I will make a comment on things as the former Purge duke.
When Axe was collapsing, NN recruited several refugees from our war with Axe/ODIN (after Odin the God of War was banned and Ragnar. quit). They recruited Tommehh, pilaf, and 1 or two others along our direct front line, basically saying fuck you to us. They then had the audacity to come forward to us asking us for diplo with them after the fact. We talked with them for who knows how long, maybe 2 weeks? Because NN leadership was dragging their feet the entire time. Days would go by without a single message from one of them in the chat. At this time, we also ran a pretty big op on some of the left over Axe players. Very long range, some 48 hours plus, and quite a few villages. The ex-Axe players in NN sniped/stacked/recapped a lot of the villages that we targeted, basically ending any talks we had with them. The NN response was simply "oh our ex-Axe members do not reflect the rest of the tribe, they are still learning." The ex-Axe players ALSO mailed a few Purge members (including myself) with taunts, etc.
[8/1/2017 5:47:41 AM] Razmart Cool: We haven't done anything co-ordinated in your region. One player here and there act funny. But a group acting co-ordinated is much much different. <--- Ok, sure. Not only is this not true, considering it was a group acting together, but all this WAS posted about in their forums, so their leadership was aware of what was happening, and either turned a blind eye or allowed it. (ill try and find the SS but it is buried in skype somewhere). It was a combination of several NN members who acted against our op.
(following conversation)
[5:33:56 AM] Razmart Cool: I can may be defend the members on the account of they securing their area. But I have no defence on the mails
[5:34:07 AM] Razmart Cool: They shouldn't have mailed your members
[5:35:40 AM] ------: Securing their area? If that's what you have to say to their actions of crossnobling, recapping, and everything else dirty they did in collusion with the players we were hitting which weren't even within 2 fields of them, then we have nothing more to talk about either.
[5:36:11 AM] -----: I am getting annoyed by having to hear such remarks and I know had the tables been turned they would've been gone for clearly doing whatever they want
[5:36:29 AM] Razmart Cool: I just compared the two scenarios that mailing can't be defended at all. As it serves no purpose
[5:37:51 AM] Razmart Cool: They are in NN now, and good or bad we can try taking some steps. We will try to deal with the situation in hand. But currently we can't leave them high and dry
[5:38:50 AM] ------: Raz, final terms I have are as follows and you can take it to your leadership and they can message me if anything.
1. Boot the players after what they did earlier.
2. I will give the K54 border to CRAWL and any other NN members.
3. You have a diplo with us and won't foresee any war from the west side of the map.
If you cannot meet 1, then 2 and 3 do not apply and so forth.
[5:39:37 AM] Razmart Cool: I can share that with council.
So basically this ended with NN choosing to not do anything (note this was them still searching for diplo with us), proceeding to recruit the remaining ex-axe that had joined purge in a premeditated situation, and then declaring war.
During the time leading up to this, Purge leadership knew that we wouldn't be able to be active enough to lead the tribe through a war. So we looked for options to bring our most active player base, and they were brought to Vodka. NN and Vodka arranged a deal where Vodka could not noble any villages in K54, which is plain to see in my account as I was being internalled during the merge into Vodka:
So NN had a huge leg up on K54 and could not hold their members. It happens, it's not always a reflection of the tribe they left, and sometimes a reflection of the players who left. Some of them left behind the backs of Purge to NN, and now they left behind NN's back, and that was the risk NN took. To claim NN is innocent of anything shady is also ridiculous, and now that they are whining about shady things finally happening to them is laughable. Nobody is innocent in TW and certainly not NN.