Greetings, I want to write in this announcement about the general competitive scene between clans in Napoleon Total War.

First of all, I will begin by saying that I am a competitive person by nature, like everybody in this group is. Competition makes me move forward and I would not have improved my abilities in this game if I didn't feel the urge of competition.
It is by this calling of the Godess of war that we strive to be the best in what we do, and we are.

By now, clan games and even tournaments happen very rarely in our community, they are like water in the desert. Hence, each game of this kind is more interesting for the people playing and for the viewers watching, even if technically speaking those are not the highest quality matches that we have.

Throughout last year and even this year our clan has witnessed clans like continuity, 409th and smash bros claiming to be the best clans in this community. I feel like such a claim is premature or disingenous if a claim like that is made without first proving yourself to any would-be a contender clan. Other reasons I heard to justify such a claim were that their clan was created sooner or that they have a high player count in their group. I do not believe it is reasonable to make such a claim with this metrics.

After those claims were made, we pursued competitive matches against those clans and to any that would play us, and we won every single series of games.
Now, I must say, against some clans we seem to have won so decisively that they stopped playing against us before the agreed best of series had even ended. And we were given various disingenious reasons for why they won't play except that they know they will lose. This is bothersome to me.

As we end another series of games against 409th, I feel like I need to say something about what happened, even if it will not sway anyone.
Dion claims to be at war with us, I personally don't understand the concept of war between clans in general, but I would like to point out that this is an inflammatory word meant to drive discord between us and their members, most of the times before they make aquitance with us. I can promise that we are not as bad as we are portrayed to be. I do not bear any personal grudge against the 409th members.
Regarding the videos I posted recently, those videos are not ,,video screenshot wars". As I said, even if the matches played against them are not techincally the peak of quality, they are interesting to play and to watch by the viewers because of how rare they are this days, that is why I am more inclined to upload them, not because dion is uploading videos and I feel that I have to upload my own, that is not how I work. Aside from that, I believe that when you are in a clan match you need to understand the other side can and will show their victories in one way or another, this is something we all have to live with.

In the end, I want to say that this game is not made to give equal chances to both teams, attacker side is almost always better. Competing on equal ground on a set battle from a mechanical pov is not possible. We have stats to prove it. However, we try when we can to make it as fair as possible. This is why we developed along with the people we usually play a system that gives a better chance to competition. Meaning we ban certain patterns of play, we limit the number of cavalry units, we don't allow attacker side to get the best faction picks and so on. So far only the insects and maybe smash bros were interested in competing with us with a worked out set of rules. We do not believe we would have any chances in implementing this set of rules with any other clans because they are not aware of how unfair the game is in the first place or aren't looking for a fair fight in the first place. We even developed clear winning zones to fight for, things we wouldn't need to have done if there wasn't the problem of players camping in their spawn or close to it in order to avoid defeat. Sadly, because the competitive games happen so rarely, it is difficult to try to impose any advanced fair play rules. I am not positive about it, but this is what we are working with.