WAR

"It has come to our attention that you have declared war on the following countries: Junay, Rohan and Nicos. These targets, territories and assets were earmarked for integration into HYDRA member states. You may also have noticed you have received war declarations from HYDRA members. These wars do not need to happen and your assets need not be destroyed as long as you leave the targets listed above alone."
Mr Corleone.


He got upset that I declared war on the same inactive country as one of his federation members. lol. And then Matthew comes along and tells me I made a big mistake so he runs to "David Clonan" and tells him to threaten me. LMAO. I really don't care who he is. I get it he's one of the best warlords but so what?

"This is David Clonan! Aka Prince gref
I heard you're fighting my allies.. I sold you my account but not for you to fight my allies stepp aside now.. I don't wanna really want to come to WG cos of you .. hoping to hear from you"


Then Matthew says "Lol, now I'm an alt. You can buy an account all you want, but as you demonstrate quite clearly, it doesn't help you run it worth a damn. "... meanwhile he's declaring war on inactive players to get game money which is completely valid but if he's as good at running empires as he thinks he is then his countries would be generating money themselves and he wouldn't have to rely on other players to fight his wars and go around targeting and threatening players.

Anyone who wants to come to WG to participate in this mass war is welcome. It'll make the game more interesting.

The last time we fought a war in June Mr Corleone said "End the war bro its gonna be a waste of time"... yet he walks around threatening players like he's the best at it. Not saying I am but I don't walk around pretending like I am like he does.

Crazy work for you to play the victim, while you were the one that declared all of the wars, snuck attack us and are now asking for help from random players after declaring war on HYDRA members and members of the WGA days apart. Sort of ironic considering you baselessly accuse me of letting others fight my battles for me.

It was nice that you pointed out you were also raiding and just didnt want to back off I guess. I dont know what the point of this is. If you didnt want to fight, you didnt have to. You seemed to want to when you sent war decs. I don't think we are the ones with the problem.

Yes, I did insult your game playing abilities. You declared war on me after a random sneak attack. I dont know if you expected me to send you my fiances number or something, but that kind of behavior doesnt typically make friends.

Greg is an incredibly experienced player and showcasing you ignoring his, very polite request, to not attack his Allies probably doesnt help your cause as much as you think it does.

All the best,

Matthew of Batavia.

LOL Try again. I did not declare all the wars. Some yes, but only after Mr Corleone declared war on me for declaring war on a country he is not the president of and isn't a HYDRA member either.

I'm not doubting he's experienced. I just think it's funny you mentioned "...and are now asking random players for help" after you and Mr Corleone ran to David. LOL

I'm also not seeing the connection between the game and your fiancee...

I guess it's just another instance of you dragging people into situations and places they don't belong in.

Just under 2000T in assets daring someone with just over 13,000T in assets. This probably won't go well.

Thanks for your input, Yankee.

Just out of curiosity, when was your first declaration on these inactive countries? From what I can see in the international news on WG, the first war dec on Junay, Rohan, and Nicos was on Sept 11 by WG 2 (Matthew). I do see some declarations by your (Ludwig) countries shortly after, but from what I can see Matthew did 'tag' the inactives first so really if that is the case it should be easy to look at the newspaper, see he made the initial declaration, and back off of the targets and communicate that it was just a mix-up (your declarations are close in date so I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't actually know that he had already declared when you did).

A little diplomacy easily could've de-escalated the situation and even made friends that very well could've offered up the next inactive to you as a sort of olive branch for recognizing this situation and helping it from spiraling out of control. Moving to sneak attacks so early though, all I can say is I hope you're adequately prepared. An empire of 29 countries can't be an easy task to defend against coordinated players.

Mr Corleone wasn't a friend to begin with. Like I mentioned before, we fought a war back in June that ended because of a stalemate. What I don't like is him going around threatening me like he's so sure he's going to win, like he assumed last time. And Mr Corleone had not declared war on those countries. Also, his pretense was that the country was supposed to go to Matthew like ok? Shouldn't he be the one declaring war on me then? Instead, Mr Corleone declared war on me because they're allies but Matthew's countries haven't even signed a war treaty. So this is Mr Corleone inserting himself into a situation he wasn't a part of AND he is fighting Matthew's wars. Pretending to protect him when in reality Matthew's countries were not the target of my war declaration.

What I don't understand is if they really want to take over that country, why haven't they continued waging war against it. Part of me thinks its because Mr Corleone doesn't want to make the same mistake I made last year. We were both fighting against the same country, I did the bulk of the fighting and he came in at the last minute when the war index was less than 1, placed an attack and took over the country. He effectively won a war he didn't fight.

I am saying this, though, instead of threatening me, just take action. If y'all really wanna whoop my ass, go for it.

By the Sword we live!
By the Sword we conquer
The Sword is the symbol of victory
Cos in the past battles were fought and won by the sword
And various warriors were known by the Sword they carry!

Emperor Ludwig I think you're messing with the wrong people! Corleone is too big to ask for my help and can solely handle you, and I think Mathew is more experienced by far than you think! I just told you what to do.. no excuses! The defences you brag about I set it up and certainly can dismantle it.. you've ran those countries down the hill but that's your business. All I'm asking/demanding is you back off now that you still have a chance to let's just say it was a mistake... refuse doing this then I think it wouldn't go so well.. The ball is in your court Emperor.

Do as you please

Right but you didn't really answer my question on who declared war on the inactives first, with what I could see publicly available pointing to Matthew.

Just because you and Corleone had a conflict in the past doesn't mean you have to have one now. He is very involved in the war game, but from my interactions and observations of his interactions with others, more often than not he tends to be fairly reasonable in not engaging in war with other players unless he feels he has to. Again I could be off base but that's the impression that I get.

If Matthew declared war on the inactives to scoop up their resources before you did, it is reasonable that he reaps those rewards without interference. Corleone backing him is the natural move when from their perception you try to swoop in and take what they've already been moving publicly to take. A federation isn't just sharing of air defenses, its cooperation between players. Of course Matthew could turn his attention to you, but he's actively working on multiple inactives at a time, that's exactly when an ally like Corleone should make himself known.

It also sounded like from the very start he informed you that the war declarations didn't need to result in any actual action and were mainly a warning of sorts to allow Matthew (who declared on the inactives before you from what I can see) to finish his acquisition of them unabated. There was no need for escalation, as honestly you made the mistake at the start by trying to swoop in on resources that someone else was already actively engaged in taking. Your declarations were soon enough after his that you easily could have just explained it away as an unfortunate coincidence and gone on your way. Having an empire of nearly 30 countries you already have a lot on your plate.

There's plenty of space for plenty of players on WG, and there's no need to throw your progress that you've made away. It's taken a lot of time and effort to get to the point that you're at, it would be foolish to throw it away in a war that frankly you're substantially outgunned in. There's no shame in being the smaller player. But if you respond to reasonable requests with sneak attacks and throwing your hands up declaring that someone fought against you before so they're enemies forever, you leave them little choice but to blast you off of the map because holding that grudge means you're always going to be playing your game worried about them and you've already shown willingness to sneak attack.

I'm curious to know how the war is going?

Seems the infamous Emperor went incommunicado

He has fought well, against tough odds. I managed to take three undefended countries at the outskirts and he is trying to chip away at one of my war countries with nukes and conventional batts. He similarly took one of Corleones that he wasnt paying too much attention to. He has got a few nukes in, as have we.

We are looking to see what he is looking to gain with the war as to open for a negotiated settlement.

While I sent him a private DM I am thinking this:

-No going after each others raid targets (we can work exactly what this looks like)
-We can share out some raid targets so he recoops profit from the war
-Non aggression pact for at least three IRL months

I do not hold any animosity and would not be opposed to an Alliance afterwards but it would be understandable if that was not wanted. It takes spunk to fight a much larger group of people and that’s admirable.

We will see how he is feeling, neither me or Corleone want to fight some sort of battle to the death.