archaic, I think you're misremembering that timeline. MD planned to kill LaF well before the Hanlong/TC thing came to light. When Arsenal wanted to go to war with LaF -> that was when they joined that coalition.

I remember this well because Arsenal expected PDM to just do his bidding and said things like "drop your pact with LaF next round" without really offering any explanation or reasoning. Then MD got whooped, in part because of all the cheating stuff (which, IMO, was so stupid because LaF would have won handily against MD anyway....). This was after several rounds of other MD leaders saying they wanted PDM to join a third neutral side that didn't subscribe to grudge wars, gang bangs or reasonless wars against netters. Instead, they let PDM get killed by SoF. Twice. Didn't lift a finger to help.

Then like 4-6 months later the cheating stuff came to light.

But I agree -- MD has been horrible allies since they came back to this game.