Important Note: While I am sure many people at WV express similar opinions here, this was written on my own accord and I did not even run it past anyone at WV. This is a representation of my opinion. If I say something that might hurt your feelings a bit, don’t hold it against WV as a whole. Fling your poop at me instead. I also wrote this post not trying to be overly philosophical, so do not expect me to break down things with Aristotelean logic.
If you are aware of my career, you’ll know I’m no stranger to war. I had a pretty major presence in warfare back in 2017-2019, and even though I was more lowkey in 2023-2024 EGCP, I still played an essential role in all of EGCP’s wars like I did in the generation prior. However, I’m also no stranger to avoiding warfare. When I was active in Water Vikings, I only had one war in mind that I wanted: a war with DCP. I worked to have WV be in a situation where a war against a large DCP would still have decent odds for us. However, by the time that WV was in a stage where I felt increasingly confident in our abilities to carry out the war, DCP was exploding internally and I did not feel that comfortable beating a dead horse. I changed my plan to simply not engage in warfare altogether and focus on preserving internal energy and momentum for the Legends Cup tournament that was around the corner. This, for us, was the right move as even though we did not win Legends Cup, I’m quite certain we wouldn’t have been the second best army that tournament without that strategy in mind. To achieve that strategy, I definitely did play a part in placing WV in a spot where we were allied with the other majors, to serve as a means of keeping beef low so we could preserve energy. I know many are not a fan of that strategy, but nevertheless it paid off.
Following Legends Cup, we were still at our peak and were really only challenged by RPF for that period. We had a plan to fight a war against Aliens, for which I drafted up a series of preparations required to do such. I did not blatantly support pulling the trigger and left it up to my co-leaders and HCOM, as my activity was decreasing, hence the document that they could follow to prepare for the war. We ultimately did not go for the war.
The point of this context is just to illustrate that I can understand why some majors avoid war outright, and absolutely understand why we go to war. I’ve played both sides of this situation and therefore I feel I have the insight to speak on the situation at hand.
This post is being written following the war against Aliens and Scarlet Republic, where we gave support to the Army of Club Penguin’s war effort. What motivated this post specifically was the pathetic exit of the war by Aliens and Scarlet Republic, as you can read here. This was following a controversy that they conveniently exploited to try to gain pity and justification for their surrender, which is detailed more in this CPA post here. I do not intend on breaking down the points leading to their surrender, because all of the “issues” they brought up were mentioned in my response in the Water Vikings server (which again, is funny because it appears that only Aliens were the ones really pedaling this issue because most people have enough reading comprehension and contextual understanding to understand our war declaration post). I’m intending to point out how: the point has been proven.
I had to add this as a side note because I was laughing reading this. I did not know Billy Bawb judged a battle against Aliens with us, but this isn’t even the battle that I was taking issue with specifically. I love the lack of reading comprehension on our post LOL. You can see the actual referenced battle here
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