Why you should always make sure you've killed EVERY LAST VILLAGER

Alright, time for a long overly dramatic recap of my tightest clutch in MP ever. TLDR on the bottom.

Playing a FFA Arena 8 player unranked. I go as chinese, start in rightmost corner (gonna call it east), purple guy above me (north east) is also chinese. I'm a below average player so I grow slower than others and tend to lose a lot. Anyway, orange's base (south) gets wiped by green (south west), his base emptied out completely with resources still intact. Purple rushes me with everything he got, breaks through my walls, I still got no military units, figured it's the end for me and start packing bags.

About 30 villagers of Grey China are rushing out the west gate to find a new home but purple's Chu Ko Nus are pretty efficient at the ol' genocide (actually I was the same race so nvm) and all of my fleeing villagers get decimated Mao style...... or do they??

2 brave men and 1 woman somehow managed to slip through the enemy firing squad and are fleeing the burning city behind them. Had enough resources to build a new TC and start a new life but the problem was navigating the No Man's Land between all the bases (with people now building TCs and castles there). So my refugees are well on their way to the west, planning to settle in orange's now vacant lot when suddenly a couple wolves up to no good start making trouble. No biggie, my guys can handle a couple wolves. Then a couple more showed up... Then a couple more... 4 dead wolves later I figured I can just outrun them and not risk escaping genocide just to end up some dog's lunch.

Anyway 3 wounded but determined villagers still fleeing a pack of wolves (about 3) when suddenly blue's castle (guy below me) pops out of the fog of war and headshots one of my men on the spot... then it shoots again... and kills the already pregnant woman... shoots again and... misses! The third and last man, the prodigal son, the last Chinaman barely escapes the last volley and runs off into the sunset, all by himself.

Anyway he got to orange's base which is in the south. Green (who killed orange) was engaged in a sweaty battle against yellow (north west) and blue (south east). Slipping past their battlefield, the legendary warrior of the once great but now extinct clan of Grey China makes home in the ruins of orange to rebuild Grey China 2.0. Long story short, he does, although blue almost managed to get in once but got distracted by purple and green beating him down.

The rest of the story is visible in the timeline. Purple, thinking he exterminated the last of the greys, went on to fight red (north) and blue (south east). Green allowed me to stay there since he was busy with others and didn't consider me a threat. He even sent me some resources on the condition I would fight blue later. He was right to do so because my only nemesis, the fiend into which I would plant my sword of revenge, was Purple China.

I forgot to mention that the map had a population limit of 200. Since I don't build that many villagers anyway, I actually managed to build the largest army in the game (about 150)... which I without hesitation used to begin the offensive to retake my lost homeland. At the time purple was finishing off red in the north, obviously having no idea of the vengeance that awaited him. The Great Grey Army had no difficulty reclaiming the homelands since purple didn't even bother replacing my original arena walls with his own... so I just marched into Grey China 1.0 and did a bit of counter-genocide.

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I cannot describe to you how utterly satisfying it was to steamroll the man who left me with nothing but 1 villager (ok 3 but I blame the wolves too), who, like the Chinese Adam, sacrificed his own rib to create a new woman and spawn a horde of his own children destined to oust the purple dogs from the ancestral homelands... I can only imagine what purple felt, seeing the crimes of his atrocities return to haunt him.

Anyway after I took back my old base I promptly went balls deep into his OG base, too. My army of champions and Chu Ko Nus was quite unstoppable considering the pop limit and everybody's dwindling resources from the eternal battles between each other. In the end me and green agreed to allied victory and that was the end.... but not before I wrote in chat "raping me was a mistake purple", 5 seconds after which purple left the game, and sweet vengeance was mine. Yes it was a bit cringy and I could have done better but I was too high on adrenaline and righteous fury to care at the time.

Thinking back, one misstep during the No Man's Land navigation was the difference between staying in the game and losing entirely. Just a few inches backwards and an arrow from blue's castle would have ended the fate of Grey China there and then. There was also teal but I think he died from yellow or red or something.

TL;DR got wiped in castle age by neighbor in arena, fleed with villager(s), rebuilt in emptied base, raised an army worthy of mordor, returned to beat the shit out of him while everyone was busy fighting and won.

Thanks for reading this long (if you have) and let me know if you were confused by anything.