Attack on Ulholm from Darth_Jules

[Natmus]

There's an attack coming in all the way from ocean 1, at 2 knots.

Ulholm is one of my supply isles, no defenses to speak of, but if he takes it my main isle and two colony ships are in the same sector, so I'll just take it back in a moment.

[SkulkrinBait]

Can you handle it? I'd love to help but Stomer now has a col ship on the way to my best defended island...................

[ashimar]

Sure Mads can handle it ! ;D

But I was thinking, this Darth Jules is also getting a bit annoying, don't you think ? Plus, he doesn't have that much to begin with I suspect.

Then again, we are getting to the point where -I feel- we need to draw the line. Threats don't work anymore, and the only one I know who might want a brawl (Ratem and friends) is busy with exams and needs more time than we have to organize some hammer party.

Where does that leave us ?

I want to coin a few thoughts I've been having:

1. Colony time is over. Unless you are lucky enough and have the best possible way of managing your new colony AND can dump thousands (in the order of 6000 plus) stoners on it, don't even try. You'll only be working for the lurking bigger fish !

2. If you haven't got good high profile copntacts in the IK world, you're screwed. Some of us have seriously neglected thaty social aspect. I mean, a pp with lovelybutterfly is nice -as an example- but you don't seriously believe it's going to do you any good when Damage Incorporated knocs on your doors ? I don't want to sound imperious but I think only Mads and I have good contacts to call upon when in need of a bigger fish, therefore, we are or at least seem (in my case: where I made a point of divulging it on my personal page as part of the virtual deterrent) more untouchable than for instance you, David.

3. If by now - in spite of the E~L warefforts- you do not have 3000-4000 or more spears defending your isles (or spears + archers amounting to that total sum) than your toast. You can not turn this mistake around by quickly converting to a better production scheme. Time is against you. The enemies aren't sitting idle and we do have enemies.

4. Same for fleet. As a suicide fleet 300-400 LWs may be nice, but for a reusable strikefleet you need to have (by now) at least 700-800 LWs. How many of those do we have, in the light of rapidly dwindwing interest and motivation of our fellow players ?

I count Natmus, Iserath, Freiegeister, SoulCatcher and myself among the big guns, then there is a slim mediumsized force comprising mainly Guinevere, MajorDefect, Perun and perhaps Hilander, but that's it. The rest is below the 500 LW limit I believe. That's just not good enough, gentlemen !

Having lots of cats is nice, but if you don't have the ships and men to send forth, but good will it do you and us as a whole ?

5. We are a closed group, we do not merge with other alliances, yet we slowly loose (sizable) members. It's okay for Timbus and Lord Reed to have joined later, but it's not going to be our salvation so to speak. Let's face it, we are on the decline. only a few of us get really stronger (yours truly included) but it's not the kind of growth that will keep us in the rankings where we used to be. Recently Phil lost 3600+ spears due to a freak chance an idiotic player got on his attack. That's months of work undone and an isle now open to take over. I'm a pessimist, I think Arminius will loose isles, after Bait lost all of his and the main is reduced to cinders. SoulCatcher will loose a colony and although he hasn't mentioned it here, Frei also saw his colonizationattempts and a fair amount of stoners disappear in thin air.

6. I was for waiting until Guy Fawkes Day, gving a nice amount of time to get even stronger, but that only includes people like I described above; me, Mads, Iserath etc. and not really Inyati, Alexander, Andre, Soiram, Shendemiar. And in the meantime I am fearful of what else might befall us. Waging war throws us back so much again, that we can forget about Guy Fawkes Day, so we need to either suffer injustice all the time until then or forget about it allthogether and just take a stand rignt now and right here.

We could wait a while longer and see wether we could coordinate some actions with Ratem and Madhunter who were interested in a fight again, but that probably also means we do not fight the ones we would like to fight.

I lost a bit track of where I wanted to go with my story but I hope the essence is clear enough already.

[SkulkrinBait]

I'll be around, I'm buying stoners on Ebay so that I can stick enough on my main to at least have one isle. Assuming you decide on Nove 11th I hope to have a sizeable fleet, or at the very least I can help you in spying etc.

I don't have time for the diplomacy side of this game and to be honest I don't want any contact with most of the people out there, it's worrying that the "younger generation" who seem to play this game have such warped minds.

I would have had several fleets over 500LWs by now if I'd been left alone, I've had attack after attack against me and some of it is my own fault for overextending myself. I don't understand the colony thiefs mentality, even my reletively weak isles are harder to get than tsunami ones and they aren't very attractive once we've bashed them down to score 1.

I suppose I'm guilty of being naive and thinking that everyone has the same standards I do, in other words don't attack other people without provocation, especially if they are smaller than you are.

Assuming server 2 opens, I'll make sure those lessons have been well learned, and woe betide anyone who crossed me in server 1 who is silly enough to open an account with the same name on server 2!

[Arminius]

skulkrinbait said:

I don't have time for the diplomacy side of this game and to be honest I don't want any contact with most of the people out there, it's worrying that the "younger generation" who seem to play this game have such warped minds.

Same here. I'm fully aware that my pp with the luvverly insect is not worth anything when it comes to war, but I don't care anyway. I've got too much to do and too little time, so at some point soon I'll be outta here...

[Natmus]

Darth_Jules' attack came and went, colonisation unsuccessfull. No major damage, and no losses as I had taken off the garrison of stoners and the ships were out sailing.

If anybody have any spies near ocean 1, maybe we should check out his isles, just in case we want to hit him if he tries again.