S9.com Roundtable Interview Part 1 (updated)

I conducted a special roundtable interview with leaders from all 3 of Server 9′s big alliances – TRUST, Chaos Factor, and Rangers – last Saturday, shortly after the game had ended. Posted below is the first part of this interview. The players that were present were: Rangers: Cupcake, Khess (aka Jess), Natasa (aka Manitowoc), Quietmonk CF: [...]

S9.com: TRUST and CF Both Win the Stare Down, But Was That More Important Than Winning The Game?

On Thursday I posted my recap of the S9.com finish that I wrote for Travian Magazine, but I also wanted to do some more in-depth analysis of the ending, so that’s what this post will focus on (and after this I’ll try to finish posting the interview – I’ve ran into a glitch with getting [...]

Deadline Day for Travian Magazine, take two

I wasn’t completely happy with my first version of the story for Travian Magazine, so here’s my second edit which I’ve resubmitted, and hopefully they can use it instead (even though it’s technically past their deadline).  Server 9 came to an end on May 22nd. The winning World Wonder switched alliances with one hour left in [...]

Deadline Day for Travian Magazine

Sorry the site has been slow on updates lately. It’s certainly not for lack of content – I’ve got tons of stuff to write about and put up on the site! It’s more a matter of me not having much free time right now. I’ve started a new job recently (yay, more money!) and the commute [...]

S9.com Roundtable Interview coming soon!

Man, I just did the most epic interview in the history of Travian Champions, with a Roundtable discussion of players from Rangers, TRUST, and CF from Server 9. I can’t wait to put it up on the site, but it’s going to take me a while to edit all of it and put it into readable [...]

S9.com: The Final Results

Server 9 is over, with Babuk finishing as the winning World Wonder. But the real story may be that he switched alliances at level 99, from TRUST to Rangers. And many players are shocked that this has happened (I know I am, though I’m going to try to get the full story before I rush [...]

Bizarre Forum Thread of the Day

Sometimes Server 9 weirds me out: http://forum.travian.com/showthread.php?t=136239

S9.com: The Stare Down

I’m low on time so I’ll have to keep this post short, but there’s a lot to say about the current events in the S9.com endgame. Thunder pulled the trigger on their expected attacks on The Watcher’s World Wonder (I expected that they would wait a few more days, so this was a small surprise [...]

S9.com: Inside Thunder’s Top Secret Bunker

Check out this hilarious video made by a Chaos Factor player after they reduced Inocka’s World Wonder to Lv.0: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af8_1272712909&p=1

S9.com: Operation Thunder Struck (Updated)

Earlier in the S9.com endgame, TRUST had 3 World Wonders in the lead, all about the same level. Inocka, Sakeman1, and Ex-Presidents had all passed level 60 when Chaos Factor struck, doing massive amounts of damage to each one. Thunder struck back on several of Chaos Factor’s World Wonders shortly after that. I’m going to try to [...]

S9.com: Bratsoni’s World Wonder hit (Updated)

I picked a good day to start blogging about Server 9 again. It just keeps getting more interesting. CF hit Bratsoni’s World Wonder with a major attack today, and managed to shave off 20 levels from it, despite Bratsoni holding the 5x building stability artifact. Here’s the report of the main hit. The army here, made [...]

That didn’t take long…

CF has got their errant construction plan back into their main alliance. Big G took the plan from Hector Barbossa, and The Watcher has moved up to level 81 without missing a beat. I give them props for their organization in moving the plan. Maybe the whole point was to transfer it from Syedfsz to Big G. [...]

S9.com: Holding onto the Plans

There are many interesting stories in the Server 9 Endgame, and I’ll try to capture them all. What’s happened over the course of recent days with the World Wonder building plans is perhaps the most interesting and the also the most important to the game’s outcome. In order for an alliance to win a game [...]

S9.com: Reaction to SW-Switzerland joining Trust

With CleopatraFirst’s World Wonder becoming a part of Trust, this will alter the S9.com endgame landscape significantly. Inocka, leader of TRUST, had this to say on the team-up: Inocka: JD has been under heavy fire by CF-V for the past 2 days, and they approached us for assistance and offered to join forces because people who they [...]

S9.com Update: A Look Back at SWM and SW-Switzerland

I’m going to try do do a 4-parter update today on the S9.com endgame, to get caught up on everything that’s been happening as of late. I’ll be quoting heavily from the Server 9 forums for these reports, so expect them to be a rather long. As I’ve said before, it’s a complex endgame and [...]