GoTWiC [AoH] S2R15 House Baratheon

Greetings ladies and gentlemen. We've reached the final round of the second season of Arena of Honor. After the great last 4 games, in which we achieved 3 second places and one first place, Stanko wanted to end the season with a victory.

After a game break, Ches 2 returned and asked Stanko to return to the team.

It was hard to refuse a very strong cavalry player like him, but he had to respect the rules and listen to what Stanko told him if he wanted to achieve a good result. All gathered together entered the Arena. This time they will represent House Baratheon.

Looking around, Stanko saw a lot of famous players and he didn't like what he saw. On his right, the first two houses were made up of the GEU alliance. It will be really unusual to see them in battle and whether they will cooperate or not. House Targeryan was built by TIS alliance, which we met in earlier battles, and this was a real opportunity to get revenge on them. Perhaps the strongest two houses were the Tyrell house with the RRH alliance and the Lannister led by the Orso. Strong infantry player.

This will be an exciting fight and it will be difficult to win, but Stanko will do everything to end the season in style.

The match has started. We all rushed to send our troops to the Strongholds to finish them as soon as possible and get points. We opted for all trading posts because they yield the most points, but that meant we had to focus on winning the Maiden Altars that increase the % of points. It seems that the others were thinking the same, except for the Starks and Tyrells who were making cavalry camps.

The first Altar arrived, which was in charge of Ches 2. Stanko immediately sent him additional cavalry in order to better fortify the Altar and protect it from possible enemy attacks. However, none of the opponents attacked us and we managed to occupy the first Altar. Git and DemonQ tried to win opponents, but without enough support they were easily kicked out of Altar and we were left with one win until Maiden.

The goal for the Maidens was for Git, DemonQ and Ches 2 to capture the 3 Maidens and for the others to send additional troops to reinforce them. Git and DemonQ attacked both from GEU. Unlike Git and Ches, DemonQ was attacked by the Rally attack of House Targeryan and with less troops, he is kicked out of the Altar. We had 2 out of 3 which gave us 30% extra points, but we wanted one more. Again it was DemonQ who attacked, but this time from House Tyrell. This time we had more troops available so DemonQ defended much easier. Although they were all solo attacks, it was difficult to defend, but by sending additional troops in time, we managed to achieve the goal and win the 3rd Maiden, which will bring us a 50% increase in points.

Now it was necessary to defend the conquered Altars, which was Stanko's task. He immediately prepared his strongest troops and sent them towards Stranger, which was occupied by the cavalry player. This was easy prey for Stanko, who came out of the fight unscathed, having won a lot of elimination points.

However, this was not the end for Stanko, who immediately sent his troops to one of the Maidens. This time it was a much more difficult task. He struck the spearman against the spearman. In a fairly even fight, Stanko managed to achieve another victory due to more t5 spearmen and thus managed to save Maiden.

There was no time to rest because the Dragonpits were open. This was an excellent opportunity to increase the additional points. Stanko was in charge of him, who managed to capture the Dragonpit with a solo attack and is waiting for his teammates to send him additional spearmen. This time there were no solo attacks, but the Starks started a rally. Stanko was still lonely and waiting for the support of his teammates, but no one came yet. Against three times more opponents, Stanko had no chance and thus lost the opportunity to win the first Dragonpit.

Without more support it will be difficult to win it, so Stanko told Ches 2 to attack the lower one where Orso will be our opponent. He was not the only one attacking, all the players of the Lannister house tried to defeat him with solo attacks,

but once again the Starks, with the help of a rally attack, manage to defeat us and kick Ches 2 out of the Dragonpit. We also had to take Maidens into account because we were only down to 2. Stanko tried to defend a twice as numerous and stronger opponent with a solo attack, but he only managed to lose troops.

Halfway through the fight, we held the third position, which was a big surprise for us. But we had to defend the Altars. Although he lost a lot of his army in the last attack, he managed to quickly rest them and send them to attack Altar, which was captured by strong cavalry. In a fairly close fight, Stanko managed to win and defend the castle.

Glory started, but Stanko wanted us to win one Dragonpit and ordered Git to attack while Ches and DemonQ would focus on Glory. Attacks started from all sides. Fortunately, everyone was spears and with the help of timely reinforcements, we finally managed to win the Dragonpit and thus climb to the second position.

Stanko sent his infantry and cavalry to rallies, but he had nothing DemonQ because then he would have nothing to defend Altars with. And just as they were starting the rally on Glory, Stanko with two quick solo attacks managed to defend two Altars. The second one was from the group of infantry that kicked him out of the Dragonpit.

House Lannister led by Orso came close to conquering Glory. They entered at the last minute. All 3 of our rallies went pretty close to prevent the opponent from sending a recovered troops. First up was Ches 2, which should cut the enemy army in half,

leaving DemonQ and Git to defeat him. That's how it was. In the last seconds, Git managed to win the infantry vs infantry fight and thus prevent them from winning the Glory.

Now it was necessary to try to defend Glory. Almost all of us have sent additional troops in hopes of helping Git defend himself against the Orso. However, this time he wins, because we had a diverse army and 3 times less t5 infantry than orso.

Stanko didn't despair too much because it was important not to let anyone win, and at this moment we were second, which is more than an excellent result. Stanko did not give up on Dragonpit and took it with a solo attack, asking for the help of the others. However, everyone was focused on Glory, as the orso was once again close to winning Glory. Without additional help, Stanko was once again attacked by the same opponent, but this time it was a solo attack. It was a battle between infantry and spearmen. As the opponent was getting closer, Stanko knew that this would be difficult to win, and then in the last seconds he got help from DemonQ and managed to defend himself with a larger army.

Now it was already late for the rally and Stanko managed to finally win the Dragonpit. In the meantime, Ches 2 managed without major problems to throw out the orso who did not have enough support from his teammates.

With about 15 minutes to go, DemonQ managed to win another Dragonpit and so we climbed to the first position. This was really unexpected for us to be the best against such strong opponents. However, there was no relaxation because the difference between us and the last placed was less than 10k points. House Tyrell, which was closest to us, started raiding Altars to steal some from us. Focused on Glory, only Stanko was in charge of defending Altar and it was difficult to defend everything. One such attack was against a strong spear player where he lost a lot of t5 spearmen, but managed to defend the Altar.

He did not have much time to rest, but quickly sent the recovered troops against an even stronger and more numerous opponent. Thanks to his synergy weakness, he managed to achieve another narrow victory and save the Altar.

In the last 6 minutes, House Tyrell overtook us, because they had Catapults and Towers. We didn't give up, but it was really hard to catch up with them, because unlike us, they didn't try to attack Glory and all the focus was on other buildings. House Targeryan, which was almost the last placed, jumped to the third position and with only 2k points less than us with two minutes to the end of the fight. It was difficult to catch Tyrell, so we focused on defending second place. Since we entered the last minute and no one could win Glory anymore, Stanko ordered that everyone defend only those Altars that we can lose in the last minute, as well as not to allow anyone from the Targeryan house to win a castle. It seems that Tyrell, even though he had a big advantage, was constantly attacking our Altars, which messed up our plans a lot.

DemonQ managed to prevent the Targeryans from capturing 2 Altars, thus reducing their chances of overtaking us. Although we had a solid advantage, we were not allowed to relax as we had learned from experience, because we did not know how many points would be scored in the last seconds. The last attack was made by Stanko defending Maiden and thus securing second place.

Although scared before the start, Stanko was satisfied with another game of his team. Once again they played excellently, not allowing anyone to win Glory, while Stanko defended our buildings. In the end, he finished in a high 10th place, while DemonQ took 4th.

With great games in the end of the season, they improved the score a lot and now they are ready to welcome the new season.