I will take responsibility.
(wasn't my decision too make at time)
under different circumstances I may have lead wow too closer challenge but alas wasn't to be
somehow i dont think those last two should be in the same paragraph as the first.
This is how you should have made that comment:
I will take responsibility... I do regret some of the diplo errors made espec the 24hr rule ... obviously despite many difficulties I failed too lead wow too victory....
Se the lack of excuses, justifications or false claims of "fate frowning on me"?
The reality is, there is justification of the "crap leader" considering the comparative strengths of the WOW/darkness alliance and -X- and how fast wow/darkness died. So saying "crap leader" is not unfair at all.
Compare those two, 3 weeks apart I believe, and the stats between those dates by PLAYERS (so excluding the tribe changers) are
So at the start of those three weeks WOW and Darkness had 5.2mill points, and 144 members, facing up against -X-'s 2mill points and 37 members.
Your position was near perfect. Good leadership would have made sure their members were
1. ready for war (you hadnt been bled by any other wars yet)
2. aware of strategies and how to defend
3. Having good morale (a happy tribe does not desert)
4. active
5. aware of their channels for tribe support/help
6. ready and willing to work with their neighbours
less than 2 weeks later Darkness declared war, and a few days after that WOW declared war. -X- were ready, they responded, they poached the dissaffected members from WOW and Darkness (so leaders did not do #3), pretty much destroyed Darkness in less than 2 days (so leaders did not do #1), then marched through WOW (or HOT at the time) player by player, not encountering any organised opposition (so leaders did not do #2, #5 or #6, in fact one leader bragged to me about how well their account had held out in a province where 25 of their tribemates' villages had been taken).
These things are not the tribes fault. They are the leaders fault. The leaders are responsible for selective recruitment, for training, for setting the tribal standards, and for dealing with players who did not meet those standards.
If wow/Darkness were not ready for a war they started, its because the leaders did not ensure their members were creating enough troops, or the right troops, the leaders did not ensure the front lines were ready for the inevitable response to the declaration of war (mostly with pre-stacked vills, or local defense ready to move, or at least active at the time war was declared),
If players left the two tribes who were in the position of strength for the tribe that was smaller than both, and about to be at war with both, then they had no faith in the tribes they left, and the results have proven them right, dont blame them, its your job to ensure your players are not only ready for war, but also confident in their ability to fight it.
The stats I have just uploaded show that the 60 members who ended up in -X- each did 2x the attacking that each of the 120 players in WOW/darkness did (there were more members than that in wow/darkness, but several of them were decimated so badly in the last week that they no longer showed in my stats) as a whole the 60 players took nearly 3 villages for each village the 120 players took.
The strongest excuse the leaders of WOW have given for their failure to prepare their tribe is that they had so many council members that it was hell to get any decisions through. However this is also the fault of the leaders. A merge does not need to add new council members. As a potential merger, merging into a tribe willing to have that many leaders is stupid and you shouldnt have merged, as the mergee, you should have stopped the situation from arising, and denied any mergers who stipulated that they had to be in a bloated council. If you tried and were out-voted, you are still responsible for the decisions untill you decided that the tribe was going the wrong decision and left the council, if not the tribe.
So yes, now that the stats have been shown once more "crap leader" is very fair, as for the "being labelled retarded" comment, that was not said, not here at least. You are introducing accusations to make us sound worse than we are. Stand up, accept that you lost the war, that your leadership could use some improvement, learn from the mistakes made here, and do better next time. Its that simple. Every time you whine about how "judgemental" we are being actually undermines your ability to lead in the future, and serves no purpose whatsoever in the present.