Very disappointing from 5pp. While they didn't break rules excessively, the overall spirit in which the line battle was played was nothing short of disgraceful.
Can we please consider having a rule implemented that states a regiment cannot drop more than, say: 20%, or six - whichever is less, of the players it originally started the line battle with and if they do, the opposing regiment is no longer obligated to match their numbers? I'm not sure if 5pp dropped their numbers maliciously, tactically or simply because their players couldn't be bothered to see the line battle through, but it absolutely ruined the spirit of the line battle and meant K-KA had to spend more time switching players in and out than we spent actually maneuvering. I believe we started the match with about 35 players on each side and by the last round 5pp had just 19 on the field, with a considerable number of their players actually present on the server sitting in spectators. It meant a lot of our players had to be swapped out to sit and watch the line battle, which is totally unfair on them, and 5pp gained an arguably unfair advantage as their style of retreating and firing volleys became proportionally more effective as the lines got smaller.
If 5pp wished to play with 19, then this proposed change doesn't affect them as they could have simply brought that number to begin with. If players simply left because they had other things to do, is it really acceptable for a regiment in the first league of NWL to bring 35 players and for almost half of them to leave the battle before its conclusion?
