Sau, first if you would permit me, i would like to salute you sir (or madam, but i presume sir).
I've never so much as ever exchanged a word with you or spoken to you. And yet, through no fault of your own, you take a sudden massive assault from me, and do it with apparent good grace. Now THAT is what i am talking about.
But back on point...
My objectives have changed over time. I would "generally" say that i had a sh#t list, and was wiping out and stroking those names off my list, one by one. Thor for example was very much on that list, just before jarl invited him. I was about 2 weeks away from going after thor. Nothing personal thor...
Global was the final "big" one. Though he turned out to be a lot of villages, but little in the way of resistance. And finally, billmurray was the final remaining name on my list. All others had been accepted into AXES, or gone barb or inactive or whatever.
So, my little tiff with sergei was actually good timing. I had run out of people to kill, and thus fun to have, anyways.
It was one of the reasons i left. Not the biggest, but one of them.
Sergei's poor leadership and ability to engage in useful arguement or debate was the deciding factor.
Anywhoo, i'm digressing a bit. Once i indeed had left the tribe that meant i now was indeed in a position to face a new enemy worthy of the name. AXES.
So.... that now being the case, what does one do?
First, all nukes i thought would be one-use. I fully expected all borders around me to be prestacked. I truly thought you all would have at least known there was a strong chance this was coming. If not certainty. I've been amazed at my easy victories so far. Seems no one expected this. Or at least you personally didn't. Maybe some of the other folks right around me had at least personally stacked their own villages nearest to me. I may find out, because i may be attacking them too. Still trying to determine who to hit next, have a few logical options in mind.
But like i was saying, i assumed all nukes would be one-use. That i would be hitting large stacks. So, i may as well downgrade all un-necessary buildings, and max my nukes for their 1 single use. Barracks, stables, etc. I won't be able to rebuild nukes, after all. Given the thousands, or 10's of thousands, of real nukes certain to be heading my way. Which gives the added benefit that as you lot start to munch on me (noble vills), you have to repair them a lot before they are of any use to you.
Effectively renders my villages useful to me, but not to you.
Next, take barbs only. I had some loose ends to tie up, such as with billmurray, but otherwise all my recent nobling has been barbs. As will all future nobling. Every single barb that i take, is a barb that AXES previously did not have to take, but now does have to. And more, it will be either a 10K one that i will be downgrading furiously as soon as i take it, or worse even a 1K one that you now must take.
Which leads me to your comment sau of "minimal effect on the speed of this world closing". That is a good point, and i might be inclined to agree with it. But with two caveats. First, better to have minimal effect, than zero effect. It's in my interests (not to mention fun) to now do everything i can to thwart AXES. And second... well let me just address that in a seperate paragraph...
Minimal effect? I have several "layers" of strategy i intend to employ. Three main ones. And a few possible side ones. I'm operating using the first one so far. But the second layer is to do what i call "cancering".
It occurs to me, and i haven't read this anywhere, haven't read anything that would go against the tactic or render it invalid... But as i get down to just a few villages, say 200 or 100 or 50 or whatever.... that as you lot munch my villages and i store packets furiously (as i cannot rebuild nukes nor even defence, i would only have to dodge with it nonstop against 10's of thousands of inbounds, nothing else to do with resources...) ....
Then, as my account becomes that small, the cost for nobles gets cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. So, i'll have an enormous reserve of packets, and nobles will be dirt cheap. Like, if i have 100 villages at the time, nobles will only be 101 for the first one, 102 for the second one, etc...
And i'll pick my moment, and build a few hundred nobles, and noble a crapton of 1K barbs all at once. All of which you lot will now have to recap off of me. And i will STILL have craptons of packets in reserve. Lol. And so on.
Eventually though, you indeed will be able to eat into that reserve. And well and truly rim me. At which point, i will move into my final/third tactic.
So. I don't know how "minimal" my effect will ultimately prove to be. You lot may have more trouble "getting me out from between you and your goals" than you might think.
Anywhoo. You asked.
Let no person say i am not upfront with my tactics. I have given you lot tons of keys about how to defeat me, what you lot should be doing, what my particular weakness are, and on and on and on. I'm honest, to a fault. Offer plenty of info that gets me into trouble. Blah blah blah, even i am getting tired of the sound of my own voice at this point...
I hope i answered your question somewhere in there.
