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Have you ever seen a turtle trying to eat an avocado? They start biting in the middle, taking big chunks with a goal of breaking up the fruit into smaller more manageable pieces. Turtles are so clumsy without being able to hold their food; they try to bite into the fruit turning it into a squishy pulp ending us having most of the food around their faces and on the shell instead of the stomach. So turtles are always hungry for more avocados, making more mess around the aquarium and so much waste. What is even worst, turtles tend to poop while eating adding to the mess and leaving behind a really bad smell.
Divide and Conquer
The strategy has been used in war and politics since the ancient times. Used by Romans to conquer Gaul or Macedonia, used by Mongols in conquering central Asia, Used by Bolsheviks and Joseph Stalin in 1920’s or by Nazis for seizure and consolidation of total power by the National Socialist German Workers Party.The basic principle of the strategy in War-Politics when facing a united opponent is to divide the enemy, and then attack the weakest part and then use the propaganda and intimidation to divide further the remaining parties. The strategy is highly successful as long as there is a little crack on the opponent so a wedge can be used starting the division.
Divide and Conquer in TW
Some of you might be already guessing where I am going with this. Tribal Wars is no different to the real world and divide and conquer has been used since the beginnings of time.
In recent history we had a great example of how effective the strategy was and how swiftly a tribe can conquer and dominate the world without having to fight much.
For those of you who didn’t play W80 Gents was the tribe that got people talking for months. They were well organised under the command of Brad (thin Blue Line) and very quickly they grow from a small size outer core tribe to a monster devouring everyone on its path.
The world’s settings of 80 member limit were the perfect conditions for Gents to use Divide and Conquer. They would intimidate tribes offering merges and recruitment for several best accounts while eating all the rest. They would grow fast interning a lot of inactive accounts moving from tribe to tribe and no one could stop them. But with all their glory Gents created unbelievable amount on hate. Externals were fuming; people and tribes soon united in a front and Gents break down under heavy pressure and internal issues.
Divide and Conquer on W90
TEA has started a little bit differently to Gents with so much stronger roster, solid leadership and more rim-like starting location. TEA has adopted the same Divide and Conquer strategy and they have mastered it to perfection now to the point where Al Murph could write a guide based solely on his tribe’s doings.
I would like to sum up TEA’s path to glory so far:
FRUIT
Operation resulting in 12 conquers
Recruited 4 best accounts including Mia Khalifa, Balian in Ibelin, Kon Tiki and Beautyandthebeast69.
PSSST!
Maelyss convinced to give information against his own tribe
Recruitment of the spy and using him for surprise attack of villages with least defences.
https://forum.tribalwars.net/index.php?threads/tea-party-in-k54.278759/
BSB
Operation resulting in capture of 5 villages
Recruitment of The Devil Bunny, daredeiler, ?flowerpower?, d3athdealer, surtursfire, pahii, charles25, tokoshee, nardus and jijCancuck
Jager
Well prepared operation targeting Good Game ? in the first wave.
Recruitment of Good Game ? the same day
ANTZ
Gaining information about ANTZ from TheBigGinge
Recruitment of TheBigGinge just before the operation was launched
WET
Intimidating WET to remove incoming impact for a NAP
Signed NAP divided WET making Dread Doctors leave
Recruitment of Dread Doctors
Implementing spies in WET offering recruitment
Running full scale operation on weakened and divided opponent
TEA NEEDS MORE ROOM
TEA was not as fortunate with member limit as Gents on W80. They had so much recruitment to do but so tiny room in the tribe. Al has quickly established P-W being a warehouse for future internals. It has ex TEA members that had to be moved cause of space needed for Dist. It has recruited ex WET, WET! and Negan, really anyone that liked the easy solution.
2HARD
Offer of recruitment to HardNutz
Gaining information from the player
Recruitment of HardNutz the moment 2HARD declared
Running a fully prepared op in response to the declaration
In summary
As you can see TEA is always in search for weak and disloyal members willing to sell their tribe and being recruited by Al. He has tried it with members of Infamy as he knows well that is the only way he can gain advantage. I am sure he is trying to have spies in BiP and he has them in 2HARD. Al will scheme, divide, recruit, internal and repeat until he gets his win.
I have to say the strategy is very effective, but if you recruit people who are willing to betray their tribe are you not worried they will one day abandon you? You recruited some spies, liars, turn cloaks and cowards adding them to a group of great players you had from the start. Half of your team if not more is made out of good, respectable, decent players. Don’t you think they would one day wake up and say, wait a minute; it is not the premade tribe we signed up for? To win for all cost is actually making me feel uneasy.
I just hope I opened your ayes to what TEA really is:
Divide and Conquer
Divide and rule (or divide and conquer, from Latin dīvide et īmpera) in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. The concept refers to a strategy that breaks up existing power structures, and especially prevents smaller power groups from linking up, causing rivalries and fomenting discord among the people.[1]
The strategy has been used in war and politics since the ancient times. Used by Romans to conquer Gaul or Macedonia, used by Mongols in conquering central Asia, Used by Bolsheviks and Joseph Stalin in 1920’s or by Nazis for seizure and consolidation of total power by the National Socialist German Workers Party.The basic principle of the strategy in War-Politics when facing a united opponent is to divide the enemy, and then attack the weakest part and then use the propaganda and intimidation to divide further the remaining parties. The strategy is highly successful as long as there is a little crack on the opponent so a wedge can be used starting the division.
Divide and Conquer in TW
Some of you might be already guessing where I am going with this. Tribal Wars is no different to the real world and divide and conquer has been used since the beginnings of time.
In recent history we had a great example of how effective the strategy was and how swiftly a tribe can conquer and dominate the world without having to fight much.
For those of you who didn’t play W80 Gents was the tribe that got people talking for months. They were well organised under the command of Brad (thin Blue Line) and very quickly they grow from a small size outer core tribe to a monster devouring everyone on its path.
The world’s settings of 80 member limit were the perfect conditions for Gents to use Divide and Conquer. They would intimidate tribes offering merges and recruitment for several best accounts while eating all the rest. They would grow fast interning a lot of inactive accounts moving from tribe to tribe and no one could stop them. But with all their glory Gents created unbelievable amount on hate. Externals were fuming; people and tribes soon united in a front and Gents break down under heavy pressure and internal issues.
Divide and Conquer on W90
TEA has started a little bit differently to Gents with so much stronger roster, solid leadership and more rim-like starting location. TEA has adopted the same Divide and Conquer strategy and they have mastered it to perfection now to the point where Al Murph could write a guide based solely on his tribe’s doings.
I would like to sum up TEA’s path to glory so far:
FRUIT
Operation resulting in 12 conquers
Recruited 4 best accounts including Mia Khalifa, Balian in Ibelin, Kon Tiki and Beautyandthebeast69.
PSSST!
Maelyss convinced to give information against his own tribe
Recruitment of the spy and using him for surprise attack of villages with least defences.
https://forum.tribalwars.net/index.php?threads/tea-party-in-k54.278759/
BSB
Operation resulting in capture of 5 villages
Recruitment of The Devil Bunny, daredeiler, ?flowerpower?, d3athdealer, surtursfire, pahii, charles25, tokoshee, nardus and jijCancuck
Jager
Well prepared operation targeting Good Game ? in the first wave.
Recruitment of Good Game ? the same day
ANTZ
Gaining information about ANTZ from TheBigGinge
Recruitment of TheBigGinge just before the operation was launched
WET
Intimidating WET to remove incoming impact for a NAP
Signed NAP divided WET making Dread Doctors leave
Recruitment of Dread Doctors
Implementing spies in WET offering recruitment
Running full scale operation on weakened and divided opponent
TEA NEEDS MORE ROOM
TEA was not as fortunate with member limit as Gents on W80. They had so much recruitment to do but so tiny room in the tribe. Al has quickly established P-W being a warehouse for future internals. It has ex TEA members that had to be moved cause of space needed for Dist. It has recruited ex WET, WET! and Negan, really anyone that liked the easy solution.
2HARD
Offer of recruitment to HardNutz
Gaining information from the player
Recruitment of HardNutz the moment 2HARD declared
Running a fully prepared op in response to the declaration
In summary
As you can see TEA is always in search for weak and disloyal members willing to sell their tribe and being recruited by Al. He has tried it with members of Infamy as he knows well that is the only way he can gain advantage. I am sure he is trying to have spies in BiP and he has them in 2HARD. Al will scheme, divide, recruit, internal and repeat until he gets his win.
I have to say the strategy is very effective, but if you recruit people who are willing to betray their tribe are you not worried they will one day abandon you? You recruited some spies, liars, turn cloaks and cowards adding them to a group of great players you had from the start. Half of your team if not more is made out of good, respectable, decent players. Don’t you think they would one day wake up and say, wait a minute; it is not the premade tribe we signed up for? To win for all cost is actually making me feel uneasy.
I just hope I opened your ayes to what TEA really is:
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