I wonder who started the NW movement...
I think it's time to explain how the NW's fall came about.
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I was scouting around tw2stats and tw2-tools checking out the stats of tribes I either had no clue about, or didn't know much of. In this search, I discovered EDs, a tribe that had 50% of it's members as inactives. A tribe of 3 million points, their inactives made up between 1-2 million points.
In my mind, it was nothing but free villages, as I alone had a lot more bash than their entire tribe combined. I was only about 400-500k points at this time. I contacted the B-H council to see if making a move to there would be a good idea, and nobody could think of any reason why we shouldn't move there. In fact, it was a perfect idea, as plans for RLP betrayals were already finalised, and EDs had some diplomatic status with RLP.
At the time of this discovery, B-H was still in the preparation stage to do an OP on LOD (which we all know was a failure, props to LOD for using sabs well), so I suspected that anyone who moved up there would have to do exactly what Shepard had been doing for a very long time. I decided to brave this possibility that those migrating would be under heavy fire, and posted a thread on our forums, alluding to a "top secret new front migration", with instructions to mail me if they were interested. Only two people responded.
A time was set to land in this new area, and all three of us were ready to proceed with our plan. As we launched, only the council and the three people migrating knew what was going on. When we landed, only I and King Canuckle successfully capped a village. The third participant, who shalt not be revealed, sadly failed to cap his targets.
We celebrated, and continuously scouted out the surrounding villages, Before too long, a couple of EDs members fled to RLP, and eventually dwindled to a much smaller size of 900k points, last time I checked. RLP didn't like this though, and proceeded to launch an OP against me.
As we fought, RLP barely gained any ground against me, but did manage to set a few deathstars in my province, to which most of them are still there to this day. I had gained around 220k points in the NW, and 5 people with around 3-5 million points couldn't take me down, only having capped 1-2 villages from me, but then life got in my way.
I was to move house, and I was going to go on a 4-5 day road trip, with little to no access to a phone signal, let alone an internet connection. I had to assign others to look after my account for me. During my absence was the only time they managed to gain some ground against me, having taken an entire portion of villages away from me, which I haven't tried to recapture, and a few other villages that weren't a part of said portion, all of which I have recaptured.
RLP wasted too much time, and now, the NW front is solidified, and won't be going away any time soon.