although it required fast responses but i am sure there were fleets stand by all the time 24/7 not only in ZEFA but also BR and I/B or any good fleeting alliances.
IF it were not for the sake of taking risk there really would not be any ninja. and progress would be really slow. at least for the players growing.
from torgards point of view he did a calculative risk of sending fleet at apocalypse assuming in all fairness that he was offline. hats of to apo for managing to turn the wheel around in the last minuet and right away trying out the trick of playing dead.
I say it was a great battle for both sides. Lodbrok (ok it takes me a while to write ur name as i have hard time to pronounce it
