MDDragon- Sam Message

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

1st of all i would like to thank all of you for your support specially Morgana, she was the woman behind our victory and the mastermind for putting up such a great team together.

i can't think of what to say due to some personal problems and some of you knew about them, but here i am now.

its been almost a year since i activated my account, the start was in 2-3 Oct 09 and i activated my account in 10-11 Oct 09 because i was not sure i would play this round...but i did because i could not resist coming back and finish the server by the winning side & thank god we did win this time.

i was too busy with real life this round but my friend and dual elie was covering for me and not to mention my great sitters Morgana & kratos, i would reach nowhere without these guys.

there were ups & downs during the server and we lost some members but the rest of you made it because you guys are true warriors.

we faced the storms and the huricanes together, we crushed the enemies skulls and burned their bodies before our wall to make it a lesson for the rest of them.

its true that they managed to slow us down or i would say they managed to scratch the WW and knock it down 5 levels 1st time then 2 levels at the 2nd time and thats because we had lots of defense sitting home to protect others & when we were ready, we brought more defense to be sure they would never be able to scratch our precious WW again.

the sad part is that we didn't have the chance to use the rest of our hammers including mine which some of it starved and some got killed in other accounts where they were hiding.

it seems our coordinators were expecting that the enemies would be able to slow us down again but hey we won without the need of using them which make us look even better.

i have read some igm's from our great LoDm's, they wanted us to cancel level 100 so they could use the rest of their hammers too. well too bad i didn't have the time for it & it wouldn't be fair for MDDragon's team to ask them to wait for few more days.

what matters now is that we won and 09/10 s5.com ended as LoDm + PANTHEON winners of the server.

it's true that the leadership have done some mistakes and im talking here about mine specially (losing the BP), i was sleepy and exhausted and i thought one of my duals would move it but i totally forgot to put a note for them.

all of you guys were awesome, some were so close to us & considered as a part of our family (they know who they are) some were too busy & we didn't know anything about them.

i don't know if anyone will blame me for that so im apologizing even if it was late ^_^ + please forgive me if you wrote something to me & you didn't like the reply because there were lots of people replying the messages and some were not playing with us, they just came to help us finish the race.

incredibly the starvation in the WW was very few, out of 6+ millions we might have lost 50-100k which is considered nothing because believe me feeding these monsters was insane and you can ask anyone who helped us about it.

anyway here we come to the part i hate most, after a year of hard work we reached to the point where we have to say "Good Bye" and im sure that most of you feel the same as me...but its not the end of the world, there will be a comeback for us and hopefully we will do much better.

so please if you want to keep in touch with us or play the next round please contact my dual elie he will be in charge of it
email: scorpion.elie@hotmail.com /skype: mddragon.travian

at the end of this long boring message,i would like to thank all of you again for all of your support. such a great team we had...

SAM/MDDragon

Got to LEVEL 100-MDDragon won the RACE!

Our monstrous defenses, No one ever thought that these defense are from Pantheon alone. The Lodm does not support the WW with defenses. They are the one who do the dirty work like attacking enemies of the alliance. They like to eat lots of crops. Granaries will last only for 45 minutes and it is a pain in the butt.




The last second of building the World Wonder. It is nice to see that number.

Why/Tom message for us all

I started an account on s5 while I was still playing on s9, as I recall I'd told myself I was just checking a technical point of game play but I confess I don't remember what it was, I think I may have known I was actually going to keep the account on because the "why" was, I think, short for "why am I doing this again?"

In the early weeks when I still clung to the intention of abandoning the account after a short while I had a confrontation with a particularly aggressive and unpleasant neighbour called TUPACY and once I'd seen him off I found that I had engaged with the server and I was unable to let go.

I had started the account on the 19th October whilst the server had started on the 2nd. That, and the delay that I had imposed on myself before deciding to commit to the server meant that that I didn’t get round to settling my second village until very late and by that time the options were limited. I was delighted when I located a 125% bonus 15 cropper, it was a risk at 60 odd tiles away but I went for it anyway as there was nothing better than 75% that was left available really close to my spawn village. Had I checked more thoroughly I might have realised that the area was home to a player that had already settled their 3rd village and was looking likely to be the dominant force in that corner of the world.

Within 48 hours my new capital was dust. It took a no more than a couple of igm’s to make my peace with what turned out to be an account run by very reasonable people, elie, who had sent the catapults, and his partner Sam. That's how it came to be that the account that I would eventually help to win the server destroyed my capital.

Skip forward 10 months and in igm conversation I asked Morgana if she’d like a little help at the time l was pre-occupied in the real world and I volunteered Tim (Old McDonald) to assist and when I came back from a trip abroad for work on 15th September I joined the team myself. Tim was limited in what he could do due to external pressures and it became apparent that was also true for the original players in the MDDragon account and whilst it wasn’t the case that Morgana was running the WW account on her own it is fair to say that she was carrying more than her fair share of the burden.

On the 17th September Karl came on board with the team and I have to say that I think his introduction really made a difference, boundless energy and real dedication to the cause, I can’t imagine that anyone else would have been able to cover the hours that he did and they needed to be covered. Immediately after Nirvana’s attacks of the 11th September stalled the WW build there was a defence at the WW of just over 4 million cc. Although the WW ½ crop rule and unique diet meant that only 1 million crop per hour were actually being consumed but granary capacity at the time was less than 1 million and whilst incoming from the Panthexn faithful was good, it wasn’t consistent and the “constant” watch that Karl provided for such long stretches was not a luxury for the MDD account, it was a necessity.

By the time LoDm succeeded in grabbing replacements plans off MAD on 29th September it was over 5 million and at the close it was just a little shy of 8 million consuming 33k crop per minute out of a granary that held 1.2m – that’s 36 minutes stock. In fairness by the time we reached the end the crop deliveries were coming in so well that I rarely saw granaries below half full in the last day or so but there were times when if we hadn’t had a Karl we’d have seen much more starvation than the limited amount we did. That’s not to say that everyone else on the team didn’t do their bit, it’s just that he really put in the hours.

By the end I had succeeded in rebuilding my offence to 65k excluding siege (I still had the 1400 catapults I’d left at home the three times my army had been sacrificed for the greater good and I’d rebuilt 3,250 rams since my and JEE’s futile attack on PbRk’s artefact on 16th September). I was scheduled to use this in a wider operation to hit the Absolute architect artefact ahead of MDDragon’s 8,800 catapults (and others) hitting their WW on 9th October (I’d be launching that about now instead of writing this). If the hammers that hit our WW over the last few days had done greater damage those attacks would have gone ahead and my understanding is (although I’ve seen no reports) that they would have met significantly less defence than we had mustered and would have severely delayed their WW build. I ended the server at 28 on the offence points board (3rd after Peter Plys and JEE out of Panthexn) and I’d like to think that if we’d gone on a couple of days I might have made the top 20 (or I might not who knows who else would have had another hammer hit in that time) still I’ll end happy with that on a server I wasn’t going to play.

MDDragon’s phenomenal defence from the Panthexn membership resulted in kidsun’s attack from over 8k catapults doing no damage at all to the WW when it stood at level 99 and similar numbers of catapults hitting GW’s only lost 1 level each (and we’d had 2 weeks with no plans so it can have been no surprise to anyone that we had storage to spare). It took Gambit’s 13k catapults to damage the WW with an escort that was the strongest Roman army to be fielded on the server and then it was only 2 levels lost, a little over a day to replace that. It’s that defence that won the server and that’s why this is deserved victory for Panthexn and it came not from JEE or Knossos (well a little bit of it did) it came from the Panthexn membership so my thanks goes to them.

My thanks also goes to Morgana for trusting me to help her, Karl, Bea, Kratos, Tooter/Raj, Budaka, Sam (immortalsam) for the Skype support group chats, Sam (MDDragon) and Elie for not killing me off entirely when I had the cheek to settle a cropper they wanted back in November and then not chucking me off the team when they realised 10 months later that I could sabotage their Wonder in revenge at losing that village, and of course to Tim (Old McDonald) and to George (gevo818 -who wasn’t on the MDDragon team but helped on my account when I was pre-occupied with making sure the WW didn't starve).

Morgana-A real message to the Ze Lady

When Sam invited me to join him this server i must confess i freaked out. Being his sitter would not be an easy task specially in the beginning when his enemies from last server would try to destroy him. That did happen but they did not succeed.

I play defense so my account would be MDD’s main defense. I had lots of traps in my first village so players avoided raiding me, so i had plenty of time to focus on MDD’s account.

I did make a few mistakes in the begining like raiding big guys (with 15 clubbies haha)...bigger than MDD (they were bigger because they started earlier). Sometimes i had to apologize, other times they would not accept apologies and they would send raids on MDD’s account. Of course i never let them take any resources (all under crannies) and/or kill troops.

Well, it’s a long story full of funny and interesting events...

Sam and I would fight over crop (i hated to see negative crop and he wouldnt let me upgrade crop fields) and also over population...he likes troops better...well...he is a Teutons after all. I told him he would be player #1 and he would Just laugh at it. He made it as #1 a few times but them when we decided to go after a ww village that would not be possible anymore.

My second wish for MDD’s account is that he would be a WW holder and win the server....

One year has passed and MDDragon made it. Top #1 Defense and a winner! We had lots of up and downs during this server. It sucks when real life interferes, doesnt it? But we live in a real world (i wish i could live inside travian!!).

Managing a WW is the craziest thing and i will neve ever do that again! If i do play travian again, i will be the one who destroys WWs Unfortunately I got sick a few weeks before server ended so I had to get more help or we wouldnt make it, so i put up a building team and i was lucky to have picked wonderful and commited people --- and also great players.

They would send me back to bed everytime i came online to check the account haha...that was funny : Morgana, what are you doing here? Go back to bed!

Now Im proud to present you MDDragon’s building team:
1. Bea
2. Budaka
3. Kratos
4. Why
5. Old Mcdonald
6. Karlfs
7. Tooter
8. Haw
9. ImmortalSam
10. Morgana

I want to thank you all, guys, for everything...we wouldnt have made it without your help.

I want to thank:

Benny (my real life cousin) for helping sit for the account when we first started building the WW. She had a nice hammer and she was one our battle team members. Thanks, Benny!

Kratos, Bea and Budaka for the great support. Before the building team was put up, there were only the 4 of us because Sam and Elie were away on business trips.
Elie! He is a great player...i know i pissed him off sometimes but things turned out fine and now he is a very dear friend to me. He Said i raid like a noob lol --- he is right. I have learned a lot from him . Thanks, Elie!

Last but not least...thank you, Sam for trusting me your account. Im not the mastermind...you are....i just followed your instructions It was my pleasure to be your sitter! You are a great player and the best friend a person can have. I wish you all the best in life.

Now it’s time for me to say goodbye...real life is calling me back to reality ...

Morgana

The Last Statistics...

Pantheon and Lodm 's Hammer Collections

Player registered October 02, 2009 at 8:49 server time.
27. jacaestou 24163 31 440176 kill points
826. jacaestou 24163 31 10466 defense points

The MDDragon Team

The MDDragon empire came out top 5 in population rank. It was in the early of the game, MDD was top 1 or top 2 in rank but all change when MDD holding WW village. You gotta have experience catapults in most of the villages. From the start, Sam J , Elie and Morgana were the main player of this account.

During the endgame time, MDD got a lots of help in running the WW village. You gotta be kidding me, there was a big monster living in the WW village that eats too much crops. If you wont feed them, they starve and die.

The TEAM:
Sam J = owner, ze dragon
Ellie - owner, ze dragon jr.
Morgana- defender ze Lady and sitter
Bea- the part time player-she log on if she did not forgot it.
Budaka - sitter/helper - Mary Read
Tooter - sitter/helper -go for Raj
Kratos - sitter/helper -just Kratos
Karlrfs - sitter/helper - go for Karl- our hardworker in the WW-recommended by wces
Sam - Immrtalsam
JEE - sitter/BP coordinator
McDonald = Tim/sitter
Why =sitter/Tom/the hero suicidal
Benny - sitter/part time helper during WW time before she left in her hometown.
Wces - seneca/sitter
Buster
MH Dirruk - who almost banned us LOL- our meticulous watcher of the account
chab- cha lea frm Lodm/sitter when we chieftd the architect artifact

Karlfs - one of a devoted sitter to MDDragon

Karlfs was being approached by Morgana to help in running MDDragon. We did not regret of having him in our team. Thanks Karl: His wonderful message for us.. Telling us his excitements in the game- and of course the downtime as well...

Way to go Karl::::::: }{ :::::::::

My thanks to Nirvana, MAD and all their allies for providing me a year of excitement, both highs and lows.

The early excitement between OAR & Pantheon while we sorted out the quad. The excitement Archilles caused me when he killed half my defense and taught me a harsh lesson on proper infantry/cavalry balance. Playing with Heywood, Mayhem, Symb0l, Kalina, Zakalwe, rewind, 9, sparticus...

And especially the excitement of the past month. I was both lucky and (very) unlucky to have been asked to help on MDDragon's WW. WW duty is mostly a tiring slog where you are focused entirely on feeding the troops. Constant merchants in motion, constant raids sent out, constant MMs begging for crop. Based on my month helping sit the WW I cannot imagine how my compatriats survived. Literally action had to be taken every hour to keep the troops fed in the WW and the artifact village. Operations would occur to secure a 2nd Plan only to fail. Some depression had set in, for me at least.

We were to point of recalling MDDragon's hammer to join a last try for some plans when the word came in. Our allies, Arakas & LoDm, had secured a Plan in an incredible operation. Suddenly we were in full swing. JEE agreed to help us and his plan was retrieved, and at the same time several LoDm players joined the WW alliance and the building restarted. Such stress and such excitement. Queue 2 levels, find a safe place for Plan, coordinate with other Plan holders, arrange hero.

Note incoming attacks, run simulations, MM for more defense, prepare support villages for upcoming builds. Non-stop action. All through the day and all through the night. I was very lucky to come into a well honed team that spanned the globe. All hours were usually covered.

The past few days were great. We were constantly parsing the incomings on the WW and researching hammer sizes. When we saw stooge (ram) and Gambit (catapults) coming we knew we were going to take some damage. Quite frankly, I was surprised that Kidsun did no damage with nearly 9k catapults. bjonax1973 and RAGE damaged infrastructure. They probably would not have harmed the WW. Props to those guys (and usama, cposervices, walrus love, fungfung101) and all the other players that came straight at the WW when the end was in sight. I understand why aig, peccy, hiker, ?_?, SEVENIGHT, 5darkcat5 and pavlik.tynec went after the Architect's Secret. But I was surprised that so few hammers came at the WW there at the end. Although it was for the best. We were exhausted and ready for rest.

Apologies to LoDm for not giving you additional time for your final operations. And thanks for allying with us. We could not have done it without you.

Special thanks to Bea, Morgana, Mary (Budaka), Tom (Why), Tim (Kratos), Tim (OldMcDonald), Raj (Tooter), Sam (Immortal), Danny (wces) and JEE. Playing in the WW with you guys was quite an experience.


Take care all!
Karl (karlfs)

Battle Reports: MDDragon revealing Defenses

Revealing the monsters defense in com5 round finish October 7, 2010 at 8:09 GMT-1.
This is the kinda they same post to the other link HERE but on that post there is no defenses present.

The last ten attackers landed to MDDragon empire:


The last attack landed to the WW village until we will hit the finish line:


The second time that we qued level 100. People wanted to see how much they killed in the defense... The first attempt in destroying WW- pls find it down below....

this attack is only on October 5, 2010 when we are about to end.
Natars:


After natars- they throw few armies- enough for them to give a good experience on their hero.


October 6, 2010-attacks
This little roman's mini hammer came first before natars hit again..


Stooger rammer came and tried to bring it down:


Kidsun followed:


Gambit is next:




They tried to damage great warehouses-




THE FIRST ATTEMPT IN DESTROYING WW VILLAGE:
The wall were rammed down to level 17,
The WW village got damage to level 94.

It only shows that the enemies does not have enough WW hammer to destroy the WW village totally. Those are like nothing!!!!!

WW updates......building level 100

The second time we qued level 100... will see if we can get it through....


We hit level 99 for the second time and has more than an hour left to get it done. We are expecting hammers landed as they are forcing us to move the architect artefacts which made MDDragon's empire 5x stronger - better than the stone lodge. Their attacks at WW village were synchronized to the artefact village. We should kill their armies but then we don't have enough defense present in the artifact village. The team were discussing of what is the best thing to do. Analyzing the attacks in between the two villages. We sacrificed to move the arte and will see of what happened to the WW village. Amazingly, the attacker to the arte village sent heroes. It is a stealing operation and or forcing us to move it. Wow! Brilliant tactics.



We were getting ready to activate the architect village. Why's hero was on the way for the diet arte pick up but then all change in the last minute. Down below: Poor why's hero, he got eaten in the defense at the capitol.


However, in the last hour of finishing the line. The first attack after transferring the architect artifacts was usama. The defense we have, the 1k catapulte were not enough to get damage, tried to break in the wall as well.

YAYYYYY!!!! there are 13 incoming attacks in WW village - 13 is my lucky number and so we are lucky to finish this race. HORRAHHHH


will see if my HORRAHHHH is right...
Natars strike:



We got hit.. WALL GOT HIT::::



waiting for usama.. i am not sure if he has another armies since he has armies sent awhile ago...AWWWWW... its a fake!!!!

Next is aig. If he has 3 armies on this village.. I will say WOW WOW....waiting for YOU AIG



FAKING US!!!



AWWWW::::: 8k cata plus.. no damage done:


Now we are waiting for gambit. Let us see of what he got. If he can make a scratch on it. It is about to be done!!!! But let us see the updates...


AWWWW... We got hit. WW down two levels.. now we will go back to work...


AWWWWW.... great warehouse got hit :P:P


In a few hours, another hammer hit to the WW but it damages to the great warehouses.