bzelger

N. I like you guys well enough, but I've been subject to one inappropriate mauling too many. Edit: I was assuming he meant CSN.

[quote name='Gofastleft' date='02 March 2010 - 09:42 PM' timestamp='1267584382' post='2212138'] I have nothing but respect for STA Having fought with and now against Them. Some of the most fun in these wars was the interaction with my STA opponents. Now turn that into a question and answer it. [/quote] I will leave these high-powered questions to our able MoFA.

[quote name='Captain Oliver' date='02 March 2010 - 09:29 PM' timestamp='1267583591' post='2212118'] Do you plan on forming any new blocs or joining existing blocs? [/quote] Nope.

[quote name='Captain Oliver' date='02 March 2010 - 09:19 PM' timestamp='1267582967' post='2212110'] Do you have any intentions of joining the CnG bloc? [/quote] No.

[quote name='wickedj' date='02 March 2010 - 11:15 AM' timestamp='1267546753' post='2211358'] /me mauls bzelger [/quote] Keep that up and you'll get your wish.

[quote name='Lord Brendan' date='01 March 2010 - 10:38 PM' timestamp='1267501344' post='2210731'] How would you compare the average FCC fighter with the average CSN fighter (I realize you didn't fight us long)? [/quote] [quote name='Hayzell' date='01 March 2010 - 11:17 PM' timestamp='1267503670' post='2210782']What is your opinion of the alliances that the STA has been at war with over the past month, both overall and specifically regarding their performances and actions in this war? [/quote] Pez deferred both of these questions so I'll throw in my own opinions, even though I'm probably not better equipped to answer them. I didn't get a chance to fight FCC personally due to a pesky bout of nuclear anarchy, and it's hard to compare them anyway, as the CSN was fresh and blitzing us while the FCC was already engaged and extremely outnumbered. CSN was a very competent opponent in broad military execution and the people I was fighting were active and able. I didn't have any direct experience with the FCC. Both alliances conducted themselves well on these forums and I am pleased that we had a clean fight that ended with no hard feelings (on my part, anyway). To expand on that to cover Hayzell's question completely, I don't have a strong opinion on iFok or FCO. They were outnumbered during our brief foray with them, so it was a fun fight for me. The Order of the Paradox I had retained something of a grudge against from their two-faced behavior in our debacle involving Kronos, although most of that died with Dr. Dan's nation. These were not the circumstances in which I would have preferred to have purged that grudge, but I certainly do consider it closed now. My TOP opponents have been well-prepared and very good on the battlefield. I don't think that your DoW was an acceptable move or a good idea, but you've paid for that error handsomely and I wish you luck in finding a quick peace that everyone can accept.

Best of luck to everyone in finding an agreeable peace.

Apparently we need to reassign them to guard the vodka.

I'm glad to see you at peace even if I don't care for the terms. Good luck and let us know if you need help. Kudos to those alliances who did not ask for reparations and congratulations to you also on peace.

That doesn't refute a reductionist argument at all. Whether you say hooray versus whoopee is still determined by your biology, history and circumstance. You may argue that there could be a degree of randomness based on relative probabilities of the activation of any given neural pathway, but it still can't properly be termed a choice.

:-\ Best of luck to my friends in FEAR.

Best of luck. :-\

I'm very glad to see this. Good luck to the Sith in rebuilding and good show on decent terms.

Are you working for the TOP propaganda department, bros?

I'm sorry to see more pain for TOOL.

Best of luck to both parties.

Observe this piece I composed: a duck had the bad luck to get stuck in the muck until it was struck by a truck the poor duck said, "oh crap"

yes they do

it doesn't rhyme

[quote name='Mussolandia' date='17 February 2010 - 12:34 PM' timestamp='1266428083' post='2187690'] What can change, however, is the composition of said treaty stock. Do you intend to review your treaties at the end of this war, considering the awkward situation you were placed in? A vague answer would satisfy me either way. [/quote] We will be reviewing all of our treaties at the conclusion of our participation in this conflict.

[quote name='StevieG' date='17 February 2010 - 11:57 AM' timestamp='1266425865' post='2187653'] What are the alliances that you would go to the end of the earth for? oA on a flimsy CB just because you trust them and they were in need of your help etc. [/quote] We would not oA in on a CB that we didn't believe in for anyone.

[quote name='Goose' date='17 February 2010 - 11:39 AM' timestamp='1266424761' post='2187638'] Pezstar had brought up NSO in discussions of peace between CSN and STA. In preliminary talks, I had agreed to peace with NSO when STA and CSN reached an accord. Between that time, and the announcement of peace between CSN and STA, NSO refused the peace offers from Fark and redeclared. At that time, I agreed to peace with STA and mentioned that CSN could not offer peace to NSO until their offensive against Fark was ended. I can't tell anyone how to interpret things, but STA did right by NSO in regards to their support. NSO continuing to be at war now hinges upon IRON and not STA. I'd consider STA's obligation to NSO to be over. [/quote] [s]That was not a question.[/s] [img]http://thecastlehall.com/boards/Smileys/kickass/colbert.gif[/img] [s]Boy howdy, that's a lot of acronyms.[/s] Err... Thank you for that. I wonder why I don't know these things. Maybe I did at some point. Perhaps we didn't do them wrong and it was just a slug of bad timing and circumstance muddled with the rest. I still feel indebted to them, as they declared for us without a treaty and ended up stuck with the whole bill, regardless of how it played out.

[quote name='Poyplemonkeys' date='17 February 2010 - 10:55 AM' timestamp='1266422132' post='2187582']Moving on: Did STA give any serious thought to either neutrality, or defending allies on both 'sides' of this latest war?[/quote] Yes. I know that at least one of us () lobbied very aggressively for defending all of our allies. In the end we decided that we didn't have the strength to do that and if we tried we would in effect be defending none of our allies rather than all of them. We determined that we would fight for the Mushroom Kingdom (where we had an inviolable obligation) until we were no longer of use to them and then re-evaluate where we could be of aid. [quote name='Poyplemonkeys' date='17 February 2010 - 10:55 AM' timestamp='1266422132' post='2187582']How does STA feel about NSO's declaration on CSN and the subsequent lack of peace on the NSO/Superfriends front? [/quote] Personally, I feel very guilty. Things moved very fast in that time period and I hadn't the faintest clue what was going on for days. I don't think I even realized that the NSO had declared in our defense until after we were at peace (I was having a great time as things stood and was only vaguely aware that others even wanted help), much less knew that we were leaving them in the lurch. I regret having left the field while the front they opened on our behalf was still open. I believe Pezstar knows more about this than I, so I'll let her address it more fully.

[quote name='Alfred von Tirpitz' date='16 February 2010 - 10:55 PM' timestamp='1266378912' post='2186962'] Where is Henious? Why has he left the owf to wither and die all by itself? [/quote] Heinous One had lost interest in governing the Children of the Corn and was intending to dissolve the state altogether before the present conflict began. I believe the war piqued his interest at least temporarily, but I don't know whether it was sustainable enough for him to continue to grace us with his presence.

The distinction is meaningless in my mind. I believe that TOP et. al. believed it to be the same action and in support of Polar, regardless of other concurrent motives. Given that C&G weren't involved at the time I see why they don't. The important bit is that our allies were attacked without a treaty chain and we were therefore obligated to defend them. Whether or not it was the same coalition conflict really doesn't matter to me.* *On that particular front, I should note. There are many others dragged along in this who I feel very bad about abandoning.