Posts by Der Kater
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Guest Article from our German Division (の WAR; DE-Atlas) concerning the 4th Server Merge:
Ikariams fourth server merge happened. As it has been announced by GF, we were able to profit from our invasions and past merges playbooks. Our german division, の WAR, residing on DE-Theseus (4th option), had to choose a new target server. A wide majority of almost 4/5 of our team voted to stay on the 4th option and to choose DE-Atlas.
As our comrades prepared their accounts for the server merge, the Chancellery of の WAR saw a lot of complaints in the official Ikariam discord from people on newer servers which were about to be terminated, and who wouldnt have a chance against the establishment. We decided to take action, and to take our responsibility as well-established alliance to help them.
We looked up each servers Ikalogs and highscores, and searched for good people worth to give a chance. In the end, we reached out to a total of 28 people, from which 10 accepted our offer to include them into our team. Moreover, we saw one living and active team, with average points at 200k each, at the youngest german server. To them, we offered protection: If they followed us, we would protect them and be their allies. They accepted.
At the merges day, we were able to get our team corelands and a lot of placekeepers. Directly next to our own area, our protected allies were settling.
After a short time, we decided to do a friendship war with another team we are not officially allied, but friendly with, the DNW. Goal was to check our upgrades, and to check our mobilisation speed without bunkers, since GF hurt bunkers hard with the 72h blockades, and we were one of Germanys biggest bunker profiteurs. We promised to not use bunkers at all.
And here, our biggest weakness hit hard: Whilst we were able to build up enough ground troops, our fleet production was very rudimental. We were simply not able to produce the needed amounts of ships for that friendship war. We relied too heavily on bunkers. Now, we know, that we have to prioritize our shipyards, ere the next war hits.
On top of that, our land upgrades were far behind; but at least, our fleet upgrades were dominant. However, the participation share was high, so we were proud of the numbers of combattants and supply producers. Together, we built a strong force which was able to have, all reports combined, a positive ratio, despite massive land upgrade lacks.
Our german alliance division is about to eliminate these weaknesses whilst still growing. Within 8 months, we gained another 500kk total score. Our german alliance division wishes its international brother division the best!
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
Kanzler der の WAR
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New Server joined EN-Styx (EN-73):
Our alliance decided to send envoys to the newly created server EN-Styx (EN-73). We pursue multiple goals:
a) Fun in the early game. The early game always has some fun; especially, since the preparedness with Asphodel ended (70 days joining delay).
b) Finding new recruits, including rookies willing to learn, with the intent, to bring them to our homeland server after the next servermerge.
c) Spreading our words, who we are, and letting others learn, who we are.
d) Adding a new history to our international alliance division.Our alliance name at the newborn server isnt determined yet. We will keep you updated, how it goes.
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
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Ingame Alliance War with POL and EGEO:
First of all, I want to apologize for the very late - too late - report in our team story. But the servermerge swamped all my time reserved for Ikariam. Since our german division had to move a server. To do it correctly; a ton of work has to be invested. The german division will soon write a guest article about the server merge journey here.
Now, to the war on PAN-4 with POL and EGEO.
POL:
First of all, we pillage POL members for our own growth. At the start of march, the POL organized themselves for a counteroffensive, which meant a full-out war. However, only some of our reports need to be shown, that we completely dominated them:
Radeon1991[POL], marcino80[POL] VS Invincible[-SF-] (V: 5215) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Einheiten
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WAM[-SF-] VS Radeon1991[POL], Sobieski[POL] (V: 4885.6) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Einheiten
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Invincible[-SF-] VS marcino80[POL], Matti99[POL] (V: 5275) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Meer
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Invincible[-SF-] VS lotus 2[POL], Sobieski[POL] (V: 6926.4) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Einheiten
WAM[-SF-] VS lotus 2[POL] (V: 9460.4) [Beute: 0] allein, Meer
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WAM[-SF-] VS lotus 2[POL] (V: 9460.4) [Beute: 0] allein, Meer
WAM[-SF-] VS lotus 2[POL] (V: 6434.6) [Beute: 0] allein, Meer
The Warrior[-SF-] VS MaximusGrom[POL] (V: 19039.4) [Beute: 0] allein, Einheiten
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The Warrior[-SF-] VS Cimpiano[POL] (V: 11778) [Beute: 0] allein, Meer
WAM[-SF-], Invincible[-SF-] VS lotus 2[POL] (V: 6066.2) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Meer
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Invincible[-SF-] VS MaximusGrom[POL], Tomek[POL], Matti99[POL] (V: 15065) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Meer
Invincible[-SF-] VS Patrykox2000[POL] (V: 6045.2) [Beute: 0] allein, Meer
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WAM[-SF-], Gedole[-SF-], Invincible[-SF-] VS Sobieski[POL] (V: 14302.6) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Meer
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Invincible[-SF-], Hannibal[-SF-] VS marcino80[POL] (V: 35219.4) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Meer
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Semmmi[-SF-], Invincible[-SF-] VS Tomek[POL] (V: 5976.8) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Einheiten
Invincible[-SF-] VS ŁATKA-6511[POL] (V: 4594) [Beute: 0] allein, Meer
Semmmi[-SF-], Hannibal[-SF-] VS MaximusGrom[POL] (V: 13972.4) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Einheiten
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We recognize the desperate cohesion the POL alliance has proved. It didnt helped them, sadly. However, we still have to respect them for that.
EGEO:
At the start of the April, EGEO asked us to be allowed to block our harbours for their own military moves in defense of the BGR. Reporters asked the Chancellor of -SF-, why theyd allow such moves.
"Our general alliance policy is, to allow everyone to block our ports and cities for their own maneuvers, since fighters are in dire need of people tolerating their cities to serve as logistical nodes without having them to ask prior and without them going to war themselves. What we demand from other neutrals we conquer for our maneuvers, we have to allow to others as well. That is just consequential. We have to treat others the same way we want to be treated ourselves. Our cities and harbours are open for anyone, as long, as they dont go after us our our allies." - The Warrior/Der Kater
So far, so good. However, one EGEO comrade wanted to invade one of our harbours, where a comrade of us had a whole fleet standing asleep. Normally, this is a point to pull back the fleet and no issues would have happened. But instead, this EGEO guy destroyed 23k GP our sleeping comrade Titan:
Cazador411[EGEO], Heidrek[EGEO] VS Titan[-SF-] (V: 27964.6) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Meer
Of course, this disrespect of our hospitality was nothing we could ever accept. We allowed EGEO (everyone) to block our ports. But not to destroy whole fleets. EGEO should have retreated after round 1 instead of killing off everything.
And in the following, we included EGEO into our war. A small excerpt of our reports with them:
Invincible[-SF-] VS Warmax[EGEO] (V: 11890.4) [Beute: 0] allein, Einheiten
Semmmi[-SF-] VS carlis1799[EGEO] (V: 7443.2) [Beute: 0] allein, Einheiten
Semmmi[-SF-], Invincible[-SF-] VS carlis1799[EGEO] (V: 22027) [Beute: 0] 1vsAll, Einheiten
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On top of it, we have pillaged a whole mountain of resources. If its disputed, we can send the reports here on request. EGEO turned out to show less fights but a lot of their resources. And also palm trees.
During this combat time, we even have been at #1 of the Offscore:
In the end, we dominated both wars. Now, both fronts are quiet. We proved ourselves towards 2 more teams. And showed our principles on combats. Again, sorry for the late report - the german server merge is responsible for the delay.
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
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Promotion:
Our team is proud to be able to announce, that the new comrade Semmmi has been promoted from a winger to a full comrade!
To his history:
Semmmi joined our EN-Kronos team early. We put our efforts into training this fighter heart. Soon, Semmmi became one of our strongest and most motivated comrades. He delivered a ton of victories against our enemies at EN-Kronos yet refused to come to PAN-4 for a long time. In the end, with the merges, he decided to beam to PAN-4 to join the mother alliance. And since day 1 of his membership in our PAN-4 enterprise, he began to pound the enemies we have right now. We are proud to have trained such great comrades to serve in our combined armies!
We congratulate Semmmi for his promotion which took place on the 31.03.2026.
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
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Promotion:
Our team is proud to be able to announce, that the new comrade BoB_RoK has been promoted from a winger to a full comrade!
To his history:
BoB_RoK started at EN-Kronos and became part of the mass alliance of -PLX-. As everyone knows, we have been at this server, as well. After a certain time, a war broke out between our alliances, since one -PLX- guy dared to attack donators on shared islands and we needed to train our rookies. So, we declared war against his alliance. In said war, we found out, that most of his mates were not good fighters. There was a handfull of fighters, and even the handfull of fighters didnt dare to stand up to us. Except one. You guessed it: BoB_RoK.
And during his fights with us, he constantly improved his skills and became stronger and stronger. After the war, his alliance -PLX- fell apart. And their strong comrades planned to invent a new alliance. However, since BoB_RoK was a longterm friend with me, and I kinda trained him a bit of basics in the war we had, we offered him a place amongst our ranks.
Since we only play new worlds basically to run wings as recruitment platforms for our core server, and EN-Kronos started to die out, we decided to pull out of that server as well, and invite him to our core server. And here, we are. We congratulate BoB_RoK for his promotion which took place on the 04.03.2026."Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
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Medal Decoration:
The alliance did a referendum whether TeTuX as a Chancellery member should be rewarded the same way as the other two comrades. The vote was 100% in favour and 1 abstention from the vote. I hereby congratulate TeTuX for his medal.
Fighter Carry:
Awarded by the Alliance to TeTuX at the 03.01.2026 for his achievements in the second BSQ war.
TeTuX current medal count: 1.
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
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Medal Decoration and War Update:
The Chancellery awarded two of our carries for their services in the second BSQ war. Without them, it wouldnt have been possible to win. For the comrade TeTuX, we are having a referendum for a medal of honour, since he is member of Chancellery and therefore he cant reward himself; but the team has to decide.
Fighter Carry:
Awarded by the Chancellery to Rooster/Hannibal at the 02.01.2026 for his achievements in the second BSQ war.
Rooster/Hannibal current medal count: 1.Fighter Carry:
Awarded by the Chancellery to Massi/Overdose at the 02.01.2026 for his achievements in the second BSQ war.
Massi/Overdose current medal count: 1.
Moreover, BSQ posted more reports for the 2nd BSQ war. The fairness demands to make an updated count with their reports counted in. Therefore, there is an update in the war stats:
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
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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-
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-SF- vs. BSQ (+66.108,18 GP Advantage):
FINAL STAT -SF- BSQ Ratio GP 56.939 35.236 61,8% Ress 5.445.253 3.224.994 62,8% Total 165.844,06 99.735,88 62,4% Source: All public combat reports
Updated after BSQ sent addittional reports.
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War win (2nd BSQ/-SF- war):
The -SF- alliance was able to react quickly to the war declaration posted by BSQ. Since we won the war by GP and Resources and therefore in the overall points, we consider the quick reaction test passed. However, we also have to state, that BSQ is a strong and active alliance, and it was difficult, to get any points from them at all. They have been a strong opponent and they are professional fighters; save in their armies and in their warehouses.
Both teams werent able to catch much of each other; so I would say, both teams proved themselves as strong defensive fortresses. Honour to us, but also honour to BSQ. We just offered them a non-aggression-pact; we dont know, if it is welcomed, or not. We shall see. The Chancellery of -SF- prefers to have a friendly relationship with BSQ in the future.
This war is our second war on PAN-4; and our second win on this server. We are looking forward to fight against other teams in the future as well; but for now, we will recreate our forces.
"Staring up from the bottom!" - Alliance motto (Nyze)
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
War results (war thread with sources for the stats in the thread):
Clicklink of the result of the 2nd war BSQ/-SF-
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-SF- vs. BSQ (+99.827,22 GP Advantage):
FINAL STAT -SF- BSQ Ratio GP 56.939 35.236 61,8% Ress 5.445.253 1.539.042 78,0% Total 165.844,06 66.016,84 71,5% Source: All public combat reports
Dear players, dear foes, dear comrades;
I computed the reports BSQ published, and our reports. Then, I made this little table. I thank Marshalll for his concession in this thread and I thank Borsch for his concession ingame:
We thank BSQ for their activity. -SF- was able to prove, that we can react quickly in a surprise war; and BSQ proved that they are a proud alliance which fights for their best interest.
Even though, we won the war, we have respect for BSQ. Both teams are strong teams and both teams' combat style is pretty similar. BSQ will soon get an official diplomatical note ingame, where we suggest friendship between our alliances in form of a non-aggression-pact. We dont know, if BSQ is interested in that. But our Chancellery will offer it to our former opponents.
We dont know, what time will bring for the diplomatic relationship between our teams.
Merry Christmas and a Happy Newyear.
Yours, The Warrior/Der Kater
Chancellor of -SF-
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The problem is, there are no real battles. They don't keep armies at home. They have so much gold that finding even a single unit is impossible.
I guess, we feel the same
I got effective next to nothing in this war, only seen emptyness where I went. Our teams are so damn similar! -
Official War Declaration from BSQ against -SF-!
Sadly, I didnt have had time yet to update. Thats why this post comes pretty late. Since there have been disputes in this thread on how effective both alliances have been, after the first official BSQ/-SF- war, which we have declared in September '25 and won in October '25, BSQ now declared their counter-war declaration at 29th November (2 weeks ago). Like in football association games, there is always one guest game and one home game. Now, we are at the guest game of BSQ, and we proudly accepted it. The content of the war declaration from BSQ towards us can be seen in the link below. The war will end at 21th December (in 9 days).
As stated in our response to the war declaration, we are thankful for the test of our cold-start-ability.
War Declaration from BSQ against -SF- of the 29th November '25 (clicklink)
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Recent Stand of the Brutal War:
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This week:
4.570.429 Ress
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 5.6) [Beute: 31 998] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 68.6) [Beute: 32 000] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 38 400] allein, Einheiten
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Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 58 240] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 8 525] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ], ваду[BSQ] (V: 92.8) [Beute: 32 137] 1vsAll, Einheiten
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Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 57 988] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 408] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 487] allein, Einheiten
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Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 58 089] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 487] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 45 288] allein, Einheiten
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Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 34 674] allein, Einheiten
WAM[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 37 677] allein, Einheiten
WAM[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 77 877] allein, Einheiten
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Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 7) [Beute: 203 633] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 7) [Beute: 203 693] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 7) [Beute: 203 693] allein, Einheiten
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Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 7) [Beute: 206 693] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 5.6) [Beute: 206 509] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 5.6) [Beute: 206 509] allein, Einheiten
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Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 5.6) [Beute: 206 509] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 206 718] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 4.2) [Beute: 206 504] allein, Einheiten
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Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 4.2) [Beute: 206 504] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 4.2) [Beute: 206 504] allein, Einheiten
Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 4.2) [Beute: 202 303] allein, Einheiten
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Overdose[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 4.2) [Beute: 202 304] allein, Einheiten
Meistras[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 2.4) [Beute: 119 183] allein, Einheiten
Meistras[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 2.4) [Beute: 119 188] allein, Einheiten
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Meistras[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 3) [Beute: 119 186] allein, Einheiten
Meistras[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 3) [Beute: 119 198] allein, Einheiten
Meistras[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 3) [Beute: 119 201] allein, Einheiten
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Meistras[-SF-] VS Delkonix[BSQ] (V: 3) [Beute: 58 544] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 63 999] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 31 999] allein, Einheiten
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Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 31 999] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 31 999] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 38 399] allein, Einheiten
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Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 30 717] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 637] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 637] allein, Einheiten
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Meistras[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 113 999] allein, Einheiten
Meistras[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 114 596] allein, Einheiten
Meistras[-SF-] VS Valet[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 114 597] allein, Einheiten
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Before the Delkonix/Laptop/Wady fights of this week:
874.824 Ress
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 7) [Beute: 95 999] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 7) [Beute: 30 719] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS Latop[BSQ] (V: 7) [Beute: 47 084] allein, Einheiten
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Overdose[-SF-] VS Spaghetti[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 197 996] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 1.2) [Beute: 13 414] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 614] allein, Einheiten
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Hannibal[-SF-] VS ваду[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 10 413] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS serij[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 609] allein, Einheiten
Hannibal[-SF-] VS serij[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 32 589] allein, Einheiten
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The Warrior[-SF-] VS Magic[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 80 247] allein, Einheiten
The Warrior[-SF-] VS Magic[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 107 046] allein, Einheiten
The Warrior[-SF-] VS Magic[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 87 047] allein, Einheiten
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The Warrior[-SF-] VS Magic[BSQ] (V: 0) [Beute: 107 047] allein, Einheiten
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You're so funny! Is 16,000 generals a lot? Considering you have 300,000 haha.
At least, we are ahead. And better being ahead by 16k GP than being behind by 16k GP. Dont you agree?
Also, you are the war declarer, you have the ball in your field and play us. But seems like we are playing you.
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Mickey is outside of Vmod currently and tried to help his mate; however, our Rooster has forced him to Vmod earlier in the war. Yet bro is complaining about Vmods on our side.
