You didn't properly read your environment, you didn't anticipate an obvious problem, you didn't gather enough intelligence, you didn't provide sufficient counter-intelligence, you didn't have a good enough plan in place to deal with the threat, you didn't have a back up plan in place, you didn't adapt when the problem was on top of you.
If you can't use your words as skillfully as you use your troops, you will always be asking questions. like "how can i prepare for a war when my members are spread all over the map" This is how you prepare:
Lessons Legacy could have learned (from mother nature)
- camouflage: Your enemies will move on to another target if you learn to talk less and draw less attention to yourself
- mimicry: Sometimes you have to portray yourself as something you are not in order to invoke certain behaviour from the people around you
- Mutualism: Flowers don't care which bee is pollinating them and bees don't care which flowers they go to, but they have a mutually beneficial relationship. It's possible to do this in tribal wars without making alliances or caring what happens to the other person since there will always be other bees and other flowers.
- Solo vs Group: When the world starts, we are small animals. If you play solo like a fox, then use cunning (your mind) and stealth (don't draw attention to yourself). If you choose to play as a outspoken group (like a pack of dogs), proximity IS important. Animals that hunt as a pack, LIVE as a pack. They don't have members in different continents. Later in the world you'll have amassed enough braun to throw your weight around solo like a grizzly but not in the beginning of a world.
I played 21 out of my first 26 days on this world solo without needing a tribe to save myself. I don't have the "balls to do what legacy did"? You're right. I don't have the balls to play without brains.