Race for Hydra lost:

After the war, which wrecked our war chests, we had to dump some units to feed the Hydra. As I had +500k Hydra points advantage over #2 Fantasmax of the Ragnarok alliance, I didnt reckon with Ragnarok willing to wreck their super bunker over not letting me on #1 at the Hydra. Fantasmax already had #1 in the Hydra event before; and on top of this, I tried to negotiate a deal with him, so one of us goes #1 at Xmas and the other of us at Newyear.


I got no answer at all. Instead, Fantasmax opened his 17kk GP bunker, which has now only 2kk GP, and he lost 15kk GP of his bunker just for the sole purpose to deny me #1 which I would have given to him via a deal nevertheless, if he made one with me. At least, we only lost 3kk GP for the Hydra, and they 15kk GP. Since we minmaxed every bonus, and they just kept hitting endless expensive unit waves to win. We were able to make them disarm themselves in ways no war ever could do.
A day before the Hydra ended, we sold 32k ships to John007, hoping, he could do the #3, but sadly, Tilapia of Ragnarok still overtook him. But we both did our best in our race against Ragnarok 
However, we congratulate Fantasmax for his victory. We might have lost the Hydra this time. And 3kk GP. But we gained information. Information, about how the Ragnarok people think about us. Within almost 15 years of gameplay, we never ever saw someone willing to destroy 15 million generals just to deny someone the Hydra win; rather than doing a deal, since there are two Hydra events announced in short time. How hard their feelings towards us are, we can only guess.... We are taking notes in our notebook.
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
What we reached so far:
We established ourselves as a small regional power, which already proved itself in two wars. Our team is now stable and set up to grow. We showed presence and the one or another top alliance already took notice of us. We had a ton of fun and we showed discipline and coherence. This endeavour swamped tons of gold and generals so far. But it was worth it.
Future tasks:
Since we had two consecutive wars and this event which wrecked our war chest, our team duty is to rebuild ourselves and to surpass the current weakness phase fast. Rebuilding a gold stock and a rebuilding a good and tactical bunker, are now the priorities.
It is our duty to report about our weaknesses as well, if we want to give the readers of the diary a good read, if we want to give an authentic and truthful report, to prove our future and past failures and successes to the public. So yes, we are in a weakness phase now. But we have a soul of steel and we will never bow to any foreign empire. And we will keep to grow in our best interests.
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-