[Kaiba]

Tia Tia Tia.... at rd start a fr/de planet will massively struggle - it has to pick where to be strong against - fi/co, fr/de or cr/bs - it cant pick all 3 which means it either masses against 1 type which means its massively open to the 2 others or it goes across the board and is weak to all 3.

As fi/co cr/bs you will be stronger against 2 meta classes from the start - normally your own one and fr/de. When you add in Xanas ability to fake and the normally high emp ability the fr/de targetting emp ships (last 3-4 rounds the viper has gone almost 1v1 with fr/de) this improves your roiding chances - cr/bs planets are free roids for fi/co and vice versa and both can hit fr/de quite easily with 1 teamup.

Back to the fr/de planet now - so does he pick the unattractive cr/bs planet (who main ships atm will be in anti fr/de) or the fi/co planet whos allaince will have an eta advantage against him (plus xan fakes) or does he go after a fellow fr/de player knowing that most likley they will have the same dilemma and be weak to everything or to fr/de atleast. So all the fr/de roid themselves and stay small whilst the fi/co and cr/bs pull away (fi/co will pull away more as it can roid more often that cr/bs)

Overall Tia that is why de/fr is rubbish strat for top alliances in any MT round and why cr/bs or fi/co is always prefered choice