James Ironwood
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On 10/5/2021 at 3:19 AM, Charles Bolivar said:
Wtf is a brawlywood? 🤔
A neutral, TKR-preferred naming of the war, apparently. I prefer Knightfall 2 because it happened around the same time and had very similar lines and the same outcome as Knightfall. That being TKR's coalition was hopelessly outnumbered by Rose's coalition, had their military forces zeroed and suppressed very early, and were soundly beaten as a result. 🤷♂️
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As long as Error 552 doesn't win, I'm good. But "Brawlywood" doesn't really represent the direction and result of the war too well, it's actually kind of generic.
Also @MinesomeMC in Knightsfall 2: Fall Harder, "Knight" shouldn't be plural based on the GW it's representing: "Knightfall". Just makes it sound kind of odd. 😕
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3 hours ago, Malleator said:
Only OGs and sigmas vote for Knightsfall 2: Fall Harder. The rest is for zoomers and betas.
Agreed! I remember the original Knightfall like it was 3 weeks ago, rather than 3 years. 🤭
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Slots Not Found!
(I couldn't get anything if I didn't have multiple tabs open to declare right at turn change)
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GG, Hollywood! It's good to end a war on pleasant terms in spite of all the destruction.
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1 hour ago, hillbilly said:
Let's all just sing Kum-Ba-Ya and be done with it.
I second that notion. Holly molly.
16 minutes ago, Majima Goro said:"your side"
I wasn't even in the warYour preferred side, then, but I don't really care at this point.
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1 minute ago, Majima Goro said:
And the opposition had none?
Not gonna make any assumptions about that either, but your side had to have been more active overall.
It is what it is.
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9 minutes ago, Changeup said:
Seriously, what is it with this game and people named James?
Bro, it's news to me.
38 minutes ago, Majima Goro said:From what I've seen, when peace happened, your coalition was losing the c20 edge and the fight was spilling into the c15-c20 tier. And there is no excuse to not be militarized in a 3+ week long war esp when the other side doesn't have the numbers to effectively pin then other side down all the time. No matter what excuses your alliance makes, the only reason you "lost" the upper tier and started losing the lower ones is just sheer incompetence and not wanting to do shit.
Plenty of us wanted to do shit, but plenty of others apparently had other shit to do. I don't know what other peoples' schedules/priorities are, and I won't pretend to know. lol
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1 minute ago, Alexandra B said:
Looks to be this topic here, so it seems to be Discord.
Gotcha, thanks!
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16 minutes ago, Alexandra B said:
Definitely. I've heard Morf Radio also does a pretty good job at opening up discussions and debate.
Forgive me, but I haven't heard of Morf Radio until this discussion; I've looked at one of his YouTube videos, are these talks had on discord and streamed on YouTube?
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Just now, hidude45454 said:
Tbh I do appreciate the effort to try and represent Rose here; it's not often that Rose members like to present their case in public. The forums are a harsh place but if there's anything I hope this war sets precedent for, it's more of a focus on open discussion and problem solving rather than just beating the same pre-war political points into dust.
Then it pleases me to be one of the rare ones, granted I didn't do a good job. This being said, I second your point, and hope more players feel comfortable and obligated towards public discussion in a Forum setting like this; it would definitely aid the community at large.
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@Aiya Of course, I will try my best not to fall into that state of mind again, and respect peoples' privacy on that topic especially. That being said, I should get better at IC ad hominems and argumentative strategies, if I'm to survive another such firestorm here. xD
11 minutes ago, Bird Shorten said:I didn't know that Rose had hired a new FA to defend them on the forums, does Rose even know?
Lol, that pretty much sums it up. No, I'd be a pretty terrible member of FA if I was one before this exchange, I kind of allowed my emotions determine my course of action rather than focusing on just gauging attitude and gathering info (strictly for my own use, and not on behalf of my alliance). They've been too good to me to have one of their own members further sully their name.
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1 minute ago, Zei-Sakura Alsainn said:
to people who do but insist my opinions are well considered and valid
Sorry, but it didn't at all seem that way to me.
1 minute ago, Zei-Sakura Alsainn said:overly arrogant nutcase
For example, this is all I've gotten out of you since I started posting. Can you try to be less hostile for me? I get now that the comment was inappropriate, but provocation isn't called for either. IC or not
7 minutes ago, Zei-Sakura Alsainn said:things I know nothing about
That's why I'm here, chill out, buddy. 👍
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31 minutes ago, Cooper_ said:
I'm not trying to insert myself in the relitigation of the war, but I don't think we need to base our arguments on assumptions of someone's OOC mental status. It isn't relevant, necessary, nor strengthen your argument.
I was a bit concerned with how heavily I was being laid into ad hominem, I just wanted to make sure it has nothing to do with IRL issues that I should know about.
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6 hours ago, Majima Goro said:
um i think you dont know how to read graphs
The graph compares every city(c1,c2,c3.....) while the table compares tiers(0-10,10-20......)
From the graph, it is clear that at certain city counts, IQ held a bigger numerical superiority while in others, it had less numbers than EMC. I'm pretty sure you can come to a similar result as on the table if you add the data from the graph.So you do agree IQ can never win unless it has more than 3x the numbers of the opposition?
No, I think it could. But this comes down to a number of factors including IRL shizz and commitment to the game; I heard that an important person in our milcom was camping as the war started and I was dogpiled. Regardless, our numerical superiority below C24 was a lot more than it was above that, generally, and lots of our folks at c26 might have not been militarized enough to make a difference, regardless of our numbers.
On the same topic: Planes and tanks are the most important units to winning conventional wars and keeping people down because they can both attack planes, which are still the best units. I, personally was short on tanks, which is a mistake I admit to.
12 minutes ago, hidude45454 said:even a bad plan is better than no plan at all
Very true! General Patton said something similar.
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2 hours ago, Zei-Sakura Alsainn said:
@hidude45454 this ignores that planes only as a strat in this meta just reveals oneself to be an outdated fossil of a leader.
I said this, and so did basically even the lowgov milcoms on CoTL when we saw it that they were desperate, because unless you're downdeclaring with those planes only it won't work. And sure enough it didn't, they sent c15s updeccing planes only into a c24 who had ZERO PLANES, but max ground.
So anyway that c24 was eventually able to rebuild when their mid tier went into chaos and never got zeroed. whoopsie.
@James Ironwoodhun you're trying too hard and the more you do that the worse it's gonna get. The people you're trying to be smarmy with are the ones who organized and called shots that resulted in your ass getting kicked, they know better how they did it than anyone.
If I have been smarmy, I apologize, it wasn't what I set out to do. I have this thing where I don't like getting talked down to for simply inquiring into a matter I evidently didn't know much about and now know more about.
So, I'm sorry, but you should know that I denounced you in the game for different reasons than this forum, the forum is just how I found it.
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On 6/16/2021 at 10:13 PM, Zei-Sakura Alsainn said:
Poor rose, now they have their own inst/noctis lookalike nutjob.
Downvoting even seems to upset him despite then no longer counting to reputation! Fun for everyone!
Don't forget you did the same; also I denounced your nation for other reasons once I laid eyes upon it, buddy, and evidently half of your visitors did too! 😆
It isn't my fault that your page has something unappealing about it...
On 6/17/2021 at 2:18 AM, Who Me said:Your side had an overwhelming advantage in numbers in that tier. If it wasn't contested but totally dominated by our side just shows how terrible your side is at war. The fact that your side rolled over and gave up speaks volumes.
Refer to Cherise's chart.. this bar graph seems to be deeply flawed, who did you say made it? 🤔
Cherise's chart:
On 6/16/2021 at 10:13 PM, Zei-Sakura Alsainn said:Poor rose, now they have their own inst/noctis lookalike nutjob.
Downvoting even seems to upset him despite then no longer counting to reputation! Fun for everyone!
I am putting this remark here to replace a very stupid one made earlier. Peace, everyone, I'm out.
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15 minutes ago, Who Me said:
Dude you had 11 wars during Guns and Roses, all defensive, in a highly contested tier and 3 of those you peaced out. I would say it was us that were lucky you weren't on our side during Knightfall.
While I won every single war I fought in that GW, I was also a new player during Knightfall, so I agree with your assessment fully. 👍
FYI, it wasn't really "contested", but totally dominated by your coalition as my Milcom told me when I asked for help and coordination. I also decided to win as many wars as I could while losing as little as I could with my time. Now, if you are quite done with insulting the fact I have quite a few other activities outside the game, I'd like to move on from this forum.
My little inquiry into exactly what happened this war is satisfied, thank you. :P
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Just now, hidude45454 said:
Credit to Arch, I remember getting contacted to vote for this even though I wasn't even playing the game then rofl
I bloody knew it! Hahahaha
I remember it being more vulgar for some reason, but this is such a hallmark of why I fell into playing this odd, browser-based, strategy game. The community is very alive and has been for some time; thank you so much for sharing this, man!
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1 minute ago, Kyubnyan said:
Haha yeah, infrastructure loss / pixel burning is healthy for the game but I won't comment on foreign relations as that is not my area of expertise.
P.S. yes I do remember the pumpkin carving contests but I wouldn't be able to tell you who has won them without a bit of forum digging.
I only remember pumpkin that won because it is on the same topic and was at the same time as Knightfall. I think it was a crudely drawn "!@#$ TKR" text message; mind you, this was around the time hostilities br oke out, so it makes sense why it won.
If you can dig up an image of the winner, I'd appreciate that! Also, thanks for the positivity.
1 minute ago, Joe Schmo said:As low-tier TKR FA, as far as I can tell certainly a few people are angry about the recent war, but most seem to be pretty chill.
Thanks for the input, I guess it is just a small minority of people after all.
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Just now, Kyubnyan said:
I actually fought against TKR in Knightfall as well. They did a lot of damage given how outnumbered they were and put up a great fight even though they did end up losing. Dogpiles usually don't turn out too well for the side being dogpiled (go figure). Really makes you think how this war ended so quickly and with such little resistance.
Yeah, they have improved a lot over the years and continue to have a cohesive sense of identity and obligation.
It's just too bad that can sometimes be overshadowed by a sour reality in foreign relations and infrastructural losses. But TKR keeps coming back, and will probably continue to until the end of the game.
Good to meet a veteran of Knightfall. Do you remember the PnW Jack-o-Lantern competition?
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1 minute ago, WarriorSoul said:
man i truly hope this was not supposed to be a burn
If it seems like a burn, it clearly wasn't against you, personally. Afterall, you weren't a part of TKR during Knightfall. I'm not trying to insult you, just recalling some TKR history.
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5 minutes ago, Isjaki said:
Not my fault you never raided. Congrats on being prolly the only person in Orbis who thinks ratios matter
In any case, I have braincells to preserve, so feel free to reply something and I shall reply no more.
Oh, I raided alright... from when my nation was founded until I hit the citeens and beyond that! Your ignorance, just like the arrogance, doesn't surprise me. You should really ask people questions before spouting falsehoods about them.
Perfect! I was waiting for this convo to be over as well. Enjoy some actual peace and quiet, war's over! 😆
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1 hour ago, WarriorSoul said:
Yeah, it was much better that y'all just rolled over and did nothing 😉
Yeah, don't know what was up with some of the inactivity. We weren't all like that, clearly, and I personally had a schedule. Regardless, all I suggested is that, given time, the sphere might have actually noticed there was a war going on and start to coordinate given enough beige time; TKR knows the predictable results of being outnumbered by active, militarized nations. I should know! I joined the game during "Knightfall" after all, and luckily I wasn't on your side.
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GW19 - Official Naming Poll
in Orbis Central
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That, I did not know. All the more reason to not give this war such a neutral name. Humility is an important virtue, so it is what it is.