Who knows, I think it's a shame it happened the way that it did. I think the landscape overall would have been a lot different. After PFBHZ and HS everybody started folding into more and more elite corps.

Just a few mechanics tweaks and 40+ corps in PC would have been pretty awesome.

PFBHZ beat us pretty handily the first time we did 16vs16. They had Sha Kharn as their ferry though, and he knew how to play counterlogi well. I think we could have beat them 8v8, we had better strategy from the start on them... Back in the good ol' days when running a speedlogi meant something :(

Yea I remember that fight, is there a video of that? Didn't you guys have a crap ton of ringers though?

We rarely used ringers, but at that point we barely had enough people to field 16.

The timers were able to be permalocked by repeated attacks and Chronos had all of our districts locked into 9am-3pm. We decide to attack a random SI district that was sitting at a 02/03 timer to return the favor. We get in and its PFBHz + Sha.

We went with the team we had, which wasn't made with our typical rigorous rolebased composition. We lost, we learned. What we learned is that ringers are necessary sometimes, but ONLY if they fill a role that we don't have in-house. Second lesson we learned was: "Expect the best possible opponent in every match". My personal lessons from that match contributed directly to my usefulness until speed logis became garbage :/.

We rarely used ringers, but at that point we barely had enough people to field 16.

The timers were able to be permalocked by repeated attacks and Chronos had all of our districts locked into 9am-3pm. We decide to attack a random SI district that was sitting at a 02/03 timer to return the favor. We get in and its PFBHz + Sha.

We went with the team we had, which wasn't made with our typical rigorous rolebased composition. We lost, we learned. What we learned is that ringers are necessary sometimes, but ONLY if they fill a role that we don't have in-house. Second lesson we learned was: "Expect the best possible opponent in every match". My personal lessons from that match contributed directly to my usefulness until speed logis became garbage :/.

Mostly accurate.

Radar tried having another unscheduled friendly match, but with TP this time. We figured something like that would happen eventually, seeing as we had been making a massive land grab right next to them for a few weeks in preparation. We liked the prospect of getting a chance to play against OH so much that we quickly did a bit of match scheduling of our own and decided to make it a little more interesting: Loser lost all their districts. It also just so happened that our overall plan included taking out either hellstorm or OH in the hopes of diminishing their ability to wage war as an alliance.

OH being eliminated before the start of the war was a result of long term EoN. strategy, good diplomacy (and poor diplomacy on radar's part), and opportunity seized.

Kujo got beat in a pub by the corp that joined EoN. with RND. Movado and Cubs sent Hellstorm leadership a friendly reminder that attacking an EoN. corp would result in us taking all yo stuffs. They gave them a "so be it" and stuffz taking commenced. TP lost the first two matchs against hellstorm. We were without DJINN Hellsreaper( Most underrated of all of the players in TP IMO) who was one of our strongest slayers and most versatile players. Once he logged on we proceded to win a couple of very close matches against HS teams that included everyone you would expect. After the anti-flaylock/fused treaty was enacted, we dominated them handily and they lost the will to fight. TP just had better tactics and strategy at the time. The same 19 people played every night and listen to a tape recording of cubs telling us exactly what we were going to try to do and who was doing what. If something needed to be done, somebody always did it.

And broadway was just mad that I was beating him one on one consistently. Anything else that happened was just misguided rage.

Didn't matter if they were more organized. EoN. matched up right down the list. Our best team was better than their best team. Our second and third best teams were better than their second best team. The only question going in was if TP was going to be able to beat hellstorm consistently. We knew we were good enough to force LoI to field them against us, but not if we were good enough to beat them regularly. With OH and their flaylock spam(anyone who could equip one did, some of them equipped two of em), it would have been a much more balanced conflict., but I still think EoN. had a lot more depth in their 3/4/5/6 "best" corps than LoI did.

^ agree with this. Them flaylocks were annoying as hell.