I don't think you will ever get it and I am not saying that as an insult.
The majority of the world expected RKN and TWA to go to war. That is a main reason why Slupmi messaged me to see if we were willing to attack TWA. I played along with him and got a lot of good information about it. Zurtle was the one who told me I should go along with it and I gave everyone the information I got from him. RKN-C engaged Legion on numerous front just as TWA did. We pushed into K52 and 53 and then started pushing south. If you think RKN-C never fought then you need to go back and look at the maps.
It was never about TWA or RKN being a threat to each other. We knew it was not going to happen and we made plans to make sure it happened. There were many different avenues for us to attack and we did it.
If you really think what we did was easy then you are sadly mistaken. We fought our way from the rim to the other rim. We took out Legion and anyone else who was in our way. We had a superior strategy in doing it. The red dots missed numerous chances to disrupt our progress.
You fought between each other instead of seeing the real danger. When we went to war with FEAR you failed to seize control of that opportunity. When Snake and Cal went rogue you failed to seize that opportunity. You had your chances to make the world interesting but each time it presented itself your leaders failed to make a move. They were more worried about each other.
That in itself is a major reason Apoc walked across the map once Legion was gone. The leadership in Apoc/BA had plans and moved on them. We didn't get bogged down fighting each other like MM/INF/S did. The leadership on an individual might have been good but as a group it was poor and weak.
The majority of the world did NOT expect RKN and TWA to go to war, in fact as you may well recall, I told you that I had a feeling that you guys would be merging before it even happened. You were surprised that my guess was spot on although with your mass alliance and mass recruiting, it was a very predictable next step in my eyes. Slupmi was trying to make the war happen because he was hoping he could build on the discontent within the UA Alliance.
The UA/Apoc didn't fight their way from rim to rim, they allied and recruited across and that's why you see now that even in 'victory' there is no such thing as friendship nor loyalty. The only 'fighting' you do is when it is the whole alliance against one player and even then it takes you months (and a lot of help from admin) to clear them. Friarstale had a very legitimate point in that if he had not gone back to Apoc, there is no way you were going to clear him any time soon. He would have had friends that supported him and then you would have had to kick them out one at a time because you are too gutless to have a real fight.
The Alliance was like a bad pre-arranged marriage. On the outside you tried to pretend to be happy but there were a lot of internal struggles and resentment. No matter how hard you try to cover that up, it always leaks out. You call those guys like Alf and Friars cowards coz they wouldn't leave Apoc to fight. I say that you are the bigger coward coz you could have kicked out all the 'refugees' and 'indecent people' and fought the ones you gossiped about but you chose to let them fly the same banner you were carrying. You sold yourself like a cheap $2 h**ker. Why? Because you are incapable of playing a war game. You don't know how to fight. You never got the chance to learn because you surrounded yourself with a 1000+ member meatshield the second you could. You are not the only one. All the Apoc leaders were in agreement for that very same reason.
We all knew that the UA was a huge alliance that was never going to go away but we chose to not join that alliance because we actually liked a good fight in the east. We fought hard for all the territory we gained. Yes, RL took away a lot of our great players but I am very proud to have 'lost' this world amongst these guys. Nobody was in -MM- because of an agenda and that's why when you see -MM- players post here, it is always memories of good times and friendship as well as an impressive fighting unit.
You pieced together an alliance so that you could win. You wrote to admins for months saying how devoted Apoc/BA were to each other so that you would force them to close W18 early. People from other worlds made fun of the remaining 4 tribe alliance but you insisted that you would never fight your 'brothers' and that you had finished the way you had wanted to. Then we see that Apoc-N is turned against for things soco did 2 years ago that you all knew about 2 years ago. You turned on him when he had no more use within the alliance. Then we see fights between members in Apoc and BA because really there is no love lost there. Again, they are just a convenient little meatshield for you. Then even when the world has ended, instead of happy posts, all I see is b*tching from leadership because truly, you have never valued your members. You were never a true tribe. You used everyone for selfish means and in the end, after all your conniving and planning and hugging and recruiting, you still didn't get to finish the way you wanted to - you will forever be left hanging. Morthy got to have the last laugh. Hope it was worth the 3 years
