Ultimate Conquest - Season 20 Round 2 - [N0X] vs [LEG] - Do or die

It's the first participation for [N0X] in Ultimate Conquest, and the things didn't start too well for them, qualifying from the 16th spot meant that they fought the alliance on 1st place on the regular season of Alliance Conquest, which were their friends from [WxC]. [N0X] fought valiantly on that match but the difference in power was too big, and they ultimately lost. They fell in the lower bracket which means any other lose would mean a complete elimination. Since on Ultimate Conquest you get to know your next opponent as soon as the round ends, [N0X] leadership eyes were on the fight between [GCM] and [LEG], the fight that will decide the next opponent for [N0X]. Both alliances were very strong possible opponents but ultimately [GCM] won against [LEG] so next opponent for [N0X] was [LEG]. With this in mind [N0X] leadership tried to get as much information about the [LEG] alliance as possible, questions like: who are they? are they a strong alliance? how many strong rally leaders they have? were on everyone's agenda. Well, as it turns out [LEG] was a quite strong alliance, with a few very strong accounts there, an alliance that defeat [BaN], one of the strongest alliances in Westeros, in their last Alliance Conquest match to qualify.

Considering the threat [LEG] was showing, [N0X] leadership started strategizing on what they could do to defeat such a powerful alliance, whom to pick in their 70 players roster for this match that would possibly give them high chances to win. Once that decision was taken the leadership sent a raven to everyone with the information needed for the next fight. LadyKnight was chosen to be a rally leader while Shado was a racer again (no idea why they pick him, he never wins any races), One thing that was going into [N0X] favor was the time of the fight, which was 19:00, their usual fighting time during Alliance Conquest too. Once details were set, everyone in the roster prepared as they could best, and on 25th of January, at 18:00, they marched towards Ultimate Conquest battlefield. At 18:30 sharp warriors from both alliances started entering the battlefield. It was a great attendance from both alliances as it was an elimination match, and just a few seconds before the fight started there were 70 warriors for [N0X] against 66 warriors for [LEG]. Will that be enough for [N0X] to overcome the raw power in favor of [LEG]? let's see.

The fight started with the opening of the two outposts, the Temple of the Mother and Tower of the Warrior. [N0X] racers were assigned for every building but somehow either they had flat tire on their racing carts or [LEG] racers were just way better cause they won all 4 races. holtep took Tower of the Warrior, OUTSider took Targaryen Outpost, Arwen took Temple of the Mother and Virginy took Lannister Outpost.

This was a setback for [N0X] as they were used to win quite some of the initial races but of course they didn't just give up cause of a few lost races and as soon as the buildings opened for attacks, they tried to take Tower of the Warrior back first as together with a few other buildings it provides quite some huge bonuses for the alliance holding them. A wave of rallies was ordered by the shot caller, and the rally leaders did so in just a few seconds. The rallies were well timed but due to holtep being infantry and [N0X] relying mostly on spears, combined with the buffs [LEG] had, made [N0X] not win enough rallies to take the building.

Seeing that holtep is out of reach for now at least, [N0X] decided to shift their attention to other buildings that didn't look so well guarded in an attempt to get on the scoring board and not let [LEG] get too ahead in points. Rallies were assembled on Targaryen Outpost and Tower of the Mother and both buildings were successfully taken by [N0X] with Alysanne and VERGO. However, one thing was clear now, [LEG] did their homework too and all their building holders were infantry.

Then it was time for ports to open and again [LEG] managed to win both races on ports. Things weren't looking good for [N0X] but they kept pushing of course. They set a wave of rallies on Lannister port, but they ran into the same problem, a very strong infantry account was holding it. Note that [LEG] didn't do any swaps, it just happened that the racers that took the buildings were also their strongest accounts and all of them were infantry. Despite 1st wave of rallies failing to take the port, [N0X] did another wave right after and this time they were successful, Mickyvee took the building for [N0X]. It was now time for Casterly Rock to open and yes, what a surprise, [LEG] won this race too, with their strongest infantry leader this time. He was way too strong for [N0X] to deal with him in any way, so they just let him stay there for the whole fight. [N0X] put their sight on the other buildings and slowly managed to take most of them back, even the Tower of the Warrior but because they lost all the initial races and it took time to take the buildings, things weren't looking too good points wise. Mines were about to open now, and they were [N0X] last chance to do anything in this match. All the racers and all the rally leaders raced in an attempt to take them both, Shado even did what he calls a perfect race but sadly for [N0X] that was not enough as they yet again lost both races.

[N0X] managed to get the mines back but by then it was too late for them to recover the points difference and unfortunately had to admit defeat against [LEG].

Despite being eliminated after just 2 rounds, [N0X] fought very well considering it was their first time fighting in Ultimate Conquest. Hopefully they will manage to qualify on the next season too and strengthen their roster enough to do better and maybe win a few rounds. See you all on the battlefield!