Well, thanks noob for showing the way how things are to be done. We will work our ass off in this new year to clean up all the mess. Art-1, I like your attitude, and you've always been outspoken and I love to ready ur daily off topic issues, it just makes my days.
But noobaxes, people have different views, and a judgment is never right or wrong. As a tribe, our job is to stick together and work for the decision that we take to make it right, and that is what is called tribal wars. Most tribes were complaining that
RAM are huggers, and we try to best avoid our wars.
In W30 history itself, take
PHOENX as example. They took the decision to take on
BD, who were never short of experienced and trained members. They had the best skilled members in W30 by far. One of the W30 legend Parm was also an X-BD member and there were many more in it. Now compare it with
RAM. Paj and Bull were just like KarmaX and Noobaxes, but what would have happened if Bull bailed out on Paj, if he chickened out and have caused internal problems during the midst of the war?
Yes, I intentionally took this war upon on
DECIDE , coz the very moment I play diplomacy with them and have backed out against them, then that very time my thrive for W30 would end there. We attacked ~B~, we destroyed them and then we recruited them. We had no terms with
DECIDE that we can't recruit them. Also, they had no rights for claiming them as refugees as cap wise the recruited members were ahead of them overall, and they were least interested in the battle.
Everything was staged.
DECIDE and
BH smashed
THE faster than they expected, and they had drawn up a plan and reason to turn against
RAM with this issue. With all the heavy war with
THE,
BH and
DECIDE's direction was towards
THE and it'd take them some time to turn around and then come for RAM. They chose a plan in which either way, they'd succeed, and the situations were very good for them. They had a choice, i.e. either give
RAM an ultimatum to stay away from their landing spot, or make this an issue and open fire on RAM.
No later, Noobaxes chickened out on this complaining that I have made wrong decisions, and then bailed out and gave an extra bonus to our enemies. Honestly, me and noobaxes have never had a problem before this in any issues. Only after
DECIDE issue we drifted apart. When Cshipley was around, I gave a mission to Noobaxes to be closer to
DECIDE for
RAM, but it seems like he got too close, close enough to bail out on old friend for the new one, and it is crystal clear that I chose the decision to not side with
DECIDE coz I know their relation and ties with
BH is stronger than with
RAM and eventually we will have a go at it.
Soon, Noobaxes hatred towards me and
RAM ran by me grew more and more, and everything I do happened to piss him off. This world is of ying and yang, good or evil, and every aspects has a good side of it and also the bad side of it. Even the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It is how you view things, and yes different person has different ways to view it and I don't blame him for that. There are few players that I know in W30 who stays as neutral and view things and one of them happened to be Parm.
As noobaxes hatred grew more and more, his strive to make me unsuccessful grew more and more. He has few loyal members, as every leader has them including Red Hot Chilli Peppers, who has loyal
Escape members to follow. They planned to bring in Spykiee as Lmawii and did try their best to attack our weakest point, which is Mberns. Mberns, who happened to be a straight forward guy, who doesn't hide his emotions and is outspoken fell for it, and yes, it did pressured me to let him go as being the leader I have to chose the best option for the tribe and I am very happy that he at least stayed patient to hang around, and is back again.
I did my best and managed to withstand this revolt with very less losses, but yes, we have had losses in the past which has hampered our management quite a bit, as few of the ones who revolted were once a trusted council members, and also the tribe was disbanded which had lot of datas and memories, and was hard pulling everything together. But comparing to all those losses,
RAM is no futile tribe and stood strong and managed to pull it off. Their estimate was to see end of
RAM until Christmas break, but I am confident that their plan has come to a demise.
In coming year 2011, W30 shall see RAM stand strong and try their best to strive to be the best tribe. That is all I have to say, and continue with your chest thumping and flaming.. Flame on!!!!!!!!!!!! :icon_twisted:
@Art: Even the dukes have their personal views, and being a duke doesn't have to mean that they have to be formal all the time. Mike is always informal and has always been one so don't take it by heart when he is just representing himself and not the tribe, as I do it often too.
Best holiday Regards,
KarmaX
▄ Duke of RAM ▄