Beast and Code was offered an endgame deal with TQL and OMG.
Beast rejected this instantly.
Of course.
TQL played this wrong in many ways. First of all they recruited Riot.
They were lucky that the coalition did not turn right around and striked them.
I had no idea of the intra-coalition politics at the time, but from info in the OP that does seem to have been a bit of a dick move. But then again, when only 25 accounts can win the world, wouldn't you want to ensure you've got as many good folk as possible?
At 2-3 times the numerical advantage the coalition was making
a little headway against the Riot group, with TQL making the most progress. That's based on the conquest stats at least; from what FNDP and others have said, BRO were making an impact in terms of mental strain if not so much positive conquests. If BM and BRO had declared on TQL immediately, there's every possibility the tide would've swung against
them, not TQL, especially if NutZ and Zombie could be talked around by Riot members in their new home.
Perhaps that's why it was only sometime later that rumours of the intention to attack TQL started to gain traction.
So with that in mind, they should have played it cool, shown loyalty and unity, as they were still accepted as a part of the coalition.
They should have waited for another tribe in the coalition to make a mistake politically.
As I showed earlier in this thread, starting from five and a half hours after it was posted in the wee hours of the 5th, BM violated the nobling terms of their updated agreement with TQL literally every single day besides the 13th. If you think that merely looking for a feeble
cassus belli was the 'smart' way to go, then yeah, I guess that would've been it. But this all hinges on the assumption that the other tribes - who were after all the ones with the least opportunity for expansion - were never going to attack TQL.
Then they procced to recruit -ND-, which leads to ID?!?! getting blocked for growth.
Admittedly I didn't pay too much attention to all the supposed drama surrounding the creation and early days of ID. But yeah, it looks like TQL recruited ~145k in some small but excellent members of -ND-, a few days after ID was created. Continuing a bad precedent, perhaps, but it's not like those were going to be pushovers and the inner coalition tribes were going to be hard-pressed for expansion
regardless of whether or not they had the opportunity to fight for those ~15-20 villages.
Then they procced to recruit deep into K45. After the first recruitment they were sent another warning. They procced to laugh about this warning, and talking along the lines: "We will see what happens.."
By the looks of it they recruited one single person slightly across the K45 border (kyrtgr) from the tribe GOML, and you're saying that Beast - who had already peremptorily dismissed their overtures for long-term diplomacy - immediately started making threats over that? And now you're upset that they didn't kowtow to your whim? Their later recruitment of two Para members seems to have been a much smarter move than letting you grow unimpeded, as I've already said.
This rips up old scars from the Riot moves, and other tribes see that this was not just an one time thing, that is how the tribe operates.
Why they grasped to big? They wanted to win both k44 and k45 at the same time.
One recruit just across the K45 border from a non-enemy defunct tribe did all that?
Much as I respect your leadership and accomplishments, what you're presenting seems to be very much "the world according to Beast."
Once again - besides the question of whether or not BM/BRO were going to attack TQL anyway, which is the real crux of the matter - I really couldn't argue that there's been anything egregiously wrong with the way the latter have proceeded, at least from what I'm aware of. I value pragmatism alongside loyalty, and I'm always willing to question leaders' action, so I'll grant that we could quibble over the -ND- recruitment: Simply because of the perceived continuation of precedent rather than the notions that they were bad recruits or that it seriously impacted ID's long-term growth potential. Beyond that, each move seems to make fairly sound strategic sense.
