Caliph

Right, but I took over the MoFA position from you. I was the last MoFA until we merged to form ... that other stupid alliance that I won't speak the name of.

As the former Minister of Foreign Affairs for RAD I support this.

I remember that. And the only interesting things happened on page 1 in the OP, pages 12, 25, and 40, and the rest was filler mindless hails and nonsense.

Damn, was always a fan of Lord Boris. I remember him from back in the day.

So you're a railroad man then? Also, RAD is RAD join RAD!

Wait, Lord Boris is gone?

Last Call has not taken a hostile stance against the Imperium. But when you run your mouth against one of our members expect us to defend them.

Huh. Fair neough, I don't usually follow politics here anymore.

Don't write cheques that your ass can't cash.

Is it just me, or do NPO emperors not last as long as they used to?

Not really, war here is a numbers game, but there are some effective ways to do damage even when outclassed. That said if you are fighting 3 nations at once they will most likely out damage you due to their numbers advantage. So go out there, destroy stuff, and have fun. Its not personal.

I'm chill for having a bunch of fanboys following me around trying to make everything about me.

You seem really intent to tie me to Spatr and Bones. Their war has nothing to do with me, stop pushing that party line. Going mathematically here, I lost 30k tech fighting Oculus. Oculus didn't even lose a fraction of that fighting me. They have more nations capable of absorbing more nations in every single tier than all the rest of the alliances left here. Combined. There is not a single thing anyone else can do about. Everyone who is at peace currently is only at peace because Oculus doesn't feel like warring you right now. Yeah I used to have an upper tier. Used to be in DBDC. Could have easily stayed there and sat the war out, sitting high and mighty in the top 40. Ties with most of Oculus. I decided to help friends out instead. Then Oculus made it personal with surrender terms aimed at me. To send a message. So I don't really care what Oculus thinks of me, they know where I'm at if they want to do something about it. And you do too. You've seen my nation, come get some if you keep running your mouth like that. You are writing checks your ass can't cash just because Oculus fully supports you. What takes more guts? Falling in line with those in power currently? Or taking a stand against the powers that be and calling it like I see it? I'm just agreeing with Auctor here. There does not exist a grouping of power outside of Oculus that can amass any tier of NS that Oculus cannot defeat with numbers. Oculus is the mightiest grouping ever created proportionally. So people are not attacked by Oculus because they are amassing certain NS groupins because nobody is anywhere near being able to challange Oculus for a military victory. Any Karma, any Equibrilium, is years away from being able to happen and that assumes Oculus will stop accumulating tech in the upper tiers during this time. They will not, so really Oculus has everyone by the balls. And I still say what I say. I spoke out against NPO when they ruled this world in 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, and other years. Took a break from that when I was in Umbrella and Doom because honestly there just wasn't such a power grouping then. But with Oculus, well that is not something I like. And thus I speak out. And if its shark week, you know where I'm at, come get some.

My comment had to do with agreeing with Auctor in saying that that since Oculus has too many nations in all t iers they have nothing to fear in terms of legitimite military threats since they have vast amount of nations in all tiers. And that every time someone fightst Oculus they lose more tech than the Oculus nations do as a whole because that damage is spread across all of oculus wheres the damage on you is on you. You cannot simply target uppers tiers in Oculus for longer than 1 round because they will dog pile on you and ensure their upper tiers just do not take significant damage. So anything Tywins alliance takes or does not take is entirely at the whim of what Oculus wants to do since there does not exist a force that can stop them.

I attacked 4 Umbrella nations, causing a few thousand tech damage throughout that 7 days of war. Since then those Umbrella nations have fully recovered their tech losses from me. In doing so I was countered by 3 nations and had all of my defensive slots filled with 3 nations for at least 2 months. I lost 30k tech in that time. I caused a few thousand in tech damage and took more. Its a numbers game and when your opponents can put 3 nations on you and can fully absord all the damage you do, its not a numbers game that the numerically inferior side can win, especially if they are outnumbered in every single tier. I went in knowing that. I went in knowing that even if hte whole of DBDC suicided in with me that the damage I/we could do is insignificant to stop Oculus. The same is true now with every single conflict Oculus engages in in the future as long as Oculus remains whole, with nobody betraying Oculus. No matter the alliance Oculus has more numbers in all tiers to swarm and outnumber them, and thus nobody can defeat Oculus militarily. There is no scenario in which Oculus can take a game changing amount of damage with the current alliances in Oculus. It just is not mathematically impossible. There does not exist a way for Oculus to take meaningful significant damage in any conflict anymore. Oculus has the nations in every tier to not worry about any other coalition or alliance getting any number of nations in the upper or mid tier since throughout Oculus they have more nations in every tier than every other power base left. That said, people still will honor treaties and enter wars knowing they will lose to the overwhelming might of Oculus.

Well after being allied for like 2 years why is this news to you? But it doesn't really matter since whats done is done.

Sengoku throwing around Oculus's weight again? Better get used to it cuz this is the brave new world of Oculus.

I had been planning on joining an Oculus aliance post war, but due to Oculus's behavior that'll never happen. So a swing and a miss for you. And talking of sucker punches, what about Oculus's wars on numerous DK allies? Hiding behind treaties while rolling our friends is not the behavior of friends.

So you think friends put 6 month terms on friends? Yet every other aa in that war got white peace? Yeah, that sure like the behavior of a friend to me.

Well yes, interesting. Because I've been in alliances that were faced with disbandment. Nobody can disband an alliance except themselves. What they can do is war you for as long as they want. But FAN survived perma war. VE came back from disbandment. \m/ finally came back after several failed attempts due to NPO and IRON working to keep it away. Goons even came back under the protection of NpO and NPO. Disbandment can only be done if you disband your alliance, nobody can force you to do that. There are numerous examples of people resisting the term "disband or perma war", there are numerous examples of alliances coming back from disbandment when the climate has changed. So nut up or shut up.

Criticism is one thing, outright lies is another. I never begged for peace. I said what I could accept and then I received nothing but silence and apparently a log dump. Last and only time I logged dump was on Impero from VE in a VE thread where they demanded reps from an alliance who did a spy op on them, and I log dumped Impero telling me that my alliance at the time would be receiving no reps despite his admision that VE spied on us and comitted an act of war against us. But since VE was in Pandoras Box or something back then to where hitting them would have been suicide, it wasn't done. That was years ago. But meh, this tells me who my friends really are.

Nope. Was sending out feelers that apparently weren't accepted at all, despite my numerous messages to the nations I hit and to Umbrella gov explaining my point of view and reasons behind doing what I did. And the funny thing is the reason for my anti Oculus stance now is Oculus's actions against me despite my efforts to explain. But you would rather have the propoganda and a laugh at my expense. Guess you really do find out who your friends are. Fighting friends in war doesn't have to destroy the friendship, but how people respond to the war can. I've tried to keep it unpersonal but you keep trying to make it personal.

Never begged for peace.

Interesting.

Thats actually not what happened. I didn't run out of nukes until week ... 3 or 4 since I was inactive during a large part in the middle. I went out of my way to explain my goals and intentions and reasoning to Umbrella and their gov at the time, but really keep continuing this charade. Make it rum instead of appletinis and you might have something.