Not sure if this forum is still alive, but I think I'll write my 'little' story here.
My main world, Theta, had just ended. A lot of us wanted to play a world together so we decided to join Gela. With a massive 133 members we created the alliance Army of Eternity. We were located in the oceans 45 and 55. We had a pretty strong core, but sadly a few more alliances were located here.
Very soon we entered a war against both OCEANS VETERANS and an other top alliance (who's name I can't remember..sorry..(they later partially merged with OV and split off into Vengeance). OCEANS VETERANS, always been a top alliance crushed us. We gave up the fight after merely 1 week. There was a merging offer on the table, which I (as leader) accepted. The best of our alliance merged into OV. I was given council access.
But through time more and more of the Theta Veterans quit. Until only +/- 20 guys remained, including me and my good friend (co-founder) Gautamgrg. In there we (or just me?) went through a hard period. Shortly after Krypteia went into war with OV and our northern lines were exposed. A bit later there were disagreements within the council (mostly between me and the others) and then thekindred (A guy I always respected) resigned as founder (because of lack of time, as I understood). Afterwards I just disagreed more and more with the council, on all matters. (pretty sure they can confirm
) After I returned from a 'forced vacation' (You all know what I mean (the word begins with Ban and it isn't Banana)), I was stripped from my rights from the council. This made me very upset, so I gathered my men (former AoE members) and talked about the situation.
It appeared they didn't feel very welcome either and so we decided to leave OV. Not all of us though, a few stayed behind. But they all remained friends until the end. Under the lead of Gautamgrg and I we left with a total of 8 members.
A few days later I decided to join Krypteia in their war against Oceans Veterans. Gautamgrg decided to join GooC and kept fighting Krypteia. Though this 'diplomatic status' didn't harm our friendship, as we kept in contact. Anyways...back to business.
Soon after I joined Krypteia OV was determined to rim me. Almost having succeeded in that they took away a big chunk of my cities. Though just in time I managed to 'jump' into safer waters. There it took a while to rebuild my forces and go into war with OV.
They were great opponents, and most of them were better than me. (which isn't hard to be. lol )
My best fight ever was with kindred, of whom I took a city after a long fight, and having lost a lot of troops. Without the help of my alliance mates I wouldn't have succeeded.
After that the story goes quite boring, so I'll keep it short.
I went deeper and deeper in Oc45. Then moved up against BorH and Vengeance. A lot of great fights etc etc..Boring boring...
Then the World Wonders arrived. With a great advantage on the others Krypteia started building them.
Our biggest opponents were Band of the Red Hand and GooC. We managed to block the BoRH WW with the help of Soul.Fire. He succesfully conquerred a city on the island.
Which still left us with GooC. But then one of their leaders (Don't remember the name, sorry) decided to turn against his alliance and to join Krypteia. Which gave us an advantage on the WW race. Though, I was very unhappy with this 'minor reshuffle'. I was convinced Krypteia would have won, even without the alliance change. Yet, I'm proud to be a Krypteian.
Soon after the WW's were completed I quit Gela out of personal reasons. I just started college so time was a little problem. Since that moment I started respecting my enemy SoxRox a lot! We had great conversations and next to Kindred he must be the worthiest opponent I ever had!
To end...
We had a great time, and perhaps we'll meet again! (not in Grepo though as Gela was my last world.)
Sincerely,
Joris