@Asjo (to avoid cluttering up this chaotic forum with unnecessary text by quoting your reply in it's entirety to avoid unnecessary text), you are partly correct, partly incorrect, and partly misguided... but hey, here may lie a chance for a discussion with more that 2 or 3 players!
They have declared war against THE PHI MUNCHERS
Depending on your definition of a Grepolis "declaration of war" I don't really see it as such. I see recent hostilities as a necessary territory battle (as well as providing our members access to the necessary BP). A war is declared with the specific intention of removing an enemy alliance from the server completely, and as far as I know, we have no members who wish to see you or your players taken out of the game... I certainly don't.
I took the city I did, simply because it was well within my ocean (44) and in my immediate area of influence. No reason for your player to own a city there that close to me, and that far away from his alliance without being a pacted alliance member.
they want to posses all four core oceans.
100% correct, and we -Project Core- have ZERO intention of taking hostile actions to players/alliances outside 44/45/54/55 (other than an occasional BP raid of course), There are only two ways of accomplishing this,
1. merge/pact
2. conquer and remove (blue/green or red).
We wanted option #1, hence the invite to join our alliance (personally I hold you in the highest respect, and I am not the only one, I am sure) plus you are great to have around here, in the world forums. But after our invitation was sent, no answer... not even a quick PM telling us to go get bent, so we acted (very lightly). After being ignored, the answer becomes pretty darn clear.
, it's just a gathering of a lot of players with high points
Misguided. True, most remaining active members of Tiny Teddies, Chimera, Wolfpack, and others that banded together are relatively high in the rankings, we are a group of players who have earned and gained loyalty from one another for the past 6 months of fighting along side (and even against) each other. Take Asasice for example, not the highest ranked player by any stretch of the imagination, but could devastate the top five ranked players in the blink on an eye, and will unleash carnage on anyone with the slightest request from another -Project Core- Player. I can give example after example of why EVERY player in our alliance deserves to be a part of the best alliance this world has to offer. I am probably the least deserving, and I am humbled and honored to consider this group alliance-mates of mine. I am positive Asjo, that you know better than most that rankings mean very little with regard to alliance membership.
they have hardly done anything yet, much less dominated
Check grepostats. Or perhaps even research Theo's statement in the OP. Recent inactivity may be due to the fact that one of the players in the alliance we were most recently fighting seems to have taken ill, so we called an immediate cease fire... taking advantage is not the way we roll. This left us with no targets, and being a war game and the need for BP... well that was where you and your alliance came in.
Sorry for the long read, but felt the need to set the record straight from my perspective (and again, no one else is going to post anything...).
@Lordweapon:
Your statement that oceans elite defeated the Tiny Teddies with help from THE PHI MUNCHERS is like declaring that New Zealand single-handedly won WW II with a little help from Canada.