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It's been a long time and I've moved on with the game, but I'll never forget what happened. Don't expect any friendship or deep respect from me though. You guys lost that a long time ago.
I'm a little disappointed at all the people who showed up for the -tw- empire central battle. Were they not getting constant updates on where to go? I signed up for that battle last night, but I logged in, saw fort atilla the hun needed more defenders, so I put on my poncho, drank some tequila, stuffed a huckleberry into my pocket, put on my green shawl, polished those riding boots, and saddled up on my quarter horse and in no time, I got there.
We were pushing as close to the "deadline" as we can. People need time to read telegram and travel to fort. Not everyone is going to look where they are most likely needed and go to those fort.
Another issue is parish is closest to RR. We were splitting up RR people into different forts as you can tell from the battle report result. Generally speaking, some TW towns will need 2-3 hours just to travel due to their location to some of those forts. We were already a bit late in issuing order and had to make closer towns defend closer forts.
TW north was 50 defender and 43 attackers, Central was lopsided, parish did not have enough.
We had to plan and juggle our troops around 8 forts, in TW, we do the best we can, but we're not god. If I had known precisely how many attackers will show up at each fort, then we would send some troops to SB, more troops to parish to save 1 SB and 1 TW fort by stripping off garrison from TW Central.
Alas, we're only human. I'll c/p some telegram I had. Sufficient to say, when battle commenced, I was still busy reading telegrams and reply them.
BlitzkriegOn 12/22/09 at 5:57 PMYou need to issue order now since we are only 2 hours away from battle and people need time to open telegram, read it, then travel to fort. we don't have time.
Our higher level people can travel faster than lower level people so we have to factor all these information in. I wish all members can be active and check the forts status themselves and go but experience has taught us it's better to do the best you can, issue an order as clear as possible so hopefully nobody will be confused, show up at the fort, and fight accordingly.
There are several reasons why we favored TW central but I am not going to disclose it for a variety of reasons.