Sphinx

Enjoy your retirement Shiho. Gray has some massive shoes to fill.

Fist mate... return to the game and then you can dunk on TKR in game. TKR's not the victim in this scenario. Neither is Rose.

Don't go back on the Knightfall peace-terms which you alliance agreed to. People can use GOB if they want without correction. ;,p

I hope this isn't the movie version. As I'd rather not have to see Epi wearing skimpy clothing to RP as Daphne.

Minesome do you reckon you could share the name of your dealer? You're clearly on some top quality product mate.

Its strange reading about leaks and not seeing my name come up... Breathe of fresh air if you ask me.

How does Camelot maintain a government then?

Nominate myself in 3 categories: Economics: Selling $3.8b worth of Infra to get out of range of GOB and up-declare. (June, 2019) Peace: For helping to start 3 global wars, and helping to cause RON to go into slowmode numerous times from arguments. Technology: For breaking @Putmir and @Christian Dahl sheets everytime I tried to look at them for TCW.

I've fought in 7 global wars and about the same number normal wars, so I'm clearly a "war-dodger". And Oblivion of all alliances shouldn't talk about "jumping ship" when your alliance needs you. Or do you forget when the entire alliance had to abandon ship after Alpha kicked the crap out of them when Oblivion thought they could get away with an easy win over them after Alpha had just come out of VM. I recall Oblivion's leaders DM'ing me back then asking for a place to send a couple of their members to hide for a few weeks from Alpha. (None came to tCW though.) And yeah, I'll be sure to pay you a visit personally when Hedge inevitably dog piles Quack again.

Sure mate, keep making stuff up.. Whilst I regret some of the choices I made back then. Me leaving the game was purely for my own sake since my IRL at the time was a mess. (Not going to get into the details of my personal life, I told Yui/Putmir and that's all that matters.). I would've been AWOL with or without a war. I only came back after Theo convinced me to return (Not because the war was over. He hit me up during the war and I told him I could join after I sort the remaining things out that I needed to deal with.) to join his upcoming project he had in the works. I'll be here and ready to fight for tC and Quack regardless of what happens, I made a commitment to Theo, and I have no intention of backing out.

Yeah it is lucky we didn't get involved, otherwise you would've found yourself in the war after ASM/Rose have to call in for help from their paperless buddies in Hedge.

KT's more Syndicate than the Syndicate.... Talk about ROI...

Been an amazing ride Nokia. Wishing you all the best in the future. I do hope you return one day. Hit me up in DM's whenever you want mate, always down for chat.

Don't go into the Jedi Temple tomorrow. Zygon's going to be visiting.

Tarroc, I'm so sorry to hear about this, as we spoke about in our DM's, it has been an absolute honour and a privilege to be able to spend almost a year together in tCW, and before that, when we spoke when you were in Pantheon/BK before. You were an integral part of our community and I'm glad you reconsidered leaving the game, and instead joined our community. Your quality of work as FA head, your enthusiasm, your personality and your drive to better TCW's community alongside the oftentimes crazy late night chats in TCW's gov channels, games and banter produced some of the best times I've ever had in this game. You were by far one of the best government members tCW ever had, and whilst it was sad to see you move onto t$. I knew that you'd also be able to make a difference there as you did for us in TCW, and I'm glad you got to enjoy another chapter of your time in this game. The fact you can speak so candidly about the past, just reinforces your qualities. Those of us in Colo B made mistakes and I wish I could've been as eloquent as you in summing up them not to mention being composed enough in trying to atone for them. For what its worth I enjoyed getting to know you when you became BK's FA head and I do not believe for a second that you hold responsibility for the actions which Colo B took. I'll be forever grateful for those memories that our small group created and I hope we can stay all in touch together well into the future. I'm always open for a chat, whenever you need mate. ❤️

Congrats on your anniversary @MinesomeMC. Its been one of hell of a ride, the times we crossed paths as allies/enemies or just having a good chat on Discord. Commiserations on 6 years of unsuccessfully lobbying for the inclusion of water. ;,p

Don't worry, Theo solved that probably by locking me in the storeroom whenever a diplomat appears.

You must have a secret identity as a Professor of Ancient History in Sydney. Since they also feel I don't break my paragraphs up enough. ;,p Granted I do get carried away a bit. Believe it or not but it use to be much worse. Back when I was in High School I was known on the odd occasion for writing a paragraph per page.... ;v

Hi Fist... Its been awhile... was speaking to Felkey yesterday he sends his regards. I heard you were active again on the OWF, so I decided to drop by and see what all the fuss was about. Not trying to start any drama but I'm honestly curious why you're still referencing years old re-hashed IQ era attack pieces against various Quack gov members? Attacking Partisan is also something I find exceedingly amusing coming from you, since Parti is the sole reason your 2nd attempt at Pantheon managed to survive as long as it did. Since without that M level from t$ back in 2018, you'd have been ground into dust by EMC after what happened in that government coup. Even though t$ obviously wanted Pantheon as a meat shield, they still did you a massive favour back then. So I'm not really sure what they did to deserve all your venom which you've been given them as of late. Honestly mate, you probably should let this go and just move on. You're not really going to convince anyone with continual outbursts on the OWF. EDIT: Or why not come back to the game and become a pirate or something... Regardless though, hope IRL's treating you well. Hey Phoenyx, don't think we've ever spoken before (Assuming you aren't an Inst re-roll.). But I figured it might be worthwhile in providing you some context or information for you to sink your teeth into. However you decide to interpret this, is upto you. I've got no responsibilities since I've left the game so I can speak more frankly and openly (You're free to disregard what I say here. But as I've left the game there's no reason for me to lie about this. So this is entirely the truth from my perspective.). If you want to discuss things further with me, hit me up on Discord (Sphinx#0497) and I'd be happy to chat about whatever you wish. After global war 15, I took stock of the political landscape in-which we (tCW) emerged from. Our sphere had taken a pretty extensive drubbing, and so it was decided that trying to maintain a sphere outside the other 4 spheres would be non-viable (We were by a fairly large margin the smallest sphere in most metrics. With maybe total member count being 2nd smallest in front of Hedge. However Hedge's massive whale tier advantage more than offset that.). I reached out to Swamp because I had a previous history with several of them, I liked the way they conducted themselves during the war, and they had alliances values and motivations which aligned with our own. After a couple weeks of discussions we eventually come to an agreement and signed an M level with Swamp. Yes Quack was mentioned several times during those discussions. But nothing in them entailed mentions of coalitions or preventative planning against them. Yes its 100% true that, I viewed Quack a potential threat early on, mainly due to their weight of numbers, (Unlike Swamp, Quack's numbers were comprised of far more experienced rank and file and alliance leadership. Many of whom had been in over half a dozen global wars. Where as most of Swamp were barely even a year old.) extensive WC reserves, and a strong cohesion among the sphere. It was a pretty common observation that most people in the game felt Quack could take on 2 other spheres with ease and beat them pretty decisively. Whilst a viewed them as a threat, that does not imply I had any intention on attempting to challenge them. or facilitate the building of a coalition against them. As we had only recently finished another global war, we had no interest in embarking upon another anytime soon. What I said to Boyce, might give you that impression but you need to read it with the necessary context. Boyce and I have a long history together, we've known each other in this game for several years (Which does only make him leaking stuff even more disgraceful IMO), he made it know to me that he also viewed Quack pretty poorly and blamed them for scapegoating TEst post NPOLT as a cause to drop their Protectorate. He often times spoke rather negatively of Quack and expressed to me on numerous occasions his hope in being able to take on Quack, or at least helping in getting them rolled, or his hope that t$/TKR would split. (I purged my chat history with him in late October, but I made copies of what was said for posterity.) Simply put, from my last few months of chat with Boyce (March, 2020 - October 2020. He always spoke of Quack in negative terms.) After global war 15, Boyce came to me and discussed his ideas for having TEst go paperless akin to what Wei had done. We discussed the topic a bit, and it genuinely seemed like something which TEst really wanted to do, however the one thing which was holding them back and which they had concerns over the was the idea of going paperless and thus not wanting to leave us as allies. TEst's incessant desire for raiding and wars eventually grew to weight heavily on us, and combined with the fact that TEst's government leaks were a major reason for Swamp being convinced to join Hedge in attacking us in global war 15. Meant that our relationship as allies was untenable. As TEst had already expressed its hope in wanting to become a paperless alliance, I felt that us joining Swamp and dropping TEst would be a mutual break up, and from Boyce's first reactions it seemed to be rather amicable. My mention of us joining TEst against Quack should a potential coalition materialise was a direct reference to the grievances Boyce held towards Quack, something which I mistakenly though rather little of at the time. Regardless of any coalition forming, it was something which I would envisaged us not being in any position to join until at least well into late 2021, if at all. Since at the time I had far more cause for war against various figures in the coalition against Quack, than I did with any alliance within Quack. Now if Quack maintained its massive size and other spheres continued to beat each other up, then that might be a cause for additional concern. But that's projecting things well into the distant future, the main thing you can take from this Phoenyx, is I had no interest or plans to attack Quack. Now with that said its been made aware to me that SRD among others in the coalition made reference to previously unknown talks between Rose, Hedge and/or Swamp forming a coalition against Quack. Putting aside the fact that several of them especially in Hedge would refuse to work with us under our previous leadership. I knew of no discussions about attacking Quack. If Hedge was reaching out to Swamp and Rose, then it was something which we weren't apart of. I haven't read far enough into the story you're trying to argue. But I can't really help you with uncovering this supposed "HM leaker" which I've noticed you mentioning a lot. What I can say is, If the Boyce leaks never happened and Hedge/Swamp/Rose were able to attack Quack en-mass. Then in those circumstances I'd be extremely unlikely if at all, that tCW and its direct allies would be involved against them. Much like Hedge refusing to deal with tCW under my leadership, I'd never accept working with Hedge under any circumstances either. In fact if Quack only attacked Hedge and reached out to me before the war, I'd more willing to join them against Hedge than I would be against Quack. However, tCW is under new leadership and I have no interest to try and influence things over there, so whatever they choose to do now its their call. From what I hear Putmir is doing a very good job, so I'm glad I picked him as my successor. I don't really have any plans to return to the game, at least anytime soon. But I'm certainly glad I'm not dealing with this game's drama anymore as it was far too time intensive than I could afford. I might be back in the future, but for now its rather unlikely. For the record, I do sympathise with Quack's position. As I made it clear to several of their leaders in DM's since I quit. I find it rather hypocritical of various parties to parrot their claims of hegemonies in a public environment, when in private they maintain paperless connections. Still all the best Quack in the peace talks. EDIT: Now Phoenyx, would that suffice in giving you enough materiel for half a dozen new forum threads? /s Oh and regarding the stuff you mentioned about gag orders. Its perfectly reasonable for any alliance to want to keep a united front. Having people speculating on various causes or arguing with allies never turns out well. Its nothing to do with trying to stifle free-speech or cover up things. Its just a normal function of government. If you had issues with CB's or why you're fighting for something you take it up with your alliance. What you were doing on the OWF, when you were in TFP would've caused red flags in all major alliances. The gag orders I imposed on my members when I ran TCW, were always related specifically to that, and it never stopped members from expressing in alliance chat freely their thoughts or views on our current engagements. If you don't believe me regarding my commitment to member free speech, consider that during NPOLT's last time, Curufinwe or Roquentin claimed I was "undermining the unity of the coalition" by refusing to censor Kalev and my other members who posted in the OWF. Granted they wanted Kalev and the others to not post on the OWF entirely. But Kalev despite being an self proclaimed troll knew well enough to never post stuff which might harm his alliance, and contradicting your alliance's messages can more harmful than you might think. To rehash an old WW2 Allied propaganda slogan, "Loose lips sink ships". Hey Benny..... I didn't know Smith's moved on as well. He was always an excellent representative of the style of TKR's community, its sad to see him go. But I do hope he's getting RL things sorted out now. Since leaving this game I got all the remainder of my Thesis prep work finished, and a bunch of pressing RL problems sorted out more or less, so I hope he can tackle whatever's on his plate as well. Apologies for typos or other errors that might be present in this spiel.... its late when I wrote this.

There's a pretty big difference between you band wagoning in against an alliance already dead in this war, (Mind you its an offensive so you're activating your oAP aspect of your treaty, you're not coming to the defense of an ally when they were the aggressor) compared to our last global. Whilst it was no question who'd win the Swedge v TCW war, we at least had the ability to dish out some decent damage and despite our losses wouldn't be too hard pressed to rebuild. Also, I wouldn't call peoples reactions here as "shocking", they just think Pantheon is a joke. I know some people aren't too fond of Nokia and co, but I really don't understand this burning hatred of them to try and snuff them out every time they appear. Not like anyone else would come to the aid of Pantheon, so the long name alliance is really all Six and his couple dozen multis have to go upon. ;,p

Really sad to see Kev delete. Getting to know him first in Bad Company, he's always been one of the funniest and best parts of the community. Great Job was hands down the best radio show even done, and a testament to the work he and Charlie put in for the community. I truly hope this is goodbye for now and he'll be back one day. Hope Pika and Kev are doing ok.

Dreamworks SKG Presents..... Preamble: Fresh from the revelry and the drunken stupor from Brogan’s addition to the band, the brothers of the Swamp. The dragon, the giant gingerbread man, the ever-drunken leprechaun, the legendary Hawkeye, the elusive Florida Man, and the bold King Triton, gathered round the campfire. “Hark, fellow brethren!” spoke the leprechaun, in a rare moment of sobriety, and turn west did he to see the figure of none other than Lord Farquaad! Tattered were his clothes and singed from the nuclear fires of war which ravaged his kingdom. As he arose to look at the approaching band there came a spark between Farquaad and The Swamp. As any sane men would do when faced with a spark, they took out their parchments and quills and agreed to the following terms… With the peace and brotherhood forged between the Kingdom of Duloc and the fairytale creatures of the Swamp. The brethren of The Swamp shall accept Lord Farquaad (TCW) into their party. Together as wardens of the land against the tricks of the Fairy Godmother, ravages of highwaymen or the machinations from servants of Rumplestiltskin. Article I: Should any member of the band notice something is off, the danger will be beknownst to all. Article II: Lord Farquaad (TCW) will not refer to members of The Swamp as hideous abominations. Members of the Swamp will not imply that the size of his castle must be compensating for something. Article III: Should any rogue members from Farquaad’s Army attempt to arrest members of The Swamp, or present eviction notices, they shall be protected by Lord Farquaad’s word, for his word is the law of the land. Likewise, should fairytale vigilantes try to try Lord Farquaad for his supposed crimes, The Swamp shall protect him from harm. Article IV: This party of The Swamp and Lord Farquaad is not a chain-gang. That is to say, should The Swamp or Lord Farquaad take the fight to the offensive, the counterpart is not obligated to join the endeavor. Article V: When the time comes for ways to be part, it shall be made known privately within the band at least 48 hours in advance TL:DR: The Commonwealth and The Swamp sign an MDoAP. Signed for The Commonwealth Prime Minister: Sphinx Chief of Staff: Purplemoon/Yui Chancellor of the Exchequer: Putmir Vladin First Lord of the Admiralty: RightHonorable Home Secretary: Sir Haris the Guy Foreign Secretary: Tarroc Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeric Minister of Internal Affairs: Lionstar Ministers of Defence: Pericles, Lee II Minister of Recruitment: Dillon I Ministers of Communications: Star_Tube, JDTech Ministers of Finance: Christian Dahl, LukeTP, Rhys I Governor of the Hanseatic League: Star_Tube Minion Aficionado: Julian Rederic Gray Caudillo y El Presidente: Don Juan Anti-Social Evil Bastard: Who Me Chief Viking: Sven Shieldmaker Drunk Alex Jones: Kalev60 Archwizard: Ridcully Signed for The Swamp The Immortals: Tyrion The Ampersand: Alexio, Hannah, Kilo The Fighting Pacifists: Quichwe10, Harry Flashman, Cosmos The Lost Empire: Atlan The Federation: Kosta Farkistan: Kitschie, Bozzie United Socialist Nations: Darvolt

I don't think you'd ever be able to guess I'm Aussie based on all these name suggestions. Also some of these names are kinda growing on me, props to whomever came up with "Get Shrekt" and "TCW's Emu War".

Thanks for the fight, and for all parties for helping to make the war and peace talks far less toxic than the previous global. Lets hope a new standard has been set from henceforth. We had fun even if the numbers were sadly insurmountable. @Denison Except you Denison... you know what you did RIP my villager.... >_>

Thanks for having me Thal @Thalmor, I ended up VC'ing for a couple hours since I enjoyed it a lot, plus the Q&A from everyone listening was great. Looking forward to listening to next week's show. Actually... as you were listening you'd know we did in-fact hash out a fair bit of good stuff. But yeah an end to the war is soon, I have have a few more things I want achieve namely destroying more of FARK's stuff. Still can't believe how one alliance can be so bad, that they're negative in net damage not even a week into a blitz when they were the aggressor......