well, truth is.. these dudes, the Warcry kingdom that is - made the mistake to stay 5-10% draft into eowcf, and 4-7m gold each province.
with 24h before end of the eowcf - they were starting to draft and train and obviously they could not jump their draft from 5-10% into 70% or such.
we made some plunders over their gold, stealings and completed the wave with TM when no more gold was available.
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However, the 2nd part of the story is yet UNTOLD, here it is:
we waited for the dudes of Warcry to train their 10-12 epa during the forti. They had 5k biggers acres - we had to grow 5k acres and train specialists to fit their size. They ended 170-180 nwpa and we was 150 nwpa - guess what? Warcry cried for no war.
Guess what!? after 70% trained with full 10-12 epa on their undeads... they still DID not made a war, but came here to cry about some plunders we did over them and about 10 TM or so.
And stealings.
Who would not plunder/steal 3-5m gold provinces?
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Bottomline: they made the mistake of exiting EOWCF with 30-45% drafted army and barely any thieves. 3-6m gold on their provinces. Surely, we raped that - who wouldn't? We waited for them to pump 170-180 nwpa, 200 bpa, 10-12 epa vs our crap specialist kingdom - we tried a war deal since that's the standard nowadays. They refused, we did not waved second time (we could do that) - they should appreciate we did not take the free land 2nd time.
When this story happened, the Warcry kingdom was 19.5-20k acres and FREE was 15k acres. We instantly waved/plundered/explored/stol/trained into 18k acres so we can fit them when EOWCF ended (that was about 48h timeframe). Therefore - we was the undertrained, landfat and no pumped kingdom.
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We kept waving kingdoms for 10 real days, trained whatever we could with stealing and specialists. Nobody wanted to war, we got free acres up to 26k.
Than we got full waved by "the brave" Blood Brothers or something like that. They were 2/2 with 4.6m nw vs our 0/1 and 4m nw. We did not cried, we did not begged for CF.
These dudes were insanely pumped with two eowcf pump, 500 bpa vs our 150 bpa, 12-15 epa everybody. 180 NWPA kingdom, bigger than us.
We pushed button instantly. Best we could do since there was literally no kingdom willing to war us.
We could have won the war under these terms, but:
1. we semi-chained their faeries to soften their defense for second wave.
2. on second wave, Araq from our kd sent 8000 elites (kept for defense) instead of horses >>>> 0 defense at 1000 acres.
3. their faeries quaded him and made incoming land on their chained TM, ruined our plans.
Eventually, we killed 1 of their provinces. Could have killed 3 others (they were down to 50-100 peons and 200a), but we've decided to keep the 4000 honor and 2000 acres we raped and WD.
So, yes... FREE does have 0/2 now, but we got 14 barons and 3 others nearly there.
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We did not cried when Blood Brothers waved us with 500k bigger nw and maxed pumped. We wared with a big disavantage, and we lost the 150 BPA for WW - but we raped 4k honor and 2k acres in minimum time, killed 1 province and totally screwed their acreage distribution (while FREE has perfect acreage).