ThomasMarik, on 13 February 2015 - 08:24 AM, said:
The wormhole issue is separate although related.
Sacrificing territory around Terra not something we should readily do with someone who has not joined with the rest of the Inner Sphere to protect it. Thus far without other houses protection all Kurita has done is Cede territory to the clans. There is no reason to think that wouldn't continue all the way to Earth.
The only time we've consistently lost territory to the clans was when Smoke Jags had a merc flood. And our IS neighbors admittedly spearheaded the most unsuccessful defense campaign in CW history. Between that and the pugs, our units were logging into 83% capped planets with 60+/60+ queues. There were times we would go wait in those queues for up to 10 minutes and win or lose a match. But if it was a defense, it couldn't flip a tick back. And every time we won a counter attack it was immediately canceled out by a loss in a concurrent defense match.
Maybe you didn't notice, but the bleeding stopped as soon as CSJ lost all the mercs (long before talks of the nSL even began). They still have the best damn loyalist units we've come across, but its been back and forth ever since. The border has been fairly stable. The notion that the rest of the IS had everything to do with stopping their advance is downright laughable. Unless it was through convincing all the merc units to leave them.
The merc units will go where they want and do what they want, which is what mercs are supposed to do.
And if the rest of the IS wants to throw a few 12 mans at our clan border to pitch in, we appreciate it. That plan was working very well, back before CSJ made the big push. Before that push, and before their merc influx, and the change to 3-a-day attack phases we had them on their heels. But your "protection"? "Ha ha ha ha" is the best response you could hope for with that kind of diction.
Edited by LoklanZFG, 17 February 2015 - 03:59 AM.
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