Very nice .Tullaris.
K46
Rank TAG Points Villages in K
1 MOAR ! 1,44 Mio. 298
2 BORED! 1,25 Mio. 191
3 L*B 160.842 48
4 LOKI 66.916 22
5 Swarm1 49.688 14
6 APOC 42.297 9
Back in the mists of time (late December), -Vodkaiser- wrote about K46.
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K46
1 BORED! 315.470
2 ProRev 276.662
3 PBnJ 136.057
4 Swarm1 113.615
5 Swarm2 77.527
1 BORED! - Doing great by their low count of players with high av.. one of my favorite tribe also here in w43
2 ProRev - Well i don't this tribe, but all i know is they have no future in K46
3 PBnJ - One of my fave tribe also, they are good player with some solid leadership and organize people, also i like their duke Terminus Eldorado
4 Swarm1 - Fail
5 Swarm2 - Fail
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Now the Map looks like:
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MOAR ! = Red : BORED = Blue : L*B = Green : LOKI = Purple : Swarm1 = Light Blue : APOC = Yellow
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MOAR !
[spoil]I know that there has been speculation that Bored and MOAR have an alliance:
moar! and bored! are allies, I'm pretty sure.
really?? god help us all!
of course moar ! and bored! are allies, just look at them on the nicker maps... how intertwined they are, with 0 conquers against each other on twstats.com ....
people are trying to convince us there in [APOC] that they are at war, and MOAR ! is winning, and that we should join in and gank BORED! and low and behold, they arent even fighting each other lmao
And some people want to see the MOAR/BORED love-child if its true:
btw i <3 both tribes MOAR! and BORED! they have a smexy leaders ^^
MOAR ! have 298 villages in K46, over 150% of the second ranked tribe. Average points are now 26K and they have maxxed out at 60 members, taking in a few high pointed LOKI members and dumping some inactives.
The academy is gone, but L*B looks suspiciously friendly with MOAR, with lots of ex MOAR2 and MOAR members....
Lordwolfx is not strictly correct when he says that there are no conquers between BORED and MOAR. 3 villages from MOAR to BORED in the last two weeks. Maybe not war - just players taking elbow room - but probably not alliance behaviour either.
If there is more conflict, BORED members are sandwiched between the two halves of the MOAR SAMMICH in this K.
The top 20 tribe analysis, for reference:
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Strong in K46, that hole in the middle is mostly occupied by BORED! (It seems to be a continent full of exclamatory tribes!!!!)
Almost maxed out with 59 players and an average size of 19K points. Their interesting tribal profile shows that they have aspirations to be really REALLY heavy hitters - but it makes you immediately question if they will be light enough on their feet in terms of diplomacy or supporting each other.
They have a brother tribe. MOAR2.
For a tribe of 59 players, all of them have nobled at least a single target and held it, which is more than can be said for some of the members of their more highly ranked rivals. Kudos for that. Theoretically they could put the squeeze on BORED in K46, but I just can't see that happening.
Their founder is also their main PnP conributor, but one of the other co-founder types seems to be basking in the glory of having nobled one, just one, village. Obviously not a fan of leading by example.
It looks like they put a bit of pressure on Swarm and have head-hunted some of their higher point players. They seem to be able to noble other small targets without too much trouble. Their ODD shows that they have not come under any real pressure and that might be their acid test.
I assume that they have smart diplomacy with Bored and that Bored are not just letting them grow nice villages for Bored to pluck later.[/spoil]
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BORED!
[spoil]191 villages in K46, with a growth in average player points to 133K, they have actually shed some players since I last looked.
While they have a declared war with iRelax, EOS and TDP, they also seem happy to take villages off any other tribe, including MOAR as noted above.
While some may want to see the love-child of MOAR and BORED, a more disturbing rumour is that there may be a player on both sides of the fence in the BORED wars. :icon_eek:
If so, isn't that a bit like tribal wars incest <shudder>. I guess it would let you jump ships to which ever side wins.
The Top 20 tribe analysis, for reference:
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Which brings us to Bored, who did not get very much commentary in my K56 analysis.
They have solid holdings in K36 and K46, but they share K46 with another Top 20 tribe, MOAR. As noted in my K56 analysis they are 6th ranked in K56 and seem to be steadily squeezing iRelax in that K.
23 Players with 93K average points. This tribe is the second heaviest hitter after NUTS. With fewer members you need to assume that communication and co-ordination is better. While they are a bit more spread out than many of the other Top 20 tribes, this is probably to their advantage, giving each individual member more personal room to expand.
A good PnP presence although its hard to tell when they are providing misleading information. One member claims to always wear her nighty 'up', but I have unconfirmed reports that the player does not actually wear a nighty. I will need to undertake a personal investigation...."
They have some "names" in the tribe, but I get the impression that they are not playing this world to their full potential ... yet.
The animated tribal profile, drawing on TW themes is a nice touch.
Once again they have some smallish players and it seems that they are doing house-keeping to noble out the ones that are definitely under-active.
Nobling records also show that they are not really being troubled by anyone and are not all that serious about any one tribe ... yet
It also seems that the leadership is pretty inspiring from reports that I have heard, which all puts them well placed.
I get the sense of a great deal of potential energy in this tribe. Good individual space, good average points per player, limited numbers of players to co-ordinate, inspiring leadership, not being troubled too much by conflict and lots of expansion options....[/spoil]
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L*B
[spoil]A secretive tribe with 30 members, at an average of 5.6K. While aristocracy is not disclosed, Acers purports to be just the diplomat - yeah, right.
This tribe looks a little like an undisclosed academy for MOAR. We know that MOAR did not acknowledge MOAR2 so if L*B is now playing this role they are being a lot more secretive about it...
While MOAR have taken some villages off them, it seems like cleaning up an inactive from the "academy" rather than real conflict. L*B themselves seem to specialise in nobling barbs, with the occasional tribeless player thrown in.
If they are not an academy for MOAR they might wish they were because the members are scattered around the continent like party snacks if the MOAR guys ever want to eat something other than SAMMICH.
Something interesting, qwadagaara (now tribeless and losing villages to iRelax) claimed that MOAR and BORED were allies. He was a member of L*B for a while and made this claim after he left / was dismissed. I guess that if L*B are the undeclared academy of MOAR, he'd know that MOAR and BORED were allies.
Maybe disclosing it was why he was kicked????[/spoil]
LOKI
[spoil]Speaking of academy tribes, LOKI are at least honest enough to declare theirs on their tribal profile page.
They have 45 members at an average of 8.7 K. They are really more of a K45 tribe and their K46 presence is scattered. They claim that you need 6K points to join them and from what I hear they should dump all of their sub-6K members and honour this expectation. And I mean
dump them. Don't shuffle trhem off to the academy. They are under-active and can't play. They'll just teach your academy members bad habits. I know this means dumping the founding duke, council members and aristocracy, but seriously ... are they fit role models to lead the tribe?
You should all aspire to be rockstars..... but that's just my opinion.
Nobling preferences are to give away their villages to MOAR, BORED, NwN or anybody else that needs villages. They are becoming expert barb noblers with the exception of the rockstars who noble live players. I say again, the whole tribe should aspire to be rockstars.[/spoil]
Swarm1
[spoil]One of the tribes that was in the Top 5 back in December, but which did not find favour with -Vodkaiser-, probably because they were part of a family. They are now half the size they were back then. The family is still around, and even smaller.
These guys are just snacks waiting to be eaten in K46. 14 members at an average of 3.3K. 5 of the members are rimmed and not yet restarted!
The Duke styles himself as "Master of the Whip". I think it should be "Master of the Ship" .... a ghost ship. Even he has gone missing in action. Free villages anyone???[/spoil]
APOC
[spoil]Included in this analysis because of their huge presence in K47, on the K46 border and their concerns about the supposed romance between BORED and MOAR.
They have 52 members but only 9 villages in K46. They have an average of 29K points, so they have much more hitting power than the 3rd, 4th and 5th ranked "placeholders" in K46.
Lordwolfx implied in his forum comments that MOAR had asked APOC to help gang BORED. He had no particular reason to lie, but he was suspicious that he was being set up. If he does not trust his MOARish neighbour (how Othello is that) then, looking at the map, it would be interesting to know if APOC have approached BORED about turning the tables....
The unconfirmed partial information that I have seen, looks a bit like this:
1. If APOC and BORED gang the eastern half of MOAR, both of them win.
2. APOC are only exposed to half of MOARs firepower.
3. BORED can't really double cross them as they are on the far side of MOAR
4. BORED run the risk of being hit on two fronts by MOAR, so they get some preference in the villages of certain key players
5. BORED probably get to clean up the western half of MOAR once the dust settles.
Now there are flaws in this - as I'm sure some careful readers will see. (And some of you might have better information to confirm of deny this, or to show how the flaws can be overcome), but every action has risks .... and rewards.[/spoil]
Where are they now:
ProRev - just one 300 point player. Time to turn out the lights. -Vodkaiser- was right, no future in K46.
PBnJ - lost in the mists of time. Terminus Eldorado is now in now in MOAR, so it seems that leading players find capable tribes.
Swarm2 - 3 members, one a rimmed player not yet restarted. More free villages?