Yep. steelabjur put it pretty well.
Atanamir is one of the most infamous kings of Perdan. Perdan was probably at their peak under his rule. I was his opponent as Prime Minister of Sirion. Perdan had an army called Perdan's murderous wrath or something which had something ridiculous like 95% movement rate every turn. The whole army either had infantry or SF - because people believed infantry was the best and most efficient class back then. It was Perdan's meat grinder. With that army, Perdan was fielding 30k CS army grinding everything that got in their ways. I think at one point he beat Armonia, Eponllyn and Caligus all at once. That is why you see Perleone under Perdan and Vix. Anyway long story short, he had a super active army only Fontan's Lions could match. Fontan's lions was a multi controlled army while Atanamir's PMW was more of an army full of active players + his buddies. I remember someone jokingly said Atanamir probably phoned his grandmother to login so she could move her characters.
Being one of the Fontan Lions myself, I still object to this accusation that the whole basis was multis. In fact, most of the Lions were all quite vocal, so if it was a multi, he was one without a life as there were different levels of English mixed with a lot of vocality. I think there there was the same problem as with Perdan. The leader of the lions got a temp lock for 3 days or so and then raged quite as he completely objected to why he got that lock. In response many others joined his rage, !@#$ this game, it's become !@#$, kind of tyrade and half of the lions left.
Anyway, Perdan's military is quite impressive, but Dodger asked why people have some problems with Perdan and we seem to dance around the subject.
The fear is for me at least, that with Perdan's current way of playing, we'll get to an Atamaran situation where eiter no wars can be fought, or the Perdan aliance will just role in and steamrole everyone, sucking the fun out of the continent. That fear (just after the sinking of Atamara) is what drives this I think.
