Posts by graculus

Yowie wrote:

Sounds like the forum. =\

I'm getting paid?

With magic beans I imagine.

Battle 1 : Battle of Teutoberger Wald 9AD (nr. modern Osnabrück, Lwr Saxony), Germanic (teuton) coalition of tribes decisively defeated a Roman army.
Battel 2: Siege and battle of Aleasia (Mont Auxois,Côte d'Or), Roman Army under Julius Caesar defeated coalition of Gaul tribes led by Vercingetorix

Player puddle on Travian uk1

I assumed a post here is how I enter, the instructions were not specific about how to enter.?

That's all folks! GotN chiefed Betrayed's WW on the last night and InDy took a WW late on, left FOX and formed his own gang from a bunch of non team players, what for we'll never know, no one was impressed. PS I know the real InDy isn't really running the account miffed former MFH player Lucky is.

Marksy_UK wrote:

IGN (single or dual-account): Alexhol - I was all by myself from day 60 onwards
Your Set-up and Achievements: Offensive account - Almost took out FOXs WW by myself. Sat the MFH winning WW. Leader of MFH. Killed keepcalms hammer with my axes (Number 1 achievement). Stole 3 large artes including the large and unique architect. Didnt hit natars all server
Alliance: MFH

Best Alliance (Not your own): GotN
Best Player on the Server: Fenrir. Organised all of GotN's ridiculous ops and had 300k more troops than anyone else on the server.

Best Offensive Player in your Alliance: Simply put, there are only 3 options for this. When we were at war with GotN there were only 3 players ready to attack GotN at any time - Netflix&Kill, Breakskins and myself. When we made peace with GotN, Netflix's focus moved to uk4 and that leaves just 2 players. Breakskins stole multiple small artes by himself from Betrayed, ran ops on GotN when we were at war with them and has a ridiculous end game hammer, but it is a shame that he hasnt been able to use his WWR on another alliance. Unfortunately he only had the 2nd most offensive troops in MFH

Best Opponent (offensive): There were quite a few in GotN. Im ruling out anyone who looked like they couldnt run an op without Fenrir telling them exactly what to do and holding their hand (I wont name names here) and will therefore go with Mimer. This guy split his hammer about 10 ways on so many ops, almost cleared the Betrayed WW by himself with his hammer, walled on enemy caps and only had a 9C cap! Then to go defensive and have the most defence in the GotN WW for Betrayed's hits confirms my decision. Hot Lothbrok and Freja also get a shout out.

Best Defensive Player in your Alliance: If I can only say one then it is DaegonTheSnake. He was the only defensive player to have 250k+ defence AND make all his own cuts and others cuts when GotN attacked us. He even had more troops than me until about day 190 :O Luckily, this is an open forum and I can say more than one person.
Kiki was also insane, produced and lost a stupid amount of praets, and never stopped going. Another with 250k+ defence.
Puddle, Kinky Boots and Khazix (sitter ran by Johnny_og_ole) were also very impressive, making a tonne of defence!
But the standout performer was David Brent (most of you know him as Alan). This guy is the cutting king, I cant even remember how many times it would be me, Daegon, Kali and Alan sat in the defence room cutting waves at around 2am the morning of GotN's attacks. He also made a load of phals for end game. May be a controversial character, but I would have him on my team all the time if I could.

Best Opponent (defensive): I dont actually know too much about this. Based on defensive leaderboards Trintity Force/Setyz Horn clearly made a load of defence. Did anyone in GotN make any cuts or anything? Loki and Thor deserve a shout out for their hammers that they made whilst playing defensive, but the fact that they were allowed to do that is quite embarrassing (because I think they wont deny that their actual defensive numbers were not good for a fully defensive player)

Best Leader (Your own): Firstly, shoutout to Armchairgroover for offering to hold the WW, and still making a very good end game hammer (that wont hit any defence, doh!). We made a good team.
But in terms of best leader, I have to go back to the days where we were being demolished twice a week by GotN, because after that our roles were much more relaxed. Who made the defence calls? Well, 2 people did 90-95% of the work. By process of elimination (I wont vote for myself), the best leader was DaegonTheSnake. When one of us wasnt available, the other had to spend 4-5 hours looking through attacks. It was not fun. I remember one night I spent 4-5 hours looking through a defence call, put the MM in the leaders chat, Daegon said send, I fell asleep and 3 hours later I woke up and the MM hadnt been sent in my wing. In order to not cause arguments, I wont go through examples. But... Yeah.

Best Leader (Not your own): Fenrir for organising ops, but thats obvious. I will go for Dave/KnowToFail/Snow White for stepping in when Betrayed came under pressure and all the leaders cried and quit (shoutout to Troy/Bikerman and the rest of them for being absolutely useless). When KtF wasnt there they werent even making defence calls (I have a hilarious screenshot to prove it). That leadership is the worst I have ever seen, and then under KtF they were much better and to be honest they made a big impact on the server.

Stupidest Decision: There were a few. Vidar launching on MFH WW on the last day and making people think the confed was broken. Not pushing cats early game to destroy GotN spawns. Letting Johnny in the alliance etc etc.

Most Underrated: David Brent for his cuts that people didnt see. Nikinik for joining in on every op we launched with GotN and for helping during plans and for being a really active sitter on multiple accounts. Armchairgroover - the guy has a 200k WWk plus 150k defence! That is impressive.

Best Noob: Unavailable. This may sound biased because he is my flatmate - but this is his first server and he has the 6th most defence in MFH. It took me until about day 170 to persuade him to train troops in more than 2 villages and now he trains in 14 24/7 and if this server lasted another 30 days I think he would be up there with Kiki and DaegonTheSnake.

Most Overrated: Keepcalm. What did this guy even do all server other than hit natars? Considering he had about 7 accounts, he shouldve had a much bigger impact on the server.

Biggest disappointment: Rana. Spent the entire server building a WWk to have cats caught in an oasis and then to be ghosted. 6 and a half hours offline time... Crazy.
The entire old Betrayed leadership - genuinely useless!
Oh yeah... and the entirety of FOX
Now for the controversial stuff.
Bum Crunch - Deleting when he did because he stole a teammates oasis and then got catted by that same player. Said leadership shouldnt have allowed him to be catted by a teammate. Pathetic.
Fingolfin - I swear I was told this guy was good? He literally did nothing all server, may as well not have been there.
Ayath - Deleted under pressure. Leaders dont do that.
MJ - See above.
Serious Rabbit - Dont even get me started. Was told he was an incredible player. Went into vacation mode twice. Had no troops. Tried to tell others how to play the game. Cant say I was disappointed when he deleted.
Bamm - Banned for using bots. Somehow managed to persuade the MH to only get a 10% penalty. I dont have any respect for cheats.
Finally, absolutely everyone who stopped playing uk1 when uk4 started. Some of MFHs best players did this. I still like them and respect them, but in terms of this server I was incredibly disappointed.

Memorable Moment of the server: Obviously chiefing (and keeping up until this point) FOXs WW was incredible. I think that may be my best experience of playing travian, holding 1 village against a 70 player alliance with just a hero. Wow.
But one thing that I will never forget is that trip to Denmark. What a moment! (If you know, you know)

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IGN (single or dual-account): Puddle

Marksy did a very good and accurate summary which I agree very closely with & couldn't possibly improve on except for the song.

I was very impressed by Daegon & Alexhols determination, drive, intelligent analysis and in the end negotiation skills which led us to the bitter sweet end, well done guys.

Special mention to redrunner for sitting me & doing the MFH WW night shift & Kettricken for being so nice.

Personal achievements: Losing & rebuilding a lot of defence, including pretty much sitter running 2 other decent def accounts for the last couple of months, and gaining a massive reputation for being useless at cutting. I thought I had a decent amount of defence but it looks like I was only about 6th or 7th in MFH! * Correction apparently number 3.

However my credentials look good, most obtained at cost of 1000's of Druids.

also joining in with joint MFH/GotN operations and showing that a tiny 3.7K sword, 1.5K TT, 200 ram, 500 cat off can do a lot of damage if it
joins the party.

and now...

Situation 17:00hrs 3rd Oct 2018, Betrayer WW took a little damage, I'm informed Thor is to blame, a fine will be levied.

2 days on and FOX have proved incapable of chiefing back the WW village they formerly possessed.

This is a truly damning indictment of their qualities.

Oh dear, success has gone to his head.

FYI, from the reports analysis of reports shows the order of attack was....

Alexol (MFH) hit WW with a rammer just before the Natar level 80 hit and destroyed the wall (11:49:41 pm)
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Mental (CTL) hit with a WWK, cleared what defence was left and destroyed the WoW, (11:52:01 pm)
This wasn't in MFH plan just a happy coincidence.
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The Natars hit and found nothing! No report, (11:53pm).

gellewza (MFH) hit, aiming at the WoW but destroyed a crop field instead (11:58:58 pm)
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Alexhol (MFH) hit with 2nd off (16 badly timed waves) and destroyed the infrastructure (12:03:06 )
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Crunchie cheats (BotN, aka Milesias) hit with several chief attacks immediately after the first of Alexhol's waves and conquered the WoW. (12:03:07)
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FOX have been very careless and lost their WW.

To a player with only 3 villages before he chiefed the WW. He may have had help as Alex can't stop talking about it. In fact nor can Miles.

Hey that's my car!

OMG, Crimson & pals counter attacked GotN and took down their WW at 18:01 25/9/18.
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This was the GotN attack that prompted the strike..
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Above reports already on an open Discord chat so I don't think they are secret.

Situation 24/9/18

Situation 1pm 18th Sept.

You are so much better at these stories than the Russians.

keepcalm wrote:

Betrayed fight many alliance:
Losers,gg,gothn,mfh
But next uk1 i try to rebuild new "BETRAYED",my team entry next uk1.

Great, but you can count me out.

From what I've seen you are not really a team player.

Wow Betrayer (with Smurfer) have the bare minimum plans and FOX have actually got out of bed and gone & got one!

It was really nice of Papa to do the heavy lifting clearing a plan for Breakskins to pick up.

Wow, we have 5 plans.. still 4 more available. Not enough WW's on this server, there are too many plans to go round.

notorious crunchie wrote:

They have some already but good point

You think Smurfer is a Betrayed foot soldier?

I don't think Betrayed are getting any plans.

Sitting waiting...

Delta_DK wrote:

Is this chat dead?!
Give me some Juicy info

Dormant. Hopefully it will perk up around here when plans come out.

Marksy_UK wrote:

Its not really the kind of report I want to be showing everyone though...

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Happy? Slept through my alarm, but it saved the arte.

Hey here is another keepcalm splat from 2 days ago.. soon we hope to have a hat trick cause he's rebuilt the first one that got flattened.

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PS for those not in the know he maintains 2 similar sized hammers but has so far been unable to actually cause much real damage because of the ultra timid way he approaches offensive operations. Strategy I think is not his strongpoint.

notorious crunchie wrote:

this is fox, are you sure they don’t think you need that arte to build GG & Gw in the WW?

Mmmm... well actually the holder doesn't even have a village next to the WW, how very......... awkward.