You poor fools. You don't know what Avu actually meant.
Learn well my lesson.
At the start of W4, the battle against Koya through a union of Goons and my city, plus several weaker villages throughout the hearthlands under my command, was going stupendously. We were killing AD members and satellites left and right. Using clever tactics and actual combat ability, the warriors of the alliance managed to win virtually every battle. In fact, from what I remember the only battle during that period we actually lost was when AD's warriors were using ants to win.
Then one morning I woke up dead in my brickwalled village. From what I understand, Koya's crew built hearth fires under my city so that when they spawned they appeared inside the walls. I don't much regret my death, I had to quit for a time because of classes anyway. Hell, they didn't even steal anything we didn't steal from them first. But the point remains,
The point is this: If you fuck with Russian raiders, sure you may be better at playing legitimately, but eventually they will just use an exploit you don't know and rape you to the moon, and lie through their god damn teeth while they do it. (I don't know which is my favorite Koya-lie, the "you only killed farmers because timezones" even though we were destroying the village with almost no crops, or "We have spies in your ranks" when he doesn't really know my group consisted of four people I'd been playing with for a year.)