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(Let me apologize first of all for the length of this thread, read on if you wish).
Well, it was probably going to happen eventually & the writing was on the wall from when Hammer of Thor & SPARTAN 300 merged back in March 2012, but now it's finally here: the SPARTAN 300 has finally fallen apart, after being on a life support machine since probably June-July, it unofficially kicked the bucket after the failed JANISSARIES merger.
So for those of you on the outside looking in, what caused it you may ask? Simple: laziness & apathy.
The biggest falling in the slow, but inevitable demise of the SPARTAN 300 was the difference between those willing to give their all & those unwilling to do anything was huge & it became infectious to the point of endemic laziness, which created the side-effect of apathy among formerly eager & willing players that in turn, created the alliance that those concerned have seen, particularly in the last 5-6 months.
However, a big failing was in the part of the leadership itself in it's recruitment of members, by that I mean, how many couldn't speak English or just didn't communicate at all, if it was one, it was too many. The high turnover of players joining & those leaving, 1032 alliance changes as I write, only the Mergers of Rogue Chaos managed more than that!
SPARTAN 300 Vs SunTzu
Not long after the merger between Hammer of Thor, war broke out between after the player sk0612, who if memory serves, had been in VM along with many other former ERUSID members, suddenly was a SunTzu member, even though SunTzu/S300 had claims on his cities in our shared claims tab, which was an interesting way of recruiting him. Naturally, for the SPARTAN leadership, it was the straw that broke the camels back & was unwilling to stand for it & considering that SunTzu had just merged all the remaining ERUSID Federation into their alliance, while the SPARTAN 300 were still at war with them & potentially depriving them of an outright victory, it was no surprise that conflict broke out.
Was it the right decision? Quite simply...no, it wasn't.
It would've been smarter to eat a big slice of humble pie, as there were still other better opportunities. Who cares about refugees anyway!? A lot of good players have exited one alliance who're under attack & have got much better for the experience & for that are essentially "refugees", I don't think anyone would criticize the likes of Tarna, Shadowsoftheabyss, Sergo1985 & ManDRester, who were all respective members of alliances under attack by the S300 who're now great contributors to the SunTzu alliance & took many S300 cities.
I won't deny that I myself, played my part in talking a lot of trash about ERUSID & later on, Elite Union refugees, which I look back on as being somewhat misguided, but...live & learn.
After the Hammer/300 merge, the SPARTAN 300 were in transition & it was no time to be fighting an alliance like SunTzu, considering all the experience it had in it's war with Nordic Nightmares/The Brotherhood & the integration of two alliances after the merge was essentially, incomplete.
It was further exacerbated by the decision to treat The Elite Union (where a major attack against them was planned before the SunTzu war began) as one-and-the-same & include them in the conflict, which gave SunTzu an immediate ally with a common foe, when it surely should've been postponed indefinitely.
Almost immediately, S300 were fighting two alliances, but soon become four, as Response Error joined the conflict, as did Assassins Creed & even a few local Triad members in #67/8, until the pact with them was agreed much later.
Assassins Creed in particular were not large, but it gave unwanted focus to alliances that never should've have been involved & opportunities to avoid it to concentrate on the war with SunTzu weren't taken.
Eventually, as the war dragged on, even though no side had the advantage, it was just harder & harder to motivate people & even former Hammers who were real top players just didn't have any heart in the merge from the start & least of all the conflict. IGeo, Juovani, Tebowned, Blackshark, Pixie1968, Tominator, Meganpuppy to name but a few...there was a who's who of top hammers, who didn't perform to anything like the level they were capable of.
As for some of the rest of the Spartans who were there, their lack of effort, ability or just common sense even, was contemptible, the pathetic Kronus the (tit)an (Call Waiting loved this guy...) & Vannischong are two guys in particular that made my blood boil.
Eventually, hardly anyone gave a damn, by then, SunTzu weren't the problem, anymore than the SPARTAN 300 were the real problem when the ERUSID Federation collapsed, they were simple exposing the fundamental underlying problems that might've taken longer to expose, had the war not happened (maybe).
JANISSARIES merge into SPARTAN 300.
By this time I'd already left the S300, so I don't know the full details, but basically sswrexham was given a free hand to turn the alliance around & by the look of grepostats, in laymans terms anyway, it appeared he was doing just that, but in that time, one of the few accomplishments of the alliance was ripped up & handed to Mergers of Rogue Chaos i.e the deliberate W.W Tomb collapse.
I cannot even guess what MoRC could possible offer that meant stooping so low as to throw away everyone's effort to get the tomb built, was there even a vote on it?! It made the MoRC "takeover" of the S300 city on the SunTzu temple island look tactful in comparison.
If loyalty/teamwork/achievement meant anything, this should never have happened & even if there was a decision to give the tomb up since the S300 was in obvious terminal decline, why not approach Triad who were the pact allies & get them to raise their tomb to level 9 beforehand? Did all the long friendship with former Band of Brothers members who merged into Triad after their break up mean so little?
I can't imagine that the JANISSARIES, who'd just joined, were very happy about it & neither would I have been to be so blatantly shafted by MoRC, I mean what exactly could they offer? Moral support? They're at war with Triad/A.T.T.T!
Still, like any good pros of "Mergers & Acquisition", they got what they wanted, even though S300 so obviously got nothing.
Anyway, I don't know exactly what has occurred in the last couple of weeks, but I see on Grepostats that the JAN's have re-emerged, along with many former Spartans joining them & a further exodus to The Scorpions & the appearance of the alliance "Thrillos Bad Conscience", well...I'm not going to criticize Tom as he leads a busy life (too busy to be a founder of a large alliance I'm afriad...), I can guess that only he & Steve Wrexham will know the full truth anyways & I would least of all criticize Seydon, who gave his all for a long time, but he, just as the other real team players, who were too few & far between, were let down by the larger non-supporting cast.
To sum up: let this be a lesson to those who're looking for lessons on how to run an alliance; this is not the way to do it.
And don't put the name "Spartan" in your alliance or merge with one with it in it's name
"SPARTAN 300"
"Spartan Legacy"
"Rogue Phoenix Spartans"
"300 Spartans"
"SpartaBG"
None of them here now or won't be here much longer anyway.
Comments Spartans (former & present)? SunTzu?
Well, it was probably going to happen eventually & the writing was on the wall from when Hammer of Thor & SPARTAN 300 merged back in March 2012, but now it's finally here: the SPARTAN 300 has finally fallen apart, after being on a life support machine since probably June-July, it unofficially kicked the bucket after the failed JANISSARIES merger.
So for those of you on the outside looking in, what caused it you may ask? Simple: laziness & apathy.
The biggest falling in the slow, but inevitable demise of the SPARTAN 300 was the difference between those willing to give their all & those unwilling to do anything was huge & it became infectious to the point of endemic laziness, which created the side-effect of apathy among formerly eager & willing players that in turn, created the alliance that those concerned have seen, particularly in the last 5-6 months.
However, a big failing was in the part of the leadership itself in it's recruitment of members, by that I mean, how many couldn't speak English or just didn't communicate at all, if it was one, it was too many. The high turnover of players joining & those leaving, 1032 alliance changes as I write, only the Mergers of Rogue Chaos managed more than that!
SPARTAN 300 Vs SunTzu
Not long after the merger between Hammer of Thor, war broke out between after the player sk0612, who if memory serves, had been in VM along with many other former ERUSID members, suddenly was a SunTzu member, even though SunTzu/S300 had claims on his cities in our shared claims tab, which was an interesting way of recruiting him. Naturally, for the SPARTAN leadership, it was the straw that broke the camels back & was unwilling to stand for it & considering that SunTzu had just merged all the remaining ERUSID Federation into their alliance, while the SPARTAN 300 were still at war with them & potentially depriving them of an outright victory, it was no surprise that conflict broke out.
Was it the right decision? Quite simply...no, it wasn't.
It would've been smarter to eat a big slice of humble pie, as there were still other better opportunities. Who cares about refugees anyway!? A lot of good players have exited one alliance who're under attack & have got much better for the experience & for that are essentially "refugees", I don't think anyone would criticize the likes of Tarna, Shadowsoftheabyss, Sergo1985 & ManDRester, who were all respective members of alliances under attack by the S300 who're now great contributors to the SunTzu alliance & took many S300 cities.
I won't deny that I myself, played my part in talking a lot of trash about ERUSID & later on, Elite Union refugees, which I look back on as being somewhat misguided, but...live & learn.
After the Hammer/300 merge, the SPARTAN 300 were in transition & it was no time to be fighting an alliance like SunTzu, considering all the experience it had in it's war with Nordic Nightmares/The Brotherhood & the integration of two alliances after the merge was essentially, incomplete.
It was further exacerbated by the decision to treat The Elite Union (where a major attack against them was planned before the SunTzu war began) as one-and-the-same & include them in the conflict, which gave SunTzu an immediate ally with a common foe, when it surely should've been postponed indefinitely.
Almost immediately, S300 were fighting two alliances, but soon become four, as Response Error joined the conflict, as did Assassins Creed & even a few local Triad members in #67/8, until the pact with them was agreed much later.
Assassins Creed in particular were not large, but it gave unwanted focus to alliances that never should've have been involved & opportunities to avoid it to concentrate on the war with SunTzu weren't taken.
Eventually, as the war dragged on, even though no side had the advantage, it was just harder & harder to motivate people & even former Hammers who were real top players just didn't have any heart in the merge from the start & least of all the conflict. IGeo, Juovani, Tebowned, Blackshark, Pixie1968, Tominator, Meganpuppy to name but a few...there was a who's who of top hammers, who didn't perform to anything like the level they were capable of.
As for some of the rest of the Spartans who were there, their lack of effort, ability or just common sense even, was contemptible, the pathetic Kronus the (tit)an (Call Waiting loved this guy...) & Vannischong are two guys in particular that made my blood boil.
Eventually, hardly anyone gave a damn, by then, SunTzu weren't the problem, anymore than the SPARTAN 300 were the real problem when the ERUSID Federation collapsed, they were simple exposing the fundamental underlying problems that might've taken longer to expose, had the war not happened (maybe).
JANISSARIES merge into SPARTAN 300.
By this time I'd already left the S300, so I don't know the full details, but basically sswrexham was given a free hand to turn the alliance around & by the look of grepostats, in laymans terms anyway, it appeared he was doing just that, but in that time, one of the few accomplishments of the alliance was ripped up & handed to Mergers of Rogue Chaos i.e the deliberate W.W Tomb collapse.
I cannot even guess what MoRC could possible offer that meant stooping so low as to throw away everyone's effort to get the tomb built, was there even a vote on it?! It made the MoRC "takeover" of the S300 city on the SunTzu temple island look tactful in comparison.
If loyalty/teamwork/achievement meant anything, this should never have happened & even if there was a decision to give the tomb up since the S300 was in obvious terminal decline, why not approach Triad who were the pact allies & get them to raise their tomb to level 9 beforehand? Did all the long friendship with former Band of Brothers members who merged into Triad after their break up mean so little?
I can't imagine that the JANISSARIES, who'd just joined, were very happy about it & neither would I have been to be so blatantly shafted by MoRC, I mean what exactly could they offer? Moral support? They're at war with Triad/A.T.T.T!
Still, like any good pros of "Mergers & Acquisition", they got what they wanted, even though S300 so obviously got nothing.
Anyway, I don't know exactly what has occurred in the last couple of weeks, but I see on Grepostats that the JAN's have re-emerged, along with many former Spartans joining them & a further exodus to The Scorpions & the appearance of the alliance "Thrillos Bad Conscience", well...I'm not going to criticize Tom as he leads a busy life (too busy to be a founder of a large alliance I'm afriad...), I can guess that only he & Steve Wrexham will know the full truth anyways & I would least of all criticize Seydon, who gave his all for a long time, but he, just as the other real team players, who were too few & far between, were let down by the larger non-supporting cast.
To sum up: let this be a lesson to those who're looking for lessons on how to run an alliance; this is not the way to do it.
And don't put the name "Spartan" in your alliance or merge with one with it in it's name
"SPARTAN 300"
"Spartan Legacy"
"Rogue Phoenix Spartans"
"300 Spartans"
"SpartaBG"
None of them here now or won't be here much longer anyway.
Comments Spartans (former & present)? SunTzu?