It was the third round of this season's Siege of Winterfell. Where HLL faced VNu. 2 small alliances with not many active players. Our Leia Sky also found some time and was finally ready for her first match of the season. What will it be like? Stay with us and you will see. ^^

 After two defeats at the start, another match was on the line, HLL had to be better, of course with as many players as possible.This time, Leia Sky will join her teammates, this will be her first match in a while. She has been eagerly awaiting it and will be ready to give her best. HLL lost in the first 2 rounds to WAU from k291 and NoG from k138. In the first match there were only 4 participants and in the second 15. Which meant that on Wednesdays there was less interest and activity in HLL matches. Leia saw that and did not expect that there would be many teammates on her side that day. Opponent alliance VNu had one victory from the same number of matches. It looks like they missed 1 match, whether it was because of tactics or maybe they forgot, anyway we will never find out. 

Wednesday has finally come.

Leia was excited, the match was about to start at 13gmt at the time when HLL plays its matches. The first thing she did was check if there were enough troops for SoW. Unfortunately not, she had to improve the condition of her soldiers a little before the match started, at least to have enough troops for the first 2 armies. Since Leia is a cavalry player type, she is only repaired by that type of army.

The match starts in half an hour, Leila now has enough troops for 2 armies, and the third will be a mix of all types. She was hoping someone would show up in the alliance chat. She knows there won't be many players, she hopes for at least 5. The first and it turns out the last was little mikey, of course not counting the alliance leader account, who doesn't even have an army. On the other corner, VNu also didn't have many participants, but their 7 was a large number compared to HLL's 3, technically 2.

little mikey said before the start. ''Leia, let's go together, Hot Spring is our side, FishCakes will be at one of the bases behind Hot Spring, with his few troops and possibly wait there for us to bring treasure''. Leia replied that it was OK for a start: "Let's play bravely, and maybe luck will favor us, alone against all? so be it!"

The first major battle took place right at the start of Hot Spring, where 6 HLL armies faced 15 VNu armies, or 2 players against 5. FishCakes stayed on the stronghold, while 2 VNu players charged to the other side - the Armory. Leia's army with Lord Merrel should show well, with Merrel in the team there were also Mengo for speed and Jeane for healing. The other 2 were not constantly the same and often changed during the match. Also, the mitigating circumstance was that most of the opponents were infantry type. That was fine for Leia Sky, but not for little mikey, he is a spear type.

Mikey said in a slightly nervous tone: ''Is it possible? Amazingly, everything is full of bloody infantry armies''. Anyway, HLL wins the first fight, but as the opponent loses troops, they send again and again and again. The problem was that they had to stay on that side, and the enemy had taken over the entire other side. Both little mikey and Lei Sky knew it would be hard to defend everything. The idea was to hold your own side and chase the treasure.

After 5 minutes of fighting, both Leia and little Mikey refreshed their troops, it was time for the treasure. Mikey said he would stay at the stronghold and wait, the weak FishCakes would keep him company, until the opponent arrived. Leia's task was to get to the treasure with his fastest army and bring it to the base that little mikey was holding. VNu players didn't follow the situation very well, some just stayed on the Armory side guarding the castles, while their majority Hot Spring team rushed towards mikey. Leia saw that, at least in the beginning, she would carry the treasure unhindered.

little mikey holds up well, his armies die but he brings them back and refreshes them. VNu players finally see what is happening and try to catch and take her down Leia, but to no avail. The first treasure was successfully taken. The tactics may be good, although numerically inferior, with this tactic HLL may take a lot of points and make the match interesting. Commander little mikey, gives the strategy: ''Leia, this time we go the same way, only on the Armory side, let's draw the opponent to run.'' This campaign against the opposing Armory side took place without FishCaces, who had not sent any new troops after his first battle. Leia Sky and little mikey easily defeated AFC opponents at Armory, Stronghold and Outpost, while the main VNU troops from Hot Spring were waiting, during which time they could also refresh their troops. The good thing is that until then they did not care about the Statues that appeared on the map, they resolutely followed the tactics in the fight for points.

The exact same situation happens, little mikey guards and fights for the Stronghold, while Leia goes to Winterfell and takes the treasure, VNu players are not in the group, several fight against little mikey, several armies chase Leia, while several wait for the Statue. In such a situation, Leia takes the treasure too easily, and since she is cavalry and the opposing player is infantry, she also carries it easily. Simply because she is fast and a counter type compared to them. By conquering this treasure, the HLL heroes knew what was coming, the loss of the entire Hot Spring side. But the score at that moment was not much in favor of VNu. The chance to win was still emerging. It was only necessary to continue like this with this tactic and hope that the VNu players would not heal and refresh the troops.

However, then something completely unexpected happens, Leia asks in the chat: ''are we going again like for the first treasure, to the Hot Spring side? To which little mikey replies: ''unfortunately not''. Real life happened. Little mikey writes: ''I have to go to the hospital, my mom has to go to the doctor, she's not feeling well. I'm sending troops to Stronghold and logging out.''

Leia Sky knew what that meant, the chance for any fight and victory would be in vain. But of course the most important thing was that everything is fine with little mikey's mom. Victory will come some other time.

Leia then manages to do what she can on her own and, for the first two times, takes the treasure to where little Mikey left his armies.

Those were the last points that HLL took, since there was a lot of time left, almost 30 minutes, Leia decided to try the same thing again, only this time alone, unfortunately she didn't succeed, she almost reached the base, but was defeated right at the end, namely near the Strongold circle.

After that, the only thing left for our Leia was to try to take some individual reward through the Statues, which she succeeded in doing. The only reason she do was to refresh her troops and not send them to the enemy armies anymore, the map was then constantly red.

The fight is over, long before the end, only the final result is waiting, unfortunately Leia herself could not do much. She almost managed to capture 30k points for HLL. VNu also failed to reach 80k points. The final result was HLL 27289:74249 VNu.

Little MIkey and Leia Sky were doing great, if it hadn't been for real life and a little health problem (Mikey's mom's health is fine now), who knows how the match would have ended. But anyway, it was a great experience for Leia, she was finally happy and satisfied with her participation, it doesn't matter that it wasn't a victory, there will be a next time. She will be looking forward to the next matches and hope for a greater participation from her teammates.

That's all for this story, see you in the next one, until then, greetings from King Rale