The United Defenders League

[Glen-Rhodes]

I still would have been a better Chief of the Band than Mahaj. Just sayin'.

Eh, first principles matter. The Chief of the Band should be a committed defender and find it unthinkable to ever switch sides or adopt a more moderate position. In other words, they should be ardent believers in defenderism, and you just aren't one of those people. Until Mahaj stepped out of the sidelines, the person who most embodied that was Ravania, but unfortunately Ravania is a pariah to the GCRs and electingthem CotB would have destroyed UDL-GCR relations for quite some time.

[Mad Jack]

I still would have been a better Chief of the Band than Mahaj. Just sayin'.

Eh, first principles matter. The Chief of the Band should be a committed defender and find it unthinkable to ever switch sides or adopt a more moderate position. In other words, they should be ardent believers in defenderism, and you just aren't one of those people. Until Mahaj stepped out of the sidelines, the person who most embodied that was Ravania, but unfortunately Ravania is a pariah to the GCRs and electingthem CotB would have destroyed UDL-GCR relations for quite some time.

You realise Mahaj was a raider right?

[Mahaj]

Eh, first principles matter. The Chief of the Band should be a committed defender and find it unthinkable to ever switch sides or adopt a more moderate position. In other words, they should be ardent believers in defenderism, and you just aren't one of those people. Until Mahaj stepped out of the sidelines, the person who most embodied that was Ravania, but unfortunately Ravania is a pariah to the GCRs and electingthem CotB would have destroyed UDL-GCR relations for quite some time.

You realise Mahaj was a raider right?

key word is *was*

I've realized my mistakes.

You and Cormac keep making them.

What good is a Chief of purposefully makes mistakes?

[Mad Jack]

What mistakes are these again?

My objectives in Soviet Union were achieved.

[Cerian Quilor]

You realise Mahaj was a raider right?

key word is *was*

I've realized my mistakes.

You and Cormac keep making them.

What good is a Chief of purposefully makes mistakes?

Raiding isn't a mistake. Its just the other side of the game.

[Tlik]

key word is *was*

I've realized my mistakes.

You and Cormac keep making them.

What good is a Chief of purposefully makes mistakes?

Raiding isn't a mistake. Its just the other side of the game.

You're wrong! You're wrong! Everyone knows all raiders are evil. You eat babies, right? That's what they always told me, at least.

[Cerian Quilor]

Babies go great with ranch dressing, yes.

[PrussianEmpire]

Babies go great with ranch dressing, yes.

Personally, I think BBQ sauce works better than ranch, but hey, that's just me.

[Cerian Quilor]

Never been a big fan of BBQ.

Have you tried deep frying them in butter, though? Christopher tells me that makes them especially succulent.

[Eist]

Is there not a forum somewhere else where you two can talk about your favourite dressings and condiments?

[Bachtendekuppen]

Is there not a forum somewhere else where you two can talk about your favorite dressings and condiments?

Don't be difficult, I think it's rather cozy how they are describing their favorite recipes of roasted babies.

[Beta Test]

Never been a big fan of BBQ.

Have you tried deep frying them in butter, though? Christopher tells me that makes them especially succulent.

Hello!

I'm a new defender with the UDL and I noticed this thread was interesting when I saw something was deep fried in butter.

[Alyekra]

Raiding isn't a mistake. Its just the other side of the game.

You're wrong! You're wrong! Everyone knows all raiders are evil. You eat babies, right? That's what they always told me, at least.

:P

They eat baby Pandas, at the very least.

[Solm]

Never been a big fan of BBQ.

Have you tried deep frying them in butter, though? Christopher tells me that makes them especially succulent.

Hello!

I'm a new defender with the UDL and I noticed this thread was interesting when I saw something was deep fried in butter.

Cerian Quilor! Our newest Recruiting Officer!

[Feux]

Hello!

I'm a new defender with the UDL and I noticed this thread was interesting when I saw something was deep fried in butter.

Cerian Quilor! Our newest Recruiting Officer!

[PrussianEmpire]

Cerian Quilor! Our newest Recruiting Officer!

In other news, the UDL is now unable to get new recruits

[Anarchic Plains]

In other news, the UDL is now unable to get new recruits

Methinks a Cerian recruited UDL may actually raid more than normal UDL.

Love you gaiz <3

[Mad Jack]

In other news, the UDL is now unable to get new recruits

Well the UDL stopped training them about a year ago. Stopping recruiting altogether would just complete the process.

[Mahaj]

In other news, the UDL is now unable to get new recruits

Well the UDL stopped training them about a year ago. Stopping recruiting altogether would just complete the process.

... right.

[Mad Jack]

Well the UDL stopped training them about a year ago. Stopping recruiting altogether would just complete the process.

... right.

Let's not pretend that even half of the 64 merry- masked members of the UDL ever received anything more than the most basic of training. UDL has never been good at turning recruitment into well trained active members.

[Mahaj]

... right.

Let's not pretend that even half of the 64 merry- masked members of the UDL ever received anything more than the most basic of training. UDL has never been good at turning recruitment into well trained active members.

But we haven't "stopped training them"

[Mad Jack]

No, you never started.

[Cormac A Stark]

To be fair, training was very lacking well before Mahaj took office. It was mentioned as a priority by just about every Chief of the Band candidate and, while I don't have much knowledge of what's happening internally with the UDL these days, I don't imagine it would be easy for any Chief to fix an internal culture that has been so lax about training for so long.

Pre-Mahaj UDL was very recruitment driven and much more focused on achieving untrained bulk numbers for liberations than it was on training skilled defenders. That's part of the UDL's internal culture and has been for some time, it won't be easily fixed by the still relatively new Chief if it can be fixed at all.

That said, if anyone is going to be in charge of training and see any success in that area it should probably be Ravania.

[Mahaj]

... We literally just had a training session a week ago.

[Afforess]

To be fair, training was very lacking well before Mahaj took office. It was mentioned as a priority by just about every Chief of the Band candidate and, while I don't have much knowledge of what's happening internally with the UDL these days, I don't imagine it would be easy for any Chief to fix an internal culture that has been so lax about training for so long.

Pre-Mahaj UDL was very recruitment driven and much more focused on achieving untrained bulk numbers for liberations than it was on training skilled defenders. That's part of the UDL's internal culture and has been for some time, it won't be easily fixed by the still relatively new Chief if it can be fixed at all.

That said, if anyone is going to be in charge of training and see any success in that area it should probably be Ravania.

As usual, to find the truth, simply take the opposite of what Cormac says.

I can verify Mahaj has been actively training new recruits. In addition, Ravania is taking a break from NS-gameplay. Cormac is wrong on both points.