Many of you know that POTW returned to the knights July 1, we have been rook for the last 18 months. So I have some impressions about the personnel makeup of our three countries.
I can't help noticing in both the nit and rook camps a large number of gentlemen probably 40ish to 60's. By that age range men are cognizant of investing their time and efforts even if it's to have fun. It is a life style habit by that age that effects everything they do. This makes for a hair pulling reality that even with numbers, you can't find a tipping point that inspires them to pull together for initiatives. Probably a collateral reason for no missions these days. What POTW knows and is obvious to us, every Tuesday night is squad night. POTW feilds up to 16 on that night. Knights or rooks, when we went and broke an enemy field picking a fight, eventually we got a hoard of green guys following in to clean up after the heavy lifting was done.
For those two countries at least, one tipping point is seeing numbers "doing something". Then they all show up for the fun. In AH2 this was hidden by the fact of 400-600 players, so there were mega squads doing something all the time. It seems simple, get a group to do something then everyone shows up becasue of the benefits of numbers. Other wise you look at a map with say 50 rook or knight, and single dar blocks everywhere, tank icons trying to sneak into a lone field, and a few fighters here and there. But, nothing going on. To make something going on someone has to take it on the chin to start it, and keep taking it on the chin to keep it going. That was the biggest benefit of squads in the past. Furballers don't generate enough activity spectrum to attract anyone but furballers unless it is a GV to greif them by stealing their home base.
The bish have impressed me that most of our under 40 players live there. And they operate as one unit for the most part, not like nit and rook scattering themselves too much out of boredom or not feeling the tactical situation will make them feel good. There have been times in the last 18 months that I wonder if all of the bish players are logged into the same Discord server so they can call in hoards at will from other games when a juicy setup appears in nit or rook territory. They hoard very well which both nit and rook detest and often get beaten by. Once you up from another field and run a large fighter seep into those bish, they scatter. Fortunately for them that does not happen much anymore. Too much effort I guess unless it's Tuesday and POTW wants to stomp on someone.
