Let's not forget Erik, at the beginning of all this, When the fluffs went on a conquering spree on you guys, there was no counter-coalition. It was fluffs/BTNB vs the CS coalition. You guys were huge at that time!
Do you really know exactly how much was lost that day ? You cant possibly count how much you guys lost, how much was it ? Around 300-500 ? even more ?
Not much of a statistics guy, but you cant forget that kind of stuff
Drinor,there is little point in exaggerating numbers.
What matters more is to know the circumstances,goals etc.
We were too much spread,a consequence of recruiting.
We did not start as a well organized pre made lots of friends were far away,others were recruited when their former alliances in the West fell.
All were supposed to build in our core.
Their defense was/is impracticable.
Given the fact that two major partners/NAp turned into enemies while we were busy oping another alliance, and we were mostly offensive due to having a strong coalition at the time, it is not surprising that far away outposts wohkd be easy prey.
Actually this *coincidental* guys were counting on this and were hoping for a quick victory.
But they all underestimated our internal cohesion.
As a matter of fact our losses in the west purely helped the relocation of our players in our core.
You can walk on the right side of the road,on the left side of it but not in the middle.
Nobody can have more then one core, even when our coalition was victorious against TUS our policy was to build the core not expand west.
It was obvious that relative strength would sooner or later on the west would pass in the hands of our adversaries, since we were not pursuing an active policy there.
There is absolutely no surprise we would one day lose them,we never encouraged our players to grow there, simply gain as many slots as possible.
After the initial op we built a more reasonable ratio offense/ defense, invested our slots and fruits followed.
It is not coincidence the only area reds could still take cities are remains of former possessions in the west,while only lucky shots can succeed closer to us,save inactives.
Do not deceive yourself, it is a basic