So what I've picked up on so far.
JFL (seriously, you guys the theta JFL?) and LOTR are allied and helping each other. They also had Dark Lords(?).
Goats/Rams were on their own a bit and were losing to JFL but beat up Dark Lords and now that alliance is essentially defunct.
300 Piglets and Reaperz are now entering the fight and have elected to help Goats/Rams.
Sounds its been a rather even war overall.
Yes I am from JFL in theta, the rest are friends ive made through the years,
As for the story, Goats and us were a NAP at one time. We teamed up to fight an alliance called Hellhounds who controlled 54. We were dominating HH just like what we are doing to goats right now, goats took the chance to go against my person word and merged with our enemies by inviting all of HH into their group. We then declared war on goats, who at the time were still in a PACT with DL. DL approached me and said the goats were lying to them and not supporting them, and they wanted to fight them. I said JFL would be fighting goats so they are more then welcome to join the cause, I encouraged them obviously as at the time, it was JFL, 9 players, vs Goats (who merged with our enemy) and had around 90 players. 90v9, from the start.
DL broke ties after being fed up with the lies of the goats and started attacking them, so naturally we said "if you guys need anything let us know, we are landing sieges and would love the support".
goats at one time had 90 people. From the VERY start it ws a 9v90, 0 help for JFL, and we still took cities from them. We continued complete dominance, players have been bleeding out of the goats because of the way they act and lead, nobody wants to be apart of that so they just go inactive and ghost.
Now fast forward. Goats TRIED taking our cities early on. They were unable to make any progress at all on us, so they turned to DL and took their cities. We have NO connections with DL other than the fact we both hate the goats. We have been rolling the goats over, they have come up with about 50 different reasons to justify why they are losing, "We aren't losing we are crushing you guys, look how many cities from DL we have taken!!", or another good one, "You only take inactives wait until we weed out the bad players", we were proceeded to take cities from 3 of their top 5 members, causing 1 to quit, 1 to run into vm, 1 to hand over all of his cities near us.
Now here we stand, only 60 or so of the goats remain. They are getting battered, and what do they do? Call in more help. Pigs are nothing, they have no place being involved. The only reason they are involved in this fight is the fact they are poorly led, they have no horse in the race of ocean 54, the only reason they are involved is the piss poor leading from Lethal, getting involved because his feelings are hurt on the externals. There is no other logical explanation, simple.
So when you say its "even", I don't get how. It has never for a minute been "Even" Goats outnumbered us 90v9 from day 1. Now you have added another 80 players from the mra to the south in pigs, the only reason LoTR is even semi involved in anything is a direct result of Pigs randomly choosing to declare war on us.
Theres a nice detailed explanation, I will love to see the BS excuses from people like Martin, or the blind 3rd party views of people like Lethal who have not a single clue what is going on or how awful the goats really are. But hey, time will tell. Just took another 2 cities a few hours ago, another one in siege now, but cool I guess. Pigs fully involved in the war of 54 now, cant wait until it blows up on them when we head south, which I never planned to do, but now I will make sure of it.