Marc Usini was the diplomat of HAW for the longest time. I was almost forced into a situation where I would be either be staying in a tribe I disliked, or leaving to join a tribe I disliked. When I joined I was told by Marc, that I would be watched like a hawk, because I was a tribe hopper.
Now I find this to be funny, because HAW would have been the second tribe I joined on this world. You can't always get it right the first time. There isn't a whole lot of hopping going on in a situation where you leave ONE tribe. In my time in HAW I tried very hard to be loyal, even though I hated the guts of some that inhabited that family full of people asking for support, basically crying in every forum.
I was helping nearby members with clearings, pre-nobles, etc, and when other tribes created the coalition to take down the HAW family, I sent about 60% of my defense to support those in need. I tried various times to have changes happen within the tribe. One thing I wanted done, was the killing of at least 2 of the 4 branches of the tribe. I would have been fine with just killing off three of them, and just keeping the best players. Granted, not the prettiest of suggestions, but how the hell do you allow your tribe to grow to be that large in the first place?
Anyways, after all of those efforts that failed due to what I can only describe as a lack of reason, I started trying to get the leadership to realize Marc Usini's barb nobling and max out village kill things for me strategy. I was again, ignored. Looking back, one can only wonder how someone would choose that man to bash villages for you? From what I can see, he's never had reason to build troops.
I also hated that no one in the HAW family wanted to op the enemies, they were all worried about their own areas. So after being fed up, I left to join a group of friends in BTY, I was opped up. And to be quite honest, HAW did a horrible job of attacking. I quit after 4 nights of almost sleepless nights. I was tired, no co player, no solid sitter, a few were able to fill in from time to time. But that just wasn't enough. The first two nights I defended and killed 9 nukes from one player, not including the two backtimes I had on him. Some of those nukes also came with noble trains. I killed 4 of them, before even making efforts to snipe trains. Now I did mention they do not like to op enemies, but I must have lit one massive fire under them, because one of the dukes tried oh so hard to kill me. Despite me helping him in the past, killing 9 nukes, 4 trains, and getting two backtimes in, he refused to even speak to me.
I had 15 villages, and I killed 34 nobles. I killed 16 nobles before receiving any support from my friends. I feel ashamed that I was nobled by them. Even though at the end I was just gifting to people, as I knew I wouldn't be able to rebuild after a failed effort to relocate. But oh well, it has led to better things for me.
EDIT: When Tman is not writing cool stories he is out fighting dragons. This is information that needs to be known by the TW community.