Well I do recall when I first joined DS. That they were fighting Back and Back2, while just defending/holding vs A88A AAJJ - NF- - NF-. And SHOCK.
You guys had some tribe behind you which was swiftly recruited into the fold. Probably in reaction to DS making peace with Back.
But even at that point it was probably more 1:1 if you didn't include NF.
So no you were not holding your own, the coalition failed to capatalise on DS being vastly outnumbered.
i agree we were larger than Ds, we always were. But you being inside shock for some time should know where nf and shock focused. They fought the rim tribe , cant remember the name but it took forever. It took so long time i told nf and shock we would just recruit them or we would quit.
i had it with the bullshit that was going on, when we finally, when i say finally i mean it, finally ended the rim wars, i was so god damn excited for full on DS ops.
only to find out nf would only send 200 nukes -.- if nf hadnt pissed me off already they sure finished the job right there and then. Do believe we started plotting with ikea to undo nf at that time.
i agree with you otto, we should never have allied nf. But i just dont know any way aces could have won. If we allied ds you would have been in our backs and the nf war would have been slow, so at that point ds would have been the shot callers of the alliance. So no can do on that as well.
Never entering war with ikea might have been more successful, but then ikea would probs have been the bigger issue with noname being dead.
How would you have played it without merging into any other tribe? And won, i dont see anyway really. Shit position being the main issue, stuck between everyone and no easy feeding ground