Sep 13th 2011, 12:31:02
Donny - you left out the fact that you had 16 1m+ countries tag up 30 hours into the war, and then had a 32 member tag jump in about 66 hours into the war.
The Mercs/Salt FS was 59 kills, the CC CS was 26 kills, a difference of 33. Add in the 16 you got 6 hours or so after the FS was done, and that makes it 192-162 (those 16 had turns when they jumped in, too). Thats about 84%, not about 67%.
Add in PoD's 32 which you got about 42 hours after the FS, and that gives you a numerical advantage of 194-192, even when the 33 kill advantage of the FS is factored in, which otherwise puts you at a 227-192 advantage.
The final tally of kills if you include PoD was 146-90, a difference of 56. Thats a difference of 23 more kills for Salt/Mercs after the CS was done.
But the main difference is that you went for the easy kills on Salt countries which were easier to break than the Mercs countries. Even just by the time the CS was finished, Mercs countries were beginning to outgrow CC, and CC was lacking the breaking power to be able to kill most of Mercs without having to resort to lemming attacks.
By the time you tagged up your new recruit Mike, Mercs had already passed CC in TNW. Mercs passed CC in TNW before CC began to focus its attention on Salt. At the time Mercs passed CC in TNW, CC had killed 15 Salt countries and 12 Mercs countries. CC then even did its next 2 kills on Mercs, making it just 15-14 at one point. After that point, CC did 47 kills on Salt and 6 kills on Mercs. The decision to focus your attacks on Salt came AFTER Mercs passed CC in TNW.
You made the tactical decision to focus your attention on Salt, rather than focus on the harder to kill countries in Mercs, and while it kept you from falling too far behind in kills, it led to a huge networth disparity between Mercs and CC.
Most likely your plan was to first take out Salt's lower networth countries, and then to lemming down Mercs' breakers. But you realized less then a week into the war, that Mercs' economic power was far too much for that strategy to work, and that you had indeed lost.
You guys got your asses whooped.