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the_smurflord
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You can stand there and blame IRC blabbers, or spies, or whine that they're overpowered or cheaters, but it's all self-delusion distracting from two simple facts.
Midgard is organised and Albion isn't.
All credit to the mids. All their major guilds are organised into a single alliance, under the leadership of Roo. He's a player with a good tactical sense, and most importantly of all, he's listened to. When he tells a guild to do something, they do it. No bickering, no egos involved. Things get done.
You've all seen the trend. We gather 4 or 5 groups together and take a mid keep. 30 mins later 150-200 mids come to take it back. Why? Because they are working as a REALM not as an alliance. You can sit there and whine all you want about zergs and it being lame (just sound tactics to me). When they come to albion it is in numbers we cannot possibly defend against.
Well why do we fair so poorly against them recently? Is it because we lack the numbers? No. Albion is still the most heavily populated realm, and the number of lvl 50s are very close to those of midgard. It's simply that's there's been too much infighting and history between people and a total lack of communication.
The general attitude of many in the realm is when so and so's keep is under attack is that it's their problem. Many guilds (not all, but a large number) won't lift a finger while their own keep is safe. Many others yet wont even leave emain when a relic raid is happening.
When we do try and organise anything on a large scale it's a fiasco. Minimal preparation, many people not know what their role is, ill-discipline and total lack of cohesion. This all boils down to lack of communication and too many leaders.
I know this has been brought up before, and it's normally lead to the creation of yet another piss-small alliiance that's totaly ineffective. If we can't start working together as a realm, as a tight cohesive unit under strong and decisive leadership, then we might as well pack up and go sit in camelot. We can score a few small victories here and there, but frankly we're getting out butts kicked out there when it comes to the larger issues.
The mids attack and defend as a realm, very quickly.
The albs attack and defend as separate guilds.
Sod skills and abilities, in RvR it's all about the numbers.
Midgard is organised and Albion isn't.
All credit to the mids. All their major guilds are organised into a single alliance, under the leadership of Roo. He's a player with a good tactical sense, and most importantly of all, he's listened to. When he tells a guild to do something, they do it. No bickering, no egos involved. Things get done.
You've all seen the trend. We gather 4 or 5 groups together and take a mid keep. 30 mins later 150-200 mids come to take it back. Why? Because they are working as a REALM not as an alliance. You can sit there and whine all you want about zergs and it being lame (just sound tactics to me). When they come to albion it is in numbers we cannot possibly defend against.
Well why do we fair so poorly against them recently? Is it because we lack the numbers? No. Albion is still the most heavily populated realm, and the number of lvl 50s are very close to those of midgard. It's simply that's there's been too much infighting and history between people and a total lack of communication.
The general attitude of many in the realm is when so and so's keep is under attack is that it's their problem. Many guilds (not all, but a large number) won't lift a finger while their own keep is safe. Many others yet wont even leave emain when a relic raid is happening.
When we do try and organise anything on a large scale it's a fiasco. Minimal preparation, many people not know what their role is, ill-discipline and total lack of cohesion. This all boils down to lack of communication and too many leaders.
I know this has been brought up before, and it's normally lead to the creation of yet another piss-small alliiance that's totaly ineffective. If we can't start working together as a realm, as a tight cohesive unit under strong and decisive leadership, then we might as well pack up and go sit in camelot. We can score a few small victories here and there, but frankly we're getting out butts kicked out there when it comes to the larger issues.
The mids attack and defend as a realm, very quickly.
The albs attack and defend as separate guilds.
Sod skills and abilities, in RvR it's all about the numbers.
