People love a bad guy, they love having someone to hate, LoR are that nation, you should be quite used to it by now. But not sure how a warring nation can feel bad about being warred, tbh I don't like the idea of deciding that 100% certain you're going to war, in the same way I don't like people saying they plan to net 100% peacefully. Imo nations should just play out with a set strat then see what comes up. For people who want a war, wait for a reason, I remember with Devil he knew his nation wanted to war so he let them do things like triples and quads as he knew it would get people wound up for war. Predisposition to war is one thing but going into a set knowing you are going to war is not good.
I'm happy with LoR, our retal was dealt with very nicely