GoTWiC [AoH] S3R4 House Lannister

Greetings ladies and gentlemen. After the break of a great streak, in the last round, of as many as 7 matches in which they finished in the top 3, Stanko was highly motivated to return to the old glory with his team and again fight for the first place and try to win the Glory castle.

He contacted his team for a strategy for the next match, however, he received a somewhat worrying message, namely that his player who was in the Clan castle will have to miss the match. Another problem, as always before the Arena - a new and reliable player. We searched for a long time because we needed an infantry player who would help Git if necessary. Time passed and we were still without players, so Stanko thought to enter the fight with 9 and hope for luck, when Lord Rainer appeared an hour before the start. He was a solid infantry player who was still without T5, but he will certainly be useful to us. Stanko quickly got in touch with him and gave him instructions right up until the start of the match. We were all ready and headed for the Arena.

This time we represented House Lannister. Stanko immediately started looking at future opponents and was not at all happy when he saw several well-known players. The most difficult opponent will be Minity from house Stark.

A very strong cavalry player where even Stanko's lancers can't beat him. The main favorites will be the Baratheon house made up of BaN players

as well as Greyjoy, led by Stanko's former teammate Neik9x.

This will be a very difficult and exciting match, but if you want to be at the top, you have to fight with the strongest. Let's go!

The match started and everyone went to the Strongholds so that we could finish them as soon as possible and get points. Already at the beginning, Stanko had a problem because instead of the agreed cavalry player, the newest infantry player joined our clan. Immediately there was a rebellion in the team, which disturbed our plan a little at the start, but Stanko quickly solved the problem and decided to leave the infantry players in the Clan. We decided on trading posts because they brought the most points. But for that we needed Maidens, more precisely 3 because they brought 50% extra points. But before Maiden there was an attack on Strangers. The goal was to conquer us, and that's when Stanko ordered Ches 2, as the strongest cavalry player, to occupy it while Demon and Git will try to conquer the opponent's. Stanko quickly sent spearmen to the Demon because the opponent had already started attacking him. Stanko managed to arrive on time, but it wasn't enough to defend against a strong infantry player, so we only stayed on one Altar before the start of Maiden.

But it was much more important to conquer Maiden and Ches 2 again had the task of occupying our while the others attacked the opponents. Stanko sent to Adijjj spearmen who attacked Greyjoy's. Although we expected them to launch violent attacks, the Greyjoy's didn't seem to care much for the Maidens and we managed to win without any major attacks on us.

We were not lucky enough to win the 3rd, but Stanko was satisfied with the 2 Maidens won and the 30% increase in points. It was just important to protect them, and Stanko was in charge of that, and he had the first task right after the balloon fell on Greyjoy Maiden, which was attacked by a spear player. Stanko launched a quick attack to defend him, but the opponent was reinforcement by his teammates and Stanko lost in a close fight.

"I may have lost the battle, but not the war." Stanko told his teammates and quickly sent the recovered spearmen into a new attack.

This time against significantly fewer opposing troops, Stanko managed to win and save Maiden.

But he didn't have much time to rest because House Tyrell attacked their Maiden. Stanko got a report that it was a strong cavalry player that wouldn't be that much of a problem for him, but he was fortified with over 5m army. He knew he couldn't attack solo and quickly launched a rally attack on him. He could not wait long for all his teammates to send him troops, he already started with close to 4m because he thought that would be enough to defeat the opponent. In a very difficult fight, Stanko managed to defeat his opponent and save another Maiden.

Glory was opened, but Stanko could not participate in the attack on Minity, which occupied the first Glory, because he had to guard Maiden, which was being attacked by several strong opponents. Fortunately, there was no infantry attack and Stanko managed to defend himself. In the meantime, DemonQ and Ches 2 started a double rally on Minity.

The plan was for Ches 2 to hit him first and make it significantly easier for Demon to attack with spearmen. We managed to do that in the collision of two strong cavalry players, Minity managed to win, but after suffering great losses, which could not be compensated for only 5 seconds until the attack of DemonQ, who was more numerous and managed to capture Glory.

We tried to save Glory, but we were soon defeated by a strong BaN player and his infantry. With about twenty minutes to go, we had the second position, which was great considering the strength of the opponent, but there was still a lot to play for.

In a rather surprising fight where Stanko thought he would defend the Altar very easily, he suffered heavy losses.

However, the most important thing is that we defended the Altar and now we are waiting with impatience for Ches's attack on Glory, which will be in the last seconds until the capture of Glory. In the fight against a far more numerous opponent, Ches 2 still failed to overcome a very strong infantry player led by NK.

This was only a few seconds before the conquest, so we didn't have time for a new attack and house Baratheon managed to capture Glory.

With less than 8 minutes to go, we had a 4k point advantage over the 4th placed house Tyrell and it was only necessary to manage to keep our castles.

Wanting to score as many points as possible, Stanko attacked the Greyjoy Dragonpit and sought quick support from his teammates. However, even though he won, he could not defend himself against a strong opponent who threw out Stanko and thus ruined his plans.

In the meantime, House Tyrell launched numerous attacks on our Altars. Stanko quickly tried to defeat them, however, they were mostly infantry opponents that Stanko could not defeat so easily. The main problem in those moments was the absence of Git and Chess who were supposed to attack such opponents instead of Stanko.

"Where are Git and Ches 2, they have to quickly attack their opponents until support arrives. Find them in the Arena, we need them."

Stanko shouted at the other teammates. By quickly sending additional troops, the opponents easily succeeded in conquering one building at a time and reduced the difference to only 1k points with 2 minutes to go.

We all started to panic, including Stanko. Tyrell's tactic of attacking all our buildings was successful while we were weak in defense. they managed to take our Altars with only a few t1s and that annoyed Stanko the most because he couldn't achieve everything by himself and he asked everyone to get involved until they overtake us. However, with a minute to go, they overtook us and now we are already in a problem of whether we can go back. Stanko could not defend anything because they were infantry players, he already started to see if they attacked any building from the other house and thus prevented them from conquering it. With 15 seconds to go, we managed to win the Dragonpit and get close to them at only 800 points.

"It will be another crazy finish", Stanko told Demon,

hoping that this time he will have a little more luck and overtake them in the last seconds.

6,5,4... the last seconds were counting down in the Arena. There was nothing more we could do, we just waited and hoped that in the last seconds we would still end up in 3rd place. Time ran out. We were left in 4th place.

Another uncertain situation that did not go our way. Stanko was very disappointed with the position and the game in the last minutes when we had even 4k points more. He was angry with himself, because they should have changed tactics and not tried to win Dragonpit, where they lost precious time. What mattered was that we did not lose points in this crazy and difficult match.

In the end, Stanko finished in 16th position, which was a solid result, and now he wants to fully recover and prepare for the next round and return to the top 3.