Originally posted by Saurdaukar
If youre suggesting that people went back to Bish because of the contest - youre dead wrong. The AK's have been Bish for 2-3 weeks now.
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I just find it almost laughable that a Kniggit is whinng about numbers... anyone who's been here for more than 6 months is well aware of the reality of the numbers issue.
Either way, Ive flown with the Rooks on occasion and find the vast majority of them to be great people. The numbers disadvantage didnt effect me in the slightest - flying with Manx and the boys from Nazgul I had some of my best sorties to date. I gather that if there is a problem with players dying because of a numbers advantage - those players need to rethink whether or not diving into 10 cons in a good idea.
Yo, check it out.
AKs were Bishop, then jumped to Rook to balance out the play, then jumped back to Bishop. I ain't saying they did it for the contest, but its obvious that they were tired of getting the short end of the stick in Rookland and wanted to go back to their motherland where their support was. Nothing wrong with that.
Numbers fluctuate based on day and time. Unfortunately, from 5pm to 11pm Eastern US, the Bishops have a nice numbers advantage Monday through Friday, which is when I do most of my flying. Yesterday morning I logged on in time to watch the last 4 Knight bases get crushed by the Bishops from the south in the NDIsles map and last night I logged on in time to watch the Knights mainland get crushed by Rook offenses in the north in the Baltic map. The MAWs were trying to keep Knightland alive by capturing non-strategic bases in the south, but that was a delaying tactic because the Rooks had surrounded our HQ and radar. Bishops had the players numbers advantage for 3 hours last night and they still never caught up to the Rooks (way to go, Rooks!). Rooks didn't start getting a numbers advantage until it was clear who had the best shot at winning the map.
Anyway, I'm hijacking this thread and giving a shout out to the Rooks for a successful victory in the Baltic. They managed to keep pressure up on 4 bases in the west and 4 bases in the east at the same time without bunching up too thickly on just 2 or 3 bases like lemmings. The Bishops were active from the 4 southwestern bases but they were mostly just nuisance raids across the water (except for the bloodbaths at A2 and A1). The Knights were swarming in defense in the south but couldn't stop the Rooks in the north from seizing the Knightland homeworld.
As for diving into a crowd - when all 4 of your bases are capped, you kinda don't have much choice.
