Greetings to all you black-hearted Nazgul out there!
Team Andraste is looking for a team of Dark Servants to play a standard game of pre-aligned 1650 against our FP.
We are 7 Greeks, 4 UK & 1 Dane 
Drop me an email if you thing you’re good enough 
Colin Forbes
Colin, why not tell us the names of your team comembers?
It’s going to be all Greek to you anyway but here it is
Symeon Gavalas
Tonia Hartofylaka
Manolis Perakis
Haris Nikokavouras
Panayiotis Mertikopoulos
Marios Skounakis
Zennon Zambakides
Shaun Walker
Tom Fyfe
John Strachan
Lars Neilsen
And Our Esteemed Captain:
Colin Forbes
Symeon
From memory, various slight variations on the above team have won four and lost 2 games (all bar one being 1650, the other being 2950).
Colin
I’m Scot and not UK but let’s not fall out over it.
Colin,
Frank Redmonds Team, fresh from a win is looking for a team to play, give him a shout, I’m desperate to get stuck in again…
Dave Pearson
(Team member)
Well yes just back for an hour or so after a 28 hour flight and here I am looking at news.
Now is it not a challange to take on a unbeaten team who want to play dark after 2 free people wins.
Well you know it makes sense to try.
Vandal
bump - still looking for opponents
Unless my memory has gone, I have offered your team out playing dark in a 1650, Colin said he would ask you but I guess the fear factor set in and you dont want to play
Vandal
Loraelin I opened my arms and bid your team welcome but note you are not ready for battle, perhaps needing to skulk in the pale of my shadow, for so mighty it is.
We have agreed terms with a foe who has the courage to face us across the field of battle and not pay lip service to old songs.
If your courage returns and time permits perhaps you may again prove worthy of eating dust beneath my feet.
10 years have past but still we remember well the wrong that needs to be undone and cold indeed will our vengeance be, though we can live long in the memory it is not us who fades as to dust in the face of mighty arm.
Ever get the idea I have a long memory?
Vandal
Long memory, maybe. But it’s pretty ropey if you think that any wrong was done to you. We beat you fair and square … AND you had access to all the internet information whilst we did not.
I think the fact that you beat him was the wrong that he is talking about.
To some it was victory to others the taint I could not live with but let others judge:
If I had my wife and best friends playing the nuetrals is that fair?
If one of our number had his best friend playing in your side selling you out is that fair?
To the victor goes the spoils of war but this bitter fruit I count to high a cost to claim victory.
Some of course play the dark side and what else can one expect, true you may not have known the source of the victory, but once known to claim the victory, tut tut.
Congratualtions on such a victory I can of course await such time as you can face me across the field in a even game, but perhaps, we both know that is never going to happen, fear has that effect.
Now Zalanadar still think it was a victory also, I do like to test those who jump in.
Vandal
If you lost, you lost. Rational for losing. Hmmm.
How far will you sink to win? I think we have seen in your case pretty low it seems.
But as regards my rational well let the voice who knows deny it, indeed it does seem some will sink very low to win.
I know you not but take it from your reply your own scruples are not above such action, sad indeed.
Vandal
Harsh words, but I guess I should expect nothing less.
Can’t recall ever sinking low to win, but I am sure you will educate me on when I have.
Again, I can’t remeber ever rationalizing my losses, other than to myself. When I or my team has lost, I or we were usually outplayed.
Alas I fear you are beyond education, only punishment may be found to cure such ills.
However even that is beyond my ability to teach ,though if you can win games with the nuetrals loaded and enemy plants in your side then you are indeed a master of the game.
My money says you cannot but of course whilst I would claim no victory, more than happy to play you with a 14 11 split and us knowing your opening turns moves for the first 4-5 turns and see how well you do in the great game.
You would have to play good to recreate the game I take it you are up for such a mighty challange?
Of course maybe you only like to play with such odds stacked in your favour and count the win as mighty indeed.
We prefer other words for such but will leave you to gloat as you wish for we do not count with honour those who seek to win in such a manner.
Vandal
By the way, this all took place 10 or 11 years ago. Mr Vandal … are you now alleging that ALL the neutrals were friends of mine … and that we knew your opening moves, perhaps because of a leak on your team?
“The tale grew in the telling” - J.R.R. Tolkien
Careful. Colin, he might indicate that you are the leak.
Indeed it is the reason I gave up playing the game all those years ago, I wont play in rigged games.
As regards a leak alas one of your players had his best friend join our side and had access to all our mail.
Why do you you think we all dropped en mass?
Now come on my old mucker you know all to well who was playing the Harad and can you honestly tell me he was ever going to join the fight against you?
I have no desire to name names but I have yet to see it in many years of gaming, but perhaps you can tell me we as a side where wrong.
Lets not even go into the rest of them as frankly you can say what you like it wont change my mind.
But at the time allowing nuetrals at the same addresss as one of the sides was banned, though in practise these things did it seems happen.
But we will not attack our own side and Allsorts advice to knock out the offending nation did not go down to well with us.
What more do we need to say from our side? seemed very rigged to us, does it matter if your entire side did not know it was?
Vandal