5abriel, I agree with you up to a point. The viewing of this conflict as a skirmish by ~LS~ is probably true seeing as how they didn't post this. I never really watched Apocos, didn't even know they were at war. They just seem to be all over the place.
But your understanding of diplomacy is flawed. Your example would be stupid. We would eat the smaller tribe. Diplomacy is used as a non-violent way of keeping another tribe or tribes who is/are bigger or around the same size from attacking you, not the other way around.
Ashara, villages are taken on both sides in a war. But what Dust 3 has done so far is nothing to be proud of. Look at the stats. They grossly favor ~LS~. Dust 3 has barely scratched the surface. My guess (without looking) is that they just managed to retake some villages that had been recently taken from them. And ~LS~ isn't attacking the character of Dust. As far as I know, no ~LS~ member has really posted here, except maybe Salvkas, but I'm unfamiliar with ~LS~ members. Mostly its MK and myself entertaining ourselves by pointing out the holes in your arguments.
Saved Ende for last since he posted the most. Your first statement about encouraging others to declare war on you is contradicting (something you do a lot of) You say you never declare war, but you want expanding room? That just seems like stupidity to me.
A mercenary is someone who is paid to fight. I'm not sure what definition of mercenary you were going for.
Your lack of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling leads me to think that you guys aren't very organized if you are the leader.
In the other Dust war thread (by the way, why are there two now?) you keep bringing up the point that ~LS~ didn't declare war and how unfair it is. That seems like "crying about the war" to me.
Once again you contradict yourself. In the same sentence you say you hide in the shadows but you aren't playing TribalHugs...Now to stay in the shadows in this game, you can't really enter any major wars...which means you aren't playing TribalWars. The only alternative is TribalHugs.
And this was also addressed in the other topic. Its called diplomacy and its essential to playing the game. If you don't have any allies or NAPs, you have the possibility of being attacked by anyone at anytime with no help or warning. If you don't have allies of your own to help you, that is your own fault.
I always end up writing more than I originally think I would...