The Great War

Epidemic wrote: Hora wrote: Thus, maybe the big alliances now prepared some diplomatic ways to handle an enemy not going to surrender. And maybe everyone learned the cost of such a policy and thinks twice about Players were being sieged from the game right from the get go, it was not some last ditch effort to 'work for peace' against players who refused to listen to peaceful talks, it was a systematic purge of all enemies with a total disregard for how wars were fought in the past and a complete lack of foresight towards the future. It was carnage for the sake of entertainment, pure and simple. Don't try to rewrite history.

Edited by Hora - 24 Jan 2015 at 21:09

I'm sure you found it entertaining, Epidemic, particularly as you raked in all the gold from both sides.  Speaking as one of the people involved, I found defending to be a lot more fun than attacking.  

Mona Lisa wrote: If you wish to consider it ruthless, so be it.

Thank you for at least being honest. Yes, you were quite brutal for Illy, if this were Tribal Wars i'd say 'good job', but since this type of warfare has never been a part of Illy it became sickening just how brutal the 'peaceful' crowfed and allies became capable of. I for one would not be proud of that.

Hora wrote: Thus, maybe the big alliances now prepared some diplomatic ways to handle an enemy not going to surrender. And maybe everyone learned the cost of such a policy and thinks twice about

Players were being sieged from the game right from the get go, it was not some last ditch effort to 'work for peace' against players who refused to listen to peaceful talks, it was a systematic purge of all enemies with a total disregard for how wars were fought in the past and a complete lack of foresight towards the future. It was carnage for the sake of entertainment, pure and simple. Don't try to rewrite history.

Gragnog wrote: GA set the new standard for war and now need to deal with it. you reap what you sow.

Tamaeon wrote: abstractdream wrote: GM Rikoo wrote: Each alliance (or something like that) sends a leader or rep to join me on a livestream to discuss this war, but also war in general.  It would make for a great listen. I wanted to cover more details about fighting anyway... why not cover a war? GM Rikoo I'd be very interested in listening to this. If it's gonna be focused on the last war, I would hope you can build a balanced panel. There are a whole lot more players who participated on the winning side so it shouldn't be too hard to fill that side of the table. For the loosing side, I'd like to hear (not that you asked for nominations) Starry and KP, Nokigon, Sir Bradly and Wild Monk. I think these folks would be amazing to listen to. They have a couple decades worth of Illy experience between them and tons of skill and are all extremely intelligent.  Just my 2 cents. I would really like to have you Abstract, as well as Belargyle or Jack aubrey, Pellinel, Tacardi and Zenora in the discussion. Perhaps also Isabela from RE and Prares from CK who witnessed the explosion of the great war from the very beginning.

This is quite a pointless exercise as the leaders and players of many of the alliances involved in the war are pretty inactive. GA set the new standard for war and now need to deal with it. you reap what you sow. If you really want an honest discussion about war in general and this "Great War" you should get the leaders of the new alliances joining the game, the small alliances quietly going about their business, and if possible players who left due to the nature of this war. Their voices are the ones that need to be heard, not the bias rantings of those of us that are still here. The feeble excuses of why the war started and why it was so brutal has been discussed so often here it only serves as amusing reading now.