[12:45:00 PM] LC Hammer: Okay everything is on the record now if that's okay
[12:45:06 PM] Reece (El Capitan): (Y)
[12:45:42 PM] LC Hammer: So tell me about Pnut, what were the circumstances surrounding the creation of the tribe? was it a premade?
[12:49:30 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Initially me and my co who I met on w91 were just going to join and see where the world took us, but with w91 fast loosing interest in the war there we ended up banding together and forming the original 20 or so members of Pnut, soon joined by other nearby w91 players and friends of the original 20.
[12:50:40 PM] LC Hammer: Awesome, and then obviously Pnut gained traction and was initially was well received on the forum.
[12:51:26 PM] LC Hammer: As Pnut grew in size and expanded you targeted gasp! a current top ten tribe
[12:51:48 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Well with a roster of well known players we were hard to ignore!
[12:52:12 PM] LC Hammer: That was the first negative impression received on the forum by a few of the community members. Could you explain your reasoning behind that OP?
[12:53:11 PM] Reece (El Capitan): We wanted to expand north, we expanded north
[12:53:19 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Basic TW
[12:54:39 PM] LC Hammer: Exactly, they were were in your way of expanding to the Rim so you decided to remedy that predicament.
[12:55:07 PM] LC Hammer: The OP was vastly successful with you taking a number of villages and ending up recruiting some of their members
[12:55:13 PM] LC Hammer: Why did it stop?
[12:58:12 PM] Reece (El Capitan): -YES- declared war just after we planned a second op on Gasp so we had to turn our attention there,
A broken Gasp didn't pose much of a threat at the time so we cancelled the op.
[12:59:47 PM] LC Hammer: As I understand it the YES war was over a barb?
[1:02:53 PM] Reece (El Capitan): (cwl)
[1:03:23 PM] Reece (El Capitan): You could say that, but the barb was just a scapegoat for deeper set issues between the two tribes
[1:03:39 PM] LC Hammer: Care to elaborate?
[1:10:59 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Well initially the two tribes had a nap secured between me and ddog, this lasted for two weeks with no issues.
If I remember rightly that nap was due to end on the 24th of the month, a few days before Ryan (ryan.slowe) had ddog removed as coduke, at which point my points of contact in NO (as they were at the time) became Ryan and Martin (twodeadly)
I've tried to arrange diplo to go on past the 24th,
During these talks martin made it very clear to us he wanted no nap and wanted us out of the K, needlessly to say we didn't get along,
The barb just became a catalyst for these personality differences to manifest themselves, giving martin half of what he wanted, no nap.
[1:11:51 PM] LC Hammer: interesting take.
[1:12:08 PM] LC Hammer: So then the war began and both sides exchanged OPs
[1:12:36 PM] LC Hammer: How long into the war did Merge talks begin with Baba and then eventually BOLD
[1:33:45 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Well first NO called a leadership election, which ultimately resulted in the formation of YES by Jobless and the addition of a couple new recruits for us.
Then came the Gasp op,
Followed by the YES declaration and op,
We didn't actually do an op in return, we just retook what we'd lost, we were rebuilding from the gasp op and by the time our troops were ready the merge plans had been settled and we left it there and started internals and merges, along with some spring cleaning in the home K.
Baba merge was in the plan from the day we got diplo with them, bold came into that a week before the merge happened max
[1:34:40 PM] LC Hammer: Why were BOLD interested in the merge
[2:45:03 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Well we'd had a long running nap with bold which we were looking to make into an alliance upon merging,
Understandably they felt threatened by the thought of us and Baba merging, so they offered the idea of a 3 way merge.
[2:45:43 PM | Edited 2:45:52 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Sorry had to do some adulting (whew)
[2:45:50 PM] LC Hammer: How did you decide which players wouldn't make the cut?
[2:47:04 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Well baba had already been trimming down ready for a merge, and a recently battle tested Pnut meant we had a good idea of who was worth keeping, same with BOLD due to their war with RIM
[2:48:23 PM] LC Hammer: Looking forward, have the wars ended with RIM and -YES- ?
[2:50:14 PM] Reece (El Capitan): Officially yes with both, no war has been re-declared,
Un-officially there was a small skirmish with both, we shall see how things go.
[2:50:51 PM] LC Hammer: Alright well I wish you well in all your endeavors
thank you for speaking with me.