Flame Flame Flame at least most of it's funny...
A moment of honest reflection, and the series of events that ensured this would be EQ as well as Rabid's first big war.
1. EQ took some villages from some inactive members who were forced into an early departure from this world. It was at this point that I knew Rabid would at some point war EQ. Perhaps at that point EQ really didn't understand what they were getting themselves involved in, but the front was not large enough, nor accounts developed enough at that time to make an honest effort to retaliate.
2. A LOT of Atmos's plans made it here on the external forums, Youtube, and there are a lot of leaks ingame as well. By this time, while the front was still not fully developed, it was enough that we could begin to plan, especially since we knew they had intentions (though nothing specific) on moving on us.
3. EQ did us a favor by inviting a super noob to their tribe who had been rejected by us on numerous occasions. This provided us with 2 things... 8 villages to expand our front on, with almost no foreseeable consequence, and well... 8 really easy villages to conquer. By this time we are eating EQ...
4. More information leaked that EQ were contacting anyone and everyone about a super gangbang on Rabid, to include a number of tribes who chose not to participate, we even got intel of a declaration date... this led us to some preemptive attacks on those allies... i.e. TBS
and Goons. This did not require much, as some of us were already eating on Goons, and planning our personal OPs on TBS anyway.
I don't care much for the comments about gang bangs and what not. We had always assumed AKATS would be with us, we were not at first sure of Panda's capabilities of joining in, hence the claim by some of our members of us being gang banged. This hasn't turned into a gang bang, although it appeared to be an attempt to instigate a gang bang vs. Rabid. That, and quite simply, this is Tribal Wars, the larger threats will always be gang banged, always have been and always will be, that's what makes having a few staunch allies important, which in turn makes it that much more important on how you treat people, both within and without the tribe.
So yes... it's Rabid, Panda and AKATS vs. something like 5-6 tribes now, and while we are outnumbered, it's not by so much that it should be considered a gang bang.
There it is, an attempt at an impartial, and factual summary of the events in general that led us here.
Good-luck
