Siege of Scarlet Fortress

For June CCS we got matched into Scarlet Fort. Our battle took place right at reset.

MBL got with Dark Helmet a rallylead joiner, as we just went in to rally and make elims as usually.

The main competitors this time would be the main force that grouped in DYL, lead by Minity and Archon and some minor force of FDH. Hopefully they would be forced to hold long enough for real and not just with T1, so that we would be able to kill a lot.

Knowing the rally results from last month, when running into Sicario and getting annihilated on kinda all rallies, we this time called right away rallies, but sended them one after another on the first wave to check how it would go. For the start we had 3 inf rallyleads with PinkyOr, L A H and Dark Helmet and 1 Cav Rallylead with Bearface.

Now let´s look into how the fights went. After Archon took the cities and first rallies were launched, we saw they were defending mainly T1 but since it was female cav into bleed inf results were okayish but not the best. Defending in CCS got really expansive with the changes of multiple rallies from the same ally and no hits on player castles, as the amount of joiners and therefor incoming rallies went up alot. The reaction on this was defending with T1´s mainly as healing them is way cheaper then healing T3 or T4, which in other turns although makes it tough to get eliminations for the battle diamonds, as you often lose some of your T3 in exchange for mainly hitting t1´s that don´t give points for elimination ranking.

Bearface running female cav himself was doing fine and ordered to permanently keep going. The rest reopend too but checked to launch simultaneously to kick the T1 cav and maybe hit mixed troops of people not sending cav T1.

After those first results and Minity who took the city next being cav too, Dark Helmet changed to spear, which should increase the results a lot, in the hope to reach into the T3 and T4, as they did send some real troops for defense too.

All 4 of us kept opening rallies hoping for kills so that the whole group could make the max battle diamonds, if we would be able to get decent hits in. Last CCS it took us till the end and Fleepo to use some of his rallyspeeds to reach the max rewards.

After 10 mins it was yet only DYL holding. Would they keep going and be forced too? Or would they be able to stop early, which would result it no troops to rally for us?

When the first Spear rallies hit the results turned clearly. From balanced to bad wins for us, they turned into one sided clear wins, reaching far into the T4.

This brought the first nice elims, and the losses from first hits started to pay off. To keep some pressure on DYL and force them to hold longer, MAJ decided to try and reinforce once Dark Helmet got control of the city.

Being sure noone would send for real all started soloing on the city granting some pretty nice reports which created a lot of elims, but more importantly Dark Helmet started to make some time and therefor putting pressure on rank 3.

But since only a few reinforced and we didn´t trained T1 as we didn´t planned on holding we got kicked fast again. Still it forced DYL to keep holding for real.

After Rallying DYL for another 20 minutes in those noone was really able to take it from them for more then a few seconds, they felt kinda save and reduced the reinforcement which resulted in the city changing more often.

When Dark Helmet got controll of the city once more, MAJ commanded to reinforce if people wanna make some easy kills and it should pay off perfectly. This time being 3 instead of 2 people they stayed a bit longer already and made some pretty decent defenses.

Now it was FDH trying to still grab rank 3 with different rallyleaders but since their pure numbers were low often they couldn´t held long, which made it hard to rally them, as they often got kicked by even solos before our rallies were able tot hit the city.

Queen L A H kept trying to get atleast 1 nice win herself and gladly FDH was helping with this putting a spear rallylead into the city again and again, so she tried to time perfectly with him walking and launched 11 sec after him in the hope he would get holder of the city and they would try to reinforce him.

With that nice win and the City now changing more and more often they closed CCS for that day and just Dark Helmet tried to get some more elims. But with all those rallies they were allowed to make and the reinforcing this CCS was way more successful and a lot of MBL were able to obtain their battle diamonds.

Although I am sure DYL enjoyed the matchup as we had 3 people that each lost 200M + power as they wanted to get rid of troops, that kept hitting the GC and offering a lot of kills and token to DYL people holding the castle.

DYL managed to grab rank 1-3 and Minity was able to secure Champion.