Cranky... Just come off it man.
Are you seriously going to write off how drastically things have changed with the excuse of "the big picture".
We have never denied TSF/TMN/TMA/KoTR/SK and everyone else hit us hard for awhile. However, you continue to deny "the big picture" yourself. You guys drastically outnumber us! LOL
You allied yourself with everyone and simultaneously attacked us repeatedly on multiple fronts. For you to act like you did something strategically by piggy-backing off of people who back-stabbed their "allies", is exactly why nobody likes you. Even your own pact mates don't trust you. I would be glad to forward all the messages to verify. LOL
You guys have taken more cities from us over the course of the war. Nobody is denying that. We were caught in a massive onslaught when 1map went to TSF. The Germans also got off to great start with their Blitzkreig attacks. How did that end up?
You act like the early battles gave you some symbolic victory. If anything, for us to withstand the massive volume of attacks while being outnumbered and outgunned, speaks more to our abilities to overcome than to anything you have done. Based on the combined size of you and your allies, the fact that there is no other alliance around to attack you, and that our allies have no way of helping in 54/55, you should be expected to make constant gains. Yet, after that initial phase where you inhaled our outlying players and those who were inactive, you have been getting smacked.
You guys have taken 2 cities from us in the last 36 days now.....Explain it away all you want...The fact is you guys are weak. Unless you can take inactive cities or piggy-back off of 1map and pictureplan, you are completely inept.
Greek did get 700k DBP from Vigs in that city, that's true. He also lost a city during that very same exchange which of course you neglected to mention. You guys have COMPLETELY stalled out. You have no momentum heading into World Wonders. You are still hemorrhaging players weekly due to inactivity.
The only reason you haven't imploded faster is because TSF has some serious fighters in the core, battling us every day. And they are having their own problems themselves...Those very same fighters that keep them afloat are growing increasingly frustrated with Yellowarmy and their horrible ops.
Its pretty obvious.. and easy to verify. Just look at who actually does the conquering of enemy flags for your group of allies. 1map, pictureplan, tonja, gotheridge... Basically the group who back-stabbed their own players and joined the enemy are the only people who are worth anything...and they like Superunknown 's strategies...But I expect things to continue to shake up very soon... Im sure KoTR and SK will try to weasel in to TSF somehow. Im curious if you all find some courage and decide to actually end the whole Lamia vs The Collective to see if you really could hold up in a fight where you don't outnumber your enemy 2 to 1. My guess is that's the last thing you want to happen. Then I think that 2 conquers in the last 36 days would be 0 conquers indefinitely.