IS-War
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the report
this was a big firework in the end of beta 9. After Ionstorm had killed the ranker of Alpha_Alliance they declared Ionstorm the war. But Ionstorm has some more enemy's as consequence of their tradition since several beta's to bash the leaders of the overall ranking. So the question was who would help Alpha_Alliance?
The first night. All Ionstormer were exited and waiting for the attack. I never so much members and friends active except on the beta-start. But nothing happed. It was the silence before the storm or how OrSoS explained me nothing was ready as the Alpha_Alliance declared the war ... so they needed time.
The second night. But it was boring as the one before. We used the time for saving money and playing game in our irc-channel. The first members thought about the fact that all was just a fake. No enemy would aver come ? Is this possible. Could this just be a strategy so that Ionstorm stayed at home and didn't do anylonger their famous speedfighting-attacks ? So Kryptus decided to kick the last XXX-taged ranker in the top 50: DeineMutter. The action was perfect. He meet no enemy forces and killed about 60 population-level.
The third night. Would bring this night some action ? It seems to be the day of the battle ... some little spam forces of the Nemos and XXX. It looks like the announcement for a large earthquake. But nothing happened again. In fact this was nearly a perfect strategy: It keeps the Ionstormer awake. But badluck for the stragetegist OrSoS some of the Ionstormer had holydays ... so they could sleep during the days when other looked to their accounts over the alliance-screen. Back to the war ... nothing really started until now!
The third day more and more spaming fleets ...
and then it began ...
at least it was bruce force attack. Some TGT started to early and so it would have been no problem to defend all ISler .. coz there was no lack of time but just of CV. there was not enough money for defending all incommings.
The mainpoint is that Ionstorm decicided NOT to use the large Systemlordfleets to defend. we wanted to destroy as much fleet as we were able to destroy alone.
the night was very dark for Ionstorm coz the most good ranked player were put down. In the next days more and more TGT fleet arrived but there were all killed.
it was a great war. and it showed us that we can be hit. but it showed also that u need a lot of players for that coz IS is one of the most organized alliance in AW
declaration of war
too long have alliances (including AA last beta) stood by and accepted IS attacks against their players as 'part of the game and nothing personal' and simply taken endgame attacks without retaliation. too long have we seen AW develop into a game of slaughtering all rankers by IS until some lucky lottery winner "wins" the round. finally, too long have we seen IS lord over the AW community as if they are superior to other teams.
therefore AA declares war on all of IS for the following reasons:
- for attacking AA players, BOTH rankers and non-rankers.
- for re-writing the terms of victory to fit their style of play...playing only to ruin the chances of others.
- for the exploitation and glorification of what i consider a bug in AW gameplay that makes it impossible to defend. the change in points to sciences only over 20 has extended the timeframe too much for bio 23 war and enabled players to reach excessive speeds, even moving between updates.
- for their general attitude of contempt for many other alliances.
- for their egotistical and self-righteous manner of play and the image they profess of themselves onto the AW community.
- for coordinating with multis to bring about the fall of AAEE in beta 8, even if they didn't have all of the info at the time.
we ask that our friends and allies, as well as all parties with a vested interest in restoring some excitement to this game and getting some payback for several betas of such activity join our war. this has the potential to be the greatest galactic conflict in AW history--and everyone can play a powerful role!
who will stand with AA against the evil empire of IS? Very Happy
facts
- 1,033,314 CV destroyed by Ionstorm (this CV was destoyed during the whole war not only in the big battle)
- ~ 34,000 CV destroyed by the United Forces
- Ionstorm-alliance lost 12 points at the next update of the alliance ranking after the big battle (operation rain of death) although some Ionstorm-members made several playerlevel and nearly one day to reach growth points back.
links
- beta 9
- Ionstorm
- Alpha_Alliance
- The_Galactic_Thugs
- HNU
- AsK
- TBG
- The_Galactic_Nemos
- speedfighting
- Kryptus (author and fighter in this war)
