Originally Posted by
Zauper
While I have to say that I think Simians did a poor job of prepping for our war knowing it was coming, this is an attitude that I respect.
At the top, deals are all negotiated and drawn out and kingdoms are afraid of fighting if they aren't 100% confident that they are going to win. The attitude that Anri expresses -- not running from a fight, not backing down, warring (and sometimes winning) against the odds is absolutely the attitude that SKs used to have -- and should still have.
Anri paints a target on his back with his approach to the forums, but the simple reality is that Simians are a good kingdom. They're better than 95% of the server. There are probably, at most, 10 kingdoms that are solidly better than them. The issue is that any war where you're warring a better kingdom is going to tend to result in a lot of acres being transferred to them unless you have some substantial advantages (like being orcs fighting a mintime war).
No one seems to be blaming the ghetto that BB NW dropped to declare for losing 7-8k acres to BB. Why would you blame Simians for losing the same amount of land to us? They were larger, so it was a smaller % of land lost.
I've also played with Flutterby before, and she's a good player so you should probably stop being fixated on her, Anri :P