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TÑT: Ducks eats tigers
First of all I want to congratulate the Russians for their unquestionable victory. They have shown to be the most powerfull Block of the Server.

But on our Server History Russians have little influence. Our server has focused on a neverending war against Polish. Far than that, it seemed not to happen anything.

To understand the decisions and reactions we had during the Final we have to talk about the Spanish Classificatory. On it there was a try to join all the Alliances in a completed Block. Once again the Spanish prove not to be able to understand between each others and finally de Ñet Proyect blows up, and the classified players went to the Final in three different Blocks.

So, from the beginning, we knew that, with only 200 people it was impossible for us to face the Server as a principal Alliance. But we had the hope of being accepted as an attack/ defend command of a most powerful Block.

TÑT open our accounts on the -/-, where so did Italians, Portuguese, Polish and Turkish . There were also another small Alliances in the zone. French, Croatians etc.

From the beginning it was clear, this wasn’t a normal Server. 25.000 people all together without unactive players became on an absolute chaos in the first month. Everybody was raiding everytime on everyothers and even so, it was nearly impossible to steal anything.

The first victims of this situation were the pros players. They couldn’t change their mind from being the wolf to be part of the cattle. In the first month most of them delete their account and left us.

Behind them the nobs players do the same. Those who played the Classificatory “to learn” were absolutely lost in the middle of that chaos.

We rest two embassys that soon started having problems with the neighbour Alliances. We stablished conversations with most of them. Italians and Portugueses seem to be receptives, but not Polish and Turkeys.

By that time we have founded our second village that immediately was surrounded by at least 7 polish accounts. We try to hold the place fighting alone against them, while founding another 3 villages, but soon was clear it was impossible to stood up in that zone.

That was right when the Portuguese, Polish and Turkeys reached a pact. That, of course helped the Italians and us to reach a pact instantly.

In our account the things were turning so bad, isolated from everybody that we decided to move again to what we were starting calling “The Bunker Zone”. There, a dozen of TÑT accounts were trying to settle in front of a growing number of polish players.

Meanwhile, one of our leaders had deleted his account and left the game, Other one had moved far away from nowhere, set good relationships with everybody relatively near his villages and lived quiet for the whole Server.

At the same time we were been attacked by the friends of those who had personal alliances with him.

This situation forced to other two of the leaders to resign and so there was left only a visible boss for the Alliance.

It was a hard task for us to settle in the Bunker zone. We were surrounded by polish accounts that tried to kick us from there. The second month was terrible. There was little defenses and we had to think very well where to defend and why.

From that month on we took the decision of not going to a direct defense against an enemy’s army, but intercalate all of them. That’s why even when we have been on war the whole Server there was no beautiful reports of attacks or defenses.

Fortunately the polish attacks were quite easy to intercalate and so they had little damage on our villages.

At this situation we offer them our help, thinking on the Wonders, but they refused. I know that it can seem that a dozen of accounts in front of 120 Polish players should not seem to be a great help, nor big problem to be defeated, but after one month of fighting any player should notice the incredible amount of looses they had had.

Of course they had also any success, and some of our players deleted their account and we finally rest 9 TÑT players on the zone. But summarizing they had more and more expensive looses.

Anyway if they seem to not notice this fact their leaders should. They could have think such enormous amount of lost materials in not really profitable attacks was heading them to decrease their growth. But it seems nobody on the Polish side noticed it.

Gregpoland7 conquer one of our villages on the Bunker Zone but with looses over 5 million materials. A couple of weeks later he lost the same village at a companion’s hands with few looses by the side of our mate.

The polish attacks were growing up. Eskander, the most amazing Travian player I have ever seen, was fighting him alone against Devilma&Genek, (“The Travian Proffesional”) his friend Mikomi and Matiteo.

Elizka, (“Elisa” for friends) and Serwiak were attacking day and ninght Libelula. Chri de Wom (”The Housewife”, “Cry Little Worm” or just “The Worm” between us) Pegaz, Plumber, MrEco, Fujin, Tomiro2, BraveHearts, Kanapa, attacked here and there, and for a couple of week the situation turned very uncomfortable.

Rozrabiaki (“Birquiqui”) was wall off three times in our villages in some very strange and crazy attacks.

But, fortunately, by that time their attacks were very predictables and ineffective. Moreover, they didn’t appear to know what the rams are made for. “The Travian professional” set a new Travian World record by loosing 2k trebouchets on the same weekend in three different villages.

Serwiak lost soon half a dozen of thunders on different raids. The Cry Little Worm was wall off for the first time. Tomiro, Pegaz, Plumber, follow him inmediatly.

Eskander continued fighting like a lion against the three of his opponents. If any of his villages was conquered he reconquered that same night or a couple of days later.

Mikomi was finally wall off on an Eskander village and that was the inflexion point when we started having the situation under control. Devilma had lost his off anywhere, not in our villages, so sorry for that, and both friends inmediatly disappeared from the server and never more we here about them.

With them out of the Server war, Matiteo had a testimonial presence from then on.

It was the time we have air enough to start making rounds to their villages that became a complete success.

Elisa continued trying to conquer a village before the Server finish but she never was able to do it. Most of times she tried to do over Libelula, but she also failed on nearly all of the nine accounts on the Bunker Zone. (As I write this she has lost another 5 chieftains more on different villages). She probably has lost over a million materials only in chieftains in the whole server. Not strange if she sends them before the trebouchets or with one hour of time to be intercalated.

She finally got to be wall off, as it couldn’t be otherwise, in one of Libelula’s villages. Then came Pegaz on other Grillo’s village, and The Housewife make so for the second time. We think from then on she left the game because the account change its attack patterns. Or maybe was the only one polish who was able to learn anything from the server.

Anyway we offered them for the second time to collaborate with them in order to be able to fight for the wonders, but for the second time they refuse our offer. I think they should notice at that time we were on a high level of game than they are, and also that all their crazy attacks had small profit for them, but a lot of lost materials. But they didn’t seem at that stage to be thinking on Wonders at all.

Thanks a lot for reading. I know it is long, but there are lots of battles, time, efford and people involved so it´s difficult to make the story short. If you think it´s boring, don´t continue reading, but it continues.

Plumber and the second off of MrEco and BraveHearts disappeared on our villages and the situation became absolutely under control by the time the Wonders Time started.

Our rounds continued without interruption and only the Worm still came to our villages.

When they tried to set a pact with us, we were having so much fun on them that the Wonders didn’t appear to be a comparable fun. Anyway they had not thought on this part of the game on the past and had proven not to be good players who were able to take their Wonder to the 100th level properly.

Our Boss in the other Embassy tried to force us to accept the pact and told us to do it or to leave the Alliance. But in fact we thought he was the one who should leave TÑT and invited him to do it if he was not happy with our behavior.

In fact he had created a different forum for the other embassy, and the last time he wrote in ours had been months before. We have not had any messages from him for months, neither, and all we knew of him was because of what our confused companions told us. It seemed we were the expendable accounts of the Embassy.

So we never sent a defense to the Croatian Wonder, nor materials, nor anything, and even when we “officially” were against Russians, even the people who were suffering attacks from them wanted the USSR Wonders to win the Server.

When MrEco once again prayed us for a pact we immediately sent the Russians the reports we had of the Polish offs in the zone. Maybe they thought it was no confident information, and of course the offs were not quite powerful nor impressive. But anyway they had that information and could have used it in the way they would have wanted.

Of course the Polish Wonder was never on the fight for victory, and all of us celebrated any time the Russians send it down.

Caleño came from 30 hours away to conquer two of the Cry Little Worm villages and to help the nine of us. He settled in the zone in the last two weeks and helped us as much as he could to hold on.

With the server lost Polish started to kill all their troops in our villages. We call that in Spain to attack “in the Pancho Villa’s way”. And two days before finishing the server Fujin, Tomiro, “The courageous” LFC, Pegaz, Matiteo, Mikomi, MrEco, BraveHearts, Elisa, Serwiak one after another killed their armies in our villages.

They seemed to be so interested in Wonders that BraveHearts appeared with his “powerful” army of 40k intact.

Finally we could see where their chaotic diplomacy had taken them to. If they weren't able to see that they could found themselves in such an scenery, it means that their server plan was a total disaster.

In fact it seems they came to the Server with no plan at all.

Reports I will not give. There are, for sure, thousands of more impressive ones, with millions of troops. But what it is true is that for 9 months a group of 9 players, alone and isolated, stood up in front of 120 Polish that were not able to beat them.

And, at the end, not even Russians were as proud and happy as we are.

V – TÑT; Inhabitants Ranking: 105. Deffensive Ranking: 51.

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eskander; Deffensive Ranking: 363. Inhabitants Ranking: 8226.
Nolotiles; Deffensive Ranking: 658. Inhabitants Ranking: 416.
Libélula; Deffensive Ranking: 814. Inhabitants Ranking: 6199.
ViudaNegra; Deffensive Ranking: 972. Inhabitants Ranking: 4071
Polilla; Deffensive Ranking: 1991. Inhabitants Ranking: 5985.
Mariquita; Deffensive Ranking: 2483. Inhabitants Ranking: 7387.
caleño; Deffensive Ranking: 3206. Inhabitants Ranking: 5012.
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