I hope the average forum reader is intelligent enough to understand that a couple of reports do not tell the entire story.
~A~ came prepared which I will admit we did not fully expect from them in s-rank I did not think they were capable of sending 20+ trains in an op. Yes they had poorly timed trains, yes the majority of trains had no following support, yes they got sniped dozens of times, and yes still hit stacks. What they did do right is sit on massive amounts of troops and waited for an opportune time to strike. I have seen 20k point members in ~A~ with nearly 3 full nukes, 50k point member with 3 trains, iv seen several trains timed near perfectly with prenukes, antisnipes, and following support.
I won't sit here and make excuses why we lost so many villages, but I think it's obvious to see that both tribes deserve some credit for doing the sole exciting thing that has happened on this world so far.
On a slightly different note, I 100% view cancelling a long time alliance and attacking (even with a 24 hour cooldown) as backstabbing. The amount of preparation that can be seen by ~A~ is obvious, they have been plotting to thrust a knife into our backs for weeks now, we were focused on a wider spread then them so did not expect to have to defend our front with them so heavily.
Respect for both sides in terms of the war though,
Brandon