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The thing that best defined W8 was the alliance that was formed between 4 tribes near the start of the game. It's driven most of the politics of the world since then and has left and indelible mark on partically all parts of the world. So given that the original alliance, bloc, has now ceased to be where are we now?
We are in a situation where there is an effective alliance between the top 4 tribes. Bloc had tribes it was friendly with, we all know who they were, they were allowed the thrive and prosper until they got in bloc's way, is the union any different? We won't know that for a good while, the world is a very different place from when bloc was at its peak.
So what of the new alliances tactics, are they really any different. What were the old complaints against bloc again?
So that's the end of my comparison of now with a by-gone age, that gets very dull after a while. What's going to come next? Clorox has disbanded and the world is dominated by two huge northern tribes and a nice cosy family in the South East, both have their wars established. [DT] against Nuke and Myriad, F.D/Fenix against Clorox and apparently any tribe the players join afterwards. KNT is fighting the bunnies and no doubt others as well, it does have a lot of members to keep amused.
Good game, pity the top 4 tribes have such a friendly agreement. I guess it's up the remaining tribes to turn against these dominant tribes and either beat them or separate them sufficiently they turn against each other. Not that they have any reason for that to happen currently. There's too many smaller tribes to pick off first and turning against each other would spoil their fun (anyone reminded of bloc yet?).
Question: am I the only one who finds the current status quo emerging depressing? As in the 4 largest tribes picking off smaller tribes and avoiding war with each other?
We are in a situation where there is an effective alliance between the top 4 tribes. Bloc had tribes it was friendly with, we all know who they were, they were allowed the thrive and prosper until they got in bloc's way, is the union any different? We won't know that for a good while, the world is a very different place from when bloc was at its peak.
So what of the new alliances tactics, are they really any different. What were the old complaints against bloc again?
The union never did that, Unrepentant wasn't merged into KNT and tong po's account didn't leave N.O to join [DT]. To borrow a phrase from 1984, I have mis-remembered these things. Again there are two sides to all of these things and they will be described as fair and fully justified (I still have no idea how you justify tong po joining [DT], but I'm obviously baised).They recruited their way to victory.
N.O, one of the union's hanger's on, doesn't even have the decency to drop the NAP before it attacks NAP tribes. What the hell are we supposed to make of that? I don't want to get into the right's and wrong's of a refugees, that's way too complicated for this thread, which is meant to be about politics and what we have in store. F.D did at least of the decency to drop its NAP as soon as it found the situation intolerable, that is decent and respectful and I'd like to say so publicly.They kept tribes as NAP until they were ready to attack.
So that's the end of my comparison of now with a by-gone age, that gets very dull after a while. What's going to come next? Clorox has disbanded and the world is dominated by two huge northern tribes and a nice cosy family in the South East, both have their wars established. [DT] against Nuke and Myriad, F.D/Fenix against Clorox and apparently any tribe the players join afterwards. KNT is fighting the bunnies and no doubt others as well, it does have a lot of members to keep amused.
Good game, pity the top 4 tribes have such a friendly agreement. I guess it's up the remaining tribes to turn against these dominant tribes and either beat them or separate them sufficiently they turn against each other. Not that they have any reason for that to happen currently. There's too many smaller tribes to pick off first and turning against each other would spoil their fun (anyone reminded of bloc yet?).
Question: am I the only one who finds the current status quo emerging depressing? As in the 4 largest tribes picking off smaller tribes and avoiding war with each other?