I do agree that Wombat was a great leader - he talked with everyone, made the correct choices, which were good for the alliance - those were the real "Golden" days of WANTED, almost every town feared WANTED and did not want to provoke them. "massacre" was the word town leaders used, when their members suggested that they go to war with WANTED
and, yes - i don't agree that DCD fell due to WANTED - it's just as Jacko says. WANTED took some of their members in, leaders quit, etc - i even suspect that there was a secret merge agreement between WANTED and DCD, for suddenly, all of their members just vanished - they could have gone into one of WANTED's 20 towns in that time...
I'm willing to admit that my old town, Blackquarter was WANTED's 21st and last town, before they put all the members in 6 towns, just like it is, now - i even see the remnants of the old WANTED towns in the map