History lesson:
Coralynth and Sorraine tried to gangbang OW. Cathay entered the war to defend their ally, a move everyone knew they would make. This would have been a good war if others hadn't gotten involved. Velax's decision to enter the war was what made that war so bad.
The only attacks on Colasan were during the Bofeng era. Since he left no attack has been made on Colasan by anyone.
Some of you may recall that Jonn was initially in Cathay for the purpose of brokering peace between Cathay and Sorraine (what?
) and only got directly involved when Claudio betrayed Cathay with the slaughter in Colasan (declaring war on his former ally when their military was already in a level 5 walled region stocked to the gills with troops)
GDD was able to capture Lenamaziel right after because they and Sorraine were able to jump on the region while Cathay's military was destroyed, a huge portion of their nobles were wounded, and then Bofeng quit, leaving Cathay without a leader.
What most of you don't know is that Jonn was so fed up with the war against Sorraine (a war in which he didn't fight at all) that he was going to defect to Coralynth during the tourney in Enlod. I figured if Bofeng wasnt going to listen to me I may as well join the underdogs directly. Then claudio betrayed cathay during the tourney, bofeng quit, and suddenly it was a completely different war. So Jonn left his homeland behind once again and returned to Cathay to do the honorable thing and keep the realm alive.
I hear so much whining about inactives in this thread and it makes me laugh. What you guys seem to forget is that Cathay after Bofeng left was like a dead realm for weeks. No one thought we had any hope of survival. Nobles were leaving left and right. The only active characters were Jonn and Nairii. Our first attack on Lenamaziel failed badly because we got only four nobles to march on time with about three days' notice and constant reminders. It was a suicide attack anyway, hoping to use our better refit times to launch a second attack before GDD and Sorraine could recover, but even that failed.
The point is that we didn't give up. The "roving raiders" you refer to were our best break. We destroyed them despite about half our force being inactive, because instead of whining about how the game has changed I just adapted our strategy to deal with it. Once we beat the GDD raiders it breathed new life into Cathay. Suddenly it looked like we could win, at least battles if not the war, and a lot more people got active.
The point is it is the responsibility of the leaders of each realm to inspire their nobles, and if they fail to do so defeat follows. It's not the map, it's not militia, not player density, not any of that crap. It's a question of quality leadership and strategy. The Nairii/Jonn/Optimus triumvirate has succeeded using the same materials--players and ingame resources-- that Bofeng and your realms failed with. We even succeeded with a lesser amount of those materials.
There's a lot of things I could say here but you guys have been playing long enough that I shouldn't have to teach you how to lead wars. Please feel free to keep making excuses. I am not saying any of this to insult you but I have grown tired of the constant excuse making in BM especially on FEI. The difference in our abilities to take responsibility for our actions is the reason for the differing levels of success of our realms. As leaders you always had the ability to make things better for your realms but you failed to do so. Take it as a lesson.
