First a little introduction:
You all might have noticed that Countdown was a little bit inactive recently. To sum up we took our vacation a little earlier than expected. For some it was a happy vacation for others it was not but enough with the real life stories. The fact is that we are (mostly) back and here is our first war report:

Vs Omega(#33)
With all the slacking we found ourselves with a nice supply of market credits and most of the tribes ready to pump some thieves/offence. Since there have been some impolite PMs going around between 33 and 35 we decided that it is time for proper action to be taken. A war has been planned for the early morning (server time) on 13th of December with our tribes required to set alarms earlier for training and rebuilds. The declaration and first targets were planned for 8:55 AM server time. At 8:50 still only 2 tribes were present and things were not looking bright. Although the target was easy - a 3.1k raven with only 34% citz, we were severely lacking in firepower. At 8:54 peoples began to show up and we were all set. The kill seemed to be so easy that our noobs (Ender and BladeTheWicked) did their upmost to make it more interesting. The first did not show for the kill at all and the second bounced off the target. Luckily our brave viking stepped in in the last second and saved the day with a nicely timed grab that finished our target.
At 09:00:02 the first kill was done. Preparations began for the second kill. After gathering some intel the second taget was chosen - a 4155 acres Templar with 39% citz high ml and some gh. Our thieves were not happy because there were still targets without gh but the templars crappy citz ratio and the several grabs that were scheduled for him made him the definite choice. Kill attempt was set for 12:55.
At 12:58 it was clear that only 1 of the planned 3 grabs was going to happen so 1 of the attackers razed and the other grabbed while the third picked his nose (the same heroic viking that saved us earlier).
With several tribes missing the KT and some opping after tick we got the target down to 10k citz and we slowly started to wait for the next attempt at 13:55 when we had 2 full tribes and a lazy viking to raze.
13:55 resulted in utter failure so we aimed for 14:55 :D At 14:55 ender and the rest of the thieves showed up and with some voiding and arsons the so called easy target was finally dead.
Cudos to the templar made our lives a bit harder clinching to life with his high activity.

With only 2.5k acres left to win the war we have decided that we will go after one of the Light Elfs - a 3.9k acres tribe with a 49% citz ml22 and no thief def. Since we got a kill from the top half and most of our thieves were recharged they threw spare tps at the target at 16:55 and prepared for the final assault at 18:55. The target did not login at all and at 18:55 we found that the homes we razed earlier were still barrens. Long story short we overkilled with more than 100 homes and still had 3 razes and a full thief to spare.
Result : Victory 3-0.

Uh-oh there was also an out of war kill after our victory during witch I slept and I dont have any information for. The final result appears to be 4-0