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mdevol:
meh, no need to cry numbers, the beginning of the war was even numbers, they caught us off guard and had a good Fs. that was our fault.
but rock just cant comprehend that it was a joint effort by salt and mercs rather than just mercs. the reason mercs had the breakers is because we were hitting salt so hard, that was possibly a tactical error. regardless cc got owned by mercs and salt. not just mercs, like some are implying.
30 hours into the war CC had killed 15 Salt countries and 12 Mercs countries, and Mercs was already ahead of CC in TNW. CC chose to focus on Salt after they already knew that Mercs had all the high networth countries. By this point, of course, by virtue of having an overwhelming majority of the high networth countries, the Mercs countries were also difficult targets to break, especially since CC had virtually no jet power and Mercs went very troop heavy because of this.
I've never said it was a solo effort by Mercs. I objected to you saying that it was mostly Salt. You know that it was the difficulty in breaking Mercs countries and the ease with which Mercs countries were breaking you that made the difference. You know that every single one of our original countries was a high bus/res tech dictator casher or a tyranny techer (ones without any farms, unlike nearly all of your techers). You know how much cash per day our countries were generating, and how much cash per day Salt's countries generated and how much yours generated. We didn't have the finishing speed that Salt had, or the stonewalling ability that CC had, but we had the economic power. And that made us the most dangerous. Salt and Mercs also did a superb job with target selection, whereas CC by its own words did a poor job with target selection.
Billi - CC tagged up another 16 countries 30 hours into the war, and then had another 32 jump in 66 hours into the war. We didn't go after their breakers either, we went after their low and no military countries with high warfare tech. We went after the countries of people who wouldn't stonewall, to cut CC's middle out first.