Hmm.... what actually happened in Beta over the last 6 months??? lessee...
We had a whole bunch of HUGE alliances like COIG, Legion, Romanian Warriors, etc that were around mass recruiting but
Army of Aliens sort of took the early lead fuelled by the self styled Aliens himself. The
United Aegean Empire set up a second front around them and between them they had the world pretty much sorted out.
Phenomen started racking up early respect and were the first alliance to claim a 2nd city.. Clan
Harmada &
Serenity, who were doing rather well individually merged and gave us
Molon Labe, who along with
Pheonix of Carthage &
Mor Do Kuli gave Beta its first bunch of Small Superpowers.
COIG first managed to piss a lot of people off, plus combined with general MRA inefficiency they were the first to paint a red target on their heads. Everybody had a whole lot of fun and lot of COIG cities were taken all over the globe till the good players quit and the alliance disbanded.
This left a vacuum on who to attack and with the increasing AoA/UAE power sphere it was natural that things would come to a head..
Xmortis started off small as a power away from the core, and were initially targetted by the Aliens, the Aegeans and anybody else around them. However they managed to rally quite a bit of support and were the first MRA type alliance to openly resist the Aliens with some success.
After a small & inevitable buildup AoA declared war on Phenomen with a few quick strikes. Unfortunately Phen, ML, MDK, PoC and a whole bunch of other alliances suddenly opened war on a number of fronts against them and AoA just collapsed.
Some of them left and joined the Aegeans, some joined the Myrmidons, and some joined the
Praetorian Guardians, who by now have built themselves up to the level of probably the most dangerous alliance in the game.
Myrmidons was started as a democratic collection of smaller groups of alliances and had some solid players and leaders in it but eventually went the MRA way and have today given rise to Pros Theon. Which way this new alliance swings is still to be seen.
UAE seems to be the only alliance packing a lot of weight out there, but then whether they fall under all that weight is still to be seen.
The smaller alliances are all around, just as tight and just as deadly. Xmortis has walked away from all this with respect and quite a few nice cities.
And the action is now slowly moving away from the core areas towards the outer oceans which are now seeing major activity.
Now MISSING from this discourse are
Titanes et Ares and
Saints of Tartarus and a couple of other alliances that have had a role in how this world has shaped up. Unfortunately my viewpoint is slightly SE skewed so im hoping Mike62 or somebody comes up and helps add to this..
Of course most of this is based on my limited info, and probably slightly biased in bits, so please feel free to read or ignore... but i thought i may as well give a rundown of what ive seen here in Beta.. feel free to slam me..