Ehhhhh, I wouldn't bet on that... Remember how Darka was only putting 20kish CS in the field for a while until you guys got really motivated? I imagine CE could pull off a similar surge if it had a compelling reason to.
Bah it is frustrating to repeat the same things over and over again. It's not a matter of motivation, we have more nobles and we have the homeland army aiding to the defense as well, the Homeland army doesn't march outside Darka.
Even now we have many players joining so you will soon see even more CS.Still it won't be a matter of motivation, more players= more cs.Darka has tons of gold to give away for ppl to recruit as much as they can, they simply have to ask for it.
So it is a matter of gold (someone said it wasn't?) because we are fighting 3 regions from our capital, we have tons of gold to turn into men and the enemy always loses a lot in the first battle and the leftovers can't do much. So far they showed nothing to upset Darka, even the looting is rather ridiculous considering the fact they are like 5 realms
They have to get a lot better to make difference, and not just recruit more but actually use their units right instead of suiciding half their forces.
They will taste the fun of traveling back and forth for ages, knowing the enemy expects them fully repaired and prepared. Darka did the same in the beginning of this war, needless to say we lost 10 players over this.