Originally Posted by
AMP
I would like to clarify some of the confusion regarding Pandas and Sillies CF.
The CF deal was made long before any of this, Sillies told us they only grew to war WSK, that the top 1 was never their objective. We told them it was good, since both kds had good relations, that we didn't set for top 1 either, were mostly on a war age, even if having extreme difficulty in finding them.
Later we decided to wave 8:11, after we noticed that they changed their one way razes into a third party war and their monarch hit Sleepy. 8:11 was tagged CF or War as well and being the only kd in our range who was available and with an interesting setup allied to an agressive attitude, we decided to send a partial wave to tempt them to war.
They informed us that they were still involved in the awar and we reached a CF deal with 8:11 alone.
No other deal was made with any other kd nor about the AWAR. We did inform all parties and CJ was aware of it aswell, that we had no interest in the awar and were remaining neutral as we were until then.
Some days later we became aware of new developments and information, that changed the way many felt about this awar. The entry of other kds with whom with had friendly relations joined allied to the new facts, made us decide that we should participate in this awar.
Sillies were worried we would get a lot of land and get our way to top 1, to which we stated again that being top 1 was not our objective, if it happened it would be nice, but never an objective. Something I believe that could not be more clear by the fact that we joined an awar, a type of conflict that is certainly not the best strategy to grow.
I have never seen anyone defending that participating in a conflict vs several kds, with trading attacks, razes, bounces, all the ops from various sides, would be a good strategy to get your way to the top. I truly believe this to be one of the most awful ways to try and win ages, but I strongly advise kds that believe its possible to try it if we are in a age fighting for the top 1, because I believe it would make our life easier.
Accusing Pandas of using this awar to grow or to run from a CF deal, is just not fair and incorrect, since should we want to take advantage of the situation, we would never take part on this war and use the time to grow easily oow and explore safely.
This by no means is equal to anyone accusing Sillies and CJ of taking advantage of this situation, but it is clearly an optimal position to be if you want to and are in a good spot to go for the top 1.