Sov, we actually told RD not to FS you guys with us because we'd have rather fought the war alone. They wanted to jump in and completely cream you, we wanted to fight a more even war because we had morals.

We held RD back for a while because THEY were hot on the head (I can provide logs...). They completely supported everything up to and including the war and in fact were involved in the planning for it. The reason we went to war was because RD agreed to be there for us should we need it the next round -- we were cool fighting the first war alone regardless of a win or loss so RD could win ANW, but RD agreed to be there the following round so we could present a united front. We thought that was the best medium-term strategy (although I also expected that we'd get better turnout + we would have a HOW...). Evo also agreed to help out too the following round, expecting it to be a wider war.

RD were 100% gung ho to fight SoF alongside their ally PDM up until the point Silver signed the pact with SoF and turned all coy and hid from us. Regardless of what they told you, that was how it went from our side. We would not have FS'ed SOF had we not thought we had RD support secured for future rounds.

Sounds like they were likely telling each of us half truths regardless.

However, I'm happy RD is on your side now :p
they add another layer of hypocrisy (LaF is anti-landtrading too, eh?), unevened an even war, and generally make SOF+RD look like good buddies. If that SoL thread is true, adding them to the mix sounds about right :p