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Those are brave* men** behind those doors. Let's go kill them! * Don't worry Paul711, we'll kill you too. ** OK fine, we'll still kill you anyway.

Living the dream...* *Assuming you dream of living in a shitty B movie where the characters can't refrain from constantly making dramatic pseudo-profound proclamations.

I can see why small alliances feel the need for this. However, I think people are making a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult]common mistake[/url] here, assuming that a veneer of alliancedom is all that's needed. You can't just group together a handful of small alliances with a treaty and expect to punch at the weight of a single alliance of similar size. You need the integration that a truly integrated alliance brings to the table. Common tactics, common nation building strategies, a willingness to engage in coordinated operations between all members, and central planning for both offensive DOWs and defensive counterattacks.

Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!

To supplement, OP's stats as of 11 AM this morning (clearly pre-buildup): 382k NS, 14.7k ANS, 202 nukes. o/ to many people on both sides. Too bad OP has Paul, who pretty clearly is the most terrible human being to ever play TE (except maybe Confusion). As such, I'm afraid I'll have to go ahead and post and be against OP. Sorry!

Nice OpSec. I decided at 11:45 that it was probably safe to go fap over the most recent Pacific Rim trailer, as there was no way OP was rolling tonight. Boy I sure look silly now. Good thing I don't care because holy-shit-giant-robots-fighting-giant-monsters! Anyway, o/ o/ing.

Downdeclare! Updeclare! Sidewaysdeclare! Aw, fuckit. I've had too much alcohol to tell. Have fun, everyone. :popcorn:

:( I wanted to know the story that goes with that graphic.

o/ It's been fun - NS definitely knows their stuff. A couple of coordinated off-update blitzes, and suddenly I was down 1100 infra on day 3.

When you have the game's #5 flagrunner, who has almost exactly twice the NS of any opponent, then you don't really need nukes now do you? (I'm sure Methax War Dodger would love for this to stay nuke-free.)

Bear is on the case (and I'm sure others will be soon).

Yeah, after seeing the warchest on my WAPA opponent, I decided I could handle him solo. If he's really really really lucky, today's collection might give him barely enough cash to decommission all his nukes. Otherwise, he's headed to bill lock PDQ. :( WARCHEST WARCHEST WARCHEST! (Props to my NS opponents for solid builds, though...)

o/ Thursday night blitzes But wait. That means I gotta be on Friday night to nuke. Dammit.....

TPC and Swazz parted ways several months ago, after a brief association: [url]http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?/topic/114514-hellas-declaration-of-war-on-tpc/?p=3072149[/url] Nothing he says indicates any intentions by our alliance.

o/ war 31 blitz DOWs before update, and already 11 RE counters. Always nice to see two professionals putting on a good show. ...and judging by the revealed spy reports, both sides are going hot and heavy with the anti-nuke ops, so o/ to fighting it out with rocks and spears by day 5. :popcorn:

So CowboyTx, I went over and had a look at your nation.. Maybe they wouldn't have run those ops if you'd actually bothered to do something besides zero your defenders and turtle it out, eh? And oh man, these new war stat screens are great. How else would I know that your opponents lost -ZERO- infra while fighting you? You didn't even send CMs! If you're going to sit there and protect your precious warchest so that you can build back to 2594 infra (and 31 tech, sandbag much?), then I think your opponents are justified in sending a few love taps.

Also, guerrilla camps. GUERRILLA GUERRILLA GUERRILLA! CAMPS CAMPS CAMPS!

Ladies and gentlemen, a moment of silence: http://tournament.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=1000335 :( Warchest! WARCHEST WARCHEST WARCHEST! And spies. SPIES SPIES SPIES! :(

*shrug* What other option was there for a war? RE and SUN are still fighting, Citadel and TW just wrapped up, and nobody else in our size range has any nukes. If we hit WAPA, we'd just be accused of lumping them with some poor schlubs and using it to crush a smaller alliance. We even refrained from splitting the two OTK powerhouses across separate battlegroups, which strikes me as an uncommonly decent thing to do. It's almost like we want them to be able to have fun and work together as an alliance.

o/ Gentlemen, we may not make history tonight, but we shall certainly change the geography. :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

You should have complained at the time. Maybe you could have gotten somebody to run more Destroy Land ops. :P

Sometimes minor details must be sacrificed in favor of the greater truth! :) Oh wait. Now I see your objections. :(

So, uh, could somebody drop me a note when Eljierro joins Alexandros over in Arrogonauts? I still have two slots and not enough tech. :ehm:

:wub: Truly a battle cry worthy of TE.

Merely an unfortunate misclick. I was actually trying to prepare for my upcoming tech raid of Alexandros o' Egos. (An understandable mistake, of course.)