The Ultimate Conquest Finals

The Super League Finals… the largest and most watched event across all the realms, and finally we have reached this point. 

What a season it has been until now – many contenders fighting brutal matches with billions of troops lost, healed, and lost again. While as normal, two teams shined above the rest for their power and experience with Alliance Conquest. 

Ban and WxC, from the start it was rumored that these two teams would fight in the final, and as the season progressed this became clearer over time. In the Semi finals, to secure their finals spot, BaN had faced wxc and narrowly won. This set the tone, cheers from the BaN camp, WxC buckling down to prepare for a rematch in the finals, ignoring what they had to do before as in their minds they could only think of revenge, nothing would stand in their way.  

This leads us to where we are now, 30 minutes before the match begins, the map just having opened. Preparations were done in advance of course, executing lords for the hall of faces buff, refinement, gear, talent, badges, weapons and presets all updated. And for this finals, a 100% army size would be used and this made mightylemon smile – for the first time his solo army reached over 2 million, an achievement. He reflected on the days where 1.5 million was the largest possible and chuckled, how times have changed. 

With the entrance of all members, 70 on each side for WxC and BaN showing 100% participation and that each side was dedicated to claim victory. Now the waiting began, some final preparations based on which of the enemies entered with what and the plan was set into action. The opening races however did not agree, WxC winning all races except Warrior, and the BaN team executed their swap – El Sicario would hold Tower of Warrior with the meta line – bleed infantry with vorian. This lineup had shown its devastating power the last few months, with most top accounts running infantry main line. 

Tower of mother was the first target of BaN and quickly we took it, swapping in Benni who would be defending with Cavarly main type. With a few more seconds before ports, Ban forces quickly assembled our side outpost – and we won it as well, swapping in Falcon for a weakness line defense. Very vulnerable to vorian solos, but strong against cavalry of which WxC had many. 

When ports opened it was also devastating, CCCPC would take enemy port and he would definitely be able to hold it until the end. For our side Port there was Banana – another infantry bleed line player who captured it. WxC prepared for a swap and we sent our counter rallies, but Astrryx was able to hold and this was another powerful defender. 

Before CR we attempted a wave on enemy outpost – a success and then we swapped in Drogono – another cav player with Cassana and for our port around CR we managed to sneak 4 powerful winning rallies to steal is back, Ur Candy would be holding this, also with cavs. This posed a problem for the BaN forces, as holding so many buildings with cavs became a challenge to reinforce from all of WxC’s solo attacks. They were able to be coordinated and send 5 solos at a building at once, then switch to a different building far faster than the reinforcers. 

As CR opened again the tension was palpable, such a critical moment in a critical finals match always turned the tide, and Banana was the winner of the race again for WxC, frantically counter swap rallies were filled and prepared to launch – we waited for the swap, wondering who would enter CR as CCCPC was locked up. We found Bzzb and MatJenin guessing it would be them to swap in and timed our counter rallies, succeeded in taking CR, Tholking – BaNs strongest lead would be the one to hold it and after a tense swap it was successful. All the main WxC soloers tried their luck but Tholking being on the top level with CCCPC was able to fight them all off. This brought back hope as now we had CR, a port and warrior. Holding the other buildings was very difficult against the legions of attackers that WxC had. 

Before mines, BaN faltered, losing our side port that UrCandy was defending with cavalry, another one of BaNs strongest leads this loss was devastating, and a bad omen for the final moments of the match. 

The mines went 1-1 and Problemkii with his vorian infantry line would hold so Ban reinforced. WxC on the other hand conducted a successful swap and BaN instantly prepared a rally wave. Focused on the mine defense and attacking the other mine, BaN lost 2 more buildings, further devastating our chances, now we held CR, Warrior and the two mines, but we would have to hold them until the end to win this match. However, too much time had already been lost from WxC taking the mine points, and with a nail biting score, the match had ended. WxC 70,6k vs BaN 69,5k, one of the closes finals ever and a brilliant spectacle for all of GotWiC to enjoy.

For El Sicario, he saw the match unfolding, holding warrior the entire duration from minute 0. When hives opened he was able to get his eliminations by applying pressure to the hive, and reinforcing his fellow warriors in other buildings, but for attacking rallies not much.

Ban Forces after the result were quiet in voice, each thinking about what tiny change could have brought them the 1000 points required, and wishing they had been able to do more. However they were not demotivated, and looked ahead at the coming events.