In part, I disagree with this statement. My initial thoughts go to the war rankings:
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As you can see, Loading actually has more war ODA and ODD, from wars, than any other tribe. Loading has about as much war ODD as both North and TNub have, combined. In addition, Loading is about 44 mil. war ODA away from having a war ODA equal to the combined war ODAs of both North and TNub. In fact, if the old TSU stats were factored in, these numbers would be a lot higher. Then again, I guess the same could be said for those who used to be in Crash.
I don't really think it can be said that Loading has failed to perform when in one form or another, as Sierra/TSU/TSUCk/Loading, they've been at war for a long time, and have more war ODA/ODD than any other tribe in the world.
Yes, obviously Loading isn't doing too good against North, but overall, against all enemies combined, Loading still has more caps than losses in their wars. I would say the second spoiler, which is the older war, is a more accurate representation for how Loading has personally done against Spel, North, and a few other tribes. The first spoiler also contains TNub, and really this war has primarily been Loading vs North, and Rhythm vs TNub.
These are the war stats for Loading/Rythm vs TNub/North:
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These are the war stats from a war that is 79 days older than the war stats shown above. These war stats are for Loading/NI vs SPEL/North and a couple other disbanded tribes:
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As for Loading not doing well against North, it wouldn't be hard for me to list a number of reasons why we are down in caps, but of course these will sound like excuses more than reasons. In part it has to do with various players simply up and quitting, deleting without notice because they had a disagreement with leadership (Lord Zlane), various leadership changes, lack of coordinated Ops, and overall lack of real focus on one area or another. Every time one of the accounts loses their players, or people simply quit, it has forced Loading to put more focus on internals and minimizing losses to North, instead of allowing Loading to better use nukes and nobles against actual war targets. Then, because North nobles villages from the accounts without players, and from the people that have quit/deleted, it causes the needs for frontline defense to change and shift. However, I'm sure every tribe can give excuses or reasons why this or that happened or is happening.
If I recall correctly, Loading was actually doing halfway decent against Crash (before they split into TNub and North), so it's not impossible for Loading to make a comeback. Various other tribes in the past have come back from greater losses. The tribes involved in these wars have fought hard and expended a lot of offense and defense. Anything can happen, and so we just have to wait and see what does happen. That's why I made this thread, because we simply don't know what will happen, and it's fun to see things from various players' perspectives and what they think will happen.