der Rote Baron

o/ GDA

[quote name='Eratria' timestamp='1295766487' post='2593487'] You gave us a scare! We almost couldn't get our attacks off before reset, you waited so long! [/quote] Well I did personally appreciate =LOST='s contributions tonight to my tech and bank role tonight. Keep it coming!

Very profound and romantic DoW, guys. A greater poet once penned the following prose: [i]There once was a fancy prancy alliance, That quoted poetry and begged for our nukes, Well they can have every last one without defiance, Because they are a bag of silly commie-loving mooks![/i] -DRB

[center][img]http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/8116/thldow.jpg[/img] [b][font="Georgia"][color="#000080"][size="5"]S[/size][size="3"]melling blood in the water, a couple of days ago The International piled their DoW and[/color][/size][/font][/b] [size="3"][font="Comic Sans MS"][b][color="#DDA0DD"]flimsy CB[/color][/b][/font][/size] [b][font="Georgia"][size="3"][color="#000080"]on top of several others who attacked our ally... tonight we do our part to ensure that a great deal of that blood in the water is theirs. [size="5"]P[/size]ursuant with the Kel-Morian Combine Accords/Pact/Bloc Treaty, THL enters the war in defense of The Conservative Underground and declares war on INT. [/color][center][img]http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/6648/towarsailwe.jpg[/img][/center] Signed, Der Rote Baron, Master of War[/size][/font][/b] [img]http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/1825/hllogo.gif[/img][/center]

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Better more meaningful treaties and less of them! Also, defending your allies doesn't always have to be about "sides". An alliance should certainly have the right to defend its allies regardless of whether they give a toss about NpO, VE, etc.

This clinches it, NpO and VE should go to war... oh wait. This thread would have been interesting 3-4 days ago.

o/ DRAGON ... kookiest DoW evah! Love it.

Der oh Way!

[i]The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves, The brilliant moon and all the milky sky, And all that famous harmony of leaves, Had blotted out man's image and his cry. A girl arose that had red mournful lips And seemed the greatness of the world in tears, Doomed like Odysseus and the labouring ships And proud as Priam murdered with his peers; Arose, and on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.[/i] Yeats

Good stuff.

[quote name='Sir Dingly Dang' timestamp='1295543830' post='2586605'] Did I miss Rok declaring on VE? I thought they merely declared on an alliance who hit their MD partner. Disappointing, in that VE would prefer to be fighting along side Rok instead of on the opposite side, but expected, as VE too would come to the defense of a MD partner who was attacked. They didn't pick sides, they activated their treaty and declined to pick sides in conflicting treaties (NpO and VE). Until I see a Rok nation hitting a VE nation, good luck on the battlefield Rok and I personally hope you review your treaties after this war and decide which ally is a better ally. If you decide it is Polaris and not VE, then so be it. But conflicting treaties suck, they put allies in untenable positions. [/quote] This. Everyone wants friends like this, so anyone bad mouthing RoK right now is nuts.

[quote name='Yukon Don' timestamp='1295536386' post='2586358'] We chose the ally who was in defense... Blocmates...you mean the ones who took our notification of intent to declare and figured out how to jump in on the other side to avoid being stuck defending us? Those Blocmates.... pfft [/quote] I feel you, I was kinda wondering how your bloc-mates pulled that off myself. RoK made the honorable move, a class act.

o/ TCU

Good show, RoK.

Does NpO have any friends at all?

Congrats guys. o/ GDA

Congratz, I guess? It's been my impression that owning a fallout shelter wonder is a laughable offense. Did it help you at all?

Congrats, guys. I baked this fresh for y'all (the secret ingredient is love). o/ Legacy [img]http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/3756/40953881.jpg[/img]

[quote name='Detlev' timestamp='1293766033' post='2558865'] I was about to join but I feel that you have too many entitlements. [/quote] No problem, you don't seem like someone who would properly enjoy the complimentary hour with Jessica Alba that every new recruit enjoys anyway. [img]http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1170/1232364720jessicaalbaco.gif[/img]

[quote name='Captain Flinders' timestamp='1294663791' post='2571012']... TGE doesn't come and post more often because they simply can't... [/quote] No, TGE doesn't comment because they know you. Between this thread and your NoR announcement you have fueled 20 pages of ridiculous finger pointing and dead horse beating, and that's WITHOUT TGE bothering to defend themselves, I can just imagine how relentless your "rabid ranting" would get if TGE did bother arguing with you. I don't blame them for playing it cool. As I plainly stated before (yet was misquoted by Erikz anyway *lulz*), TGE may not have gained any PR from the OP apology, but you sure have swum up and taken the bait to damage yours with your utter lack of class. That's it for me, so spin it however you like... thanks for reading.

Fingers have been pointed at TGE in this thread for attempting a failed PR stunt, but considering this thread is already 7 pages long and they've barely even posted in it, I'm starting to see its true value. Page after page of all the same people who consistently spout all the same hate and beat the same dead horses into the dust every time TGE is involved (and that's not even counting [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=96682&st=240"]the other thread they are bashing TGE in right now[/url])... TGE may not have made any PR progress for themselves with this thread, but they sure have outclassed their rivals here simply by being silent and letting their rivals rabidly rant to the point where the rest of us are rolling our eyes in amusement. Well played, TGE o/

I hope 12 pages has been enough venting for your two alliance to put your pasts behind you and perhaps move forward together with a fresh slate. It would be a shame if you cannot because you seem like a great match. Good luck to Nordreich and The Kingdom of Italy.

Good stuff. o/ Shin-Ra o/THL

[quote name='Comrade Craig' timestamp='1294464669' post='2568243'] The roots of this conflict lay in Norden Verein's defunct [url=http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/Nordland_Doctrine]Nordland Doctrine[/url], which did two things: first, it officially asserted their ownership of Nordreich (1) history, and second, it gave them a flimsy pretext to harass all other Germanic alliances, and they used it to target TGE with incessant bullying. It's pretty obvious that you're a smart guy. Nobody shifts from friend-of-TGE to protectorate of Nordreich (2) on accident. I'm not saying TGE is blameless, but NoR is getting a free ride from people that are too intelligent to feign ignorance. The relationship between NoR and TKoI was at least partly designed to provoke a reaction from TGE. It was a calculated slap in the face. TGE is politically unsavvy and is unable to effectively counter the sophisticated NoR propaganda machine, so they're being painted as the instigators when, in fact, they're simply responding to a tit-for-tat diplomatic skirmish that was started by the heirs of Nordreich years ago. The irony here is that it is the reformed Nordreich is the one who first asked everyone to forget/forgive the past and expressed a desire to move on. Now they openly mock those sentiments when TGE expresses them. -Craig [i]edit: I do admit that my memory of the events which occurred almost 3 years ago is a bit fuzzy, so I apologize in advance if I made minor errors with my recitation of history. I look forward to being corrected.[/i] [/quote] This is is great post, and so true.