Originally Posted by
StratOcastle
Strength of current politics is mechanically based in pump time. So, above the game, the CFs have diplomatic language that discourages interference from both competing kingdoms and insurgence from kingdoms outside the diplomatic realm; otherwise known as the ghetto.
There's a fair amount of legitimate CFs between the tops and ghetto, but these are gentle person agreements. For instance, most kingdoms I've occupied have had good relationships with tops as we pose no threat.
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I suspect the current environment is partly due to a "fix" in top kingdom diplomacy concerning farm wars. To summarize; in recent ages there have been significant chart swings because naive kingdoms would venture near the top and lose so many acres it forced tops to question the competitive environment. Without warring each other on even ground they couldn't determine the superior meta.
So this age you see a consolidation of war kingdoms occupying the bottom end of the top 10. It's my belief these war kingdoms serve as a buffer to fat naive kingdoms crawling into range. I suspect the bait was the obvious advantage of observing the field unfettered by top interference. This puts each top war kingdom in an ideal position to acquire crowns. They will jump a kingdom that waves against a top war colleague in pump. Essentially any ghetto that approaches must agree to the dizzying diplo conditions. It's weighed against the ghetto.
Obviously this creates a dubious situation where the tops can allow their war kingdoms to steal resources. We all know acres provide a higher science advantage. Well actually uncontested acres yield about every advantage the game offers except nw mechanics.
You should grab intel on a common core province in a top war kingdom to see the difference. Then grab intel from a top 20 core attacker of similar size.
Additionally, go to a kingdom page and view the nw alignment on some of the top warring and you'll see a signature build that AMA was using. Most of these top war kingdoms previously had a classic clamp formation: t/ms UB at the top and pure race core. Now you see the quadrilateral which is a modification to the AMA triangle. This indicates top kingdom engineering. The alignments are also modified for bottom feeding. But essentially what you see are defensive belts. I coin it as acre digestion.
In the back and forth of war the common clamp formation kingdoms have no mid stop for acre acquirement. This is why uniform suicide builds are a farce when facing kingdom aligned as such. For instance, a heavy attacker can't tap the elf as many times in the quadrilateral formation and the elf is blessed with lower losses. FS runs elf tacs which I have considerable experience running in the ghetto. It's an exceptional role player. I withstood 34 trad marches without releasing defense in an EoA war before we ticked out. But I digress.
The pump based diplo allows top land kingdoms to raise cows uncontested by most ghettos. You can see the delineation between the top land and top war kingdoms based in the lack of cows and economy biased core of the top land competitors.
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