Attempted Liberation of Coalition of Catholic States

[unibot]

Attempted Liberation of Coalition of Catholic States
COMMENTARY | TRR NEWS


Reporting on location at the Vatican.

An attempted liberation of Coalition of Catholic States saw an impressive showing of force from defenderdom – some thirty six defenders (or more) were spotted in attendance! With thirteen natives already endorsing the native delegate, Wagafraga, these defenders would rise his endorsement count to fifty endorsements against the invader’s formidable forty-four endorsements (largely consisting of UIAF, ERN and TBH troops). However, the final count, 43-44, left the defender forces short by two endorsements on the former native delegate, since delegates maintain their position in the event of “ties” in endorsements.

For some such a narrow defeat may have proved demoralising, but Benevolent Thomas, Commander of Fort Triumph Marshal Service (FTMS) was optimistic when The Rejected Times spoke with him earlier this evening.

“Command has done the best it’s ever done in #jump and it’s a shame it was so close,” says Benevolent Thomas, “Too many experienced defenders were absent from the attempt, but what can you do with a few hours notice?”

Unibot, Delegate of The Rejected Realms was equally positive.

“Oh it was great fun,” says Unibot with a smile. “It’s not every day you can just pull thirty-something soldiers and would-be soldiers out of thin air and direct them towards a good cause. I love doing that stuff. I wouldn’t count defenderdom out on this one by any means either – all bets are off when you show that you can rise up to an occasion with that kind of force. Defenderdom is more united and collaborative than we’ve ever seen before!”

The coalition of liberators included The United Defenders League (UDL), Ten-Thousand-Islands-Treaty-Organisation (TITO), Spiritus Defense Force (SDF), The Rejected Realms Army (RRA), Renegade Islands Alliance Special Forces (RIASF), Taijitu Militia, Fort Triumph Marshal Service (FTMS), The Founderless Regions Alliance’s Rangers (FRA), Lazarene Liberation Army (LLA), East Pacific Sovereign Army (EPSA), South Pacific Special Forces (SPSF) and Wintreath’s Hvitt Riddiral (WHR). The mission itself was largely organised by Dyr Nasad, Unibot and Benevolent Thomas.

The mission suggests that contemporary defenderdom might be operating in a more multilateral (or rather, pluralistic) fashion than invaderdom. A basic comparison shows a stark contrast between the compositions of the liberator and invader forces in terms of diversification.





The occupation of Coalition of Catholic States has run for three days now under the stewardship of Jakker (The Black Hawks).

[Ryno]

So close. Maybe next time.

[frattastan]

Couldn't attend this one. For shame.

The mission suggests that contemporary defenderdom might be operating in a more multilateral (or rather, pluralistic) fashion than invaderdom.

Pretty much. The complaints about 'defenders not working together' and statements like 'if you cooperated in the same way as raiders do you could liberate regions easily' are made by people who have no idea of the real situation.

Fragmentation -does- create problems because it's harder to mobilize people quickly, or to coordinate and agree on new strategies (so, yeah, the NSers who think that "a new defender group" is the solution should stop giving crappy advice), but not because defenders don't communicate or try doing missions together: even with small defenses cooperating has become a necessity and many groups do update spotting and defending together.

In reality, with liberations it's just a problem of sheer numbers (and poor morale!).
Having them, and being able to coordinate them effectively: more people means less overall experience and a greater chance that something will go wrong somewhere (a glitch, a security check, someone moving late, someone endorsing late, a disconnection).

All this has already been said over and over. Pity some of our opponents still don't get it, and keep whining about laziness and whatnot.

[Campinia]

Pity some of our opponents still don't get it, and keep whining about laziness and whatnot.

With most if not all of them it's not wanting to get it for PR reasons.

[Brunerist]

I couldn't make it... but we would've lost anyway so it doesn't really matter.

[frattastan]

Pity some of our opponents still don't get it, and keep whining about laziness and whatnot.

With most if not all of them it's not wanting to get it for PR reasons.

Good PR doesn't require intellectual dishonesty.

And these are the people who trash peaceful regions for fun, believe that right and wrong have no place in a game, like to play as 'the bad guys' (crashers, at least). Why would they care about PR?

I'll put it down as a mix of ignorance and ineffective baiting.

[Eluvatar]

I couldn't make it... but we would've lost anyway so it doesn't really matter.

The liberation failed by 2 endorsements.

That is all I will say.

[frattastan]

Ah, but it would've still failed by 1 endorsement!

[unibot]

Hahahaa, true, Fratt. Hahah. That's the spirit!

[unibot]

You know I got thinking about this - maybe smaller groups helps reduce the problem of poor training and inexperience from liberations. Because it's a sheer numbers problem with liberations; inexperience is the second major problem we face when trying to overcome the first problem. Smaller groups can focus more on training each of their members.

[Eluvatar]

Big groups could do it too, and probably more efficiently actually.