GoTWiC [AoH] S3R1 House Stark

After the great ending in the second season, Stanko was impatiently waiting for the new one.

The goals were the same as before, which is to win the first place and the Glory castle, which he failed to win since the first fight in the second season. However, a few hours before the start of the fight, their strongest cavalry player, Ches 2, confirmed that he will not be able to compete, because he was injured in the afternoon fight and will have to take a break. This was worrying news for Stanko, because we needed another strong fighter like him, who will organize rallies. And then he remembered Adijj, a strong spearman, with whom he often fought together in the second season, and after his confirmation, we managed to form a strong team, which will definitely fight for the top positions. DemonQ, who is a spearman like Adijj and Stanko, will lead the cavalry rallies in this battle, while Git will be in charge of the infantry.

The match was about to start. This time, Stanko and his team will represent the Stark house.

Stanko immediately saw which opponents he would get. Although he was not a strong opponent, the players were more than familiar to him. Once again we will face our teammates from the alliance who will make up the Greyjoy house.

Another famous house will be the Lannisters, which was from the tsb alliance.

This will be an opportunity for Stanko and the team to get revenge for last season when they managed to win Glory during Mine Shafts and overtake them. Stanko and the team were highly motivated to start this season in the best possible position.

The match started and we all sent our troops to Stronghold to finish them as soon as possible and get points. We decided on trading posts that bring the most points, but for that we will need 3 Maidens that bring another 50% increase in points. That's what 2 more alliances thought, while Greyjoy, Targeryan and Baratheon will fight for Towers and Catapults and collect points through them.

The first Altars arrived and the plan was for Git to take it, while Adijj and DemonQ would attack opponents and the rest of us would send them additional troops to fortify the castles. The opponents immediately started to attack their Altars, however, a well-fortified DemonQ managed to defend itself and bring us another Altar, and we entered the fight for the Maidens with 2 Altars won.

This gave us hope that we will be able to easily win the Maidens as well. However, Adijjj is defeated by house Greyjoy and Foxbat who joined our teammates. Since Git was in our Maiden, Stanko decided that he should try to win against the opponent. With a solo attack, he managed to capture Maiden, but Foxbat immediately started a rally. Stanko knew that this would be difficult to defend, so he asked for the help of his teammates, who sent him additional spearmen.

There are less than 10 seconds left to win the Maiden, if Stanko manages to defend himself, he will win the 3rd Maiden. Stanko had a lot of spearmen in the castle and expected this to be an easy defense, however with the help of triple weakness synergy, Foxbat more than easily manages to defeat Stanko and thus prevent him from winning the Maiden.

This was quite shocking for Stanko, because he was much stronger than him and had more troops, but Foxbat, with the help of synergy, managed to defeat him. We had to change our strategy and Stanko decided to attack Baratheon, who also had several strong players. However, with the help of a lot of infantry that Git had, he managed to win the 2nd Maiden, that is, 3rd for our house, which puts us in the convincing first place. However, there was still a lot to play for. Dragonpit arrived and Stanko was in charge of them, who managed to defeat a strong cavalry player who had no support from his teammates with a solo attack.

However, additional troops were needed now because the Baratheons were sure to attack. The well fortified troops managed to withstand the Baratheon attacks and Stanko brought the first Dragonpit and 40 points per minute.

With 3 conquered Maiden and Dragonpit, we held first place after half an hour of fighting. However, Glory Castle was open and it was necessary not to let anyone conquer it in order to keep the first place. Several players traded into Glory until it was taken by Foxbat with its triple weakness synergy and that meant a triple rally attack for him.

Since none of our Altars were attacked, Stanko decided to lead the spear rally on Glory. We were able to fill the rallies fairly quickly and launch them at roughly the same time so that the enemy would not have a chance to send recovered troops between attacks.

DemonQ struck first, followed by Stanko and finally Git. However, to everyone's astonishment, no one managed to get it. No one expected this, because the opponent is not that strong and we were convinced that he would not be able to defend himself from all three attacks.

Now there is less than a minute left to win Glory and it will be difficult to start the rally again. Git tried a solo attack but failed. We are left to hope that someone will succeed in evicting him. Fortunately, it was done by house Targeryan with about 30 seconds left, which attacked first with catapults and thus reduced per 5% of troops in Glory.

Now it was a little easier, but with 20 minutes to go, the Tyrells managed to overtake us and it was necessary to do something to get back to the first position. Stanko ordered an attack on the Tyrell Altars to reduce their points. And during that time, Stanko and Git will attack Glory, which was full of spearmen. Stanko filled the rally quite quickly and started it because he thought that he was stronger than his opponent and that he would succeed in winning it. However, even though Stanko had more troops, he was defeated to his great astonishment.

Fortunately, after his attack, about 10 seconds later, Git came, who managed to get the already decimated enemy troops quite easily and take Glory once again. Stanko immediately hurried to send the recovered infantrymen to Glory in order to prepare for defense, however, Git already lost to our teammates in the first attack rally.

Stanko knew his opponent well and it was not his first time to attack his rally solo, so he prepared the newly arrived troops for the attack and quickly moved towards Glory Although the blow was very strong, this time he lost in a rather difficult battle, inflicting greater losses on them than his own.

Since Adijjjj's troops were not at the base, Stanko once again quickly withdrew his troops and sent them towards Glory. This time Stanko managed to win and expel them from Glory.

However, he was alone in Glory and was an easy target for the opponents, so he withdrew in time so as not to lose his troops. Time passed and went in our favor because the other players managed to win several Tyrell's Altars and thus slowed them down with points, and 7 minutes before the end we had even 10k points more than them and it was almost certain that we will win this Arena. However, we still have to not let anyone win Glory. And he was just taken by Foxbat. Stanko quickly hit a rally intended for another opponent before Foxbat won, but was once again defeated by the same player.

Stanko had to admit that he encountered a much stronger player, whose synergy made a key difference. He immediately ordered a 3-pronged rally, where Git will strike first in order to dislodge most of his troops, while Adijj and Stanko will attack with spearmen. Time was running out and we entered the last minute and a half to capture Glory. If we fail now, we will not have enough time for new attacks. They started at a fairly even time so that the opponent will not have time to send recovered troops. In just 11 seconds, all 3 attacks hit, but none of them managed to overcome Foxbat, and to everyone's astonishment, the house of Greyjoy was less than one minute away from conquering Glory and moving from the convincing last place.

However, there was still no surrender. Stanko quickly scouted Glory and saw that it had less than 2m troops. The only solution was solo attacks. Git was the first to send, but he was once again defeated. Immediately after him, Adijj and Stanko followed and suffered yet another defeat. Opponents began sending new troops to Glory to reinforce it. When others houses saw our attacks they also started solo attacks. We couldn't give up now. We entered in the last 20 seconds. Stanko struck 2 more times, however, the opponents also defended well.

The best attacks were made by Git, who managed to throw out a lot of their army, but still not enough to defeat them. The Greyjoys were so close to winning the Glory, seconds separated them. I think they have already started to celebrate when they suddenly attacked by Baratheon house in the last seconds, speeding up 3 rallies and almost completely defeating Foxbat, so that with 5 seconds left, the Lannister house managed to capture Glory to everyone's delight, except for the Greyjoy house, which held up brilliantly all this time. This also decided the question of the winner, because there were less than 4 minutes left until the end of the fight, and Stanko and the team managed to achieve a new victory and managed to pass 100k points without winning Glory.

This was another great and very exciting game for Stanko and his team, where they took first place from the very beginning and held it brilliantly until the end of the fight. In the end, the situation could have been different if Greyjoy had captured Glory. In the end, our teammates took the last place, because they were all the time focused on Glory and thus took a risk, which did not pay off for them this time, but I believe that next time they will have a little more luck and win Glory. Stanko managed to revange against the tsb group, who took 3rd place. In the end, 3 of our players finished in the top 10, while the first place was taken by the great Foxbat.

The new season started successfully just like the last one. This time it's a lot of fun and everyone knows what they're doing, but in time much stronger opponents will come and real experiences are yet to come, so stay with us in new adventures and fights in the Arena of Honor.