Hello Lord and Ladies,

The long awaited new season of Alliance Conquest has still been going on! Everyone has been waiting for this to come with great excitement, hopefully every alliances are prepared for the long season, which certainly won’t be without it’s excitements. This is especially true as we only found out a few days before the start, that the rules will change and a lot of new things will be introduced. This effectively meant that the teams had to adjust their usual tactics a little.

What are these new features? As you can see below, for this season teams can get special buffs for occupying different buildings and their combinations.  

 Also a new addition what needs to be mention is that now only 25 members can reinforce the buildings, instead of 30.

And probably the most exciting new features are the new stratagems!  

 * We can activate a shield on the buildings for 1 minute – this is very handy when you feel your won’t be able to defend against rallies.

* There’s a counter reduction effect one

* And one what randomly dismisses 5 reinforcements armies

We weren't sure how these new things would work, but we prepared as much as we could, everyone was curious to see which team we would have to play. It turned out that our opponent would be none other than BTa - an old acquaintance with whom we should expect a bloodbath every time.

They don't need too much introduction, they have great players, they are experienced, strong and very organised every time. On the other side, the same can be said about us, DUM just keeps getting better, stronger, more cohesive with each season. I would venture that would be the best match of the secound round, the odds are very balanced, no one could know how it will end, but I’m 100% sure, it will be a real a BANGER!!

Let’s see what happened!!!!

Rusty start

The importance of this battle is shown by the large numbers of both teams represented themselves, BTa had 77 members and...DUM reached 86.

The troops were ready, the leaders quickly issued the final tactical instructions and we only had to wait a few seconds for the battle to begin. We waited, breathless, for the counter to reach zero...and it began!

 I can say that DUM got off with a good start – on of our big strengths the “race speed” really work. BTa wasn't faster than us so we managed to occupy 4 buildings out of the 4. What it can become very important later on with the new building combos. In order to keep the Warrior we had to put a strong account in there, for this task, we could not have found a better candidate than efiko himself.

Meanwhile we were filling up these rallies, the eagle-eyed DUM players like KETARA & Lann intercepted BTa’s swaps and occupied both Outposts!

At this point – despite the slow start – DUM had every building under control and the two Port were about to open up…

Well...now we can definitely say that our racers got rusty during the long SoW season – BTa managed to be the fastest once again and grabbed both Port! The positive thing in this for us was, that they needed to make the swaps, meaning we have had a chance to intercept them – this campaign was a 50% success – Lann managed to occupy the Targaryen Port – but BTa successfully swapped in Lannister Port! It was not a big concern for us, we just needed another good rally waves to succeed. Just like before, a series of perfectly timed speed rallies landed on the Port and at the end BTa’s defence yielded.

BTa did not mourn for long after losing the port. They immediately went on the offensive on two fronts. DUM had to split the focus between the Targaryen Port and the Targaryen Outpost – BTa used the same tactic (timed speed rallies) – we were not able to hold them off in the Outpost, but we successfully defended our Port.

In this big defensive rush we almost missed out the opening of Casterly Rock. Fortunately KETARA is always on top everything and with a super fast movement he was the first to breach CR’s gate and occupied it for DUM.

Despite a rough start, DUM slowly took control of the battle and built a few point lead after the first 15 minutes. But it was far from over…

BTa strikes back

Just so we don’t get too overconfident, BTa immediately started their counter strike. First, they took control over the Lannister Port and non stop rallying the Targaryen Port. We were totally engrossed with this defence, we haven’t had time to think of anything else, we didn’t want to lose this one. BTa sent countless rallies again Lann’s Port, but we were able to hold the off for a long time, thanks to our full focus being on the reinforcements. Later on BTa finally realised they didn’t stand much of a chance to knock us out there...at last, we had time to catch our breath and start to think about our next step. There was only one target what could aim for, the previously lost Port. After some waves of constant bleed rallies, BTa’s defence got weakened enough, that they was able to get it back.

BTa found themselves a new goal – after giving up on the Port – they wanted CR!

Their first attempt was so fast and scary that we straightaway needed to use the new tool and bubble it up. We were nowhere near ready to defend it. Pheew, they almost got us! 😝

While CR got it’s very handy bubble on, BTa launched an attack for the Lannister Port – they found our weak spot – simply we didn’t have enough cavs to hold a building with them, especially against strong spear players what BTa have. And after successfully swapped in, we had a great task ahead of us, if we wanted that building back.

But we like a good challenge...so we called our banners and initiated a bunch of rallies, the first attempt was not good enough – but we were very very close, only 2 million troops left in after the last rally’s hit. We have reached our goal for the second attempt...but while we were doing this BTa sent their rallies against Casterly Rock and our defence just crumbled. It was a very nice distracting tactic by BTa!

We were a bit upset that we didn’t pay much attention to this, so right away we were on the offence for CR – interestingly it was easier than we expected, we only needed 6 rallies to take it over. We also managed to pull off a very smooth swap, placing STRAW BERRY in CR – that gave us a bit of relief, would be really hard task to knock her out!

BTa really tried their best at this phase of the game, constantly holding our defence under fire, which we were only able to counter at great costs. But as the scoreline shows, DUM fought back and took a confident lead, into the last 20 minutes.

The slow mines changed nothing

The last 20 minutes are always about the mines, in this new environment the mines now giving you points way slower than before, so you have to keep your focus up even longer.

When the mines opened up, both teams managed to capture and successfully swap one each.

DUM wanted to win this match with the highest possible point difference (for the rankings) so we couldn’t let BTa having a mine. Quickly set up several rallies against the Targaryen mine, we launched them, very precisely timed and the timing was so perfect, that BTa couldn’t really react fast enough, it was a very smooth capture.

After this BTa had to admit, that they lost this battle, there was no way to come back anymore. No one can say they didn’t try everything, they did everything what they could, giving us a really hard time, but at the end they just come out short.

It was a really hard fought battle, with some twists and turns and even tho’ DUM won by a big margin, it did cost us a lot, it was not just like a walk in the park. It was a really enjoyable clash and thank you to BTa for the great match!

Total Elimination Points

Total Healing Points

Final result

Anyway, thank you for your attention, follow my next stories and see you soon! 😅