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TTK and RIA realize they are in a terrible position. They are expected to counter NG, NoR, and TLR in accordance with an MD-level treaty (The Chestnut Accords is a MDP Bloc), but know that they will be countered in turn. So, TTK has issued a challenge under the guise of honor and integrity, but with the real purpose of changing a bad strategic position to one more tolerable. Their appeal to a sense of moral superiority has been seen before on Bob. It is used by those that have been backed into a strategic corner and have no way of escaping safely. What many of this stripe fail to realize is that it was not this single event that caused their predicament, but a serious of strategic missteps on their part coupled with the more effective strategic decisions made by their adversaries. Treaty partners ought to be viewed as a source of obligation, not just merely as protection for one’s own wellbeing. All evidence thus far demonstrates that TTK and RIA view GOD and CRAP as the later. These appeals to morality ignore their own moral imperative, and attempt to obfuscate that neglect, by appealing to a false moral imperative in others. 

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Just now, keeology said:

1v1 now that would be worthy of getting out the popcorn. Go 1v1 for a few rounds ones who dished out the most damage keeps maroon. 

 

Or, following the point abshire made, we can just do what we're doing and enjoy the OWF salt along the way. 

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43 minutes ago, Abshire said:

TTK and RIA realize they are in a terrible position. They are expected to counter NG, NoR, and TLR in accordance with an MD-level treaty (The Chestnut Accords is a MDP Bloc), but know that they will be countered in turn. So, TTK has issued a challenge under the guise of honor and integrity, but with the real purpose of changing a bad strategic position to one more tolerable. Their appeal to a sense of moral superiority has been seen before on Bob. It is used by those that have been backed into a strategic corner and have no way of escaping safely. What many of this stripe fail to realize is that it was not this single event that caused their predicament, but a serious of strategic missteps on their part coupled with the more effective strategic decisions made by their adversaries. Treaty partners ought to be viewed as a source of obligation, not just merely as protection for one’s own wellbeing. All evidence thus far demonstrates that TTK and RIA view GOD and CRAP as the later. These appeals to morality ignore their own moral imperative, and attempt to obfuscate that neglect, by appealing to a false moral imperative in others. 

Or TTK may anyway enter the war but that doesn't prevent them from making this proposition.
I mean what can you lose with this challenge. Best case scenario will be NG accepts the challenge and loses the war moves out of Marron and get droped from Oculus, worst case scenario will be that NG don't accept the challenge and comeoff as cowards and lose any sort of respect they still command.  

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NG has its way of imposing its authority, this is TTK's way of maintaining its authority. Its upto us spectators and other Maroon alliances to decide which alliance has got the balls.
Declining fair one on one challenges also doesn't help your maroon senate ambitions. Who knows this might even inspire some alliances to shift colours and vote for your opposition.
In the grand scheme of things whenever somebody reads about this war it will always say NG refused to accept TTK challenges saying "You wanna beat us? Then you gotta beat our allies first".

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25 minutes ago, Roal36 said:

NG has its way of imposing its authority, this is TTK's way of maintaining its authority. Its upto us spectators and other Maroon alliances to decide which alliance has got the balls.
Declining fair one on one challenges also doesn't help your maroon senate ambitions. Who knows this might even inspire some alliances to shift colours and vote for your opposition.
In the grand scheme of things whenever somebody reads about this war it will always say NG refused to accept TTK challenges saying "You wanna beat us? Then you gotta beat our allies first".

 

We're bleeding TTK'S allies first.  Get their tech, land and cash... then we are building a wall!!

 

#MakingMaroonGreatAgain

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16 minutes ago, Roal36 said:

NG has its way of imposing its authority, this is TTK's way of maintaining its authority. Its upto us spectators and other Maroon alliances to decide which alliance has got the balls.
Declining fair one on one challenges also doesn't help your maroon senate ambitions. Who knows this might even inspire some alliances to shift colours and vote for your opposition.
In the grand scheme of things whenever somebody reads about this war it will always say NG refused to accept TTK challenges saying "You wanna beat us? Then you gotta beat our allies first".

You don't have any allies on Maroon or Senate Seat, so being on Maroon and using that as an argument to effect their policies make little sense. It makes more sense to be on colors where you have allied interests.

 

NG obviously did this on purpose and they're probably enjoying any TTK tears as they crush their allies. Its about maximizing enemy losses while minimizing your own, rather than balls.

 

NG & some allies just aggressively declared Maroon theirs and declared on a few alliances over it. That takes balls, the ball is in the court of those not hit yet to make a move showing balls.

 

TTK made a request they knew would never happen, so they can use it as why they did nothing when their Maroon brethren were taken to the camps.

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1 hour ago, Caustic said:

 

Or, following the point abshire made, we can just do what we're doing and enjoy the OWF salt along the way. 

 

Or....................  Do something different with something on the line. Screw politics, screw bob, screw it all. Just being different would be entertaining enough

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3 minutes ago, keeology said:

 

Or....................  Do something different with something on the line. Screw politics, screw bob, screw it all. Just being different would be entertaining enough

 

Funny, people always whine about doing something different from the sidelines. It only gets louder when alliances they don't like actually do something instead of sitting there too. Continue with your staring across the isle, none of us care, we're going to continue what we do. :)

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15 minutes ago, Caustic said:

 

Funny, people always whine about doing something different from the sidelines. It only gets louder when alliances they don't like actually do something instead of sitting there too. Continue with your staring across the isle, none of us care, we're going to continue what we do. :)

Who said I didn't like NG. I've always found you guys entertaining. But yes I'm a sideline guy who just wants a good reason to bring out the popcorn. 

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3 minutes ago, Cress said:

You mean the flexibility whether to bandwagon or to stay out of a curbstomp?

 

Maybe if you were to ever wander outside the confines of Oculus protection, you would find a cold, desolate and savage world in which raw strength and determination is the most respected virtue.

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Why would NG not take out their enemies peace meal? What possible motivation would they have to skew the odds against themselves?

 

A more interesting question still is why aren't the people who are likely to get a knock later down the line talking to each other to try to skew the odds in their favour? Threads like this aren't going to help.

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17 hours ago, Caliph said:

 

Well, no, not really.  if TTK really had the balls they would counter us and take some initiative.  We can't be  the only ones doing things around here.

 

Take some initiative TTK and sack up.

 

The callout.

 

Answering a call out with a call out just makes you look silly.

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5 minutes ago, Lysergide said:

 

Except this is their callout to our callout when we attacked CRAP and GOD. They are Mutual Defense Partners, an attack on one is an attack on the other.

 

Attacking a third party isn't a call out, unless it was previously mentioned in the declaration of war on the third party. Since it wasn't its just a lame excuse to dismiss this call out and trying to save face.

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1 minute ago, Jay Kay said:

 

Attacking a third party isn't a call out, unless it was previously mentioned in the declaration of war on the third party. Since it wasn't its just a lame excuse to dismiss this call out and trying to save face.

 

Are you not presently aware of the fact that NG, TLR, and NoR signed a Maroon Treaty which outlined senate seats which would be taken away from TTK and CRAP? Or did you miss that part where they said they were going to take over the Maroon Senate? That was when the gauntlet was thrown down sir. All this thread is them picking the gauntlet back up, and throwing it down at our feet.

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1 hour ago, Lysergide said:

 

Are you not presently aware of the fact that NG, TLR, and NoR signed a Maroon Treaty which outlined senate seats which would be taken away from TTK and CRAP? Or did you miss that part where they said they were going to take over the Maroon Senate? That was when the gauntlet was thrown down sir. All this thread is them picking the gauntlet back up, and throwing it down at our feet.

 

Challenging senate seats is a numbers game, I wouldn't particularly call that a call out.

 

/shrugs 

 

Not that it matters much, as these verbal "callouts" and one upmanship on "callouts" is a silly game that goes nowhere.

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On 2/18/2017 at 10:42 PM, Abshire said:

Allow me to translate the above TTK announcement.

 

"We have poor ties as a result of years of terrible FA decisions. As a result, and to make ourselves feel better, we will issue a challenge we're in no position to make to a party with no incentive to accept. Meanwhile, we will watch and crow as the aforementioned party rolls our MD allies into the Stone Age."


I guess TTK has not been an alliance to hide and run behind NPO, something NG seems to do all the time really, maybe it is poor FA to not ally with NPO and suck off them, but at least it shows they are willing to stand tall instead of being someones !@#$%* in the yard.

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8 minutes ago, Devialance said:


I guess TTK has not been an alliance to hide and run behind NPO, something NG seems to do all the time really, maybe it is poor FA to not ally with NPO and suck off them, but at least it shows they are willing to stand tall instead of being someones !@#$%* in the yard.

Welp, guess you figured us out, a bunch o cowards here hiding behind GOD and CRAP.  Please don't hurt us.

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