Arena of Honor - Season 3 Round 10 - A trade that had to be made

The summer is approaching in Westeros, and this season of Arena of Honor is getting closer and closer to its end. For [N0X]OliverQ is time for the 10th round, a round that can be decisive for him getting the Glory King rank or not. With such high stakes on sight, he used the 2 weeks after the 9th round to prepare as good as he can, rally more troops in his ranks and keep pushing the research towards discovering the much needed valyrian steel weapons. Time passed so quickly and before he knew it was already Sunday evening and since despite all his efforts he couldn't find a team yet, it was the time for him to march towards the Mercenary Camp, so he rallied all his best soldiers along with the best commanders and dragons and left the [N0X] base. Upon arriving to the camp, he went directly to the registration tavern and signed the papers required and then waited patiently for the matchmaking to be done by the Old Gods.

The matchmaking it's quickly done in Arena of Honor so within minutes, the battlefield gates opened, and every house representative got out to select their team for this fight. OliverQ was chosen by Sansa Stark this round, to fight for house Stark in the frozen North and along with him Sansa also choose [WWW]jasvetka, [TDw]La Louve, [WWW]BrVk, [WAO]SASUKE Zou, [OBE]Sir Arthurs, [THP]mrBlack, [OBV]Atakama and [EdF]CARSTEN.

After the team got to know eachother, they marched together with Sansa to the North and one they arrived there, they set the basecamps next to the House Stark's Clan Castle. After setting his camp OliverQ quickly sent orders to his scouts to go around battlefield and try to see what the other houses are up to. Once the raven returned OliverQ noticed that for the first time in a very long time there were no premade teams on the battlefield so the chances to get a win increased a bit for his team, at least that's what he was thinking.

The time for scouting was over as the fight started within minutes of entering the battlefield, with the opening of first set of strongholds. House Stark's team sent their warriors to evacuate the neutral NPCs from the strongholds and once the occupying time reached 2 minutes, they sent the construction workers to start the constructions. OliverQ was chosen by Sansa to be the commander of the team and it will be up to him what to construct on the strongholds.

Before taking any decision, he took a look at House Greyjoy and House Baratheon and as it turned out on 1st sight, they were building trading posts, so he decided to go with trading posts as well, little did he knew at that point that he was tricked by House Greyjoy's initial plan. Trading Posts were constructed just in time for the next set of strongholds opening and the process was resumed. The team cooperated very well together, the constructions were done quickly, and they even managed to take an early lead in points.

But everything can chance in a blink once the altars open and the fight starts to actually heat up. After taking Altar of the Stranger with no opposition from the other houses, when he tried to take the Altar of the Warrior from House Greyjoy he had a huge surprise. Once he arrived at the gates and his bowmen started shooting arrows over the walls trying to hit the enemy inside, the gates suddenly opened a a massive army of infantry charged towards his bowmen. That move took his commanders completely by surprise

Despite managing to take down a few infantries before they got in melee range once that happened, OliverQ's bowmen were decimated, and he had no choice but to retreat. Once he fully healed his troops, he decided to go for another attack, thinking he'll take the enemy by surprise with such a quick attack, but the one that was taken by surprise was himself because he didn't notice VietTran called for reinforcements and now he had to face an even bigger army. Needless to say, all his bowmen were wounded on the battlefield, and he had to pay yet another big healing bill to his medics. There was no time for rest as enemies were trying to take all the altars from House Stark, especially the Altar of the Maiden. OliverQ noticed one of them was under siege by the enemy, so he decided to assemble his finest march and try to take 'it back.

Hererjack's commanders were no match for OliverQ in this fight and his bowmen swiftly wounded so many of the spears that Hererjack had no chance but to withdraw from the battlefield. The match was going very good for House Stark and with the opening of City of Glory it was about to become even better.

Sasuke did a very good job on taking the City of Glory for House Stark, everyone in the team reinforced and the occupation timer started. Rallies were coming from all the sides and catapults were killing so many of the troops inside every minute but despite that, everyone in House Stark's team kept their reinforcing game top notch and rallies after rallies were deflected with time passing more and more in their favor.

They even managed to keep the City of Glory for long enough to be claimed by House Stark and it was looking like nothing can stop them from winning, but you know how it is when you celebrate too early, you start making mistakes. And a bunch of mistakes they did, starting with Sasuke not taking advantage of protection bubble to refresh his troops decimated by the catapults inside the City of Glory.

The rallies started chipping more and more of the troops and like that wasn't enough, with so much fighting for the City of Glory, the team lost their Clan Castle from sight and House Greyjoy managed to take 'it from them.

Despite them having the City of Glory the team fell on 2nd place and there was no way of winning from there unless they recover the Clan Castle so as soon as protection bubble dropped, they tried to do so. Unfortunately for them, it took way too long for them to manage to do that and having to keep reinforcing City of Glory and fill rallies to get their Clan Castle back proved to be a harder task than they anticipated and with just few minutes left from the fight, they managed to get their Clan Castle but on the other hand House Tyrell managed to take City of Glory from House Stark.

With no time left to take 'it back, House Stark had to admit defeat and unfortunately for them, not only lose the 1st place they kept for most fight but also the 2nd place.

The fight ended with House Stark on 3rd place, a very bitter 3rd place for the team and specially for OliverQ who did blame himself for being tricked by House Greyjoy's building swap. But that's how Arena of Honor fights are, there's ups and downs so hopefully on the next round OliverQ will manage to get more than a 3rd place and finally reach his goal. See you all on the battlefield!