Well put speech. We all make stupid mistakes. It takes mistakes to learn. Not justifying those who are in the wrong by any means, but sometimes it takes things like this to make a clan stronger. And with the right people, RD should come back from this. Good luck RD.

I would disagree. A warring alliance in my eyes should always be #1 above any kind of ranking. Why? because if they want to war they will war anybody. LaF is a primarily a netting alliance. If all they did was war, they would lose members. Hence if one day SoF says, F U to LaF and war them for 5-10 consecutive rounds, SoF numbers would be up and LaF numbers would be down. But that will never happen. A warring alliance dictates earth politics. You cannot stop an alliance of SoF size if they want to kill you. The reason why SoF can get away with killing MD for several sets in the past.

The rankings you have is an assumption of how these alliances would perform, rather than factual evidence of the past 2 sets. An alliance can change within a single set i can agree on that...though from what i see the only alliance that has changed is SoL as their numbers have bolstered due to warring SoF... but exactly how many of those members are just from other alliances that want to put a hurting on SoF from past sets of getting killed by them? Exactly how many can they retain after this set and for how long? Those questions cannot be answered as it still needs to be shown/proven. Hence i cannot rank them above alliances that have already shown such answers.


I would rank the top 5 like this:


1. SoF
2. LaF
3. MD
4. RD
5. SoL

SoF eating an oop fs cost them 25 odd countries.
LaF killing evo killed 25 odd countries.

sof/rival vs sol/evo/monsters are similar in members.

The only reason sem is saying that laf unbalanced the war, is because they were losing.
FSing an unprepared alliance does not create a balanced war, it is instantly unbalanced.

i dont know if the beginning post was meant to be an attempt at character assassination of myself. nothing you said is news to anyone in laf at least. i have explained exactly why i made my decisions and with the exception of maybe one or two people, most have agreed it was the correct course of action. the DNH we held with you last set was to ensure no trades were initiated by PDM - not some sort of threat (although you probably believed that being the huge pansies you are). after seeing SG, our top country, be on the losing side of a trade with one of your crap countries i decided that was enough.


as far as knocking out pdm countries - ya, we dont like it when you guys do stupid fluff to put people into t10 so we dealt with it. you are fully welcome to deal with it too. The missiles were obviously an act of aggression, and it should have been obvious we did it on purpose. If you think for one second we will ever let PDM try to mass aid someone over an LaF person who got their legitimately then you can think again.