Whatever did happen with this?.. It is a very good idea.. It allows the alliance to micro manage to a degree wtihout putting much strain on the leaders.. What was the problem?.. Not enough leaders?

err....too lazy to implement?

I've been encouraging people to work in informal attack squads based on target location. Pretty much everyone I've ever asked in Shadow (or EAST/LLKJ) has been excited to help with a well-planned, coordinated attack. It's much more fun to fight that way!

One of the issues with fixed location squads is that frequently everyone needs to launch at almost the exact same time which isn't always possible. With a little more flexible approach, different groups can work on targets that they can all reach within an acceptable amount of time, and with a broader pool of attackers there's more likely someone who can launch when they'd already be online anyway.

On the other hand, if people want to found and name their own squads, we'd be happy to setup private squad forums (once we switch to one that is a little easier to manage) and give people Squad leader titles. We've pulled in a lot of people recently with some impressive leadership skills and I'm excited to see people step-up and start planning their own group attacks. With wars going forward, I'll try to do a better job at sharing strategic targets, and then squads can nominate themselves for taking them out.

Sounds like this is going to be fun.. 8)

I've polled some of the people near me about chiefs and offensive forces. I think it's a good idea to work in groups. My experience is that a small well-organized and cooperative alliance will fare better than one three-times the size who lacks cooperation.

My suggestions: Don't publish the squad leaders. The less published leaders the better.

Everyone with at least 8 villages should be focusing on chiefs. I currently have four chiefs and will have five within a week -- spending one in a conquer and building two more. I'll be conquering tonight at about 11 p.m., but want six for the conquer afterwards, as it may be more difficult. I want to do it in one pass.

Two of those chiefs are in my offensive village. Those will never actually take a village, so they will always be available to assist someone else in a conquer (assuming I have the culture points).

In S1.com, our alliance had 15 players that conquered 40 villages in 50 days, because we were very active and very cooperative. Cooperation in this game rules above all.

Very true.

We have a lot of "stuff" going on right now. You guys will all know when anything big happens but... Please everyone, message your shadow neighbors and get to know them. Practice working together on inactive targets and be ready for anything big to happen.

Random is right. 8) This alliance's best quality was and IS orginization...That was why I made the move. This wins servers....JUST TRUST ME ON THIS!