UF NEWS: Myrmidons take control of The Stronghold

[Chuck]

Myrmidons were on the hunt for war after being land-dropped by BIO. Due to their high honor and being one of the few kingdoms in range that was not in war already, The Stronghold was targeted. Damien, of The Stronghold, saw the start of hits on his kingdom and decided to send a message to Myrmidons stating that his kingdom was not yet ready to war. Hits continued and messages were exchanged in game. A CF from The Stronghold was accepted and then immediately broken by Myrmidons. Myrmidons state the reason for breaking the CF was that Stronghold kingdom members had changed monarchy allowing them to break Stronghold's original monarch. After their wave of plunders, learns, and max gains was complete, Myrmidons approached The Stronghold for another CF. Not trusting Myrmidons on their word, they decided to war instead.

Having plundered lots of gold already, Myrmidons sent their Ruby Dragon to the Stronghold as soon as war was declared.

March 1 of YR5 We have declared WAR on Myrmidons (x:xx)!

The Stronghold started the war with some weak activity as they were just out of their 4th war of the age and had planned to grow and slowly prepare for their next war. They decided to start by chaining those that had bounced hits on them during hostile.

Myrmidons spent a lot of effort on exposing thieves and sabotaging wizards within The Stronghold. Myrmidons chose to focus chains on the top 3 offense/tpa provinces, while the Stronghold switched to max gains by their second wave. Mymidons went to work keeping Meteors flying over most Orcs and Humans within The Stronghold and tossed tornadoes at their larger humans. The Stronghold focused NS on Myrmidons' top 2 orcs while max gaining everyone else.

When Myrmidons' halfling monarch sent a lot of def. specs at the dragon over his lands, while his armies were still out, The Stronghold decided it was their time to strike. After an attempted chain on what they saw as a halfling sitting on rather low defense, they went back to max gains. The Stronghold failed to properly chain the two orcs that they spent so much effort night-striking, and Myrmidons gained several unbreakable provinces. At minimum time:

May 1 of YR5 Unable to achieve victory, our Kingdom has withdrawn from war with MYRMIDONS WAR (x:xx). Our failed war has finally ended!


** Myrmidons Hostile Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 37 (4904 acres)
-- Traditional March: 25 (4854 acres)
-- Ambush: 1 (50 acres)
-- Learns: 1
-- Plunders: 8
-- Failed Attacks: 2 (5.4% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 8 (777 acres)
-- Ambush: 7 (777 acres)
-- Plunders: 1


** The Stronghold Hostile Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 17 (1243 acres)
-- Traditional March: 4 (466 acres)
-- Ambush: 7 (777 acres)
-- Plunders: 6
Total Attacks Suffered: 34 (4904 acres)
-- Traditional March: 25 (4854 acres)
-- Ambush: 1 (50 acres)
-- Learns: 2
-- Plunders: 4
-- Failed Attacks: 2 (5.9% failure)

** Myrmidons WAR Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 172 (17561 acres)
-- Traditional March: 115 (15060 acres)
-- Conquest: 6 (408 acres)
-- Ambush: 23 (2093 acres)
-- Raze: 7 (627 acres)
-- Massacres: 2 (8213 people)
-- Plunders: 8
-- Failed Attacks: 11 (6.4% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 131 (14576 acres)
-- Traditional March: 114 (14200 acres)
-- Ambush: 5 (376 acres)
-- Massacres: 1 (2272 people)
-- Plunders: 4
-- Failed Attacks: 7 (5.3% failure)


The Kingdom of Myrmidons

Total acres exchanged: +2985 acres (172/131)
+690 acres: Bumblebee (4/0)
+557 acres: Midkemma (10/10)
+506 acres: Smokescreen (7/3)
+455 acres: Rampage (4/0)
+436 acres: Reflector (4/1)
+430 acres: Mirage (5/0)
+403 acres: MEGATRON (10/4)
+372 acres: Whisper (9/4)
+364 acres: Star-Scream (5/0)
+327 acres: Anonymous province from (x:xx) (1/0)
+208 acres: Smashington (5/4)
+208 acres: Soundwave (9/5)
+197 acres: Kup (5/1)
+153 acres: Sideswipe (11/7)
+96 acres: X-Brawn (8/6)
+5 acres: Whereisthelove (8/9)
-22 acres: Alpha Status (9/6)
-61 acres: BlackOut (7/3)
-82 acres: Sentinel Prime (6/2)
-182 acres: Rumble (6/4)
-283 acres: Darkshizzle (9/9)
-575 acres: Optimus Prime (8/16)
-578 acres: JeTFiRe (12/24)
-639 acres: Scorponok (10/13)


The Kingdom of The Stronghold

Total acres exchanged: -3612 acres (131/163)
+655 acres: Always LandFat (8/6)
+494 acres: PeaPutsNikuPingiAuguLits (6/3)
+466 acres: White Rose (9/7)
+441 acres: Hit the Farmer Under Me (9/3)
+338 acres: Tall Dark Stranger (10/9)
+287 acres: Do you like it (5/1)
+129 acres: Dont Like it (9/8)
+127 acres: DontKnow (4/2)
+124 acres: Awesome (4/2)
+117 acres: AllOutOfBrains (9/2)
+0 acres: I think i like it (0/2)
-162 acres: Ragamuffins (6/6)
-205 acres: Firule (6/6)
-303 acres: Dude with out any hole (6/4)
-378 acres: zayda yaanel canales (11/16)
-386 acres: Rufus Glitterbottom (6/9)
-409 acres: Stark of WInterfell (0/3)
-705 acres: Praybeyt Benjamin (8/11)
-772 acres: Master of Puppets (0/10)
-1307 acres: Coderedlux (8/24)
-2163 acres: Ganja Farmer (7/29)


** The Stronghold WAR Summary **

Total Attacks Made: 131 (15947 acres)
-- Traditional March: 114 (15571 acres)
-- Ambush: 5 (376 acres)
-- Massacres: 1 (2272 people)
-- Plunders: 4
-- Failed Attacks: 7 (5.3% failure)
Total Attacks Suffered: 164 (16944 acres)
-- Traditional March: 122 (14224 acres)
-- Ambush: 23 (2093 acres)
-- Raze: 7 (627 acres)
-- Massacres: 2 (8213 people)
-- Failed Attacks: 10 (6.1% failure)


The Kingdom of The Stronghold

Total acres exchanged: -997 acres (131/164)
+857 acres: Always LandFat (8/6)
+650 acres: Tall Dark Stranger (10/9)
+601 acres: White Rose (9/7)
+564 acres: Hit the Farmer Under Me (9/3)
+553 acres: PeaPutsNikuPingiAuguLits (6/4)
+349 acres: Do you like it (5/1)
+340 acres: Dont Like it (9/8)
+174 acres: DontKnow (4/2)
+163 acres: AllOutOfBrains (9/2)
+154 acres: Awesome (4/2)
+0 acres: I think i like it (0/2)
-1 acres: Ragamuffins (6/6)
-121 acres: Firule (6/6)
-202 acres: Dude with out any hole (6/4)
-204 acres: Rufus Glitterbottom (6/9)
-222 acres: zayda yaanel canales (11/16)
-373 acres: Stark of WInterfell (0/3)
-529 acres: Praybeyt Benjamin (8/11)
-740 acres: Master of Puppets (0/10)
-1100 acres: Coderedlux (8/24)
-1910 acres: Ganja Farmer (7/29)


The Kingdom of Myrmidons

Total acres exchanged: +295 acres (163/131)
+629 acres: Bumblebee (4/0)
+423 acres: Rampage (4/0)
+418 acres: Smokescreen (7/3)
+398 acres: Reflector (4/1)
+393 acres: Mirage (5/0)
+332 acres: Star-Scream (5/0)
+298 acres: Anonymous province from (x:x) (1/0)
+297 acres: MEGATRON (10/4)
+285 acres: Midkemma (10/10)
+235 acres: Whisper (9/4)
+134 acres: Kup (5/1)
+83 acres: Soundwave (9/5)
+67 acres: Smashington (5/4)
+28 acres: Sideswipe (11/7)
-24 acres: Alpha Status (0/6)
-35 acres: X-Brawn (8/6)
-147 acres: BlackOut (7/3)
-162 acres: Whereisthelove (8/9)
-171 acres: Sentinel Prime (6/2)
-271 acres: Rumble (6/4)
-400 acres: Darkshizzle (9/9)
-771 acres: JeTFiRe (12/24)
-822 acres: Optimus Prime (8/16)
-922 acres: Scorponok (10/13)

Deathly, Council-member of Myrmidons, commented:
"We were aware of their previous success in ages past on the honor charts and that they would be a tough opponent. All of us had fun and enjoyed."

Damien, Leader of The Stronghold, commented:
"I'd like to thank all of my kd mates"

[brickwolfman]

Myrmidons state the reason for breaking the CF was that Stronghold kingdom members had changed monarchy allowing them to break Stronghold's original monarch............not fully correct, im sure our monarch can fully explain(with a slight giggle on circumstances at the time)

[Alsadius]

As brickwolfman said, the CF thing isn't quite right. Basically, we were pushing on them for a war, and they offered us a CF in-game out of the blue without actually getting us to agree to one first. We accepted and then immediately cancelled, which reset relations and let us get a few more attacks in without having to deal with their ops for a while. I think that drove home that we were very serious about wanting a war, and they accepted shortly after we gave them the button again. (Or at least, that's my understanding)

Good timing too, I'd have bounced a big attack if the CF/cancel hadn't reset the monarch DME bonus on my target.

[DDodge]

Please contact us next time. Those quotes did not come from us, those statements did not come from us.

[Chuck]

Please contact us next time. Those quotes did not come from us, those statements did not come from us.

I was contacted in #utonews with the request to do this war by Deathly, who claimed to represent Myrmidons. I then contacted damien of stronghold in game to see if he would like to contribute to the article. I have the irc logs of both conversations, and everything that I stated in the article was given to me by a representative from either kd. I have nothing to do with deathly's disappearance from his kd now and the fact that myrmidons cannot reach him now and want to blame me for his statements is not my problem. This news service is not biased; it is provided by the community FOR the community. All those that want to complain about this or any other article are encouraged to speak with Mad_Scottish about becoming a reporter themselves.

[damien]

Ddodge, the part of not trusting you came from me actually. But it was mostly the only thing too.. And the reason was, that I still didnt get why you broke the CF :P And that was one of the reason why I pushed the button too. But it seems quite clear in article that it came from me.

[DDodge]

Yea man u know I love u. I mean breaking the cf may have pissed you off... But obviously we wanted a war so that seemed a good thing! Also, it wasn't as if we spoke and agreed to a cf, then we accepted and broke.

We spoke and I said we did NOT want to cf, very straight forward, and a bit later a cf was randomly sent over. I found it amusing at the time

[DDodge]

Please contact us before doing an article next time. Those quotes did not come from us, those statements did not come from us.

[nive]

Lol I love the biased article. It seems very familiar to the war forums with all the babies in stronghold whining and making excuses about how they weren't "ready" even though they declared on us after 1 wave. I guess I shouldn't let 3-4 poor sports make me think badly about the rest of the kingdom. It was a fun war regardless, getting nightstriked all day long got a bit old though .

[Drosta]

"Myrmidons state the reason for breaking the CF was that Stronghold kingdom members had changed monarchy allowing them to break Stronghold's original monarch."
"I actually left 13 dpa at home, to be exact".

Meh. Since when are CF breaking ghetto's allowed to swarm around up in the top 20. Few years ago pulling a stunt like this would just get waved and don't even think of getting a CF. Afterall, you just have shown that a CF with Myrmidons is worth nothing so free land for everyone.
And I bet that the Myrmidons are proud of this win too and went to Utopia News to have it reported.
What is next? Monarchs reporting their hard earned war win against the Gah Midgets? Please. Stop wasting bandwith with this nonsense.

Ofcourse, it is rather stupid of Stronghold to press that button so they deserve to be waxed by an overconfident ghetto.

[DDodge]

we refused to CF from the moment we started hostilities with them.

[Drosta]

Then be a man and don't accept CF and continue pounding them.
They were 4 hrs out of war.
You were more pumped.
You were bigger.
And you still need to pull little stunts like accepting the CF to reset hostile meter while they were sitting like a punching bag there?
It's like taking a chainsaw to steal candy from a baby.

[DDodge]

yeah thats not what happened, there was no CF agreement in the first place.

[protector]

yeah thats not what happened, there was no CF agreement in the first place.

Agreement or not, if you accept a CF offer ingame you basically ARE in agreement. What you did was low and lame; you reset relations allowing yourself to break their monarch as his DME would no longer benefit a 10% bonus and you removed ops on yourself for a period of time. You can't go ahead and say "No, we dont want a CF" and then accept it ingame for the above reasons. You should have declined the CF offer.

And the worst part is that you come here on these forums COMPLAINING that it is included in the article!? We'll see what you say if a kingdom deals with a CF offer from you the same way in the future.

[DDodge]

I am sorry to hear about the crap your kingdom had to go through.
But then you should also know that what comes around goes around.
Karma can be an unsavory woman

I like you a little bit better but I still don't know why this silly article is up. Oh well.

Agreement or not, if you accept a CF offer ingame you basically ARE in agreement. What you did was low and lame; you reset relations allowing yourself to break their monarch as his DME would no longer benefit a 10% bonus and you removed ops on yourself for a period of time. You can't go ahead and say "No, we dont want a CF" and then accept it ingame for the above reasons. You should have declined the CF offer.

And the worst part is that you come here on these forums COMPLAINING that it is included in the article!? We'll see what you say if a kingdom deals with a CF offer from you the same way in the future.

I never have and never will send a cf without talking to the monarch and agreeing on it with him.

Im not complaining that it was included, but that there are QUOTES and statements from myrmidons "leadership", when we were never contacted.