So I go to sleep for 6 hours and suddenly everything changes.
Least importantly, the second jump bridge system which was threatened yesterday has been cleared of SBU.
Atlas is going home. Their renters are under attack by Cursed alliance, which I forgot to mention in my last update. Atlas apparent is highly dependent on renters, having few high-end moons despite the vast amount of space they inhabit, and Goons are also moving to assist Cursed. Atlas pets GC and CoW have reportedly had minimal participation in the north for several weeks, so I expect to see them leaving the front entirely soon as well.
IT lost a titan this morning. It's one that had escaped from H-W by resetting a pos password (when they still had towers in the system), which bumped it outside the bubbles surrounding the tower and allowed it to jump out. Apparently it was caught as it was moving back to Delve.
At this point we could just call the war over. I'm going to hold off on that because there hasn't been an official announcement yet, but I don't see how the enemy could accomplish anything at this point. What happens now remains to be seen.
EDIT: I've gone ahead and changed the label for this war from 'great northern war mk 2' to 'max 2'. I was really expecting us to lose when I made that.
Careful, RA is now planning to invade Branch and Venal, if they haven't started already. Things don't look over quite yet.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kugutsumen.com/showthread.php?5961-EO-and-Goon-chillin-thread&p=88159&viewfull=1#post88159
ReplyDeleteSo RA, IRC and WN hitting branch, venal and tenal. Interesting, and thanks for the link -- very informative.
ReplyDeleteMy observation over recent weeks is that our current attackers tend to fall into two groups, one being the main SC blob (IT, AAA, ROL, init) which has failed to accomplish anything and is now weaker than ever since atlas and their pets have left, while the rest (CH+ev0ke, bricks, U'K, WN) operate independently and are thus somewhat ineffectual. If RA+IRC+WN are attacking branch/venal/tenal they most likely won't be in fleets with the main blob, and so seem more like a campaign of distraction than a real threat. This is something PL has pulled off, but the northern regions are a lot closer to trib-core than Delve is to x-7 and my (admittedly limited) experience with these three entities doesn't leave me to be especially worried; I would tend to rate them as C-team material, renters and pets, even though RA was an elite pvp alliance years ago.
There's probably a worst case scenario that ends badly for us, but so far I can't see what it would be. Guess we'll find out.
RA hate Atlas and ROL as well, they have been skirmishing frequently even during the SC fail against the NC. Unlikely to see them teaming up on anything. Definitely not renters or pets of the SC, but no idea how effective they are anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you've seen this link before:
ReplyDeletehttp://northern-crusade.com/
I took the liberty of adding a few groups on each side that I know have either been helping the NC or causing them grief, and Im' sure there are more. But even if you take out Atlas & Co, the NC still has a crapton of invaders to deal with.
CRUSADING BASTARDS (because they need something to tie them together else they fall apart)
5519 IT Alliance
1340 Red.Overlord
3120 ATLAS Alliance
1377 The Initiative.
1259 Cult of War
766 Cry Havoc.
1292 Black Star Alliance
899 Ev0ke
835 Initiative Associates
1138 Initiative Mercenaries
1086 Aeternus.
935 Blade.
368 Talos Coalition
1446 Gentlemen's Club
292 T o r m e n t u m
685 Dead Terrorists
616 Legiunea ROmana
106 Burning Ambition
433 HUN Reloaded
563 Quarantine Zone
206 Dirt Nap Squad.
553 Ewoks
2106 Against ALL Authorities
2393 AAA Citizens
858 White Noise.
534 Circle-Of-Two
1271 Ushra'Khan
719 BricK sQuAD.
TOTAL 32715
NORTH
3111 Morsus Mihi
2785 SOLODRAKBANSOLODRAKBANSO
1899 RAZOR Alliance
869 Mostly Harmless
1348 Tau Ceti Federation
1762 Wildly Inappropriate.
1351 R.A.G.E
1733 Majesta Empire
749 Vanguard.
730 Stella Polaris.
772 DEFI4NT
289 Zenith Affinity
1860 United Front Alliance
367 Get Off My Lawn
1389 Looney Toons.
1001 OWN Alliance
1004 On the Rocks
535 Black Core Alliance
787 Tactical Narcotics Team
4 THE FEW.
435 F A I L
353 SpaceMonkey's Alliance
286 War and Pestilence
325 The G0dfathers
181 IMPERIAL LEGI0N
476 Sev3rance
987 Rebellion Alliance
772 Fidelas Constans
397 Veneratio Venator Alliance
TOTAL 33579
DRONES
1592 Red Alliance
3385 Shadow of xXDEATHXx
1793 Intrepid Crossing
751 Legion of xXDEATHXx
2098 Solar Wing
998 Solar Fleet
421 Voodoo Technologies
587 Flame Bridge
TOTAL 11625