I honestly thought it was directed towards in-game warforums, and Palem even edited both our banners in my message, so I doubt Palem had big probs with it.

The intra-razes did indeed help a bit, but that was only the bottom fight. We were great during the first 24 hours, but after we had taken such a huge lead and expecting an early win (I even turned sci on again), some of my players slacked a bit. My highest offense UD, made a costly double-bounce which nearly took him out of the war. I think one of the things FWB should do is to chain deeper, especially on those provinces with no land incoming. Put an 80K off prov without incoming land on 100 acres and he has to release 60K of that off, put him on 300 acres and he still has 60K off left. Huge difference. UD/tacticians are very tough to war against, as their off doesn't die off and WTs + CS are just so strong at blocking thievery.

You guys didn't pull out min-time as we expected, and yet my people kept slacking, thinking it was in the bag. A costly low-acre conquest by our second highest acre UD nearly took him out of the war (should've taken him out of the war). After a huge tantrum by me (I was furious) and some harsh words spoken, we got our act together and start using big Orcs to massacre enemy TMs. We deepchained one of FWBs provinces, who subsequently was razed to death by outside hits (this helped him more than hurt him I think). The next day we managed to PK their Steward. Fighting 23 v22 now instead of 23v24, we started to get enough breathing space at the top to stop TMing. These are the moments that Orcs really thump Undeads. Taking sidehits with high gains, and a 25% stronger massacre. We took out FWB's TMing capabilities while they tried to landchain our mystics. The chains were too slow though, and with the province I was sitting I was able to cast whatever I wanted (10 raw wpa and 200% sci at one point). We created a few landfarms (massacred and razed attackers) and once we had put one of their 1800-acre UDs on 2 dpa through NS our TMs started doubling, tripling and quadding him. At the same time our chained mystics could LL back land from those provinces (easily 10-20 a pop at 400 acres). After we channeled that land upwards it was only a matter of time before the war would end. We sent 2 dragons within 24 hours, started max-gaining acres using the gains of our orc-warriors/tacticians to rape large chunks of land.

On the last dragon Smercjd sent too much, so we started conquesting him. I have no idea whether it was a coincidence or not, but 15 minutes after our first conquest they surrendered.