My W80 story:
My TW story truly begins in 2007 when I first started playing, wasn't every any good and I took a ~7 year break before I heard that a real life friend was playing Tribal Wars.
I joined w80 at the start and my friend lead me to Hybrid, whom I adore still to this day. I began playing W80 outside of Regime whilst remaining in contact with Hybrid. I assisted in the formation of Regime in the North West of W80 by spying for Regime whilst playing in the smaller tribes. These tribes weren't necessarily a problem for the skill of the Regime players, but having someone on the insides does help. Hybrid was known to have several players like me dotted around 80.
After sometime and Regime had made their ground, I was invited to join the TrustMeImLying account, however I ended up on masterwigglestin. This was myself and David, we formed a good partnership which lasted up until November 2015.
Back tracking a little, Regime were going strong, the only real test they had was the op vs Zordos by MvDC whom I believe was spotted after a player launched 24hrs early than they were supposed to. That op was crushed, I cannot remember if any losses occurred.
The morale in Regime was lovely, you had the likes of Eric posting his daily troop counts, and I think expressing his love or hate towards archers. You had good cop Foc, bad cop Hybrid and old man Googs running the streets. Plus there was Dan, whom after his rather hilarious rimming at the start of 80 by a person who was caught multi accounting, moving accounts every so often as I think he enjoyed the abuse by Hybrid in the process; probably one of Dan's kinks.
Forwarding back to November 2015, this was a low point for Regime. Foc's wife caught the TW app installed on his phone, for he played mostly at work on PC. In order to save a marriage, it was TW or Foc's wife. Foc then disappeared never to be seen since.
Hybrid was admitted to hospital which was severe enough for him to have an operation and time off work. This was possibly stress related, and therefore he never returned to the w80 scene. There has been rumours of people spotting him on .co.uk but we couldn't confirm this, he has also returned to Skype for a day around 3 months ago. He hasn't been seen since.
Googly, his mother passed away ~Summer 2015. This was a very stressful time for him and a sad one too. I believe he played less TW before eventually walking away. Foc and Hybrid were gone and Googly wouldn't have been able to hold the fort alone. It is also believed that Destiny players had been messaging him on skype with remarks about his dead mother. After a couple of months away on Skype he has returned to the Skype scene but aside from W92 hasn't played TW properly since, nor do I believe he will.
UBM and Bill were acting dukes around the start of the Destiny war, which I believe personally Hybrid's disappearance played a part in Dest believing they can turn against Regime, whom were actively sitting Dest accounts vs Gents and so on. This backstab hurt a ton of Regime players as we got along with Dest, even having some fun in a shared forum. But this is TW, you cannot really trust everyone.
UBM got a new job and this one was related to medical supplies and required him travelling across states and therefore he couldn't play TW. Bill tried running some ops to counter the Dest push but morale was very low in Regime. We had players walking away without comment. I think we had Spyro up a mountain without access to internet etc.
This was the end of the old Regime mostly.
Javi approached Jen on W70 about the Regime situation. Feeling compelled to help, Jen brought over parts of her Ronin squad to Regime. Sadly some already had been recruited by Amanda to join Destiny.
Jen joined ~Jan/Feb 16 and began making plans, we regrouped, had our morale boosted and I think it was Will on the nhubster account along with some southern Regime members eventually broke the kevinkv account. We had a way forward south. Caarl on the monster account I think fell next. I can't really remember what account he was on.
Regime was beginning to fight back, and soon began fighting back in all areas. Myself I found myself FL in the K44 area vs the Coco account mostly. I must applaud Ryan for doing severe damage to my account, and for Emile for making a yt video about me. At least it was proof I hadn't quit. I wasn't experienced. but I never quit.
Date unknown, and a few months skipped. Coco quit, I think Tony tried saying she had a family member pass away and requested we stop attacking. If she did, I'm sorry. But at the time we didn't believe Tony and we continued eating the Coco account.
I'm sorry for mismatching the times, but I can't remember every timeline event. Some point around when Ben passed away, we made an agreement that there would be no attacks towards the Aldergrion account and vice versa. Once Vic felt like they could continue, they sent Jen a message in-game asking for the NAP to be dropped. After the agreed period we began attacking Ald. I must add, for the funeral of Ben, Regime donated approx $200 worth of flowers to the funeral.
Another event was killerdan, He was supposed to jump to Regime along with the others when they did. (The jumps weren't planned and I think Connor approached Nest who approached me about joining Regime). Killerdan was friendly with Hodgy and an NAP was formed between killerdan and Regime. This NAP was broken when the killerdan account was seen sending support against Regime; suspected this was because the account was sat but this broke the NAP rules.
I think, I am biased towards Regime of W80 but I will answer any questions honestly, either skype me or reply here or message me.
Numerous Dest members approached Regime at the time Regime were winning about joining including with the sat accounts. Regime declined the kind offers. Regime could have won this world, and wanted to without taking accounts with sits.
Which reminds me, PNDK account. Jack and Phillip got busy and left W80 sometime ago, I think some french person took over the account, however, Jack didn't take that nicely for whatever reason and changed the password and set the account to delete. This wasn't initiated by Regime but I think was caused by Jack's friendship with Dennis.
The Joris situation was caused by the brother of Joris, whom for whatever reason, got drunk, changed the password, sent the sit to Dest and the rest is history. Joris when he came back, changed the email/pass and returned the account to Regime to be internalled.
All of my story is off memory, and from either what I knew, or what I was told. It may be wrong and if its wrong, let me know the truth.
The world is over, and despite my last attempts at almost acting duke of Regime, I couldn't bring new people in. I had numerous interest just people didn't have the time. I was very close at bringing in 2 crews at the end, so for some Ben members who said nobody wants to join Regime. Many did, many didn't have time, or just didn't fancy the situation. Either way, we had the interest.
I don't believe the better team won, I believe both sides were equal, just the more active won. At the end of it, activity won, not skill.
To finish this off, I invite members of W80 to join a new world, led by myself. Message me by pm here or via Skype.