Originally posted by Drow:
the set ix jumped pdm was the set that sol ix and LaF turned their backs on tie. ix asked PDM for a cf so they could FS ti, because they believed tie was going to fs them. the following set was the first tie/pdm v sol/ix war.
also pang, you forgot about tie's involvement in the first slit war under the guise of enigma. PDM actually FS'd enigma whilst RAGE FS'd sol, as sol had planned on jumping PDM, and had asked rage to join them. enigma then grew out of tag with their restarts, before jumping en masse back into their tag and smashing PDM and rage horribly with solidly built countries that had escaped the ravages of war, whilst everyone else's countries were spent, on both sides.
LaF didnt turn their backs on tie, Upon the break up of slit, LaF remained neutral to all parties, neither siding with sol, ix nor tie.
And as far as the second part, your saying that growing out of tag is what changed that war? seriously? slit were outnumbered and outmanouvered in that war, the reason slit won was simply they had more fight in them, and rage were stupid enough to fs LaF when laf wasnt going to be involved in the slit wars anymore, leaving a large number of huge breakers to tag laf from the tags they had been playing in from the start of the set, forcing laf back with slit, and providing slit with the extra numbers/breakers needed to turn that war before the end of the set. Meanwhile anti-slit thought they had won and their walling/restart rates fell apart.
That whole reset was just an illustration of why anti slit couldnt win against slit in the long term. It wasnt that the alliances wernt good enough, or the members wernt hardcore enough, it was that their leadership was so stupid it hurt.