[BloodyButcher]

I dont think its down to BowS "polticial skills" or "diplomacy skills", as theyve always been able to work with majority of the other alliances out there.
If the univers has put itself into the position, where ND is the "power house" that needs to be the deciding factor in block politics, something is wrong from the start of the round.

ND and BowS having bad history/poor relation is not because of BowS people threating ND HCs bad, or breaking deals, or general lacking experince dealing with other alliances, but because of the changes thats been going on within ND HC team after the "older generation" of HCs retired.

In the first rounds of BowS, we wanted to stay away from attacking the "training alliances" and giving the newer players a chance to do well, thats why we were allied with HR/ND for our 2-3 first rounds.
The allied relation was broken after the "SoulS incident", where the log from the ND HC channel was uploaded to pastebin, where he was talking about how everything was going as planned, and he had just managed to get BF to war with BowS.
DZ, Mystery, and Basilisk accepted our reasons for breaking the deal with ND, that souls was now a "person non grata" in ND.

In most of the rounds after, ND and BowS rarely had direct confrontations, and it was never ND initiating a war on BowS or the other way around.
BowS war Rogues, ND join Rogues.
BowS war P3ng, ND join P3ng.
BowS try to fence, everyone kills Ult/BowS.
BowS war BF, ND join BF.

Sure, most BowS people have a poor opinion fo ND, and most likely the other way around, but if the goal is to try climb the ranks and work with whoever is needed to achieve this, it very rarely personal for most alliances, and most previous conflicts are forgotten the next round, or after two rounds at the longest.


BFs strategy last round meant that they didnt have to put in much fight to secure #1, just like other alliances has gotten #1 without doing much effort in the past.
This is after all a strategy game, and if BF or Norse is able to win round without ever being tested, then well played, their strategy is better than everyone elses.