Topic: Demise of the Jedi, PW
I'm starting off with something cloud told me when this round started:
"Never count on allies in PW, they're useless and will only do what's in their best interest."
I seem to recall telling him to have more faith in people... Little did I know how right, but also how wrong he was at the time.
Right and wrong you may ask? How's that possible...
First of all, when this round started it quickly became obvious who the 2 dominant alliances were.
On one hand there was 25/26, on the other hand 11(us)/22.
Less than 2 weeks into the round the skirmishes begun between 25/26 and 11. This was the first prove of cloud being right. 22 was nowhere to be found. In fact, they did not even have a single laser at the time of the first attacks. However they did excell at farming their first small family soon after we managed to force 25/26 into an expo-nap. (well, it did take them quite a bit of effort come to think of it...)
Many in PW know what happened next. Expo nap ended and someone in 22 got blocked for IA, together with 2 days worth of war savings. Again I was proven wrong in my theory that allies could be useful in PW. (Cloud 2- Polder 0). War started and 22 excelled at bending over like a cheap 2$ [concubine]. 11 managed to fight off 25/26 as best they could (we have to admit Silv couldn't do much due to being snowed in, but that's not the point here) and eventually a new Pnap between the 2 alliances was made. This is the second time 22 got a free nap.
At this point, we didn't really care anymore and just let 22 be.
Then, on Jan 31st, our nap with 14/18 ended. We hit them, and we hit them hard. Looking back on it, we hit them too hard actually. Someone deleted and I feel bad for it to this day. Pnaps were offered to both, so they could at least finish their round in peace. We got some planets and were getting ready for infra jumps...
That is untill 22 decided to go farm 14/18. The very 2 fams we just destroyed (as I said, we hit them too hard and we're not proud of that).
I asked them to stop, they refused:
Flip's reply on their forum:
"thanks polder, don't tell us how to play our game.
I would have liked you to not have napped them and killed them with us. However thats not the fact and we don't have an EOR war so im going to keep going"
A few things:
First of all, what flip's talking about is the fact we napped them without giving 22 a free alliance nap AGAIN.
Secondly, let's not forget they waited till 14 and 18 were destroyed before going all out. They did some attacks before that, but nothing worth mentioning.
They do take it seriously tho, as a a post from their forums proves:
"Yesterday 20:09:24
By: Flip
Subject: To All Players
in war with 14/18 right now. [...] you guys are in perfect nw range to make attacks as i don't want to blow up planets."
They are having fun too: