Champions Never Kneel - Arena of Honor Season 5 Round 3

As the winter is still swinging full force in Westeros, [N0X]OliverQ is preparing to embark in a new Arena of Honor adventure. After the first 2 rounds didn't really go his way, only managing to get a 2nd and a 3rd place, he's eagerly looking for the first win of the season to actually start climbing the glory rankings. Within the 2 weeks between the rounds, without any chance to unlocking the valyrian steel weapon upgrades, he concentrated on upgrading commanders and after countless quests and events and spending most of his wealth, he managed to fully upgrade Laena Waters and get her into his main lineup.

With nothing left to upgrade for now and since it was already Sunday, he took his most trusted commanders and dragons along with his best trained troops and departed towards the mercenary camps. Once he arrived there, he went directly to the registration office and signed the papers required for him to participate in the upcoming round and then went to the tavern to get a beverage and wait for the Old Gods to be done with the matchmaking.

The matchmaking was done even before he got to finish his beverage and the battlefield gates opened for the house representatives to get out and choose the warriors they want to fight in their name. OliverQ was chosen by House Lannister and together with him Cersei also choose 9 other warriors to join her team.

Once all the teams were chosen, everyone stepped inside and headed towards their respective clan castles with OliverQ and his team having to go thru the southern desert to reach House Lannister's Clan Castle in the south-east forests of the battlefield. Once they arrived there, everyone started setting their camps around the castle and as mostly always, OliverQ decided to do a battlefield sweep and see what they are up against.

The news wasn't bad, the battlefield had some strong warriors on it, but nobody way above the others and most importantly, no premade teams, so the team actually had a good chance to win the fight, if they played well of course. Match started quickly after with the opening of the strongholds and everyone rushed to occupy and reinforce them quickly to start the points generation.

As the new strategy in Arena of Honor is to go with military camps to try and conquest at least another Clan Castle, OliverQ as the team's commander decided to go with it and hope for the best. Their strategy worked and within the first NPC attacks, the clan castle of House Baratheon fell into their hands and now they were going to have 24 strongholds instead of only 12.

With 2 Clan Castles now secured, it was time for the team to focus on the altars as they started opening and holding as many as possible will surely benefit them in the economy of the fight. With so many altars to occupy and not so much time OliverQ decided to go in full force without scouting and hope for the best.

His strategy worked for a while at least, as he was taking enemies by surprise and end their domination swiftly but as the time progressed, they started reinforcing each other and OliverQ suffered some crushing defeats, so he had to go back to scouting before attacking. Despite suffering some setbacks, the House Lannister managed to secure enough altars in time and good that they did cause the most important building, the City of Glory was about to drop the protective bubble open for attacks.

As soon as the bubble dropped, some of the warriors on the battlefield tried to go with solo attacks, but the neutral NPCs ain't a force to mess with in lower stake maps so all the solos ended up in crushing defeats. Seeing that, the houses decided to change strategies and send their best warriors to organize rallies insted. Cersei choose OliverQ to rally in the name of Lannister's and he quickly started the rally and waited for reinforcements.

Everyone reinforced quickly and in a matter of minutes the rallies were already marching towards the city ready to challenge the ownership. The battle that followed was one that will remain in the history of Westeros, millions of troops of all types clashing with each other, minutes after minutes of fighting that morphed the snowy vale into bloody red.

Despite being at numbers disadvantage, OliverQ managed to win the fight and now the House Lannister team had to prepare their defenses. Every warrior reinforced the city, there were so many troops defending it, but the rallies were outnumbering them 10:1 and without catapults they had a very hard mission defending it. Despite doing their best, the rallies were too many and coming in a quick succession it was almost impossible for them to defend, so the city fell into enemy hands once again and they got back into attacking position. The battle continued between House Lannister, House Targaryen and House Stark for tens of minutes, troops falling on all sides, rallies after rallies hitting from everywhere and it was looking like no house is strong enough to keep the city for the 4 minutes required.

But then with 10 minutes left till the end of the round, a miracle happened on the battlefield, the reinforcements came in time after each rally and the House Lannister managed to occupy the City of Glory. Raising the Lannister's flag above the city basically signaled the end of the fight, as there was not enough time left for the other houses to fully occupy the city.

After a very hard-fought battle, OliverQ and the rest of the team seen the results of never giving up and fighting till the end. Excelent win for them, and a very important win for him as he managed to get above the Lord rank in the glory rankings and now his next goal is the King one. Will he be able to get there while continuing to go on solo que? Or maybe he'll find a team before the next round? We'll have to wait and see. See you all on the battlefield!