I have to give a huge shoutout to the guys of Vizunah Square who took Dreadfall Bay in an epic battle from us (Far Shiverpeaks) tonight. That siege required a lot of coordination and was done really well – here is the story:
Dreadfall Bay (DB) and Bluebriar Tower (BB) were fully upgraded this afternoon and equipped with a decent amount of siege weapons, both filled with supply. The Scoreboard was at about 250.000 for vizunah vs about 150.000 for Riverside and Far Shiverpeaks (we were in the lead there with about 1200 points).
Apparently the Riverside guys decided that they like the second place better than the third and started drilling into BB over and over again while vizunah started their siege on DB. We fought some epic battles and kept pushing back their attacks, but both servers seemed determined to take us out. They threw wave after wave at us and over time they managed to secure the supplycamps at heros lodge and faithleap. (at this point i would like to hear from those participating sides if you communicated to team up on us, or if you just used the opportunity that we were under constant pressure?
It seemed like there was hardly any fighting going on, except for those battles at our doorstep!)
Everytime we threw back an attack, there was the next Zerg waiting at DB or BB. And not only that – our supply got drained slowly. We were running back and forth between tower and keep, but when Vizunah managed to get a good foothold at the northgate of DB, we didn’t have the forces to keep Riverside out of BB at the same time – our fully fortified tower fell and we lost Bluevale a short time after that.
When Riverside started a push towards our southgate of DB, vizunah managed to take advantage of that distraction and broke through the northern gate which made everyone of us retreat to the inner gates. Since we lost BB earlier, we had about 100 people inside of DB – ready to defend it with our lives… but Vizunah didn’t show up at the inner gates.
We tried to send out scouting parties to see what happened, but small vizunah parties intercepted everyone who was trying to get out – without any sign of their Zerg. After several tries, we managed to sneak past them and check on the southern gate where we saw 20 vizunah people defending our gate against a huge army of Riverside Invaders… but still no sign of the massive Vizunah army. We sprinted towards the hill to the north between the northern gates, where most of their scouting parties seemed to be – we slipped past them and ran into hundrets and hundrets of Vizunah Square defenders on top of that Hill who were just finishing up their third trebuchet as well as several ballistas and arrowcarts… And then the first trebuchetshot did hit our inner walls.
When the walls were down to about 50%, we decided to do a last pushout to take down the trebuchets. Everyone gathered up at the northern wall and we split up into two groups – attacking the Hill from both sides at once, but the Vizunah defenses were just too strong with hundrets of players defending the stairs that lead up to the outer walls.
After this last attempt failed, we sent out parties to capture camps and repair our walls, just to stall vizunah long enough so that they have to fight the riverside army that was still knocking on our south gate. When they finally breached our inner walls, Riverside had still not taken down the southern gate though.
But this siege had gone on for almost two hours by then and when the vizunah Zerg streamed through our broken wall, we were ready. A handful of ballistas that we managed to build with our last ressources and every player that we could get to DB were able to throw vizunah back in a desperate last battle at the keeplord. We defended the inner walls and attacked the vizunah invaders below us with everything we had.. and we defended the keep… but barely.
By this time Riverside was through the southern door and knocking at our inner doors – not noticing that vizunah was regathering at our northern wall and shooting it down with their trebuchets.. again.
It was a close race, but vizunah took the walls down first and this time we couldn’t throw them back. Our forces got overrun since we hardly had any siege left and vizunah moved towards the keeplord. The last handful of Far Shiverpeak Defenders retreated to the southern gate, which went down in this exact moment. We glimpsed at an army of more than 100 Riverside invaders which were about to stream to the keeplord, when the doors fell shut again. Three lone Riverside invaders made it into DB before Vizunah took the keep and the rest was attacking another door. Even though Riverside outnumbered Vizunah at this point, and they almost managed to get the new door down, vizunah used the defenders advantage well and cleaned up the Riverside army.
(edited by Grunblatt.4608)