All-Out-War: Battle for the Seven Cities

–= Planning =--

This time, Sword, Alex, Assida, and Smert were sitting in the tavern of my castle and planning a large, complex operation to capture six cities at once and defend one of our castles in the “All-Out-War” event. Today, only trusted people were in the tavern, so we could discuss the plans openly.

- Anth, it will be challenging. We need to take into account everything almost perfectly, down to the minute, so that we have time to complete the entire plan, - Alex, as always, saw the weakest point of this military operation.

- Moreover, if the resistance appears to be strong and we spend more time on the attack than planned, then a chain reaction will begin with delays for all subsequent castles. There is a high probability that we may not even have time for the next castle, not saying about the last one, - Assida supported Alex’s doubts.

- And also, we must not forget to remind everybody in advance through all possible communication channels about the exact start time, so that all active players from our Longreach faction come. Good thing that we created our Discord server for this event, - added Smert.

I signaled the bartender to bring us more snacks and soft drinks and concentrated on my colleagues, with whom we have already gone through more than one battle.

- That's right, friends, so we have "mandatory" castles that we need to capture. And there are "bonus" ones - if we capture them too, it will be a nice bonus. It is mandatory to defend the Outpost 1, which we captured yesterday in the Judgment faction. It is also mandatory to capture three cities: Outpost 1 in Ages, M.Industrial City-6 in Ages and L.Industrial City-2 in Lordsbane.

- Here, look at the map I prepared - I unfolded two large maps with attack and defense marks in front of my friends. The hours and minutes of our armies' attacks were also marked there. All attacks were announced in such a way that there was less than 10 hours between the moment of the attack announcement and the end of the base attack period. Therefore, as soon as we capture the city, it will immediately become under the bubble.

- Okay, that's a cool idea! - Smert smiled.

- Yes. Alex did the time planning. I think he did a great job!

- Listen, Anth, why after the 5th city M.Industrial City-4 we don't go to Lordsbane’s Outpost, although it is closer (you have it 7th on the list), but first Resources City-1 (number 6 on the map) and only then we return to the Outpost? It's strange, to capture castles in this order, - Smert carefully studied the map and noticed this moment.

- Hаha, - I smiled, - when Alex and I were capturing and repairing villages yesterday, it was already late and we were so tired that after declaring an attack on the castle M.Industrial City-4 (number 5 on the list) we simply forgot about the Outpost. And when we had already completed the villages to Resources City-1 (number 6 on the list) and declared an attack on it, Alex noticed that we had missed the Outpost. That's why it turned out to be the last on this list.

- Well done, - Assida teased us, smiling, - the main thing is that at least they didn't forget about the Outpost.

Our meeting came to an end. I got up from the table and summed up the results.

- So, is the plan clear to everyone? Then we prepare for attacks, form armies, remember to regularly update resilience and full healing wagons. And may the Seven be with us!

–= Defense =--

== #1 ==

Soon everything was ready. The armies gathered in a nearby city, updated resilience and waited for the last minutes before the attack to move to the Outpost. It has no walls with gates, no towers with archers. A clear field around. Therefore, an unfinished village nearby was chosen, where healing wagons could hide. And the battle marches advanced to the Outpost.

Meanwhile, the enemy was in no hurry. Perhaps they saw how many of our troops had come to the defense… Maybe for another reason. But a small handful of troops from the Judgment Faction did gather in the Stage city. Although without their main forces, which we knew for sure they had.

In the first seconds it seemed like it was all over for me. My army plus several armies of my friends in the rally under my command were significantly outnumbered by opponents:

- Anth, there are too many of them! - Sword shouts to me and tries to regroup the troops. - We need support!

- Help is on its way! - I quickly answer in the heat of battle, watching like my heal-march with tier-4 troops are die dieing, which drew some of the enemies and thereby allowed other our marches to hold out for an additional 20 seconds. - Hold on for a few more minutes and we will defeat them!

And indeed, literally in a matter of minutes the situation began to change. The quality of our troops turned out to be better than the number of our opponents. Support from the neighboring castle also began to arrive..

- My troops have arrived. I am already destroying the enemies according to plan, - Alex smiles, flying into battle with all the armies.

- I'm here too, - Assida calmly and thoughtfully leads the marches, not giving her opponents even a second of calmness.

- Anth, the enemy is almost eliminated! - reports Sword, who fought valiantly and has slain 20 enemies. - We held out! And it looks very much like a victory.

- Attention! Everyone, update your resilience and heal your troops, - I order our armies, while the enemy retreats to their city with heavy losses.

In the first 7 of 60 minutes, the Judgement Faction attack was repelled. And although we waited the whole hour while the attack declaration lasted, the enemy did not appear again. At this, the defense of the Judgement’s Outpost was successfully completed. Six more cities awaited us on the other side of the battlefield.

–= Attacking Ages Faction :: Outpost and City =--

== #2 ==

30 minutes after the Judgement Faction defense of Outpost 1 was completed, we regrouped near the large village #1076 and moved forward to attack the Ages Faction Outpost 1. Surprisingly, no one came and we calmly captured it in about 4 minutes. This was even faster than we had planned, so we had time for humor and a short break for coffee and tea.

== #3 ==

The attack on M.Industrial City-6 began from the western gate. The current debuff of -300% on Total Attack did not hinder our troops:

In 10 minutes it was all over. A lot of troops with bowmen arrived from Ages Faction, who were very slow and simply did not have time to put up a decent resistance to our troops, or leave the battlefield in time. We caught up and destroyed their marches.

- Attention! Friends, let's quickly update resilience. The city is already bubbled because we blew everything up perfectly when we announced the attack 10 hours ago.

- Roger that! - the commanders responded.

-== Attacking Lordsbane Faction :: Three Cities and Outpost =--

== #4 ==

We see abandoned Municipal City in the L.Industrial City-2. Lordsbane simply did not come to its defense…

In 3 minutes it was all over. The city was captured.

== #5 ==

Next according to the plan was M.Industrial City-4 a little higher on the map. It had only one defender. And most likely he understood perfectly well that he would not be able to hold the city. But he could earn kill points, so even before the attack on the castle began, he went outside the gate and bravely attacked our troops:

- HaRpYiE, he has spears in the march. The target is just for you, - I say in the chat to another of our allies from the [7GD] alliance.

- Accepted, - I'll attack him soon, answers HaRpYiE.

No one else was stopping the castle from being taken. It seemed like it was the most inconvenient time for Lordsbane. And city capture was all over in 2 minutes.

- Friends, since every castle we capture immediately appears bubbled right after the attack, we have a lot of extra time left before the next city attack. That is, we are going even faster than the optimistic plan! Therefore, I propose to capture (not fully build, but only capture) villages around the castles, - I turn to my people.

- Roger that, - I hear in response and see how the military marches have started to move.

- Remember about resilience, - this already reminds Assida. Because many people constantly forget about this.

== #6 ==

Our armies arrived at Resources City-1 on time. About a minute and a half before the attack. And again, no one met us. Lordsbane was as inactive as possible that day.

In about 3 minutes we captured the city and began to regroup for a visit to the final objective for today - Outpost 2 - Lordsbane Faction.

== #7 ==

Outpost 2 - Lordsbane Faction greeted us with howling winds, biting snow, and the absence of enemy soldiers.

- I don't like this part of the map. It even looks cold here, - said Sword.

- Agreed. Let's quickly grab everything here and go to where it's warmer, - answered Assida.

The capture of the seventh city was brilliantly executed. Even ahead of our most optimistic and ambitious plan. Teamwork overcomes all obstacles. It's a pity that the resistance from Lordsbane and Ages was rather weak. Let's hope that in the coming days we will be lucky. And it's very good that we have such wonderful allies in the Longreach Faction and such an active alliance!

–= Super Bonus =--

- Friends, how do you plan to capture the EIGHTH castle today? I understand, it sounds like madness, but why not, if there is no resistance from Lordsbane?

- I support any movement, if it gives us fun, kills and Kingship points - Alex immediately reacted with enthusiasm.

- I agree, - says Smert.

Sword just nods and smiles.

- I'll tell the allies that we're going to quickly build a couple of villages near L.Blessing City-1 and declare an attack on it. And in 10 hours we'll come and see if the Lordsbane are there. Hopefully +10 hours from now will give them time to gather troops and armies.

While our marches rested and regrouped into new rallies for the final attack, our opponents were awake. Some of the Lordsbane were ready to defend their castle. Honor to these lords who came. We respect such players.

–= Final =--

Just at this moment, a player from the Judgment Faction woke up and started swearing in the All-Out-War chat. He said that will crush us, will defeat everyone right now and so on and so forth.

- Anth, what do you think of this person? - Alex asks me.

- I will say that his account is strong. Somewhere at least a year or even older than our strongest castles. But there is only him there, although he may control a bunch of castles at the same time. And we have a big team that supports each other. We will definitely defeat him. No matter how many troops he brings. But as a person - he is absolutely not OK. Because swearing at others is showing your weakness and disrespect. Maybe that's why everything is so bad in their faction that they have such leaders?

- Maybe, - Alex thought.

- Well, it will at least be a decent fight, - Sword joined us. - Even though I am really tired today, a good fight is always a good fight! And my gut tells me that we will meet him in battle again.

- Friends, thank you for being with me today! Without you, today's epic adventure would not have been possible. You are incredibly cool! - I thank our super team.

The next day it was nice to hear that Anthraxus received the honorary title of God of War for his participation in the battles.

Sword, as it turned out, was right about the fight with the Judgement Faction guy. But that's another story. And our adventures on the All-Out-War map will continue for almost two more weeks and fun is waiting!

(с) Anthraxus