It’s been a decent war guys just ashame you collapsed much sooner than I expected/hoped.
Few thoughts from me for anyone interested
We had the advantage early on as were a premade (as were SLAP) who had played and won together. This didn’t mean we didn’t have problems tho! At one point I had 4 permanent sits of accounts being opped!
We bulldozed early on and this probably caused us to get overconfident leading to limited recruitment and restricted barb munching slowing our growth vs yours (a good lesson for me personally for future!).
This plus the fact you suddenly got your game together (someone obv stepped up and showed great leadership and strategy using our own methods against us!) meant we were at a serious disadvantage (no of vils and players). Game on!!
To clarify TS were our allies pretty much since the start. We aided their def vs SLAP with troops and sits ages ago as this benefited us in the war against you. This lead to friendships and a solid alliance.
You guys had the tribe out east that eventually become the second NEW tribe (sorry can’t remb original name). Plus the merger of SLAP and BM made you far larger than us combined. We then panicked recruited which lead to difficulties out east due to lack of experienced players.
NH were a key ally and I know we were both in talks to get them onside, perhaps we were lucky or just better diplomats to win them over. I think we would have still won if it went the other way but it certainly would have been harder.
Some very good ops by you guys and some great defending meant at one point it looked like it could go either way. I think the “free op” on killa cost you badly. Regularly opping smaller tribes like TS rather than focusing on the bigger threat (OLD) allowed us to grow and hit you without any comeback.
In general I think our organisation and strategy was better. I was v lucky to have a group of players who would usually follow my/council plans and carry out OPS per plan (we didn’t always get it perfect with date mix ups and RL getting it the way!).
However, when you guys got it right, it was extremely good, I’d say better than our ops at times. I think I had to try and defend 300 reds or something within a few minutes followed by nobles and lots reds over the next few hours etc one time. Fortunately for us it just wasn’t often enough to make significant progress!
It was sad to see your east collapse so quickly given the west fought so hard and made us bleed for every vil! I guess many of the players out east had grown fairly untested. It was a long term plan of ours to get more of our more experienced and/or larger players over east to help out and in the end seemed to work well.
Defeat is always hard to take especially in this game as we all put so much into it but I hope you got some enjoyment out of it, after all it is a game at the end of the day
Thanks for giving us a good fight and All the best and hope to see you on future worlds
Andy