Just to throw this out there, and I may not be in the know....
But didn't A-21 get formed, when the world was dead and dying, as one last ditch effort to put down TDE, who was dominating the world?
How can one claim they had the best leadership, if they didn't even show up until the 11th hour of the party?
Ok Ill just address these posts one at a time.
I do agree the world was at a stand still where even Devils had their activity issues. The concept EndGame was a very long process that started before RX mass deleted.
GE if you remember your wish early on was to unite the map an have an all out east vs west battle to end it all. This was some 2 or more years ago after the fall of Shorts.
Joker and I took this concept to the next step and were about to dissolve Raid into RX because we didn't like Our only allies in this world. (thank my buddy Are for that) Or mass nuke and then delete.
The operation endgame which gave birth to A-21 came out of frustration after RX left us. We (RAID) took over a multitude of dead accounts and inactive members still loyal to RX, bitter that HS left them. There was the mega barb hunt where we spent all our nobles on securing our interior while holding TDE at bay.
KD came to us with the offer of a NAP temporary alliance which I gladly took In order to finish sorting our accounts. Several players switched accounts (legally) including myself. KD and QD themselves (knowing we were weak and out of nobles kept breaking their own agreement) We had no choice but to launch. If you check the stats that first day we took 24 TDE villages (correct me if im wrong going off memory TWIGS was a monster) The said we are sorry and I went back to fixing our broken and divide home.
I had no choice but to leave all out D in the south because of tensions with several members of NOB. At this time communications with us had just begun and although a line of communication was open there was no trust. Too much pride while KD was playing both sides and setting their front on us both.
I make no excuse that DEVILS wiped the floor with us. We had only 10 active members with one of our dukes terminally ill and the other one tied up in military bs me. I did my best....
I will say though that if Devils had a better leader they would have won this world easily. Arron their Defensive coordinator made me break out the military strategies and made coordinating fun. NOB had plenty of success of these same strategies.
One thing no member of Devils can state is that they didn't loose big taking any Raid village. Even dead accounts sniped their sorry trains. Unfortunately due to the sitting rules and players not being able to attack the same accounts etc we really couldn't attack
Max contacted UBM who contacted HS and crew.
The point of Endgame was to take all the active members of both Raid and NOB to form one active tribe and give this world the war it deserved to end it all.
All it did was expose the devils for being as weak as we all knew all along. (quality players here and there and they know who they are) The rest just rode coat tails.....Nillia etc.
Now my reason for saying A-21 has the best leadership cast in W 39 history is simple.
Because of its internal makeup.
All members of the council were appointed based of share ability and hard work. The trust, respect and the level of professionalism is unlike any organization I've ever been apart. It houses members of the most successful tribes on this world....RAID NOB RX4U OMEN. Now just how do you argue against that?
RaiD leadership: well, I witnessed 2 leaderships in my time there. I think, it was Max on the Joker acc for the first one. He did a really good job, he even took me in although my acc was in a location, where it could not have been saved, with the mighty woof right im back yard. Sadly, he had to step down due to serious health issues. I have not heard anything from him since then. With Max gone, RaiD got a little disorganised, until Foc and HS joined the scene. They made sure, RaiD didn´t just get eaten, although it was still looking bad. But then came the merge.
A-21 leadership: only 2 words: Pure elegance. Enough said.
No mate Max was terribly ill and I was the one that did the leading even the disorganized part. That happened when his memory went. I didn't know who was on what account. I let him handle the talks the internal restructure and he left without pulling me in the loop.
My sincerest apologies.