And that's exactly the reason I put myself as the answer to the question. Like I stated I had an over-inflated ego. The only things I saw when we shared a forum with them was in-fighting and trains needing to be sniped. I contributed to both. I said I was a bad leader. And Mercs (not Merc) was up a lot more than a few days in caps. Once some of the Nuts! players quit and Barb fixed the southern problems things started to change around.
And barb didn't cap a single Vesdwar village while I was playing the account. They only capped one village on any account I was sitting, Fortnoxi, and it was recapped. You're damn right I'm proud about that. In this world I went from a noob to being able to hold my own against some of the better players I've ever played against. Yes, it was because I wasn't a huge focus, I've admitted as much before.
Yes, Barb won the war, and yeah I guess you could call Mercs a noob tribe. We were bashers for most of the end of the world. When Barb declared war we made it clear that we would enter the war, but as allies not bashers. We were given opportunities to change sides, and on many occasions we came close. I strongly opposed the merge with Nuts when it happened and I was all for flipping sides. But in the end we decided to stick it out and not actually put the knife in the back.
I don't have any idea after what happened to the Mercs, though you can guess by looking at the map. Like I said as an answer to another question I left due to RL and I didn't return later when given the chance. I didn't even visit the site for fear I'd log in. Today was the first time typing tribalwars.net since April/May when I left to make sure I passed all my classes, which I did! And for those of you that knew me when I played the health issue that caused it is also under control now!
I've had a lot of really great interactions with people here in game. I don't want what was supposed to be an embellishment into me throwing people under the bus. Other people in the alliance did things for sure, but most the sniping on the southeast front for a long time was Amol, me, and Thunderstrike. And because of that I got an inflated ego, which I was trying to illustrate in the comment with the hemophiliacs. Trust me, I know I was a poor teammate.