My Story of Omicron.
Its seems like a life time ago now that I started with my first lonely little city in the NW of ocean 65 and when I think back at all the events which has lead me to this point I know I could never fit it all in one post. As soon as I joined this world I set up The Unit, my plan was simple to make an alliance that lived up to its name. I wanted a fighting force who attacked and defended together, as one unit. In the beginning I took a bit of a risk by going a little MRAish and recruiting anybody in 65 regardless of experience or size. In the first few weeks as I'm sure the original TU members (the small few who are left) will tell you, I was a really hard guy to work for.
I set points targets and BP targets for our members and anybody who didn't make the cut was cut without question. I soon establish a small group of hard working members who were almost ready for the ultimate task of gaining control of this world. We had no doubt in our minds as we looked west to ocean 55 and seen many pre made alliances who were filled with experienced players that it would take a lot of time and hard work to achieve this. However we also seen this as an advantage, as alliances such as lynx, DOW and BS were busy running tip for tap wars against each other, due to the class off great players they all had none of them were making up much ground on each other but they were keeping each other busy while we prepared for war.
We had little snacks in ocean 65 to test the men and their skills and set about taking cities from alliances who names I can hardly remember now. I know a couple of them were some Italian alliance and Republic of something but we flew through like a hot knife cutting butter. As I said though these were only snacks and the real challenge was on out western front.
On my first day I had already identified BS as the main threat in this world and all my focus was on preparing our troops to attack them. I'm sure at that stage we weren't even on their radar as they were already at war with many alliances and winning their wars. My plan hit a bit of a snag when BS and lynx agreed diplomacy but its was not enough to deter me from having a crack at them. In my RL I had some what you may consider as military experience and new how to plan against a much larger enemy. Due to the size of BS (who at the time had 4 alliances) and the due to what I considered a risk of spies as I didn't really know my own men yet, I split our troops in to splinter cells and organised all ops by pm with the leaders of each cell. Back in those days each cell only new the 4 or 5 members they were working with and who their target was, even though we had maybe 5 or 6 targets running at once. This was both very time consuming and successful, BS out numbered us greatly on paper but because all of our members were in ocean 65 and they were spread across many oceans we out numbered them locally.
The first few ops went off with almost 100% success with only one out of maybe 16 or 17 targets not losing their city to us (the guys name was val something or other
) and with little chance of a response from the BS heavy weights who were bogged down in large scale wars in the west. I remember reading post on this forum and getting messages from the leadership in big alliances like lynx telling us we were mad and that BS would crush us. Which inspired my council to keep going and prove them wrong. We had some help from AAB and meallstrom (forget what they were called back then) but it was TU who were the main driving force behind this war. Then just as things were getting really interesting in game, my grandmother the woman who had brought me up passed away. This was the single most devastating thing that ever happened to me. I hit VM and was gone from the game for over a month, I left the running of the alliance to notguilty who later gave founders rights to RTL (which is the main reason why we are currently at war with the whole world, but I'll get to that later).
When I returned after my long VM everything had changed, while I was gone lynx and a few others had broken their diplomacy with BS (who were now down to just one alliance), TU had agreed diplomacy with BS, AAB had fallen and their best players had joined us and TU's council were preparing to go to war with DOW in the name of some alliance who I had never heard of at that time (Alpha). Not at all what I expected but I guess that's what happens when you let a mad man out of his padded cell and put him in charge of the asylum
I think at first when I returned BS council were unsure about me as I had done what I do best and annoyed the hell out of them on this forum when we were at war. I think it took a lot longer to establish trust between us than it would of had without me but in the long run it turned out very well and was worth the hard work put in on both sides.
Rather than taking back total control of the alliance I allowed RTL to stay on as co founder (don't know what I was thinking but it seemed like a really good idea at the time) and we got to work on plans to take down the DOW family. Things got a little messed up around this time when I made contact with our new found ally leadership in Alpha. I guess in away I was just so use to working with AAB where their leader gave me full control of his troops in times of war and ops and looked for the same from Alpha. Even if they weren't will to give me control of their troops I at least expected full coordination on all targets. At this stage we had already engaged 2 of the 3 DOW alliances who were in ocean 55 and were taking them apart. We now wanted to move on the third and last DOW alliance in 56 but we needed help from our allies to do this.
I was furious when I spoke to Alpha's leader Spiller and was told "Alpha were unsure about entering this war", I contacted Klifford (RTL's co founder while I was gone) to double check my information was right and that we were at war with DOW on a request for help from Alpha. Once he confirmed this I broke our pact with Alpha and removed them from our forum, within moments I was contacted by hamwise who asked if we were declaring war. I assured him we weren't but also that we were not in the business of having pacts and sharing forums just for the sake of it. I explained to him how I was annoyed their alliance had asked us to help them and then sat on the fence to wait and see who would be winning the war before they joined it. He asked what could be done to re-establish diplomacy and I told him we would be willing to work with them as long as they were actively involved in our war with DOW.
Hamwise told me he too wanted to join our fight against the alliance who had been pushing them around since day 1 in ocean 56. He gave me his word that he could convince his council to go to war with DOW and said he'd get back to me shortly. A couple of days passed and I had got no reply from him, so I sent him a message asking what was happening. He told me his council were disguising it but it all looked well and that he was sure they would be joining our side soon. However I was far from convinced by his reply and made contact with another member of their council who I became friendly with and got him to pass me the information posted in Alpha's council forum. I was doubly as shocked when I seen most of their council (including hamwise) were screaming for TU blood. Within a few hours war was declared between us and the Alpha/DOW collision, we had some "help" from Rulers of 66 (later became TS and even later became dead from stupidity) and the battles raged on.
From this point on I think the story has been well publicized and I don't think I need to go to much further into it as you are all well aware of the ongoing wars which followed and how TU and BS forged and powerful relationship and later merged into the super power that we have become. So I will not bore you with details on stuff you already know, instead I'd like to finish by saying a few words about some of the people who have made this world what it is today. I know Alpha believe that because they have lasted this long that they should have earned my respect or praise but honestly as an alliance they haven't done anything to impress me since the start of this war. However there is members within alpha who have more than surprised me, none more so that my sworn personal enemy and from what I have seen still my opposite number (despite who their alliance profile says is their leader).