As AR seems to have determined to not report on anyone but a few select Kingdoms despite my repeated requests, I have determined to have a go at writing myself. Thus the following will be largely Warsong's side of the story, I play there and though I have talked with Shockwave, this will nonetheless be somewhat subjective.
March 12, YR8; YOUR MOMS BUTTON (4:3) withdraws from a 58 hour war with Warsong. The shell of what was once Spice had not realised who was waving them and declared, while Warsong had originally gone for TDA, who had gotten wind of the wave and fled to FW, which made us sad we had a good war with TDA last age, they are a good KD and respectable enemy. The improvised wave on 4:3 thus led to massive farming for Spice is not what it once was.
Total Attacks Made: 150
Total KD Uniques: 119
Total Attacks Suffered: 47
Total Enemy Uniques: 43
Elapsed time 58h
KD Attacks by mintime: 124
KD Uniques by mintime: 98
Enemy Attacks by mintime: 39
Enemy Uniques by mintime: 36
End result, Warsong gained app. 15k acres in 67 hours of Hostile and War.
We were thus fat and as we went OOW Dementia started vulturing. I had personally guaranteed the others it would not happen, for I had a friend in Dementia I trusted completely and was both angry and felt betrayed. Warsong hit back, but fat as we were, we knew we would gain nothing from a retal war as BIO too started sending a few hits our way as well (these were stopped when they learned we were in Hostile, then taken up again as we retalled, until we were even in land), bottom line was that we went to mintime FW with Dreamworks, left it for a few hours to random and put some more size and NW on us, then entered it again. Admitted, not the fairest of tactics, but we felt surrounded and beset by vulturing enemies. ED must have noticed this, for they sent four hits into our FW, taking us to Hostile. Looking at them and already preparing for a war against a good Gnome KD, we decided they would be a suitable target.
As Warsong left FW ready and looking for trouble, ED sent a CF proposal, obviously guessing our plans, which was again withdrawn the following hour as we launched two hits to make them send out. They obliged us, and we thus had our chain targets for the first wave as on May 24th war was declared.
May 24, YR9: Relations: Relations: War began with Evil Dragons (8:36).
Immediately starting and almost completing a Saphire Dragon, the Bird was held in its cage till allowed to join its evil brethren on June 12th.
From the start Warsong concentrated on semi-chaining a few provinces at a time, while ED with its much larger provinces attempted to bottomfeed safely and keep the ravening Orcs under 600k NW and 300K off while keeping their unbreakables so. Starting a Ruby Dragon on June 2nd, Evil Dragons only completed it on July 10th. Determining that we wanted no Evil Dragons loose on our lands, this Bird of havoc was destroyed in 72 minutes, while ED kept their little friend till the end.
As war progressed it was evident that Orcs are hard to defeat for Gnomes and that Warsong's activity was much higher than ED's, and though they kept us under 600k NW and largely under 300k off, stellar teamwork with the Thieves and Mages softening up the large Gnomes for the Land-hungry Orcish attackers, succeeded in taking the "unbreakable" provinces down one by one, while the Banks pumped massive aid to the most successful attackers and to the end these were able to chain anyone who sent out. The war lasted a total of 89 hours, much to our puzzlement as we had expected WD at mintime, but as Shockwave said, "we had much fun warring you guys and that is what Utopia is all about, getting pwn-ed by you was more fun than bottomfeeding on ghettos", so they kept on.
Much of Warsong's success in this war must be contributed to the 15%+ WT and 2+ TPA they entered war with, added to the Saphire Dragon this blunted the effectiveness of their Gnomish opponents, and the first NS/Riots run against 02 111wwwwwwwwwww000 (10:40) was only 27% successful, according to Shockwave this took their tpa down a lot, and even as we grew and thus had lower tpa and wt% they could not exploit it properly as 24 hours into the war anyone not chained was down to 1.5-2 tpa from fails.
In the end even masochists would not have liked the farming this war had turned into, and ED contacted us on Feb 11th for a prolonged CF period and end of war, which we were only too happy to accept (despite longing to take George Michael Bluth down who had just opened himself to us), having gained 26000 acres overall in those 89 hours and almost all of us being extremely fat. And due to the fact that Warsong does not demean itself to asking for free waves if an enemy has been thoroughly and soundly defeated, ED was a fine opponent and we had no quarrel with them, in fact those of them we had contact with are quite nice and it was a pleasure to war them, we are just happy that they too had fun for we did.
War Summary from Warsong
** Summary **
&& Total Attacks Made: 182 (63,976 acres)
&& -- Traditional March: 172 (63,487 acres)
&& -- Conquest: 4 (489 acres)
&& -- Failed Attacks: 6 (3.3% failure)
!!! Total Attacks Suffered: 128 (37,472 acres)
!!! -- Traditional March: 103 (37,472 acres)
!!! -- Ambush: 16 (1,808 acres)
!!! -- Massacres: 4 (20,889 people)
!!! -- Failed Attacks: 5 (3.9% failure)
$$ Aid packets sent: 465
** This Kingdom (10:40) Gains/Losses **
Overall Gains: 26,504 acres.
1. +2,272 acres: 02 111wwwwwwwwwww000 (9/4)
2. +2,151 acres: 12 111wwww1000000000 (8/4)
3. +2,133 acres: 14 444444wwww0000000 (8/3)
4. +2,014 acres: 25 44444wwwwwww00000 (8/8)
5. +2,009 acres: 15 44444444wwww00000 (10/5)
6. +2,005 acres: 11 11wwww11000000000 (5/)
7. +1,869 acres: 05 wwww11110000wwww0 (8/5)
8. +1,854 acres: 21 4wwww44444444wwww (7/1)
9. +1,772 acres: 07 wwww1111000000000 (8/4)
10. +1,679 acres: 23 44wwww44444wwww00 (7/2)
11. +1,670 acres: 03 11ww111100000www0 (10/3)
12. +1,611 acres: 20 wwww444444444wwww (9/5)
13. +1,463 acres: 22 4wwww44444444www0 (7/5)
14. +1,217 acres: 13 4444wwww00000000 (10/5)
15. +1,167 acres: 17 wwww444444wwww000 (11/7)
16. +1,109 acres: 04 1www111100000www0 (7/)
17. +641 acres: 16 444444444wwww0000 (8/7)
18. +441 acres: 10 1wwww111000000000 (5/5)
19. +152 acres: 01 11111wwwwwww00000 (7/7)
20. -232 acres: 24 4444wwwwwwwwww000 (11/10)
21. -789 acres: 18 wwww4444444wwww00 (9/12)
22. -1,704 acres: 19 wwww44444444wwww0 (10/26)
** Enemy Kingdom (8:36) Gains/Losses **
Name: Evil Dragons (8:36)
Overall Losses: -26,504 acres.
Attacks: 128 made / 182 suffered
1. +921 acres: George Michael Bluth (7/3)
2. +886 acres: I c e (5/1)
3. +876 acres: Tobias Funke (7/3)
4. +405 acres: [anonymous province] (1/)
5. +248 acres: Lindsay Bluth Funke (5/5)
6. +48 acres: Mrs Featherbottom (2/2)
7. +17 acres: Malazan Empire (6/7)
8. -145 acres: J Walter Weatherman (6/8)
9. -184 acres: The Mastermind (2/5)
10. -955 acres: Helloh Anyong Bluth (7/8)
11. -1,038 acres: Bland Veal (9/16)
12. -1,306 acres: Kitty Sanchez (/2)
13. -1,662 acres: Remember Yesterday (11/12)
14. -1,735 acres: Tony Wonder (8/10)
15. -1,834 acres: Sweetest Lambie (8/11)
16. -1,852 acres: Starla (7/10)
17. -2,026 acres: Mort Meyers (/5)
18. -2,412 acres: Nurse Adelaide (2/7)
19. -2,582 acres: Bob Loblaw (4/10)
20. -2,797 acres: Wife of GOB (9/15)
21. -2,803 acres: Ex Draco (9/16)
22. -3,151 acres: Barry Zuckerkorn (8/12)
23. -3,423 acres: Trisha Thoon (5/14)
The point of this is that Warsong has had difficulties; I and others have struggled ceaselessly to resolve them and get the Kingdom back on its feet by creating a good team and team spirit. This war was not really that much of a challenge, but that is not the point, the point is that I sense in Warsong a spirit and dedication that I have not seen before. We have truly become a team, we are still not back to the Warsong of old, but leadership, tactic and planning, and activity as well as team spirit all soars to unprecedented heights. It was teamwork that won the war and took down "unbreakables" one by one, it was teamwork that killed the Bird of Prey in 72 minutes (let us go for less than 60 next time), and it is team spirit that makes me like playing in Warsong. I for one am proud to play on such a good team, and even more so to do my little part leading you.
Thanks to ED for the war and thanks to WARSONG for being a great team!
