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I figured it was time for people to take a break from only seeing posts about the Juggies and SI, so I will share my version of how what started as a very promising premade turned into my worst experience and biggest failure in 2 years of playing.
Ages ago (and I really do mean ages) a small bunch of some of the best of Grepo were put together in a little skype room to wait for the right world. I was also invited to tag along so I did. Horus or AoE (I still remember him as Mr Goldopolis) was going to lead. We all started Helo and the initial signs were good. We were small compared to some of the others on this world but who cares, we figured quality over quantity and that has worked wonders in other servers. We were set to at the very least provide a good challenge as one of the best alliances on the world. For our small size we had a great abp ranking and for me that is the sign of a healthy alliance (which we were at the time).
Unfortunately of course Horus ... went away?... and that was followed by (as much as I hate to admit it) one of the alliances top players in Jack leaving afterwards. Maybe that was the first sign that this was going to fail but whiskydelta stepped up to lead the alliance and did so very well. We pacted up with DI avoid too many problems immediately but not limit our growth. A good buddy of mine also left a while after and told me we stood no chance of winning (by that time the idea was starting to come up in my head) he said if *adasko* who pretty much represents the best player I have ever seen in Grepo (Sorry AA you only make my top 5 ) was not starting in the main polish branch, then this world belonged to the Polish. I figured the same but decided to stay and watch anyway.
Then there came..... the polish op.... waking up to something close to 50 revolted cities in the same minute. Seeing the threads posted I knew I was now definitely on the Titanic and we were now at the initial collision with that big Iceberg. We scrambled for support and pacted up with everyone we could to get support to save a few more cities (yea we could have lost all 50 by ourselves really). Few days later and whiskey had to leave I think so before she made sure we weren't left hanging and organized a merge with DI (really now the way I see it was they won a war without even warring us). So.... DI, a very nice bunch, fun people and of course my lovely Shreeeeeeeeeeeee was there We had shared def forums with SI and Juggies for polish support and all was good in post- butt kicked land. Here I already knew I was on a sinking Titanic, but i wanted to stay and watch because simply I've never been in something like this and I thought it would be funny to see how inferior alliances die.
Polish couldn't touch our cities like before and life was easier. There was just one problem... an NAP with the only major players of o45 who I currently viewed as worse than us THE VANGUARDS!, for some bizzare reason we were pacted up with them and whenever I asked a leader, I was told "JD tells us to wait" (wait for what I will never know, but after what happened I assume he meant wait for polish to kick our behinds again). JD was sure the SI and juggies would never ever ever war us because he has friends there (like that ever matters) but he was roadblocking our only growth in taking vanguard cities. We were supposed to take cities off PL who could put more support in each of 100 cities than we probably could in 1. The polish grew immeasurably compared to us who were scrambling for cities without any available targets. The vanguard best players jumped ship to juggies and even then when they were right there for the picking, we had to wait for like a week before finally being given a green light.
Too little too late JD, our growth was a lot faster then but the Damage was done, we were too far behind and too close to the polish but of course there was still our shared tab. Dun DUn DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN SI and Juggies war which means no more support at the rate we usually got them. We were sitting ducks and the polish were never going to leave us alone knowing that we could get 1/10th of the support we used to get. Another Op to crush us began and with our tiny size from our lack of targets to grow from showed. 2 Pages of city losses and Juggies started warring us as well! The titanic was now in mid ocean and Polish came after me as soon as I came off vmode! They sent 4 cships and like 50 attacks at tiny me, 1 landed, 1 was sniped and the other two were to be sniped because simply put Poles your timings are beyond DREADFUL! But hell, I figured I was going to leave before the Titanic hit the ocean floor so I restarted before the other 2 cships would die to give the Polish who were a lot more deserving my cities than to be internalized. Fast forward like 2 days and the alliance is dead, Titanic on the ocean floor and JD is now in SI Guessing he knew his buddies would never leave him hanging and tbh SI were truly great allies (I really don't know why though in your position I would have jumped for our juicy cities just like the Polish from day one).
And there we have it folks! It was truly a pleasure watching a once promising alliance turn into something that would not even measure up to some of the noobiest enemy alliance I've had on other worlds.... oh well !
Ages ago (and I really do mean ages) a small bunch of some of the best of Grepo were put together in a little skype room to wait for the right world. I was also invited to tag along so I did. Horus or AoE (I still remember him as Mr Goldopolis) was going to lead. We all started Helo and the initial signs were good. We were small compared to some of the others on this world but who cares, we figured quality over quantity and that has worked wonders in other servers. We were set to at the very least provide a good challenge as one of the best alliances on the world. For our small size we had a great abp ranking and for me that is the sign of a healthy alliance (which we were at the time).
Unfortunately of course Horus ... went away?... and that was followed by (as much as I hate to admit it) one of the alliances top players in Jack leaving afterwards. Maybe that was the first sign that this was going to fail but whiskydelta stepped up to lead the alliance and did so very well. We pacted up with DI avoid too many problems immediately but not limit our growth. A good buddy of mine also left a while after and told me we stood no chance of winning (by that time the idea was starting to come up in my head) he said if *adasko* who pretty much represents the best player I have ever seen in Grepo (Sorry AA you only make my top 5 ) was not starting in the main polish branch, then this world belonged to the Polish. I figured the same but decided to stay and watch anyway.
Then there came..... the polish op.... waking up to something close to 50 revolted cities in the same minute. Seeing the threads posted I knew I was now definitely on the Titanic and we were now at the initial collision with that big Iceberg. We scrambled for support and pacted up with everyone we could to get support to save a few more cities (yea we could have lost all 50 by ourselves really). Few days later and whiskey had to leave I think so before she made sure we weren't left hanging and organized a merge with DI (really now the way I see it was they won a war without even warring us). So.... DI, a very nice bunch, fun people and of course my lovely Shreeeeeeeeeeeee was there We had shared def forums with SI and Juggies for polish support and all was good in post- butt kicked land. Here I already knew I was on a sinking Titanic, but i wanted to stay and watch because simply I've never been in something like this and I thought it would be funny to see how inferior alliances die.
Polish couldn't touch our cities like before and life was easier. There was just one problem... an NAP with the only major players of o45 who I currently viewed as worse than us THE VANGUARDS!, for some bizzare reason we were pacted up with them and whenever I asked a leader, I was told "JD tells us to wait" (wait for what I will never know, but after what happened I assume he meant wait for polish to kick our behinds again). JD was sure the SI and juggies would never ever ever war us because he has friends there (like that ever matters) but he was roadblocking our only growth in taking vanguard cities. We were supposed to take cities off PL who could put more support in each of 100 cities than we probably could in 1. The polish grew immeasurably compared to us who were scrambling for cities without any available targets. The vanguard best players jumped ship to juggies and even then when they were right there for the picking, we had to wait for like a week before finally being given a green light.
Too little too late JD, our growth was a lot faster then but the Damage was done, we were too far behind and too close to the polish but of course there was still our shared tab. Dun DUn DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN SI and Juggies war which means no more support at the rate we usually got them. We were sitting ducks and the polish were never going to leave us alone knowing that we could get 1/10th of the support we used to get. Another Op to crush us began and with our tiny size from our lack of targets to grow from showed. 2 Pages of city losses and Juggies started warring us as well! The titanic was now in mid ocean and Polish came after me as soon as I came off vmode! They sent 4 cships and like 50 attacks at tiny me, 1 landed, 1 was sniped and the other two were to be sniped because simply put Poles your timings are beyond DREADFUL! But hell, I figured I was going to leave before the Titanic hit the ocean floor so I restarted before the other 2 cships would die to give the Polish who were a lot more deserving my cities than to be internalized. Fast forward like 2 days and the alliance is dead, Titanic on the ocean floor and JD is now in SI Guessing he knew his buddies would never leave him hanging and tbh SI were truly great allies (I really don't know why though in your position I would have jumped for our juicy cities just like the Polish from day one).
And there we have it folks! It was truly a pleasure watching a once promising alliance turn into something that would not even measure up to some of the noobiest enemy alliance I've had on other worlds.... oh well !