Arena of Honor - Season 3 Round 2 - Battling NPC's is hard sometimes

After the fun he had on the first round of Arena of Honor's season 3, OliverQ decided that this is the event where he wants to pursue higher ranks so before the 2nd round, he prepared as good as he possibly could, upgrading his battle gear, adding new skills on his dragons and equipping his troops with the best possible weapons. The week passed quickly, and it was already Sunday, 26th of January, and the time for a new Arena of Honor round. For this round OliverQ decided to test the evening waters as timeslot so he made the last few preparations before departing for the Mercenary Camp for another solo que adventure. Once the sun set, he and his army started marching towards the camp and arrived there just a bit after 18:00, in time for him to sign the registration papers. After signing them he took a seat in the tavern and waited for the Old Gods to do their matchmaking.

Just a few minutes after the matchmaking started the battlefield doors opened, and warriors started stepping inside. For this fight, Shado was chosen by House Targaryen to fight for them in the south-west woods of the battlefield. Along him, for House Targaryen were fighting [RoB]denhon, [Tw1]Taiwan04j, PaVluntik, [PRM]Comte vert, [WjB]tc547, [QMI]Gotzon, [TMH]RB88, [AkT]Buddy44 and [RBB]EstevesIII.

He didn't know anyone from his team but that wasn't a surprise as he was new to the Arena of Honor. The other Houses also invited only Mercenary Camp teams. with House Lannister deciding to not invite anyone at all for this round, so it was looking like a fair fight, a fight OliverQ and his team could actually win. The fight opened as always with the first set of 7 strongholds that everyone rushed to occupy and build either trading posts or military camps. The commander of House Targaryen decided to go with cavalry camps for this fight, and OliverQ decided to follow the flow and let the commander handle the strongholds.

Quickly after that the next set of strongholds and the first altar opened for attacks, OliverQ rushed to Altar of Stranger and all he found there was some NPC's that he quickly evicted and since for 2 minutes nobody challenged him, the altar went into House Targaryen possession. Once Towers started opening it was clear that House Targaryen has the strongest NPCs on the map as they quickly occupied them and the first occupation points given rocketed House Targaryen on 1st place in points, at least for now. OliverQ then went to occupy Altar of Warrior to strengthen the NPC's even more and [BPN]kay 01 decided to challenge him to a battle.

OliverQ emerged victorious without any problem and another altar went into House Targaryen list. Meanwhile House Stark managed to occupy House Greyjoy's main building so they dethroned House Targaryen from the first place. However just a few minutes after House Targaryen also started an occupation time on House Tyrell's main building, OliverQ noticed the opening and sent his main march in hopes to occupy the main building for House Targaryen. [1PT]AngelaPT decided to present OliverQ with an eviction order and upon being ignored she challenged OliverQ to a battle.

Battling OliverQ and House Targaryen NPCs at the same time was too much for AngelaPT to handle and she had to admit defeat, so House Targaryen also had 2 main buildings now. Quickly after that House Targaryen managed to occupy House Greyjoy's main building too and they skyrocketed in points, looking like everything was going in their favor on this fight.

When the Dragonpits and Catapults opened they had the same faith as the rest of the buildings, House Targaryen's NPCs were too strong compared with anything else on the battlefield and the battlefield map was quickly turning full purple color. With the victory on sight and mostly nobody to contest 'it, warriors from House Targaryen turned their eyes on the last building opening, the City of Glory. They wanted the City of Glory very badly as it provides both big points per minute and most importantly it provides 12 glory points to the House occupying 'it at the end of the battle. But as it turns out, defeating the NPC's that hold City of Glory in these smaller scale battle's is very challenging without a strong rally leader. Seeing as nobody from House Targaryen starts a rally, OliverQ decided to take up the challenge and he started a rally. However not many of House Targaryen warriors brought bows into the battle and he managed to only get 1 other warrior as reinforcement for a total of 1.5m troops and only 800k of them were bows.

OliverQ's troops were massacred but that didn't stop him, he really wanted those 12 glory points for his team. For the next 25 minutes he kept rallying and even trying to solo the NPCs in the City of Glory, but all the fight had the same outcome. And then with just 5 minutes before the fight ended, House Targaryen warriors finally found enough bows to send into OliverQ's rally and when the rally hit the NPCs finally had to admit defeat.

The City of Glory remained unchallenged for the next 4 minutes and it went into House Targaryen's possession, and this concluded the round 2 of Arena of Honor for OliverQ. What a great battle this was for House Targaryen, everyone in the team fought valiantly and they surely got rewarded for their effort with a whooping 48 glory points (maximum you can obtain on a round) and over 180.000 points the secured them all the ranking rewards. Excelent round for OliverQ and he's surely looking forward for round 3 fight. See you all on the battlefield!