Biggest Surprise of "The Proxy War" so far?

[Buorhann]

I may be missing a few twists in this war, but here's what I got so far.  Vote away folks!

[Karrde]

I opted for the number of alliances declaring on VE. As a simple grunt I didn't expect as much support for our side... Or if not for us, at least against VE.

[Phiney]

Just tS doing better in a 1v1 vs Rose in my books.

[Dark Specter]

i went with rose's offensive blunder, i have been in rose for the marrionnette war and the war before this one and both times rose was able to pull off an effective update blitz. But this time they jumped hours early preventing them from being able to buy forces 10-20 minutes before update and hit their enemies and then buy forces again immediately after update and hit their opponents again to cause as much damage as possible while being a day ahead in military purchase. This blunder has prevented them from knocking synd down a peg or two preventing them from being able to fight with a huge advantage.

[Isolatar]

 Definetly the lack of war between Rose and Mensa

[Buorhann]

Personally it was a tough choice for me.  It came down to either the support against VE, especially from a few alliances that I didn't expect to get involved, or Rose's offense initiative blunder.  It's really hard to screw up that big of a head start when you start up battles.  Especially if you manage to do it turn change over, where you have 7 AP to get those first crucial strikes in before your opponents can react.

[Buorhann]

Just tS doing better in a 1v1 vs Rose in my books.

 

I agree!  That is a big surprise.  I saw t$ fighting back very well, but when I saw a few Rose nations attempt to regain the initiative at server change over, I thought they were done.  Log back in the next day and Syndicate is right back on top.  It's crazy how they're maneuvering.  Mad props to the Top Corporation of Orbis.

[ComradeVader007]

The Supreme Beard has blessed the $yndicate richly. I had a vision in which a Beard came down from the Bearded Heavens and cast a shadow over a field of Roses. This mighty Beard's shadow was so dark that the roses immediately wilted and withered into nothingness. 

 

-CV007 of Beardlandia, Vicar of the Supreme Beard and Harbinger of Destruction upon the Beardless 

[Prefonteen]

Definitely voted the offense initiative blunder. We were fully expecting to be overwhelmed by sheer numbers in the top tier when we figured Rose was going to be 1v1'ing us. 

[Buorhann]

I would like to say that the way this war is being fought is completely retarded.

 

 

How so?  You're in a 1v1 with Syndicate.  That's probably the best battle that an alliance could ever get in the history of this game considering many usually involve multiple parties.

[Rozalia]

 Mensa HQ declaring war on Vanguard - Called it some time before it happened.

 Rose/VE declaring war on Syndicate/Guardian - The idea was knocked about for some time before it happened.

 Rose's offense initiative blunder - I thought it was 50:50 honestly on how effective their initial attack was going to be.

 The number of alliances declaring war on VE - Congratulations to Rose, condolences to Viridian Entente.

 The amount of nukes/missiles being used - Rose, Guardian, and such had been stocking up a lot of nukes for some time.

 The lack of war between Rose/Mensa HQ - Mensa attacked to bait Rose, and when they didn't take the bait it seemed obvious Rose was going to try and avoid Mensa (Rose fears Dio and all that).

 

I suppose I'd go with Rose's poor offence combined with Syndicate's hardy fightback. Syndicate are by no means chumps so I was hardly expecting them to fight badly, but it seems they are fighting exceptionally well. 

 

 

[Legend]

Mensa using horrible inferences to have the other side get banned isn't mentioned?  

[Buorhann]

Mensa using horrible inferences to have the other side get banned isn't mentioned?  

 

Pettiness aside, I'm sticking strictly to the war and the decisions surrounding it.

 

If you want to continue with that option though, there is always the "Other" option to put your vote on.

Edited August 26, 2015 by Buorhann

[Dalinar]

The lack of war between Mensa/Rose has been the biggest surprise for me

[Pangui]

How easy it was to name the war

[Eumirbago]

I would like to say that the way this war is being fought is completely retarded.

 

Sorry, I didn't let you put up a fight bby

[Memph]

t$'s counter has been very impressive but I also didn't expect so many alliances to hit VE (or defend them for that matter). 

 

It'll be interesting to see how things go when the main forces of VE and of its opponents clash, which hasn't really happened yet. VE's upper tier is mostly tied up with Guardian who's still recovering from their initial blow but most of VE's upper tier got nuked and are beiged so no-one can declare on them and few if any made the decision to come out of beige.

[Ryu[Old Account]]

It's "Putin's Revenge" war. The biggest surprise, no war between Rose and Mensa.

[Battle Dino]

Amazed at the overwhelming responses of "Rose sucks" 

 

Paraphrasing of course. 

 

But they suck

 

 

No really...

 

You guys do

[Spooner]

The followers of Dio were all pleasantly surprised at Rose's blunder. Dio Brando himself has truly smiled upon our allies in tS, it seems. Their superior coordination against the Unclean Ones compounded upon this initial blessing.

[Isolatar]

The followers of Dio were all pleasantly surprised at Rose's blunder. Dio Brando himself has truly smiled upon our allies in tS, it seems. Their superior coordination against the Unclean Ones compounded upon this initial blessing.

 

I want memes

[Prefontaine]

You're all idiots. The biggest surprise was when the game ended all of your wars.

 

[Goldie]

You're all idiots. The biggest surprise was when the game ended all of your wars.

 

Seriously. It was really fun spending tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of resources to ravage Phiney, only to have the plug get pulled before we could actually hurt him.

[Prefontaine]

Seriously. It was really fun spending tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of resources to ravage Phiney, only to have the plug get pulled before we could actually hurt him.

 

[Phiney]

Seriously. It was really fun spending tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of resources to ravage Phiney, only to have the plug get pulled before we could actually hurt him.

 

Let that be a lesson to you.