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Its been a while since we've gotten a broad spectrum of opinions on tribes for the entire top 20.
So I thought its time for us to have a look at how our happy, sleepy little world has progressed since last we broke it down.
I will ask that if you are not prepared to post an opinion on each top 20 tribe, please refrain from posting.
Also it would be nice to get some input from the smaller tribes in the top 20, say outside the top 10, on what they think about the giants.
Heres mine:
1. TESB:
Still on top after suffering hit after hit! One gets the impression that they're hanging on by a thread, with their activity levels plummeting (TWstats), players ditching their tribe left right and center and in-fight after in-fight. They're still number 1.
Some might say due a decent crew of players that have taken over inactive accounts over there, I say it is more due simply to their immense size.
I think TESB have reached they're peak and they can go no further.
2. Puffin:
W21's Machiavellian pranksters. Haven't had a good war for a while and have been slowing down the pace a little over the past few months, I think they've been simming up for some heavy nobling. They've made a small but important jump into K57, opening up the box they were previously in. Seem to be heading north generally more than anything else.
With the North East completely destabilized now, will puffin capitalize? Time will tell.
3. ARG!:
We've almost finished wrapping up the Geometric Alliance, which turned out to be a lot more profitable than first assumed. Theres still plenty of rim for the pirates to plunder, far to the south and the east, but I have a few issues with Buschy taking over our tribes forums.
We'll stay our course and continue our expansion, and steady growth rates. Many of the visions that backwards saw for this tribe when they were ranked outside the top 50 for K75, have come to pass. He made them so. We are exactly where we want to be.
4. Dr No:
I was intrigued to find Dr No recruiting Bowline, be it old news, I didn't think they would take in TESB players. With TESB falling apart will this become a trend many will try?
I doubt Dr No would have it.
As always a solid tribe, with solid rim expansion available to them for potentially limitless growth. I heard that they had some tension with Sw1ft, not sure how that panned out.
5. IMP:
Head of the Imperial Dragoon Units, doing well in the daily caps, seem to be consolidating in K72, I can't see why, maybe simply to lock the K down. It bamboozles me how they can share such mixed territory with SW1FT and not want to fight each other.
I think they've made some bad decisions lately and now they're at crossroad which will decide whether they prevail or fall apart.
6. Knight:
The cream of the crop out of RON. I never understood why they merged in the first place. Better off they had have stuck it out and gone hard. Now they're getting back on track to where they belong.
They seem to be quickly re-establishing their original home turf and consolidating in there.
They say they need an ally to completely stabilize, I don't know about that, I think they could fly solo from where they're currently at.
I hope they take a bite out of ~BG~... that would be delicious.
7. TDR:
TDR are quiet, big, but they're growth rates are less than impressive. To me, they look like they will lose the first serious top 20 war they get themselves into. UWF would smash them.
8. UWF:
A tribe of 14 guys, ranked this high. That to me is impressive. They've got a tight knit core and they keep decent growth rates. They're leader is a clever guy who knows what he's doing. Experienced and has vision. They even have a bigger average player size than ARG! (something thats soon to change). But impressive none-the-less.
Clearly they're a tribe that has no dead weight. Hopefully they will never merge and be an example to us all
9. ~BG~:
The bizzaro version of Knight. To me ~BG~ look like a group of guys that got left behind and decided to band together. I don't want to say that if Knight were RON's strength, then ~BG~ were its weakness's, because that would be far too general of a statement.
But its something along those lines. Not even in the top 20 for daily captures. They're growth rates suck. I doubt they'll be around long. Stronger tribes in the region Puffin/UWF/Knight will start feeding on them till theres nothing left.
If theres any good active players in that tribe they will leave and join better tribes.
10. SW1FT:
Made some good moves recently, I hope its not too late for them. Decided to pwn [L] and lock down their core. Growth patterns indicate they are nobling hard out there in K42, K41. Once they've finished with [L] you'd assume they'd have a look at TESB given its current state.
Still they've got members all over the world, which is not ideal >.<
They have a thin, but long stretching border with Dr No. If I were them, I would be prepared to lose that border.
11. IMP-U:
The academy within the IMP empire. Seem like decent guys. They're pretty much boxed in now between their own mother tribe and TESB. I know TESB was attacking them a few weeks back with little success.
Maybe its time they hit back?
12. MPFC:
Well well well. Monty Pythons Flying Circus, back for more. Didn't we destroy you guys a while back?
Looks like they've popped back up on the rim/fallen out of RON. Good luck to them, they're gonna need it up there. A new tribe, potentially unstable, has not yet found its feet. Fast food for UWF and ARG!, if we can be bothered stretching that far.
13. TSoH:
I honestly know very little about these guys. They appear to be the head of a large rim family.
By 'large' I mean many underling tribes, not actually large in size. They're profile seems kinda noob and they're a little spread out. I'm not expecting much from them, maybe they can fight ~BG~.
That would be funny to watch.
14. -AAS-:
A branch of the geometric alliance. Lead by Spacemanspiff92. She's a good leader, but she's lead her tribe astray. They started by mass-recruiting and forming a dysfunctional family alliance.
They're next move was to take in refugee's from literally every tribe ARG! ever went to war with, FFX, PWoT, ~FB~, UBS, the list goes on.
Now that we have trimmed their numbers a little Spaceman starts to see which of her tribesmates are reliable and which are there for protection (not that they were able to actually offer any).
Perhaps this will make them a better tribe, I hope so, they're nice people.
15. ~HOPE~:
If you look at the map, it would seem that HOPE "must" have some sort of deal with Dr No, because they're all over NO territory and they're still here :|
16. RDA:
Revenge of Dark Angels, fallen a few ranks over the last few weeks, probably due to the breaking up of RON into like 3 tribes.
In my opinion RDA are yet another family tribe in the constant parade of noobs who have no idea what they're doing which is W21.
17. T.T.T:
Totally team terminators. An odd name, my personal experience with them was only from the operations we took out against them. They're not great defenders, didn't send a single counter attack.
They're mostly too far away atm to continue eating.
18. SWIFT2:
I know very little about them. I guess they did their bit against [L], who seem to be mostly gone now. It kinda sucks how for these top 20 analysis's you have to say "see the mother tribe of this family" to state your opinion on them.
I'm sure SWIFT2 have their own independent agenda and culture to SW1FT, unfortunately due to a distinct lack of forum presence, we have no idea what that is.
19. IMPU:
These guys are too small to be of any consequence yet.
20. -ASA-:
Another one of three Geometric alliance tribes. I personally found -ASA- members to be the weakest of all three tribes. But there wasn't a huge difference.
I am fond of that gif that they all use in their profiles. If only their in-game skills were as 1337.
So I thought its time for us to have a look at how our happy, sleepy little world has progressed since last we broke it down.
I will ask that if you are not prepared to post an opinion on each top 20 tribe, please refrain from posting.
Also it would be nice to get some input from the smaller tribes in the top 20, say outside the top 10, on what they think about the giants.
Heres mine:
1. TESB:
Still on top after suffering hit after hit! One gets the impression that they're hanging on by a thread, with their activity levels plummeting (TWstats), players ditching their tribe left right and center and in-fight after in-fight. They're still number 1.
Some might say due a decent crew of players that have taken over inactive accounts over there, I say it is more due simply to their immense size.
I think TESB have reached they're peak and they can go no further.
2. Puffin:
W21's Machiavellian pranksters. Haven't had a good war for a while and have been slowing down the pace a little over the past few months, I think they've been simming up for some heavy nobling. They've made a small but important jump into K57, opening up the box they were previously in. Seem to be heading north generally more than anything else.
With the North East completely destabilized now, will puffin capitalize? Time will tell.
3. ARG!:
We've almost finished wrapping up the Geometric Alliance, which turned out to be a lot more profitable than first assumed. Theres still plenty of rim for the pirates to plunder, far to the south and the east, but I have a few issues with Buschy taking over our tribes forums.
We'll stay our course and continue our expansion, and steady growth rates. Many of the visions that backwards saw for this tribe when they were ranked outside the top 50 for K75, have come to pass. He made them so. We are exactly where we want to be.
4. Dr No:
I was intrigued to find Dr No recruiting Bowline, be it old news, I didn't think they would take in TESB players. With TESB falling apart will this become a trend many will try?
I doubt Dr No would have it.
As always a solid tribe, with solid rim expansion available to them for potentially limitless growth. I heard that they had some tension with Sw1ft, not sure how that panned out.
5. IMP:
Head of the Imperial Dragoon Units, doing well in the daily caps, seem to be consolidating in K72, I can't see why, maybe simply to lock the K down. It bamboozles me how they can share such mixed territory with SW1FT and not want to fight each other.
I think they've made some bad decisions lately and now they're at crossroad which will decide whether they prevail or fall apart.
6. Knight:
The cream of the crop out of RON. I never understood why they merged in the first place. Better off they had have stuck it out and gone hard. Now they're getting back on track to where they belong.
They seem to be quickly re-establishing their original home turf and consolidating in there.
They say they need an ally to completely stabilize, I don't know about that, I think they could fly solo from where they're currently at.
I hope they take a bite out of ~BG~... that would be delicious.
7. TDR:
TDR are quiet, big, but they're growth rates are less than impressive. To me, they look like they will lose the first serious top 20 war they get themselves into. UWF would smash them.
8. UWF:
A tribe of 14 guys, ranked this high. That to me is impressive. They've got a tight knit core and they keep decent growth rates. They're leader is a clever guy who knows what he's doing. Experienced and has vision. They even have a bigger average player size than ARG! (something thats soon to change). But impressive none-the-less.
Clearly they're a tribe that has no dead weight. Hopefully they will never merge and be an example to us all
9. ~BG~:
The bizzaro version of Knight. To me ~BG~ look like a group of guys that got left behind and decided to band together. I don't want to say that if Knight were RON's strength, then ~BG~ were its weakness's, because that would be far too general of a statement.
But its something along those lines. Not even in the top 20 for daily captures. They're growth rates suck. I doubt they'll be around long. Stronger tribes in the region Puffin/UWF/Knight will start feeding on them till theres nothing left.
If theres any good active players in that tribe they will leave and join better tribes.
10. SW1FT:
Made some good moves recently, I hope its not too late for them. Decided to pwn [L] and lock down their core. Growth patterns indicate they are nobling hard out there in K42, K41. Once they've finished with [L] you'd assume they'd have a look at TESB given its current state.
Still they've got members all over the world, which is not ideal >.<
They have a thin, but long stretching border with Dr No. If I were them, I would be prepared to lose that border.
11. IMP-U:
The academy within the IMP empire. Seem like decent guys. They're pretty much boxed in now between their own mother tribe and TESB. I know TESB was attacking them a few weeks back with little success.
Maybe its time they hit back?
12. MPFC:
Well well well. Monty Pythons Flying Circus, back for more. Didn't we destroy you guys a while back?
Looks like they've popped back up on the rim/fallen out of RON. Good luck to them, they're gonna need it up there. A new tribe, potentially unstable, has not yet found its feet. Fast food for UWF and ARG!, if we can be bothered stretching that far.
13. TSoH:
I honestly know very little about these guys. They appear to be the head of a large rim family.
By 'large' I mean many underling tribes, not actually large in size. They're profile seems kinda noob and they're a little spread out. I'm not expecting much from them, maybe they can fight ~BG~.
That would be funny to watch.
14. -AAS-:
A branch of the geometric alliance. Lead by Spacemanspiff92. She's a good leader, but she's lead her tribe astray. They started by mass-recruiting and forming a dysfunctional family alliance.
They're next move was to take in refugee's from literally every tribe ARG! ever went to war with, FFX, PWoT, ~FB~, UBS, the list goes on.
Now that we have trimmed their numbers a little Spaceman starts to see which of her tribesmates are reliable and which are there for protection (not that they were able to actually offer any).
Perhaps this will make them a better tribe, I hope so, they're nice people.
15. ~HOPE~:
If you look at the map, it would seem that HOPE "must" have some sort of deal with Dr No, because they're all over NO territory and they're still here :|
16. RDA:
Revenge of Dark Angels, fallen a few ranks over the last few weeks, probably due to the breaking up of RON into like 3 tribes.
In my opinion RDA are yet another family tribe in the constant parade of noobs who have no idea what they're doing which is W21.
17. T.T.T:
Totally team terminators. An odd name, my personal experience with them was only from the operations we took out against them. They're not great defenders, didn't send a single counter attack.
They're mostly too far away atm to continue eating.
18. SWIFT2:
I know very little about them. I guess they did their bit against [L], who seem to be mostly gone now. It kinda sucks how for these top 20 analysis's you have to say "see the mother tribe of this family" to state your opinion on them.
I'm sure SWIFT2 have their own independent agenda and culture to SW1FT, unfortunately due to a distinct lack of forum presence, we have no idea what that is.
19. IMPU:
These guys are too small to be of any consequence yet.
20. -ASA-:
Another one of three Geometric alliance tribes. I personally found -ASA- members to be the weakest of all three tribes. But there wasn't a huge difference.
I am fond of that gif that they all use in their profiles. If only their in-game skills were as 1337.
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