Medieval Knights

Ah, thanks TD for correction. I misinterpreted the Diplomatic Status of VIC there (there still stands a war against SWQ...)

Seems Illyriads history narrows down on few persons, some of them not very nice/trustable, and therefor switching alliances like mad   
Others are rightfully (or, however, not...) angry about those action and going for them...

And thus, History is created!
                                                It strucks me, it's like in Reality, just with other names!  

Well, while I was pissed-off about Tubana's lying to me (about his communications with H? and Dlord), I am proud of the fact that MK lost no cities in the conflict.  I beleived then, as now, that Tubana deserved elimination for the simple reason that when full-scale operations opened against MK, Tubana said "I quit."  To me, that was the captain of the ship being the first person off the ship after running it into the shoals.  He disgraced himself.  And left me to clean up his mess and find a way to protect smaller members under siege for no actions of their own.

All of this stuff explains why I prefer playing as a solo alliance with no responsibility to protect or provide for other members.  And I also learned that in Illy the person most capable to protect and provide for me is me.

Hora wrote: Yeah, it really is interesting, how long some conflicts take. Some even seem to be set some month before now outbreaks. As for the war against the Malmotchans: Invictus already had a war against Butlers (Nige,etc.) old alliance SWQ almost at the beginning of Illyriad (so long before I joined), and I have heard many accusations of him being multiaccount while Butler was in Ni, so even before most other alliances took action in that final war. Perhaps you should ask Shadar Logoth or Warrior Bunny on that, as they took part in that first war...

VIC did not have a war against SWQ.  Butler was a jerk and I quit SWQ whereupon he started attacking me.  He laid siege to The Alamo.  In the final moments of that siege, Warrior Bunny destroyed Nige's siege army, saving The Alamo from destruction.  MK then started action against Butler, Nige, Juno and Calis of SWQ - but no others in SWQ.  Within a few days, SWQ was disbanded.  Many SWQ players joined MK.  Calis joined Crow and MK operations ceased against him.  MK lacked siege capability at that time so after a few weeks, Butler/Juno/Nige joined Ni and a peace was brokered with Ni.

Yeah, it really is interesting, how long some conflicts take. Some even seem to be set some month before now outbreaks.
As for the war against the Malmotchans: Invictus already had a war against Butlers (Nige,etc.) old alliance SWQ almost at the beginning of Illyriad (so long before I joined), and I have heard many accusations of him being multiaccount while Butler was in Ni, so even before most other alliances took action in that final war. Perhaps you should ask Shadar Logoth or Warrior Bunny on that, as they took part in that first war...

Perhaps best place to start would be a list of big alliances in the first month, and then going upward.
I saw many alliance breakups in the alliance history (for example Danger), but that was mostly before my time...