Arena of Honor - Season 2 Round 15 - The dedicated few

Its Sunday again, just before the Christmas on Westeros, and everyone's favorite adventurer, Shado, its up for the last round of his favorite event, Arena of Honor. In the round prior to this, despite all his efforts, his team didn't manage to score a win to keep his Glory King rank in sight so for the last round he was just too low in points to get there, however he could lose his King rank if his team placed on the 6th spot in ranking so he was very determined to not allow this to happen. Early on the day he sent a few letters to try and find a team to make match a little bit easier by having a way to communicate with the team but despite all his efforts he didn't managed to find any so all his hope was going into having a good team after the mercenary camp matchmaking.

When sun started to set, he prepared he took his battle gear, equipped his dragon with the best skills and armed his troops with fresh Valyrian steel made weapons and started marching towards the mercenary camp. He arrived a bit after 6 p.m. and went to the registration tavern to sign the registering papers and then he took a seat and waited for the matchmaking. It didn't take long as the registration period its only 30 minutes and soon enough the matchmaking was done and the warriors started entering the Arena of Honor battlefield. Upon entering, he was assigned to fight in the southern dessert of battlefield for House Tyrell and Shado quickly started taking a look at his teammates for this fight, he didn't see any familiar faces around, but he seen a few members from alliances he heard of. There were also a few very fresh warriors among his team but just because they weren't as big doesn't mean they won't fight fiercely on the battlefield. He also sent some spies to investigate other house's warriors and noticed there were a few strong warriors among them but nobody that can't be defeated so the match wasn't looking too bad.

He recalled his spies home as the fight started really quickly, with the opening of the first set of strongholds. Everyone rushed to occupy them quickly and so did House Tyrell or at least they tried too as while the occupation was quite quick, the building timing and the building choice was a bit off. While most of the warriors went with building Trading Posts as per usual, a few of them built Cavalry camps instead, and in Arena of Honor building a mix of trading posts and military camps it's never good, but without being the commander or knowing who the commander is to send a quick informing raven, Shado had to go with the flow. Just a few minutes after the next set of strongholds open along with the first Altar of the Stranger. As in the most fights, Shado went with a solo on altar to try and take 'it for House Tyrell and without any opposition from the other houses, it was theirs after 2 minutes. Then Shado went for another altar and this time [RnD]Mitso decided to try and take 'it from Shado without scouting first, big mistake on his side as his bowmen were no match for Shado's infantry.

Without any other attempts, another altar went into House Tyrells possession, and despite being a warrior short on the battlefield and having a few fresh warriors, beside the problem with the stronghold, House Tyrell was doing great in the matchup. It was then time for the Dragonpits to open for taking and Shado decided to go himself for one of them, sent a few spies to see what is residing there before the attack and he found, as we'll later see, his nemesis, [FFS]DA1 Troya, a strong infantry warrior.

It was a win this time and with reinforcements from the other House Tyrell warriors, Shado managed to get a Dragonpit for the team. Just in time as now it was time for the City of Glory opening and as they say, the best way to not lose a fight is to win the fight, so Shado and other House Tyrell warriors were decided to get the City of Glory. He started an infantry rally, but he quickly noticed that the other warriors didn't bring enough infantry on the battlefield to fill his rally so he decided to cancel and instead join [FFS]dex71's rally, a spear warrior that managed to fill the rally more than Shado. Meanwhile he swapped his attention to the altars as there were a lot of them under siege from the other houses. [FFS]dex71 rally was successful and House Tyrell started the occupation time on the City of Glory.

Everything went very well for House Tyrell, reinforcements were good and they managed to keep the City of Glory for a long time despite the opposition of other houses, until the dark time set on the battlefield,6 minutes before the end of the battle. Shado's nemesis, [FFS]DA1 Troya managed to occupy the City of Glory with a rally and Shado was like:Oh no i'm not gonna lose another 1st place in the last few minutes so without any concern about his healing speedups and marching hastens he started trying to solo DA1 Troya in hopes that he'll weaken the defense enough for the Castle of Glory to flip one more time.

A number of 18 solos were executed in a 3-minute timespan by Shado, he didn't win any of them, wasn't even close as the House Lannister kept replacing the loses that Shado inflicted but despite that it was just enough to weaken the defense for another House's rally to flip the City of Glory once more and with less than 4 minutes left of the battle nobody could occupy 'it enough to get 'it in their possession so House Tyrell won the match. Amazing last round for Shado and everyone else of House Tyrell, filled with adrenaline rushes that ended with an unexpected yet very well-deserved win for them. This concluded the Season 2 of Arena of Honor for Shado and he's eagerly waiting for Season 3, hopefully he'll find a team but if he won't he surely doesn't mind the solo queue. See you all on the battlefield!