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Originally Posted by rnd|One
I was looking forward to having more knowledgeable replies here by now.
For Eclipse the party line has been, due Elysium's recruiting, that the alliance must have amounted to nothing. It was not pulling its weight. It had no military strength. All else nullified because of a turn of events. Of course none of this is true, but for Eclipse it was easy to portray us as such and the rest of the universe to see Elysium in such light when you have airhead planetarion celebs spouting crap here and telling them to stuff it might have these jesters packing their bags making AD more of a tombstone.
In the end an alliance from the winning block took the trophy according to the new PaX score mechanisms that would've been theirs already by the old scoring system. It was not won by the alliance whom had a staff member running defence with his multiplanets, nor by the alliance that managed to avoid brutal incomings till the end of round (or even totally) and one being of lesser military strength. Between these contenders I saw the final rankings fitting.
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What kind of replies do you exspect ? Lets not forget how this round worked and we can summon Kj, Sonnenbomber or Senater here to backup my statements.
Unknown to many ppl the first aim of the Fang block was ToT which had severe problems this round and broke apart morally. Inactive Fc's, members and some hcs (Sonnenbomber at one time beeing the only guy active). After a brief chat a decision was made, Fang should be taunted and i did the job.
Eclipse became maintarget for the reason that we figured if our block wanted to win the round we had to gain back control. To our surprise things went abit different. Eclipse got the attention like we wanted but we got more then we aimed for. Our top planets were killed one at a time while Ely incomings were dropping, things started to look grim and for many the round seemed to be lost. Some motivating speeches later and more officers fixed the problem and slowly but steadily, with more help from non block allies, more coordination from ely, increased activity from tot and forests help (at this time many of our hc and officers were totally burned out from weeks of around the clock hits, recalls- resends etc) we came back. We copied their plan and Fang slowly took a beating. Killghosts supreme intel skills and some officer spies helped to turn the tables. Fangs moral was broken - Kjs internal speech was launched- Right when they could get on the feet again catastrophe struck again. Planets were closed left and right and middle. Cheating accusations, mud throwing you name it they had it. Eclipse and allies still going strong but eclipse pulling the extra pound getting ahead of elysium in alliance ranking.
Then fang broke apart and everyone - including eclipse and ely tried to get a grab on the cake. Irvine played it smart and tried to force and ely / ecl brake up by offering each the option to get the massive scoreboost from his bg joining. Tho he was also in talks with Dragons (which theoretically still had a chance to grow since all attacks on the BG planets were banned and created even more tension). Things got really ugly, really really ugly and in the end myself and a few guys in the hc had to make a decision. We decided that it would be better to win the round with the team instead of trying to do a solorun which might lead to our complete destruction. It prolly wasnt the bravest move but after weeks of exhausting nights and top notch raiding (love you old ecl guys still) our guys deserved that we gave them some rest and a spot in the winners lounge.
This was the ultimate end to the ely / ecl relations which were thanks to elysias and senaters help a pleasure. At the end of the round everyone admitted that eclipse was "top" despite not ranking there (due to the bg joining ely in the last 3 days). Strengthwise those guys pulled a major weight and im still very proud of everyone of those, especially those top planets who builded up again, who made this all possible.