Awww, Firequeen...
Posturing and chest beating? Really? I certainly hope that I have not come off that way. Maybe you are referring to someone else; I don't know. Even if you are, I haven't seen it - and that isn't to say it hasn't happened - only that I don't know about it. Maybe it has been in game.
I do not know you. I assume that you are playing the Yontash account. I guess I will just say a few things:
1) Most people do not know and/or do not care WHO plays an account. I could say Pilgrim or Verrem, and they would have no idea what I was talking about; If I say Yontash, though, they know.
2) The previous player(s) did cause some problems for us. They spread out and conquered in our areas, and they also turned what was a personal alliance in to a spy.
Those reasons, though not alone, are why we are still fighting against you. As I said, most players know the account and not the player.
It is not a war, though...we are just continuing what we were already doing.
I'm sorry if that seems like spite. As I said, I do not know you, so I certainly hold no ill will toward you. This is just a war game, and the Yontash account is one of the things that currently stands in our way, regardless of who is playing it.
You are definitely right about one thing - it is a game, and it is great fun. And that is why the vast majority of us are playing it.