1. Best Attacker (best at running Ops and taking cities from enemies): this is just off the top of my head
---Flavius Aetius believes that all a growing boy needs is ABP! really stood out in the early days of Actium when DWS was fighting for a core against far superior numbers in the GoT alliances. Managed to organize mulitple sieges and slowly break the will of those HBO references
---The Celt, Nalyn01, and Fatcheeser all have some good conquests
---johno1972 & j r barnes have a couple good conquests mixed in with loads of internals but thats understandable
2. Best Defender (best at protecting their cities and the cities of their teammates):
---binderjoel stood up to a lot of front line pressure that would have cracked a lot of other top players
---ildi I remembered this account's name, on multiple occasions, being cursed (on skype settle down mods) for perfectly timed snipes on the front and back side
---Irontoast played with only a few mates for a while in o54 (BoB country) between the collapse of T4H and joining BS
3. Best Team Player (most helpful to their alliance and the alliance's goals):
---Flavius Aetius bends over backwards to get things done for others. He will ALWAYS let you know how he feels about an issue but he comes through in the clutch time after time
---gorben & Ildi always see these two involved in others ops but that can be said for a number of other BoBs too
---malo diablo you know its a real WAF siege break if malo is sending attacks. never seems to skip a break no matter the odds or size of the member
---mohitsenapaty is a top tier individual but always seems to be involved in supporting and raising awareness of others needs
4. Best Leader/Founder (who did the most with what they had): while it would be easy to pick key diplomats in BS, BoB, Bada, and DWS all of which had their differences. I have to give credit to the people that forced them to the table, WAF/BoS
---malo diablo & WAF leaders for proposing a merger that put them in a position to compete for the win. After losing two leaders and a number of other players they pushed through the internals and made some diplo moves that really forced other alliances to counter in a relatively short time before WW. (while none of us likes being associated with the actium wide hug out... it did push them into the favorites circle for a WW win)
---j r barnes for rallying ugly following a discouraging victors loss and multiple large accounts bailing out. Ugly & WAF appear to be pushing for more than a stale mate crown scenario with some members and allies still pushing north have since given up and run to VM
---While it is very biased, mike.22mba helped manage a lot of egos within DWS and always looked out for our best interest. He never seeks credit and rarely receives any from the outside but he dealt with a lot more drama than an easy going guy, like himself, should have to. On top of that he is far more capable player than he lets on.
5. Best Overall (who you think is the absolute best player):
---as an individual fighter elphine might be one of the most dynamic players I have seen in years of playing and has a very thorough understanding of minute details of the game others, myself included, might not bother to consider
6. Most Overrated (who you feel did not perform to their potential):
---TheApexPredator I have heard this name mentioned, across multiple worlds, as one of the best on the US servers. While thats probably true they didn't meet those expectations on us45, one of the most talented us servers to date, leaving in the early stages of this world. To be fair it would be difficult to live up to the Exit Strategy expectations without total dominance start to finish on any server.
---BE0W0LF assembled a team of all stars, has been a successful leader on other servers and a top tier fighter. Again with high expectations Beo never seemed to start rolling as a upper echelon fighter and then left BoS/WAF at a critical time.
---The Smilodon Fatalis was on multiple peoples top 12 lists at the start of this server for recognition as both a leader and individual player. I never really saw anything to justify that on Actium at least. Though TSF was said to have put up a decent fight early in the wake of Inked Up fall out, the recanted compliments of AD and Dub didn't reflect on a good leaders judgement.
7. Most Underrated (who you feel performed beyond expectation):
---Zhao Shuns first grepolis world was us45 which is a little shocking considering what was accomplished before leaving Actium. I assume WAF people helped Zhao pick up the concepts amazingly fast and soon began to make an impact on front lines, running organized ops with other new grepolis players (outkast19) on their own. Great on the timer and was confident enough to develop their own style of play. If Zhao continues to learn the mechanics of the game this player could develop into one of the top players across the US or EN servers
I feel like some of these were too difficult to narrow down to one person. Could probably list an additional 20 selfless team players (bigalan, Praetorian II, soxhbs, Anuby, C-lav Greatest, boud, Gillix, Mordred604, Zdravko Colic, John Mcaloon, etc.. those are just the blue and green banners) for differing reasons but those above were some of the most well rounded.
DISCLAIMER! these are just my own opinions from my narrow view of us45, sorry for any top notch players overlooked. Will post a final revised version at the end of Actium, still plenty of grepolis to be played before the end