With all the self-flattery and self-pity of 90% of the replies here, I think is too much for me to read them all in detail but there are a few things that I have to make straight on behalf of
League of Warriors -
first official statement:
1 - League of Warriors is not a MRA. It may look like an MRA (100+ players) but
we do have criteria for recruiting, our players
do have fundamentals (communication) in a local scope, that is, with their allies around; and most do help the alliance when the alliance imposes them quotas. We are so efficient that we know what is going on in 16 alliances in Gamma and nobody has a clue (including Rdlm and CJ). After getting rid of Ben's spies, and establishing new security protocols, I doubt whether such a security breach will ever happen again. We do have such an organization -very good one - but that seems to be funny for some (and my 12 year old nephew).
2 - BenjaminGibbs just wrote (as is usual from him, well, just his crew buys all what he says) that we are "
a bunch of noobs". Here he is very wrong, as indeed many of us in the alliance are veterans from other worlds, TWs and the very first core wars of Grepolis, when Ben was not even around. Different is that we quit due to RL issues but now we're back than if we just had find out about this game.
3 - Experience says that what an alliance needs is an experienced
leader(s) that can show the others how to do it, because there are many players here with a lot of cities that are "babies in big diapers". So I'm sure most of you won't tell the difference between "strategy" and "tactics", for example.
4 - Rdlm has proved that, in order to protect a city, it needs to stack it massively with troops. Ben's always fond of big displays of force - his Soviet style of massive rococo too distasteful for me. But how different we are - and we have prove it- is that we only need a "Swiss knife" to crack those massive, labyrinthine displays of force that he teaches his players. So, as I said before, "strategy" and "time" will prove in the end,
who's who. I can tell that former tactic, as expensive as it is, pretty much looks to me like apes piling up large quantities of stones while the other is basically "satellite directed".
5 - When a leader doesn't have principles there isn't much that can't be done as of "fair play". And using black propaganda was the telling detail for us, experienced players teaching others to play as pro (everyone here had his/her start, so stop boasting that you all suddenly popped out with 200K in cities as God made the world)... With Ben things are always "dirty" (he seems to enjoy to play as the dictator, something which I respect but I'm proud is only here). In fact, I'm always getting reports of his Skype meetings in which there's no place for fun, imagination and inventiveness (have even heard and watched some recordings). Rdlm for that reason has been labeled as a boring "North Korea", and I mean, this is a game but it also should allow others to have fun. (Yes, Ben, we know even your home address! lol). So basically it will be a tough war as we are fighting a very obscure force.
But the back-stabbing (and there's much back-stabbing when you fight RDLM, is like a decent world-power's army fighting a terrorist group) was the breaking point for all the "merrying": RDLM recruits enemy's outlaws, refugees and of the sort. So, who's really "LoW" as euphemistically Ben here has put it in the end (as other inmature people)? At least LoW won't fall ever that
LOW to recruit ex Rdlm/CJ refugees... So, what is what makes an elite alliance? What Rdlm says? Thug-like war? Well, I'm sure CJ can boast of their "eliteness" all of they want but there are facts that won't allow many other alliances here to classify to that place.
6 - Our stance with CJ was changed to hostile due to some unauthorized, unofficial and irresponsible rumors spread in these forums (and in benefit of Rdlm, of course). Though we can be related to other alliances fighting CJ, our diplomatic relations, positive or negative, with CJ didn't exist before this rumors started showing up. So this war front was basically provoked by gossips - not a very honorable way to fight a war, as true alliances will not go to war for gossiping but military strategy and geographic domination.
7 - The war with Rdlm has only started - and will be long, I can tell, as we will fight it til the end. I know that Ben is accostumed to fight quick wars and win, but not this time. We are loyal to our pacts and stick to our goals, so - for 21 cities against 1 don't start the flag-wagging and drum-thumping, BenjaminGibbs. Not yet. And I do think PE have better "friends" than Rdlm (in the sometimes unfairly used "MRA" scope).
And there are a few things that this public, accostumed to quick over-hyping, must know: must of the so-called "impressive" achievements of Rdlm, that tremendous boasting of "conquests" and "stats", wow yes, is based on their style of attacking the weak or "offline" ones. They do take cities, but from inactives. I'm surprised Ben hasn't provided evidence of how many CSs from his crew we had sunk since the war started... When we investigate we always find out that such players had been away for 3 or 4 days - enough time for Rdlm to get their victory numbers for propagandistic purposes only. Is it valid? Yes, of course, war is war. But if I was taking cities from Rdlm that way, I would be more humble when showing to the general public my "achievements". So as far as I can tell, Rdlm is getting A+ in a class of dumb people. What could be the grades in a class of smart people? Humbleness, Ben! Be humble! Is one of the virtues of a great leader. While you over-hype stuff, we are working!
8 - Rdlm boasts of "huge losses" but much is based on their undeniable o32 might. While o32 represents less than 5% of our total operations, for Rdlm is above 20%. Now they have an additional share in o22 as Ben had to recruit one of our refugees - the dirty war, the so-called "elite" alliance going LoWer than the best MRA around.
9 - We perfectly know who
Men in Thights are and other alliances Rdlm has been in contact and we are aware of what they are doing and, specially, as the good noobs some say we are,
how they do it.. So I will recommend, Basil the Poet, to stay away from trouble as we haven't got in his way looking for it.
Now, if we do look like a MRA (more than 100 players), I can tell that 99% of our players are in the 4 oceans were we have full operations, and we do rule 3 of them - the exception is 1, which we share with PE (this all can be checked on Grepostats).
So, as you can see, there are much lies and cover-ups and deliberately controversial, loud, self centred information here, but the only right thing is that the "true war" hasn't started - we are just
warming up 
