Saxon, as far as I can tell the only person to have attacked you since you joined FdTnD (aside from perhaps the last few attacks immediately after joining as you were a refugee after all) were the ones over the past few days from paladayi. This was not something that I, nor anyone I spoke with knew anything about. I grilled him over why he would be doing that as I had asked the tribe not to attack anyone in FdTnD unless they were attacked first or war had been declared. Furthermore, it would seem from your stats that you have been inactive for some time now (nearly 34 days), so it would not matter if it were a surprise attack or a 230 hour un-escorted noble train, your villages would have been nobled easily.
Now on the note of TLA being cowards in the night by declaring war on a tribe where we had no NAP or Alliance in place, then sending attacks afterwards, then I suppose you are then calling every tribe in Tribalwars history cowards in the night, in fact if you look back at the turn of events around every war that had been declared on TLA (as opposed to TLA declaring) the scenario was far more "cowardly" in your definition. The most recent example being your previous (and Bert's for that matter) tribe, Grind! They had a NAP with TLA and an agreement of either side dropping the NAP for a minimum of 2 weeks prior to being able to send any attacks, instead Grind! dropped the NAP, declared war, and sent out hundreds of attacks all at the same time.
I did not forewarn TLA of this declaration before hand, nor had I organised any operations for the start to this war. I had, however, made extensive plans when I was shown Bloodfest's plans on the shared forums that you have with Grind! and the launch date. Since Bloodfest has left the game, I dropped those plans and continued trying to resolve the situation amicably (for nearly 2 months).
All this time, I was telling Daryl1000 that I will eventually have to declare war with him in FdTnD or not and that I really did not want for that to happen. His standard response was that he understands and he has to do what he has to do, as do I have to do what I have to do.
So how is 2 months notice period cowardly. Apologies if your duke kept you out of the loop of the wishes for an amicable resolution, or perhaps he did try, you were just inactive (33 days, 21 hours to be exact) all that time.
