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This post is going to be a little bit on the long side, but it needs to be for effect ;-). Also, apologies for there being no pretty pictures in this one!
A good idea at the time ….?
What happens when you wake up with a great idea? Something nobody has ever considered before. A plan so implausible it’s sheer bloody brilliance.
Do you congratulate yourself on your genius and put your genius mind to work, creating plans and backup plans? Or do you pause a while, think it through and then decide there might be a good reason that nobody else has done things that way in the past ….?
Well it appears Mondaeo may have had such an idea recently. Luckily for us he didnt take the latter approach. He may now be regretting that ….
Here’s the story:
Mondaeo suddenly appeared within our safe zone. It seems his fabulous idea was to take a villa within our strongest K, fill it with troops and laugh himself silly as he watched us destroying all the nukes we had at our disposal. (He may even have been stroking a white cat as he chuckled to himself).
What happened next must have been a bit of a shock.
Melet spotted it and started nuking. He couldn’t quite noble fast enough so he put the call out to Raspberry and the villa was taken.
When it was nobled, we spotted the amount of support coming in from HT. Woah!
In brief (ha! Yeah right!) ☺ , this is what happened:
19/07/11 00.34 Melet kills 4991 spears, 5 axes, 2763 archers, 64 scouts, 1008 HC, 128 cats
Total: 8959 killed
19/07/11 00.36 Raspberry sends in a nuke but Melet beats them to it.
A mail goes out to a couple of local tribe members asking if anyone would like to help nuke the villa’s support as it comes in. All the support landing times are listed.
This is what happens!:
19/07/11 01.14 Support has not landed yet but Raspberry sends in another attack, killing the 6 spears that Mondaeo has managed to build.
Total: 6 killed
19/07/11 01.15 And then nobles – taking the wall to zero and killing the last remaining spearman (RIP)
Total: 1 killed.
19/07/11 11.14 Mondaeo’s first support lands – 2144 spears, 533 archers, 598 HC, 164 Cats, 1 Pally
19/07/11 11.14 Dubby sends a nuke in.
Total: 3440 killed
19/07/11 11.15 Melet sends a nuke in. Dubby has killed all the troops so no kills.
19/07/11 11.26 Melet sends another nuke in.
19/07/11 13.01 And another one.
19/07/11 14.06 And another one.
Mondaeo is not building troops so no kills.
Mondaeo supports with 6613 scouts.
19/07/11 15.02 Melet sends another nuke. Scouts dead.
Total killed: 6613
19/07/11 15.21 Lindeking sends a nuke. Melet has already killed all the troops so no kills.
19/07/11 16.02 Mondaeo supports with 1700 HC.
19/07/11 16.09 Lindeking sends a nuke. Bye bye 1700 HC.
Total killed: 1700
19/07/11 16.12 Mondaeo supports with 1051 HC
19/07/11 16.28 And for good measure, another 1377 HC.
Guess what happens next?
19/07/11 16.29 Lindeking happens next …
Total killed: 2428 HC
19/07/11 16.53 Biblebasher supports the villa – 350 HC
19/07/11 16.53 Lindeking arrives (again)
Total killed: 350
19/07/11 16.55 Shakey2509 sends in 2493 HC
19/07/11 17.20 Mondeo adds 1108 HC
19/07/11 17.46 Lindeking
Total killed: 3601
19/07/11 18.31 Mondaeo sends 755 HC
19/07/11 18.34 Lindeking
Total killed: 755
19/07/11 18.34 Butch 83 sends 1 pally
19/07/11 18.50 Lindeking kills it
Total killed: 1
19/07/11 19.55 Mondeo sends 720 HC
19/07/11 129.56 Lindeking again …. ☺
Total killed: 720
19/07/11 20.47 Harry Jack sends 684 HC
19/07/11 21.32 Lindeking
Total killed 684
(Typing this up I’m now getting the Superman theme tune in my head whenever I type the name Lindeking!)
19/07/11 22.59 Mondaeo sends 500 spears, 278 archers.
Da da da … da da da da da da ….
19/07/11 22.59 Lindeking
Total killed 778
19/07/11 23.24 Lindeking is getting carried away now and sends another nuke for good measure
19/07/11 23.25 Reshlock joins the party but Lindeking has killed all the troops.
20/07/11 00.31 Sir Salty of Helmet sends 1000 HC
HE WITHDRAWS IT!!!!!!!! - a first!
(Can you believe one of them actually did this? We thought we were on such a roll…)
20/07/11 00.48 oh poor Lindeking. He arrives but the cupboard is bare. (boohoo)
20/07/11 01.35 – Lindeking gets impatient and another of his nukes lands.
Still no troops are available to kill (awwww)
20/07/11 04.01 Yay! Mondaeo’s support lands! 7642 spears and 2927 archers
20/07/11 04.03 Mondaeo lands more support – 1484 HC
20/07/11 04.16 Lindeking gets his moment. He sends a nuke but does incur losses.
Total killed: 4036
20/07/11 04.19 Mondaeo supports some more – 1316 spears, 3774 archers
20/07/11 04.26 Lindeking again
Total killed: 6383
20/07/11 04.36 Reshlock’s turn to nuke
Total killed: 6724
20/07/11 04.44 Mondaeo sends 1000 swords
20/07/11 04.44 followed by 4572 spears and 3733 archers
20/07/11 04.44 (timed to perfection!) Lindeking arrives on the scene
Total killed: 4316
20/07/11 04.44 (and another perfectly timed nuke!) – Lindeking again
Total killed: 4989
20/07/11 04.50 Mondaeo sends 698 HC
20/07/11 04.50 Lindeking kills 698 HC
Total killed: 698
20/07/11 06.09 Mondaeo sends another 1804 spears and 3178 archers
20/07/11 06.22 Lindeking sends another nuke!
Total killed: 4982
20/07/11 08.06 Mondaeo lands 48 spears and 1808 archers
… wait for it!
20/07/11 08.06 Lindeking kills them all
Total killed: 1856
20/07/11 08.32 Mondaeo sends 5218 spears
20/07/11 08.36 Raspberry kills them ☺
Total killed: 5218
20/07/11 10.00 Chosen 1 sends 100 cats
20/07/11 10.00 Raspberry kills them
Total killed: 100
20/07/11 10.02 Lindeking sends a nuke but misses out
Ever started typing something then wished you hadn’t …..?
20/07/11 10.23 Mondeo sends 3215 spears
20.07/11 10.23 followed by 1677 archers
20/07/11 11.16 Raspberry (the clever Irish one) kills them
Total killed: 4892
20/07/11 11.33 Lindeking lands another nuke
20/07/11 12.01 Another nuke from Lindeking
20/07/11 13.43 jpd007 sends support – 5918 spears, 8000 swords, 5000 archers, 3 scouts and 300 HC
…. Don’t you just feel for him? Aren’t you all yelling “withdraw it, withdraw it!!!”?
20/07/11 13.49 (‘when Irish eyes are smiling …”) Raspberry arrives on the scene
Total killed: 21921
20/07/11 14.31 Lindeking – sorry Lindeking - arrives with a nuke but the troops have been extinguished
20/07/11 15.51 Mondaeo supports with 3163 swords
20/07/11 15.59 Lindeking gets another hit
Total killed: 3163
20/07/11 16.24 Mondaeo sends 1864 swords
20/07/11 16.24 Lindeking sends a nuke
Total killed: 1864
Are you bored with reading this yet? (… try typing it!) ☺
20/07/11 16.33 Mondaeo’s support lands – 1393 swords
20/07/11 16. 33 Reshlock appears on the scene again
Total killed: 1393
20/07/11 16.33 Raspberry sends a nuke but there are no troops left to kill
20/07/11 17.59 Born Again sends 500 spears, 500 swords, 500 archers
20/07/11 18.05 Lindeking sends a nuke.
Total killed: 1500
Oh dear God help me, I’m losing the will to live – all this typing …
… struggling on:
20/07/11 18.11 Sir William Wallace sends 840 spears, 500 swords, 500 archers, 109 scouts, 700 HC
20/07/11 18.11 Lindeking kills them
Total killed: 2649
20/07/11 18.27 Sir William Wallace supports with 1000 spears, 500 swords, 500 HC
20/07/11 18.27 Raspberry clears the villa
Total killed: 2000
20/07/11 18.28 Sir William Wallace sends 1000 spears, 1000 swords, 1000 archers
20/07/11 18.28 … and he manages to withdraw them!!! … I know I shouldn’t be rooting for the other tribe, but it’s all beginning to be a bit one-sided…
20/07/11 18.29 … and now I feel guilty because Reshlock’s nuke arrives on the scene and the troops are all gone ☹
20/07/11 18.33 … followed by Lindeking
20/07/11 21.34 Butch 83 sends 500 spears, 500 swords, 3000 archers, 250 scouts, 500 HC
20/07/11 21.34 Lancers99 throws a nuke at it and kills the lot
Total killed: 4750
20/07/11 22.15 Mondaeo sends 2764 spears
20/07/11 22.15 Reshlock kills 2764 spears
Total killed: 2764
There are still supports landing and 2 attacks inbound, but I make the total so far in the region of ... wait for it ....
127,280 troops killed
This was an amazing effort by just a few local KnK players. No planned op, just a little mail went out and the response was phenomenal.
Thankyou guys!
.... and wouldn't you hate to be Mondaeo right about now, having to think up a reason why the good idea didn't work, and how you've managed to lose so many tribe members' troops?
Competition time? Who can think of the best excuse. Winner doesn't get anything other than a big thankyou for actually reading to the end of this post!
Postscript:
21/07/11 0241 shakey2509 supplies 100 cats
21/07/11 0241 Raspberry kills them
Total killed: 100
21/07/11 0517 mokers sends 400 cats
21/07/11 0700 The final kill is Lindeking's
Total killed: 400
127,780 troops killed
And thats the end of the story. We in KnK are still in shock at the complete and utter lack of foresight that went into this grand plan, and the inability of HT members to press the 'withdraw troops' button at the right time. I hope all the former -V- and SPQR members who jumped ship to follow Mondaeo like good little sheep have found the sort of leadership that you were looking for!
Thanks for all the ODA though ;-)
A good idea at the time ….?
What happens when you wake up with a great idea? Something nobody has ever considered before. A plan so implausible it’s sheer bloody brilliance.
Do you congratulate yourself on your genius and put your genius mind to work, creating plans and backup plans? Or do you pause a while, think it through and then decide there might be a good reason that nobody else has done things that way in the past ….?
Well it appears Mondaeo may have had such an idea recently. Luckily for us he didnt take the latter approach. He may now be regretting that ….
Here’s the story:
Mondaeo suddenly appeared within our safe zone. It seems his fabulous idea was to take a villa within our strongest K, fill it with troops and laugh himself silly as he watched us destroying all the nukes we had at our disposal. (He may even have been stroking a white cat as he chuckled to himself).
What happened next must have been a bit of a shock.
Melet spotted it and started nuking. He couldn’t quite noble fast enough so he put the call out to Raspberry and the villa was taken.
When it was nobled, we spotted the amount of support coming in from HT. Woah!
In brief (ha! Yeah right!) ☺ , this is what happened:
19/07/11 00.34 Melet kills 4991 spears, 5 axes, 2763 archers, 64 scouts, 1008 HC, 128 cats
Total: 8959 killed
19/07/11 00.36 Raspberry sends in a nuke but Melet beats them to it.
A mail goes out to a couple of local tribe members asking if anyone would like to help nuke the villa’s support as it comes in. All the support landing times are listed.
This is what happens!:
19/07/11 01.14 Support has not landed yet but Raspberry sends in another attack, killing the 6 spears that Mondaeo has managed to build.
Total: 6 killed
19/07/11 01.15 And then nobles – taking the wall to zero and killing the last remaining spearman (RIP)
Total: 1 killed.
19/07/11 11.14 Mondaeo’s first support lands – 2144 spears, 533 archers, 598 HC, 164 Cats, 1 Pally
19/07/11 11.14 Dubby sends a nuke in.
Total: 3440 killed
19/07/11 11.15 Melet sends a nuke in. Dubby has killed all the troops so no kills.
19/07/11 11.26 Melet sends another nuke in.
19/07/11 13.01 And another one.
19/07/11 14.06 And another one.
Mondaeo is not building troops so no kills.
Mondaeo supports with 6613 scouts.
19/07/11 15.02 Melet sends another nuke. Scouts dead.
Total killed: 6613
19/07/11 15.21 Lindeking sends a nuke. Melet has already killed all the troops so no kills.
19/07/11 16.02 Mondaeo supports with 1700 HC.
19/07/11 16.09 Lindeking sends a nuke. Bye bye 1700 HC.
Total killed: 1700
19/07/11 16.12 Mondaeo supports with 1051 HC
19/07/11 16.28 And for good measure, another 1377 HC.
Guess what happens next?
19/07/11 16.29 Lindeking happens next …
Total killed: 2428 HC
19/07/11 16.53 Biblebasher supports the villa – 350 HC
19/07/11 16.53 Lindeking arrives (again)
Total killed: 350
19/07/11 16.55 Shakey2509 sends in 2493 HC
19/07/11 17.20 Mondeo adds 1108 HC
19/07/11 17.46 Lindeking
Total killed: 3601
19/07/11 18.31 Mondaeo sends 755 HC
19/07/11 18.34 Lindeking
Total killed: 755
19/07/11 18.34 Butch 83 sends 1 pally
19/07/11 18.50 Lindeking kills it
Total killed: 1
19/07/11 19.55 Mondeo sends 720 HC
19/07/11 129.56 Lindeking again …. ☺
Total killed: 720
19/07/11 20.47 Harry Jack sends 684 HC
19/07/11 21.32 Lindeking
Total killed 684
(Typing this up I’m now getting the Superman theme tune in my head whenever I type the name Lindeking!)
19/07/11 22.59 Mondaeo sends 500 spears, 278 archers.
Da da da … da da da da da da ….
19/07/11 22.59 Lindeking
Total killed 778
19/07/11 23.24 Lindeking is getting carried away now and sends another nuke for good measure
19/07/11 23.25 Reshlock joins the party but Lindeking has killed all the troops.
20/07/11 00.31 Sir Salty of Helmet sends 1000 HC
HE WITHDRAWS IT!!!!!!!! - a first!
(Can you believe one of them actually did this? We thought we were on such a roll…)
20/07/11 00.48 oh poor Lindeking. He arrives but the cupboard is bare. (boohoo)
20/07/11 01.35 – Lindeking gets impatient and another of his nukes lands.
Still no troops are available to kill (awwww)
20/07/11 04.01 Yay! Mondaeo’s support lands! 7642 spears and 2927 archers
20/07/11 04.03 Mondaeo lands more support – 1484 HC
20/07/11 04.16 Lindeking gets his moment. He sends a nuke but does incur losses.
Total killed: 4036
20/07/11 04.19 Mondaeo supports some more – 1316 spears, 3774 archers
20/07/11 04.26 Lindeking again
Total killed: 6383
20/07/11 04.36 Reshlock’s turn to nuke
Total killed: 6724
20/07/11 04.44 Mondaeo sends 1000 swords
20/07/11 04.44 followed by 4572 spears and 3733 archers
20/07/11 04.44 (timed to perfection!) Lindeking arrives on the scene
Total killed: 4316
20/07/11 04.44 (and another perfectly timed nuke!) – Lindeking again
Total killed: 4989
20/07/11 04.50 Mondaeo sends 698 HC
20/07/11 04.50 Lindeking kills 698 HC
Total killed: 698
20/07/11 06.09 Mondaeo sends another 1804 spears and 3178 archers
20/07/11 06.22 Lindeking sends another nuke!
Total killed: 4982
20/07/11 08.06 Mondaeo lands 48 spears and 1808 archers
… wait for it!
20/07/11 08.06 Lindeking kills them all
Total killed: 1856
20/07/11 08.32 Mondaeo sends 5218 spears
20/07/11 08.36 Raspberry kills them ☺
Total killed: 5218
20/07/11 10.00 Chosen 1 sends 100 cats
20/07/11 10.00 Raspberry kills them
Total killed: 100
20/07/11 10.02 Lindeking sends a nuke but misses out
Ever started typing something then wished you hadn’t …..?
20/07/11 10.23 Mondeo sends 3215 spears
20.07/11 10.23 followed by 1677 archers
20/07/11 11.16 Raspberry (the clever Irish one) kills them
Total killed: 4892
20/07/11 11.33 Lindeking lands another nuke
20/07/11 12.01 Another nuke from Lindeking
20/07/11 13.43 jpd007 sends support – 5918 spears, 8000 swords, 5000 archers, 3 scouts and 300 HC
…. Don’t you just feel for him? Aren’t you all yelling “withdraw it, withdraw it!!!”?
20/07/11 13.49 (‘when Irish eyes are smiling …”) Raspberry arrives on the scene
Total killed: 21921
20/07/11 14.31 Lindeking – sorry Lindeking - arrives with a nuke but the troops have been extinguished
20/07/11 15.51 Mondaeo supports with 3163 swords
20/07/11 15.59 Lindeking gets another hit
Total killed: 3163
20/07/11 16.24 Mondaeo sends 1864 swords
20/07/11 16.24 Lindeking sends a nuke
Total killed: 1864
Are you bored with reading this yet? (… try typing it!) ☺
20/07/11 16.33 Mondaeo’s support lands – 1393 swords
20/07/11 16. 33 Reshlock appears on the scene again
Total killed: 1393
20/07/11 16.33 Raspberry sends a nuke but there are no troops left to kill
20/07/11 17.59 Born Again sends 500 spears, 500 swords, 500 archers
20/07/11 18.05 Lindeking sends a nuke.
Total killed: 1500
Oh dear God help me, I’m losing the will to live – all this typing …
… struggling on:
20/07/11 18.11 Sir William Wallace sends 840 spears, 500 swords, 500 archers, 109 scouts, 700 HC
20/07/11 18.11 Lindeking kills them
Total killed: 2649
20/07/11 18.27 Sir William Wallace supports with 1000 spears, 500 swords, 500 HC
20/07/11 18.27 Raspberry clears the villa
Total killed: 2000
20/07/11 18.28 Sir William Wallace sends 1000 spears, 1000 swords, 1000 archers
20/07/11 18.28 … and he manages to withdraw them!!! … I know I shouldn’t be rooting for the other tribe, but it’s all beginning to be a bit one-sided…
20/07/11 18.29 … and now I feel guilty because Reshlock’s nuke arrives on the scene and the troops are all gone ☹
20/07/11 18.33 … followed by Lindeking
20/07/11 21.34 Butch 83 sends 500 spears, 500 swords, 3000 archers, 250 scouts, 500 HC
20/07/11 21.34 Lancers99 throws a nuke at it and kills the lot
Total killed: 4750
20/07/11 22.15 Mondaeo sends 2764 spears
20/07/11 22.15 Reshlock kills 2764 spears
Total killed: 2764
There are still supports landing and 2 attacks inbound, but I make the total so far in the region of ... wait for it ....
127,280 troops killed
This was an amazing effort by just a few local KnK players. No planned op, just a little mail went out and the response was phenomenal.
Thankyou guys!
.... and wouldn't you hate to be Mondaeo right about now, having to think up a reason why the good idea didn't work, and how you've managed to lose so many tribe members' troops?
Competition time? Who can think of the best excuse. Winner doesn't get anything other than a big thankyou for actually reading to the end of this post!
Postscript:
21/07/11 0241 shakey2509 supplies 100 cats
21/07/11 0241 Raspberry kills them
Total killed: 100
21/07/11 0517 mokers sends 400 cats
21/07/11 0700 The final kill is Lindeking's
Total killed: 400
127,780 troops killed
And thats the end of the story. We in KnK are still in shock at the complete and utter lack of foresight that went into this grand plan, and the inability of HT members to press the 'withdraw troops' button at the right time. I hope all the former -V- and SPQR members who jumped ship to follow Mondaeo like good little sheep have found the sort of leadership that you were looking for!
Thanks for all the ODA though ;-)