@ Bebita, I beat you several times online on your old account, I admit for now I cant match the MS on your new account, but then Im in no hurry, if it takes another year so be it, its not like I would ever be a stat builder anyways, FS will always be at war with someone, may as well be you
As for player numbers, yes, when this war started we had literally just started a training alliance full of new recruits, like with all trainee's some proved to be excelent and were eventually promoted to FS, others proved less worthy or were not suited to the FS way, and they fell by the wayside. This would have happened with or without the DDE war, althought I admit DDE attacking trainees with less than 1 mill army size did speed things up a bit. We have always been a small group of close friends in FS and thats the way we like it, we certainly would never want to be part of an empire ( turned down several offers ), and we dont keep cannon fodder or dead weight around just to bulk up our numbers. Oh and Bebs, you say go back to fighting smaller alliances in short wars ??? Let me remind you, FS has been in constant overlapping wars since Dec 07, our past opponents included Omega, TLE, AK ( in their prime ), TC/TGR/ART/CS all at once, Pi, TATS and many others who outmatched us in numbers and account strengths, and none of those wars had time limits either. In fact the only war we had with a time limit was the 1 day bloodrealm with Alpha, I see Thundercat is DDE now so why not ask him about the 3 Hour+ no-nox onliner we had, great fun and great fighters, just a shame the Bloodrealm scoring system didnt work.
Re big $$$ players, I will only say this once and not go on about it. There are some who play that way ( still only a small % ), I dont knock them for it, if I was rich with $$$ to waste I would probably do the same. It does give them an advantage of course, a few MSs we cant touch and no concern over losses they can just buy back but that dont mean we will cry about it or give up, we are FS and we like fighting against the odds, easy victories are no fun IMO
Like Coyla said, on equal terms where it is skill not account strength that matters we would match any FS member against the best of DDE or any other alliance in SGW, on unequal terms we will play the guerrilla warfare game and always kill more than we lose

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Just like to add, DDE have lost many players over the last year too, we dont claim to have driven them out, Im sure they left for many various reasons, but when they leave we just let them go. It would be nice if DDE could show the same courtesy to ex-FS members, some of whom have been harassed after moving on
Attack Mercs Killed (30) 459,329,001
Defence Mercs Killed (10) 2,918,478,517
Attack Soldiers Killed(60) 12,677,958
Defence Soldiers Killed(20) 226,236,488
Attack Super Soldiers Killed(300) 490,627,262
Defence Super Soldiers Killed(100) 4,131,482,551
Spies Killed(50) 4,256,505,842
Spy Killers Killed(50) 651,022,448
Mothership Weapons Destroyed(300) 35,583,034
Mothership Shields Destroyed(300) 39,498,511
Mothership Fleets Destroyed(200) 2,413,254
Planet Defences Destroyed(300) 358,539
Planets Taken(5000) 411
Naquadah Stolen(0.0001) 2,355,738,435,154,805
Untrained Kidnapped(50) 5,943,886,456
Weapon Points Destroyed (Sab+Att)(0.0001) 74,293,522,376,607
Attack Turns Used(1) 1,731,971