Originally Posted by
Luc
My take on this:
From the Simians camp:
1. We still have a shot at crowning, or at least making it a lot harder for some others to do it. How do we accomplish that?
2. Well, we need to slow them all down as much as possible, or we need to farm a lot of land ourselves instead. Hmmm...
3. Ok, well, the weakest kd up there is HoH, and ABS won't hesitate to throw them under the bus...
4. Alright, so we should notice all the 3 up in the top, that way they either have to convert "just in case" (which slows them down), or they will give us HoH to farm so the others can keep growing. Awesome!
Simians then notice all 3 without actually wanting to fight anyone but HoH, but of course make it look like they're open to fighting anyone (so the others will slow down and convert at least a bit).
In comes Sanctuary, actually taking Simians by surprise, wanting to fight them, and being capable of seriously hurting Simians bank. This wasn't what Simians were expecting at all, so they quickly go ahead with their "original" plan in hitting HoH, hoping to escape from Sanctuary. Sanctuary outplayed Simians, and now Simians are trying hard to not have to face them.
Swooping in comes all the people with irrational ABS-hate, immediately taking Simian's side regardless of what they've done, and the ABS people try to defend themselves (which is pretty much a waste of time, because the haters will not ever listen).
I.e. it looks very clear to anyone who's objective that Simians are using HoH as an excuse to get away from Sanctuary. They noticed 3 kd's because they thought they were smart, but they turned out to be wrong in their assumptions and are now scrambling to get away from the mistake they made. I have no doubt they really would prefer to war HoH, but that's irrelevant because of their other actions. They used notices to try to force other kd's to play a certain way, and then expect to get to pick who to fight too? Ridiculous.
Conclusion: Simians gets the lamer award in this conflict for pretending they've been mistreated. They came up with a plan and tried to run with it, but it failed. They should just acknowledge that it failed, learn from it and keep on playing and everything would be fine. But they don't (at least Anri doesn't, and he's their public figure), and so they make themselves look like a bunch of morons again. Sanctuary did exactly what anyone with a brain would've done, and anyone who argues otherwise is a full blown hypocrite.
NOTE: I'm not affiliated with ABS in any way. I don't play in any of their kd's (as a matter of fact I have no province at all right now) and don't have any ties to any of their leaders whatsoever. I've never played in Simians or any of their allied kd's either.
On the FSU side of things: the problem with the anti-abs kd's has never been a lack of skill. They fail to beat ABS because they act like a bunch of selfish 12 year olds. It's been happening like that for a long long time, history just repeating itself. I was a part of it several years ago, but gave it up pretty quickly when ppl acted the way they did. ABS needs to be challenged, and beaten up completely every now and then, but this is not the way to do it.