TOP SECRET INFORMATION REGARDING PHOENX
Well, did that get your attention?
Did you know the same events involving
Phoenx have occurred again and again over the past three years? It's like some crazy pattern!
In the first of a series of postings, I promise to reveal the inner workings of Phoenx, proving things you always suspected about them and blowing your mind with details you never thought possible!
This chapter is entitled:
"Picking a Fight with Phoenx."
Or, "Big Trouble in Little Phoenx"
In this segment, I will show how the "War" part of "TribalWars" comes around to bother
Phoenx. You see, it is a little-known fact outside of the tribe that Phoenx really
tries to run from wars! For all their bragging about "never having lost a war" and "pound-for-pound, the best tribe on W30," Phoenx actually is comprised of a group of pacifists who would much prefer to simply noble barbarians and internals so they can watch their point levels grow.
Unfortunately for these tree-hugging folk, numerous #1 ranked big bad bully tribes or massive alliances keep picking fights with them! Tribes like .Die/.Kill, BD (with the overwhelming nuke assistance of their big brother, THE), RAM; and the tribe currently smack dab in the cycle of events,
BH/BH.
Watch as I break down how a war with Phoenx goes down, play-by-play style.
The Beginning.
1) While peacefully staging a "clean-up operation" on some local players from another tribe that recently went inactive,
Phoenx gets attacked when a much larger tribe or coalition of tribes - from now on we'll call them the
"ENEMY" - launches the first nukes.
2) Phoenx's knees buckle under the onslaught - ODD goes through the roof, the ENEMY takes a bunch of villas quickly, the stats all slant in favor of the ENEMY. (
This and other direct war-related observations may not apply to the tribes .Die and .Kill, as from what I remember they were just flat out terrible in general. They may have declared and launched first, but I can't recall if they actually ever did anything but lose villas and whine on PnP.)
3) The ENEMY posts stats on the forums showing "the quick demise of Phoenx." Their comments range from "they aren't as good as they think they are" to "I was hoping for a better battle from the vaunted Phoenx!" to "see what happens when you face a real tribe?" Paj throws around the phrases "calculated losses" and "we only have X players and Y villas against your (insert much larger number here) players and (insert much larger number here) villas."
Ongoing unseen events during this period:
Paj goes to work on his own tribe, keeping morale up and organizing defenses and ops.
Paj hits Skype 24/7, reaching out to improve alliances, check loyalty of other players, and to gain intel.
Players from ENEMY covertly seek to talk to Phoenx.
Retired players from W30 or other worlds begin to show up in Phoenx's Skype Chatroom.
Phoenx continues to noble an ex-ENEMY, now mostly dead tribe.
Raven hops accounts from side to side or from player to player.
The Middle.
4) Phoenx recovers and digs in. The ENEMY's gains slow down to a trickle. Phoenx settles down for a long war, stabilizing their front while maintaining or increasing growth in other areas.
5) The forum postings of the ENEMY switch to "no one ever said it was going to be easy" and "we predicted a long fight" and "stats don't really matter." Paj dusts off "we're coming for you" and "watch what happens now that we've got it turned around."
6) The ENEMY starts to lose players to Phoenx attacks, inactivity, and internal dissension. Some booting of players or change in leadership may occur within the ENEMY. The war caps start to balance, or even tip into Phoenx's favor, often after a large deficit to start the war.
7) The ENEMY's PnP presence starts to become aggressive - personal insults fly, accusations of cheating and underhanded tactics run rampant. PnP degenerates into an circular argument regarding what tribes are helping who, who actually is responsible for what, and how "stats lie."
Ongoing unseen events during this period:
Paj ditches the chatroom, preferring to talk in one-on-one chats so as not to get overwhelmed or give out too much information.
More of the ENEMY players start to email Phoenx players on a regular basis.
Retired players from W30 or other worlds begin to show up as Phoenx co-players or pilots.
Several tickets are turned in against Phoenx, as many are assuming they must be cheating.
Raven settles into one place, but sits six or seven accounts on both sides of the war.
The End.
8) The ENEMY is hemorrhaging players and villas. Phoenx is gaining ground at an exponential pace. The ENEMY's member list shows too many "yellows" and "reds" of players who lost interest, lost focus, or lost hope in the outcome. Leadership may "take a powder."
9) You start to see things like "you aren't winning, we're losing" and "if
X, this would be going differently" (for
X insert some variation of: "
Leader was still playing," "
you didn't get all that help from [allied or sympathetic tribe, or usually a tribe fighting ENEMY for their own gain]," "
you had a job/life/girlfriend," or "
we didn't have players have some real life issues that took us away") posted by the ENEMY. Paj pops up (after being mostly absent from the forums from the late Middle to early End period) with "it was just a matter of time" and replying to personal insults to his "honor" with personal attacks against the poster.
Ongoing unseen events during this period:
Paj returns to Skype room regularly to coordinate "clean-up" operations.
Enemy players begin to email Phoenx about recruitment.
Retired players from W30 or other worlds begin to fade back into the darkness.
Raven leaves the one account, peering out at Phoenx from openly opposing players or non-allied tribes.
The Aftermath.
10) The ENEMY falls completely apart. There are some players in the ENEMY slogging on, launching nukes and re-cap attempts, but most have gone dark. Three to seven players in the ENEMY join Phoenx.
11) Former ENEMY players take to the forum and re-write what happened in a light most flattering to the ENEMY; or, more often, just to be nasty to Phoenx. Potential Hostile Players ("
HOSTILE") dig out the old "mass-recruiters!" card, sparking a debate among Phoenix and HOSTILE with both sides posting "Tribal Changes" information from TW Stats. A large argument ensues, never to be resolved, centering around how many recruits are acceptable and how many turn the tribe into a "mass-recruiter."
12) A bunch of ENEMY accounts - some live, some sat, some available for transfer - join HOSTILE.
13) Forums explode regarding HOSTILE's actions, then go quiet except for the occasional spam/spice-it-up thread.
14) Phoenx continues cleanup of ENEMY.
15) Forums begin to beat the war drums, as HOSTILE and Phoenx players begin to bicker back and forth regarding territory, noble targets in ENEMY, gifted villas, and refugees. Eventually the dispute rises to tribal level, as phrases like "Paj's arrogance" and "treated less like an ally and more like a lacky" are posted. Paj begins his "wall of text" rebuttal posts.
16) HOSTILE begins to constitute the majority of their tribe, and tribe secretly becomes ENEMY. ENEMY starts moving defense to the front.
Ongoing events during this period:
Paj warns tribe that HOSTILE players are influencing their tribe to prepare for battle against Phoenx.
Paj spends more time on Skype arguing with HOSTILE than talking with his own players.
Different retired players rotate into co-player or pilot roles.
Raven, like an animal sensing an approaching hurricane, takes a short break to charge up on sleep.
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It's amazing how the same events have been reoccurring for over three years. Poor, peaceful Phoenx trapped in wars of someone else's making. Somehow they soldier on, just hoping for the days when the incomings stop and there is no more red on the map.
**Bonus points will be given for those who can guess where BH/BH. fits in the timeline!**
See, folks! That's the type of top secret, never-before-seen information that you can expect in the coming months as W30 grinds towards it's conclusion.
Sources:
Threads:
.Kill v. Phoenx Thread
.Die v. Phoenx Thread
BD v. Phoenx Thread
CRY v. TWC Thread
RAM v. Phoenx Thread (and related volumes)
Phoenx Lame War Declaration Thread
Official Phoenx Statement Thread
BH v. Phoenx Thread
LoEN v. BH Thread
=HG= Thread
What Happened Thread
Best Players in W30 Thread
Top 20 Tribes Thread
Raven's Poetry Thread
"Goodbye" Threads (numerous)
Skype Chatrooms:
T-W-C Chatroom
RAM Chatroom
Phoenx Chatroom
Phoenx/BH Chatroom
W30 Chatroom
Individual Skype Chats
Pajuno
RavenJ
CShipley
Crasula
FrasierYeah
BullMastiff
Orclord251
Gicusan
KarmaX
Noobaxes
Rethae
McMellow
Bronse
JPohlman
Sir Mike Fisher
BigBrt
*Your author would also like to credit common sense, an ability to read, and the power of observation.
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