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OFFICIAL GLORY OF WAR STATEMENT
When the current war between ND and Spain (later GS) began, GoW adopted the official "neutrality whore" foreign policy, quietly hoping ND and GS would beat each other so badly that we could pick up their respective rotten carcasses and win the game. Both teams seemed content with just nominal attacks on each other, both hoping that nuclear weapons would change all that and deal the decisive blow. With GS's aquisition of Uranium, it meant that come nukes, each of the three superpowers would have the capacity to blow at least one of the other apart.
GoW's foreign policy from the start of this game has been simple: not get our ass whooped. If that involved whooping someone else's ass to ensure that ours would survive, so be it. In the 3-nation runoff before the Bobian war, it mattered not ultimately who was going to ally with whom, what matter was that WE were not going to be the ones getting gangbanged. A similar situation has developed now, and with 3 dominant teams, it is only natural that two of them join forces against the other one as neither has the power to destroy the other two on its own. And as the neutrality whores that we are, we choose the highest bidder.
The highest bidder - in fact the only bidder - has been Neu Demogyptica. Thus, the Glory of War has the uneasy duty of declaring that a state of war now exists between our empire and the alliance composed of The Gathering Storm and Spain. There will be no nasty manifestos, no insults, no attacks. There is nothing personal either. Both GS and RP have been honorable in both war and peace. As for GoW, it is not for ourselves to decide what our legacy will be. Dirty rotten backstabbers? Perhaps, and maybe well deserved. Cunning opportunists? I'd like to hope. Whatever the case, each of the seven teams which started this game over two years ago had a single objective: to win, though the paths to victory would be different for each. Therefore our cards are on the table. If we win, we will win though the blood and sweat of battle, because we are the Glory of War. If we lose, there will be no more worthy victor in our eyes than the one who smites us down.
The reasons for us choosing ND as our finally ally are various.
1 - GS never asked us formally to ally with them against ND and I don't understand why, as the worst case scenario would have been a simple "no". Remember, we are neutrality whores. When you see a whore on the street, particulary one who has nuclear weapons under their fishnet stockings, you at least ask her what's her price, or else you run the risk of dying a virgin.
2 - Roleplay has been rather frustrated at the game after ND's attack on their colonies. They think it's something personal and that everyone hates them bla bla bla. Therefore we have decided to help them by invading New Spain and leaving them a stranded on a settler-transport somewhere in the wild blue yonder. Forgive me Togas, I honestly thought that Spain would be destroyed when our tanks rolled into San Antonio. It would have saved you a lot of frustration. But you had a settler so don't blame me. Also you were just asking for it. I mean, just one Mech Inf in Santa Barbara?
3 - A long time ago we vowed to ourselves to avenge Vox's defeat in their war against GS. See, Vox had that kinda something that neither Spain nor Lego had in defeat. It wasn't pity, it wasn't compasion, it was laughter. You made us laugh in your cockyness, you made us laugh is your tragedy. You became that team that we knew would never betray us, not even when the survival of your protector was at stake. You know what would have happened had Voxian troops attacked ours at Stanwix? We would have lost that war. We are eternaly grateful and pledge to return your homeland as soon as possible. Just forgive us though if the radiation at Elipolis makes it a bit uninhabitable for the next, oh, 500 years or so.
4 - Ah yes, the Bobian War. The mother of all wars. Sure, we won, but it was fought entirely on Bobian soil since once our Riders had chased GS's knights to the sea like Ramses chased Moses, we encountered a little teeny weeny problem. We had no navy. So, no way to continue fighting on Stormian soil. Well, think of this now as your "home game". Same teams. New weapons. The Bobian war left a third of the continent in smoldering ruins, not that we cared since that that third happened to be Roleplay's part, but still, consider this The Bobian War II: The Empire Strikes Stormia. Coming soon to a reality TV show near you.
So, those are the reasons. They may have been a bit on the sarcastic side but below the surfice lies the truth, our truth. May the best team(s) win.
-MZ
When the current war between ND and Spain (later GS) began, GoW adopted the official "neutrality whore" foreign policy, quietly hoping ND and GS would beat each other so badly that we could pick up their respective rotten carcasses and win the game. Both teams seemed content with just nominal attacks on each other, both hoping that nuclear weapons would change all that and deal the decisive blow. With GS's aquisition of Uranium, it meant that come nukes, each of the three superpowers would have the capacity to blow at least one of the other apart.
GoW's foreign policy from the start of this game has been simple: not get our ass whooped. If that involved whooping someone else's ass to ensure that ours would survive, so be it. In the 3-nation runoff before the Bobian war, it mattered not ultimately who was going to ally with whom, what matter was that WE were not going to be the ones getting gangbanged. A similar situation has developed now, and with 3 dominant teams, it is only natural that two of them join forces against the other one as neither has the power to destroy the other two on its own. And as the neutrality whores that we are, we choose the highest bidder.
The highest bidder - in fact the only bidder - has been Neu Demogyptica. Thus, the Glory of War has the uneasy duty of declaring that a state of war now exists between our empire and the alliance composed of The Gathering Storm and Spain. There will be no nasty manifestos, no insults, no attacks. There is nothing personal either. Both GS and RP have been honorable in both war and peace. As for GoW, it is not for ourselves to decide what our legacy will be. Dirty rotten backstabbers? Perhaps, and maybe well deserved. Cunning opportunists? I'd like to hope. Whatever the case, each of the seven teams which started this game over two years ago had a single objective: to win, though the paths to victory would be different for each. Therefore our cards are on the table. If we win, we will win though the blood and sweat of battle, because we are the Glory of War. If we lose, there will be no more worthy victor in our eyes than the one who smites us down.
The reasons for us choosing ND as our finally ally are various.
1 - GS never asked us formally to ally with them against ND and I don't understand why, as the worst case scenario would have been a simple "no". Remember, we are neutrality whores. When you see a whore on the street, particulary one who has nuclear weapons under their fishnet stockings, you at least ask her what's her price, or else you run the risk of dying a virgin.
2 - Roleplay has been rather frustrated at the game after ND's attack on their colonies. They think it's something personal and that everyone hates them bla bla bla. Therefore we have decided to help them by invading New Spain and leaving them a stranded on a settler-transport somewhere in the wild blue yonder. Forgive me Togas, I honestly thought that Spain would be destroyed when our tanks rolled into San Antonio. It would have saved you a lot of frustration. But you had a settler so don't blame me. Also you were just asking for it. I mean, just one Mech Inf in Santa Barbara?
3 - A long time ago we vowed to ourselves to avenge Vox's defeat in their war against GS. See, Vox had that kinda something that neither Spain nor Lego had in defeat. It wasn't pity, it wasn't compasion, it was laughter. You made us laugh in your cockyness, you made us laugh is your tragedy. You became that team that we knew would never betray us, not even when the survival of your protector was at stake. You know what would have happened had Voxian troops attacked ours at Stanwix? We would have lost that war. We are eternaly grateful and pledge to return your homeland as soon as possible. Just forgive us though if the radiation at Elipolis makes it a bit uninhabitable for the next, oh, 500 years or so.
4 - Ah yes, the Bobian War. The mother of all wars. Sure, we won, but it was fought entirely on Bobian soil since once our Riders had chased GS's knights to the sea like Ramses chased Moses, we encountered a little teeny weeny problem. We had no navy. So, no way to continue fighting on Stormian soil. Well, think of this now as your "home game". Same teams. New weapons. The Bobian war left a third of the continent in smoldering ruins, not that we cared since that that third happened to be Roleplay's part, but still, consider this The Bobian War II: The Empire Strikes Stormia. Coming soon to a reality TV show near you.
So, those are the reasons. They may have been a bit on the sarcastic side but below the surfice lies the truth, our truth. May the best team(s) win.
-MZ
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