best- all of you were vulnerable on your jets counts) when The Syndicate entered to defend our friends in tC. For context, none of us who hit you had more than about 45 minutes of notice that we were going to war, and we attacked with just a single-buy of units. We attacked with 18-19 hours remaining before our next possible unit purchase; even a full hour before the next tick was coming. We did these incredibly lazy things because we knew we'd be able to get away with it. As expected, you folded on the first strike; none of your nations even made it to the next possible rebuy. Again, not an issue with your competence; it's just how this game works. Hell, look at how the Hogwarts/Inquisition fight went. 20 of us caused a bloodbath against, even in our own tiers, a much larger group of nations who simply weren't expecting or prepared for the strike. 20 guys. That's the 10 of you guys who'd gone in with a plan, and 10 of us t$ guys active enough to respond with 45 minutes notice, and if we'd all worked together and attacked INQ with full military builds, we'd probably go a long way to repeating that feat. You complain, because you felt like you had a "fair" war going on with tC; without realising that attacking an alliance that is not expecting or prepared for you is almost never a fair fight, unless you are attacking utterly overwhelming odds. If you wanted a fair fight and a proper test of your skills, you should have contacted tC and offered them a challenge, where both parties pick an exact starting date and time for hostilities to commence equally both ways. They might have even accepted the offer, and you would have then been able to conduct a war that would not have seen external interference. If you'd done that, you wouldn't have been kerb-stomped by a handful of guys who were pinged on Discord and replied with "eh, why not".

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You're gonna be sorry! Wait, we already forgave them? Well, that's lame.

I don't get what the shock is. People have been doing this for years- If I know I'm about to be in trouble, I'm going to start wars I'm unlikely to win. I'll fight them as best I can anyway because I know the rule, but it doesn't mean I'm not picking people I think are likely to not be awake to coalition non-beiging policies. It's made possible because beiging itself is a self defeating mechanic; by crossing an arbitrary line with your attacks, they get some measure of safety. The mechanic should be thrown out. If there's a replacement mechanic to stop you from smacking an opponent around for as long as you like, it should be that your population isn't comfortable that you're still doing nightly air raids on cities that have been undefended for a month+ of in-game time. That way, you're actually fighting until defeat.

What are the odds offered on bets?

Hey neat, I finally featured in one of the memes!

I'd be in it

BK will be missed.

My numbers will stop looking cool soon, as I reached zero military a few hours ago. RIP.

The anthem should just be the video code- "31FSj7RuqGU".

I came here to get rolled and post memes, and I'm all outta memes

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