Apprime
is the stronger alliance, though I'm not sure if they'd be able to destroy us like Ascendancy destroyed some of the BGs last round. However, napping Ascendancy is an insanely clever move.
First of all, Ascendancy won't be a threat to #1 this round. We have too few planets, and too many of those are idle or valueless. As such, Apprime won't have to be afraid we'll turn against them near round end.
Secondly, until Ascendancy set up the anti-Apprime block, CT & co were very content to either galraid or target each other, even while Apprime was running away with the round. While it's true that another alliance
could lead the block in place of Ascendancy, I consider this highly unlikely. One only has to look at the current situation to see evidence of that.
Within hours after leaving the block, CT napped ND and left p3nguins to rot. p3nguins tried to salvage the situation by napping Ascendancy, but by that time we had already grown accustomed to the idea of napping Apprime, and though the option was added to the poll, absolutely no one voted for it. (I realise my chronology is a bit off here, but good p3nguins intel would fill the holes in this story.) This kind of fragmentation is exactly what Apprime needs to turn the game around, as their quality is undoubtedly higher than CT's and p3nguins'.
As for Ascendancy getting hit, that's hardly a surprise. If you're hitting a galaxy with both Apprime and Ascendancy in it, you would be stupid allowing the Ascendancy planets to 3 fleet defend, especially because we're now actively working with Apprime (though not defensively, at least not alliance-wide).
However, if CT/p3nguins want any chance of keeping their current roid lead, they should continue to at least focus on Apprime. You could all-out target Ascendancy in an attempt to get us to drop the nap with Apprime (and you would get a significant amount of roids out of it, I'm sure), but we haven't exactly been easy to push around in the past, and though a large part of our military strength is now gone, our resilence has probably increased. Meanwhile they'd be giving Apprime ample time to regain their lost roids, throwing away their only advantage.
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Originally Posted by Machado
Via them, one could come to the conclusion that the current #7 alliance has single-handedly manipulated the top 3 into their current situation - which is of course also ridiculous. Right?
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No, what is really ridiculous is that CT and p3nguins apparently
needed the (at the time) #8 alliance to give them a chance to win the round. That is not a testament to our (not insignificant) greatness, but a testament to p3nguins' and (especially!) CT's hilarious incompetence.