I never said the alliances on the rim arent good. Rogue, Fat Camp, GKM are quite impressive from what ive seen. However, being in the core you had to go through a hell of a fight to survive. Yes we have been around but thats because weve conquered the rest.
make no mistake, weve always conquered cities. Grepostats speaks for itself. Many of us have been constantly taking cities. Before we took on a lot of players we grew organically through conquest. Once we invited many of the old chillax players we grew large. But everyone seems to be forgetting the month long war we had with VROD when VROD was significantly larger than us. Or when we were fighting Confederate States and VROD at the same time. Does that not count? Or how about when we wiped out Phantom Knights? We annihilated The United Alliance....all of them. GREECE...gone...TAU .....gone.....the list continues. To say we havent grown through conquest is just inaccurate.
So here we go, I started to play Kappa 2 months roughly after it's opening and I kinda missed all this history of the toddling PP. So it's true, there's no denying it, you grew on your valor and abilities to conquer. It had to be said "publicly"
However, lately the constant outsourcing of good players doesn't reflect good on your valor or abilities, it kinda of blinds us and keep us from seeing anything else.
All those alliances gone, yes PE did beat them. How many of PE current members have been in GREECE, TUA, PK, CS, VRoD? To the victor goes the spoil... and some members
Sorry Paul, but I have to be the devil's advocate here
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being in the core you had to go through a hell of a fight to survive
I went through numbers again (it 's kinda wonderful how you can make numbers speak
) and I found out that only 17 out of the 50 first defencers are from PE 30 from the first 100.
As PE is an aggressive alliance, it's quite normal but, other alliances have been attacked much more in comparison ( FC has an 190K DBPs average per player, PE has 65K DBPs average per player). So, is it a hell of a fight to be in the core? If your are attacked in the core, support flows in much easier and faster as you are close from you team mates, even on the same islands most of the time.
To the credit of PE, the numbers of cities in short range make it probably harder to conquer and that's one thing PE can claim: They took cities in the core (hence the massive ABPs) and the threat of not being able to go through the whole siege was greater due to proximity of enemy cities. (told you I would be fair in my arguments)
So is PE the best at conquering? I'd say you were the best when you faced a challenge.
Today, your size and the fact that you can launch 150-200 incomings on one guy doesn't show valor anymore, it shows sheer number can overcome the best player easily. You were samurai and now you are an enlisted army. The army will win for sure, but the ways of the samurai were and still are much more appealing.
quick questions to finish this: what will happen when the PE members in the core won't have a target to fight which is not 2-3 oceans away?
they will get bored and what do bored people do? either they quit or they split from the alliance they are in to form something new and "create" new close targets. What will it be? History shows us that no empire ever made it, will PE prove us wrong?
Don't we all love grepolis!
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