Originally Posted by
Crazy Pete
I don't have a spectacular memory like some guys like Zauper so excuse me if I can't remember all of the details.
One of HoH age we crowned I can't remember if it was the age that Rage won networth and HoH won land I think. Rage had an EOA CF with Melee Weapons leaders name was lead pipe or something, Rage had farmed them pretty bad prior.
I was playing one of our killers and things were very tense Proteus was saying how lucky we were etc to have good relations with Absalom. Anyways alls I see is Proteus (I assume) the Co-Monarch in my news both them and us had war spoils and each was looking for a last minute acre grab to get over the top. Luckily Proteus Co-Monarch was taken away by someone so the peace was kept between HoH and Rage. Rage broke the EOA CF with MW and started to hit them last tick of the game, so we also broke our CF which with MW and hit them. Rage got 6-8k more acres than us but we managed to hold onto Land crown.
This is an example of taking things through force any means necessary I suppose, next age MW disbanded. After the age Kygal and a bunch of us wanted to start making our own deals separate from absalom. Proteus was quite angry is what I heard ( I never was on Absalom Council channel/leadership) and clarified that our agreement wasn't a NAP, it was a MAP , Mutual Agression Pact so we had no choice in the matter.
After that 10 of us quit HoH because we didn't want to continue with the MAP with Absalom and obviously if we did continue HoH without the MAP Absalom would have hunted us down. Takeshi , I like say Tak3**** came back to HoH and took over as Rave retired. So as you can see I don't put much weight into HoH crowns as we had 4 kingdoms blocking etc for each other which to me doesn't represent skill, it signifies bullies.
Everybody and kingdom has their own style of play and that is what makes the game interesting, so I say each to his own. I don't think there is one kingdom in this game that plays seriously that hasn't done something bad, some worse than others.