Originally Posted by
silverfox
It actually is the truth, it's been covered last age and Ted covered it again some in this thread.
ED had no war targets and were too big, but Parth won't land drop because it goes against his "Ye Olde Code of Utopia". Everyone else we'd msged for a war had declined it, leaving us with one KD to fight (where we'd not just get farmed out for honour even if we won) and long term if we beat FS then we'd still be in ****ty position.
I don't have IRC installed so don't keep logs, you guys keep going back to hitting our Elves, yet in our priv chan there was quite a bit of "no idea why they're trying to hit down Elves" as you couldn't put them low enough to be of use to your hits. Long and short of it, FS keeps bringing up their "tactical genius" over hostile while ED (IIRC) seemed to think you did terrible at the time.
As Ted mentioned, the part where ED ****ed up last age, was when we saw you exploring then the decision was made to not also explore or match sizes on provs, as we already had no-one to war at large size and if we'd beaten FS we'd have been in an even worse postion (large and targetless).
Decision was to advised we'd not war if you grew, FS ignored that and grew more, then sent threats about how they'd have war regardless. Looking at options, if ED refused to war then only thing FS could do would be land drop ED a bit and then presumably move on hence why would ED offer up an "easy" CF giving FS what they want when their course of action to "punish" ED would long term help ED?
So EDs big being "outplayed" last age, was to not set off on an exploration race with no idea when/if FS would actually push button & then probably not thinking FS would drag hostile for 2 weeks out of spite.
That's how I remember things atleast, also as a side note to someones later post about how long things go on. Well ED vs. Strippers was 2-3 real years ago & I'd still spank them about if they existed. :)