Kudos to the MAW boys for leading a Knight charge across the southern frontier of the map last night. We started collecting Bishop bases like Pamela Anderson collects needles. The drive got stalled at a10 - the one of the two last bases owned by the Bishops - because the Rooks decided to help defend it. Had we captured it, Knightland would've won the reset (after losing the previous map), just like if Pamela Anderson had one more needle, she wouldn't have gotten Hepatitis from Tommy Lee.
Also, kudos to the Bishops for digging themselves out of a hole and launching an offensive strike against the Rooks along the western frontier, splitting the Rook empire into two pieces and giving us Knights the southern piece while the Bishops drove northward (clever strategy to have the Rooks fight on 3 fronts: 2 against the Knights and 1 against the Bishops).
Just like the song by Lincoln Park: "we tried so hard, and got so far, but in the end, it didn't even matter..."