Well, Astrum has been getting ready for this war since the end of our little practice war with Luria Boreal. Months of work were put into this war. Hope this will be fun
I don't come to the forums anymore, but I kept getting these OOC messages in-game from various people that "Zakky" (didn't know who that was) "has it in for us" and is 100% going to have a war for no reason, so I felt as ruler of Westgard I owed it to my other players to see what was going on.
Can I just get this straight?
For months one of the dev team has been (partially) controlling the monster hordes that have been relentlessly hammering us and sometimes directing the takeovers of our regions. We know this for certain. 100%.
We were driven out of level 3 walls in Shrine of Seeklander, and twice out of level 2 walls in Eidulb Outskirts, and level 2 walls in Eidulb.
We repeatedly invited Astrum's General -
another dev team member - to come fight with us, but instead they intentionally avoided our army (we can quote the letter) and rode around devastating bordering cities and townships so we couldn't build up.
After twice being driven out of Eidulb, while refitting,
this other dev team member jumped into Eidulb and took it over - and the monsters just *poof* all disappeared! Oh, yes - there's been a trickle... like a small boy peeing. Nothing very threatening.
So now we have a situation where the dev team controls the monsters who are attacking us, and the dev team controls the army that is attacking us "because we were going to attack someone"
And when the monsters and Astrum are in the same region, they will band together to fight us.
Did I get that all right?
(For the record - Hemmings didn't "cause trouble". He - as ruler of his realm - said, "No, you can't loot our lands")