Bradonthedestroyer
Philosopher
What a disappointing server
However now that its over i figured at least some history should be recorded.
After 5 years away from grepolis the 7 original members of the Usual Suspects decided to give it another run. We dropped into olous fully intending on raising some hell and finding a team to merge into.
As more and more old friends joined up and we grew quickly it became apparent that we probably had the firepower to compete in this server without needing to merge into anyone else, we quickly ate through the smaller alliances in the area and hit Bad news bears hard enough at the time they were forced to merge into us.
With Bad news on board Kings Court and the original Shawnee core were next to fall. This gave us control of the center of the map as well of a good portion of Ocean 55
At this point things got a little weird, The Bad news merger started to break, a few of their big guys who had joined us left and Cindi became a crazy person, ghosted her cities without telling anyone and joined an enemy alliance under a new username. After receiving notice a few of her friends were no spying, most of the remaining members of BnB were removed from the alliance.
At the same time while scrolling around one night, i noticed a small alliance of 3 people with one of them growing like a weed, this would be the beginning of the end of the word, as our relationship with Myth and warlords started that night.
The main issue here was WL was pretty far away from us up in O44 with From the Ashes (or whatever they were at that time) sitting in between us. To make this work we would need to work up towards WL while they worked down towards us. Thankfully the dice kind of rolled our way and around this time, Myth was able to bring on the from the ashes guys into WL and honey badgers began to fall.
Warlords had grown from the #17th ranked alliance to 2 or 3 and our Pact was still in place. While they cleaned up the northern oceans we turned our focus to avengers, during that battling after some discussion a few of their players were brought over and that war ended as well. This leaves the world with a few remaining alliances
The usual Suspects
Warlords
Grepo Geriatric Neutral
Shawnee (All 3 Alliances)
Wildcards
Coaches Corner
Due to some Internal Drama Myth now Leaves Warlords and joins the suspects. After a leadership restructure the from the ashes guys now take over warlords and rename it Skirmish Mode 1 and 2.
This now becomes:
Skrimish 1 and 2 + Wild Cards + Coaches Corner + Shawnee
VS
The usual suspects
*Meanwhile Grepo Geriatric is neutral and just doing old people things
This would end up being the last real battle of the server, Skirmish was able to take a few cities and hold off many of our attacks (Tell your spy thanks for that)
However they didnt help the members of that pact, and we were able to continue to eat the other alliances and continue to grow while mostly holding them off up north.
During this fight we pact with Grepo Geriatric for some defensive help as we were getting hit on 3 fronts
Eventually the main Skirmish guys all quit. This pretty much ended things
Shawnee absorbed everything they could and did continue to fight through the rest of the server (Mad Props KOKR) but at this point the point differential was too big. After about a month of simming we were able to greatly reduce the Counter to WW's.
The WW era was fast all 10 wonders built in a few weeks, 10-0 Game over.
Congrats to The Usual Suspects, it was a blast playing with you all. Thank you to all the shawnee members who stuck around and kept this world from becoming a ghost town.
Bradon
However now that its over i figured at least some history should be recorded.
After 5 years away from grepolis the 7 original members of the Usual Suspects decided to give it another run. We dropped into olous fully intending on raising some hell and finding a team to merge into.
As more and more old friends joined up and we grew quickly it became apparent that we probably had the firepower to compete in this server without needing to merge into anyone else, we quickly ate through the smaller alliances in the area and hit Bad news bears hard enough at the time they were forced to merge into us.
With Bad news on board Kings Court and the original Shawnee core were next to fall. This gave us control of the center of the map as well of a good portion of Ocean 55
At this point things got a little weird, The Bad news merger started to break, a few of their big guys who had joined us left and Cindi became a crazy person, ghosted her cities without telling anyone and joined an enemy alliance under a new username. After receiving notice a few of her friends were no spying, most of the remaining members of BnB were removed from the alliance.
At the same time while scrolling around one night, i noticed a small alliance of 3 people with one of them growing like a weed, this would be the beginning of the end of the word, as our relationship with Myth and warlords started that night.
The main issue here was WL was pretty far away from us up in O44 with From the Ashes (or whatever they were at that time) sitting in between us. To make this work we would need to work up towards WL while they worked down towards us. Thankfully the dice kind of rolled our way and around this time, Myth was able to bring on the from the ashes guys into WL and honey badgers began to fall.
Warlords had grown from the #17th ranked alliance to 2 or 3 and our Pact was still in place. While they cleaned up the northern oceans we turned our focus to avengers, during that battling after some discussion a few of their players were brought over and that war ended as well. This leaves the world with a few remaining alliances
The usual Suspects
Warlords
Grepo Geriatric Neutral
Shawnee (All 3 Alliances)
Wildcards
Coaches Corner
Due to some Internal Drama Myth now Leaves Warlords and joins the suspects. After a leadership restructure the from the ashes guys now take over warlords and rename it Skirmish Mode 1 and 2.
This now becomes:
Skrimish 1 and 2 + Wild Cards + Coaches Corner + Shawnee
VS
The usual suspects
*Meanwhile Grepo Geriatric is neutral and just doing old people things
This would end up being the last real battle of the server, Skirmish was able to take a few cities and hold off many of our attacks (Tell your spy thanks for that)
However they didnt help the members of that pact, and we were able to continue to eat the other alliances and continue to grow while mostly holding them off up north.
During this fight we pact with Grepo Geriatric for some defensive help as we were getting hit on 3 fronts
Eventually the main Skirmish guys all quit. This pretty much ended things
Shawnee absorbed everything they could and did continue to fight through the rest of the server (Mad Props KOKR) but at this point the point differential was too big. After about a month of simming we were able to greatly reduce the Counter to WW's.
The WW era was fast all 10 wonders built in a few weeks, 10-0 Game over.
Congrats to The Usual Suspects, it was a blast playing with you all. Thank you to all the shawnee members who stuck around and kept this world from becoming a ghost town.
Bradon
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