Now the story of bean is a very funny one, one to whuch he claims a different story to a number of people I have spoken to claim.
DDR was well known for having some of ZP’s (after they imploded following Amazon Jim’s departure) best attacking players. ZP was the elite of the Paladin family.
DDR were one of 10 tribes in discussion about forming an ultra-alliance against TW, who had recently dispatched Death and Robac with ease. DDR was led by Bean who was the biggest player in k74 and the plan was to use DDR,SL+NP in the 70 continents and Smurfs,NP and whoever else in the northern 20’s continents to launch huge offensive at TW’s still active core.
The war promised to be epic but would come with obvious sacrifices, the leaders and biggest players knew TW would target them rather than go for the traditional tactic of taking weaker players, TW had always preferred to take the head off a tribe instead.
After the ten tribes agreeing to put current wars to rest in one weeks time (NP+Smurfs were at war as were DDR and WL I think), DDR suddenly disbanded overnight. Bean claiming he had spoken to his council overnight and that they made the decision that he didn’t want to lead and in 30 minutes no-one had come forward to accept leadership and he had therefore disbanded. This led to utter confusion as the tribe scurried to try and resurrect the alliance and try and co-ordinate what had happened to DDR. TW then declared that any EX-DDR players were enemies of TW leading to a number of DDR players getting mass-zerged followed by a number of players just quitting realising we had lost our only chance to take on TW.
The Alliance got back together one week later and decided to hastily declare war on TW (now re-named TV) before any further losses were made.
During the 6 months I led the NP war in the south, in an op combining SL / BUM and NP players we took several large players down before going all out and taking down the biggest in the continent ….. Bean, who was quickly beaten (despite him claiming he had already quit, despite us receiving mails from players showing he’d asked for support).
The rest is history…..
Cald