I guess Mantrax is not interesting enough to have its own thread?
Well here I go with my little rant! :)

Kingdoms in Mantrax
	Omerta	10	Princess Aisha	100
	Forgotten Warriors	14	Lady Jade	92
	Brotherhood of the Wolf	13	Mr. Reddragon	67
	Royal Order of Claidmore	14	Prince Ranginui	47

So, we heard Mantrax is often referred to as a world of Forgotten Warriors so we thought lets go there and challenge them, to see what they are made of. We had a nice place to settle, thought there are no blockers on this map, almost impossible to block most parts of the map, we shared core with RoC, that only had one player, so we thought lets not be bullies and kill a single person so we went with NAP there. We usually do not NAP people, but when there's only one person, we rather not attack a single person.

Then we started doing our mistakes, very early in the era. My personal opinion is that we started our attack way too soon, we had no vision of whats going on, and considering the world is dominated by FW we thought BoW would fall pretty quickly, thats why we moved in, to try to possibly help BoW, but we had no cities up north, no vision. Instead of making an outpost with guard towers, to get some vision we went and attacked BoW blockers and at the same time launched few people to attack FW cause we wanted to make this a fair 1 vs 1 vs 1 war... Of course RoC considered as one of us, since its only 1 person there, looks to be 3 or 4 now thought.

What usually happens in VU, when ever two kingdoms battle, and third comes in to attack, the two that were at war will CF in 90% of the cases. Even if there is no official deal between the two kingdoms, its a fact that FW and BoW have ceased aggression toward each other.

Since we did not have vision, after we took first blockers we got some line of sight there, noticing some BoW members had large cities, like their human has 120k city, building even more, and we thought what the hell, they were supposed to be at a big war. Then we noticed Binh of FW has two 90k cities, so we assumed that he might have taken one from BoW, but then again maybe he actually built it all, maybe they didn't even war at era start. We just don't know. That was a big fail by our kingdom.

Now that BoW is focusing their attention at our kingdom, and FW is free to farm up, and basically run over everyone late era, it looks to me that it will be another era of FW domination over Mantrax. But that is just me, I personally thought FW was killing BoW but then that guy moved his 300k Archers to us, and I was like what the hell. I don't understand how a guy can have 120k land, and train such a large army at early stage of the game. But as mentioned many times, we are a group of new players, we are trying to learn about the game, and I have seen so many times people say "Humans are the best if you play them right" so I guess having 120k land and 300k Archers at early era is easy if you play them right. We have 5-6 new players in the kingdom, and all we can say to them about this is that we do not know how to reach that.

We are behind heavily in the era, but this world is where we should be to teach new players, this is where the big guys play, and this is where we should learn from our mistakes. With the exception of Aisha who managed to train a massive army, the others are falling behind and can't keep up with the other vets, but that will come with time, we will gain more experience and we will give better advices to our new players. What I can hope for is that one of you vets will give some advices to our newbies if you happen to see any major mistakes they do on the field, that would be very newbie friendly and we would be very thankful.

That was my rant, please excuse me for the long text.

people say "Humans are the best if you play them right"


Orcs* are the best!

I can't wait for this world to end so we can leave this boring quiet world behind. 

The was has only started, long way to go. It were the worlds like Nirvana and Valhalla that made the game very interesting for me, lots of kingdoms and actual comminication between the spoke persons of kingdoms. But I understand and respect that FW does not write on forums, as a new player I have different understanding of the forums. 

We started the era with intend to fight everyone on the map like this kingdom will always do. We happened to share map with 1 person, Ery from roc. Were we supposed to fight 1 person? We are not bullies. At time protection was over Ery was still the only player of roc. Now there are 3 I think. 

When someone insults you, tries to make fun of you, embrace it and make it your strength. We're a crazy bunch who like to laugh a lot, thats true ^^

I miss you guys.....

Binh moaning about hyenas.TBL coming out from under his rock.Must be the end of the world!!!
Binh usually fights lions and eats em!Wots happening? :(

Oh that is just a city my newbie took from someone
We would never take your name without permission
We have too much respect for you :)
TBL should return <3

I feel what kills the game at times are the multi characters because people tend to give up on some worlds to focus on another character. Even though FW said things are not looking good for them and they might die, you do not see them giving up, they are regrouping, looking for a weak spot in our attack. That is what makes them one of the better kingdoms in VU, never give up, never surrender. 

Gave me plenty of slaves. And nice resources. Only first hit on your player was 96% so had injured ponies which cant be moved out. Needed to cast another time. If I didnt cast a 2nd time I would of taken that 2nd city :(

'Tis a vu miracle!

Mr. Froats has won 31 battles, captured 27 cities and killed a total of 1935835 men and women.

Just to show what a stupid assumption that is.   I don't post the forums much.   This one deserved a reply.

In boxing terminology you could say we have Forgotten Warriors on the ropes, a final knock out is coming.

Seriously guys what is up with the hate? Every other post is directed at me in some insulting way. All I am doing is trying to help a few people to learn the basics and enjoy the game. But as time passes I keep getting a feeling that what I am doing is wrong. Isn't helping new people what we should all do to improve the experience of the game for us all?

Dont hate on aisha. I sence jealousy. Training beginners i have done automatic. All should do this.

"Because from the start of the era when Freddy bounced Dark Spawn, he had been doing nothing but retreating and shamelessly walking around our core with his exp Advents, that bastard has been doing nothing while the rest of us are fighting till death. So now he has 11 farming sciences, 18 mining sciences, which means he had been getting exp finds all era, so it means Froats could not have a loads of exp on his large army."

This was a fun and interesting era, you guys put up a great fight. In previous eras I got an impression that once someone trains a very powerful army, its pretty much over, if the army is much stronger. That is what Anonymous and then Scimitar as well era after on Nirvana, their armies could not be stopped and enemies died. We tested the strategy against Anon that era, so called guerilla warfare, basically consisting of a lot of running around the map but all the time threatning to take cities. Instead of going to fight Froats we decided to have 2-3 guys simply go around and take his cities, so every time he moved down he had to run back cause we simply had the numbers and there was nobody defending for him. It is what makes the game fun, the strategy part of the game :-)

@Jasmina: I'll play a round or two here and there and every now and then :) Need to find a way to keep my gaming out of the fiancee's eye though, or she'll butcher me cleanly and hang my parts up on meathooks :S

I think most people groan when a world is shatteredworlds. Wonder if we should ask zeta to decrease the selection rate for it.

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So Aisha since its not shatteredworlds are you guys gonna stay?

>Calls herself a vet
>Complains that she cant use forums anymore due to the flames.

You aren't a Vet if you don't remember the great flame wars. The forums are most active when the flaming is happening. There was a very long time where I didn't flame anyone and we had no other forum lurkers. The game wouldn't have a post in 2/3 weeks. Now that is boring.  

You guys have laid down a challenge with an era win and now that a few FW members have returned you guys run as you cant face a kingdom without it being 4 on 1

Ill also point out that if you look at the forums with anyone needing help you will either see my name or Binh's, or both. The only reason why I wouldn't have commented on a post Binh has already commented on is because it is the right answer and doesn't need anything added.

Omerta, come on. Are you seriously telling us you're quitting the game because someone talks smack about you? That your players are qutting the game because they got a harsh reply? If you as a kingdom has a good environment what does it matter what a few guys on the forum says? Your kingdom falls apart because of a few negative comments from people that doesnt matter to your kingdom? This small bout crippled your kingdom so much?

How can Aisha ever redeem any credibility if she backs down every time I say I'll play her world.