Reathe wrote:Hee, I see lots of discussion on the forum and blame being thrown around, no wonder I rarely visit these parts.
Is it not a moot point how war kicked off anyway? The current situation is simple enough: diplomacy failed and were still in the diplo-massy stage!
I also have no doubt both sides feel justified and have the "your fault" story's to back it up, I even have one myself (for those who care ..... /tumbleweed). I imagine there is truth is both sides but all the FUD seems to get in the way and violence begets violence so here we all are.
My little story

[spoiler]For me personally, the fault clearly lies with OE but then I would say that lol.
However, for me this started by me being provoked by multiple OE accounts before the war kicked off by farming me often starting about 2 weeks before war was declared.
Considering I personally had never farmed OE before having faugh side by side, I found that OE to suddenly begin farming me a little annoying (to be fair I was more annoyed that I had no targets to mass in ascended as I had little naq out and I enjoy massing hitters in my attack log. OE spoiling my fun curse you! lol).
I sent PMs, I didn't get many replies, certainly nothing I remember other than a few single lines as reply. The dra violations I complained about were not repaid. If anything the farming got worse in the run up to the war declaration.
The inevitable war announcement was made including an official start date which suited me just fine, especially the start date as it gives time for people to prepare so no "why you mass me /cry" emails. However, during the few days before the war start date I was sabbed in main, sabbed in ascended, massed in ascended and had a few people attempting to descend me as well as the farming hits. Some of the attacks were tag teaming and I counted multiple OE accounts making hits, I found this a rather poor show really!
Then we were at war, I have been hitting and killing as soon as I see something interesting so I am happy.
However I am still not seeing much OE action coming my way, after all the talk and hot air, I am not seeing much action. No doubt I am just lucky that the attack forces of OE are just working their way round to my account and I will just be a greasy little spot on the floor once they do.
Until then I shall continue looking for things to kill in OE realms and shall attempt to continue to do so while I find it within my ability to do so.[/spoiler]
Some war stats to pass the time;
Reathe's current K/D ratio is: 6.36 to 1
199,168,105 of OE units killed in action by Reathe.
31,297,587 of Reathe's units lost in action.
136.3 T of OE weapons have been destroyed by Reathe - for those unsure, I work out by (599200 / 5750) * [sabbed points] = rough value
12 T of Reathe's weapons have been destroyed in return (around 20mill so far from memory)
34,960 turns used by Reathe.
606 turns used against Reathe
Reathe has stolen 4 planets
Reathe has lost 5 planets
Note:Oh no, OE winning the planet war? Have to see what I can do about that! My thanks to Marshal and I forgot the other, ~Deserted Phantom~ I think (like his performance in the war so far lol
) for allowing me to take a dual planet each without contest or defences. They are nicely tucked away now with much bigger stats on them.Of course I could mention Bob donated quite a few turns to the count (I miss Bob, he replied to my PMs and was funny too and BEAT my kill count the first few days lol) and 22 mill of my losses were my attack supers!
Anyhoo, see ya in game OE
Reathe