ST in the 11th round of the Arena!

Fighting in this Arena of Honor season was a real struggle for SIR ST, who had not managed to gather many fame points as the season reached its 11th round of action. However, he was not going to let this demoralise him, from venturing in alone and only finishing on 5th or 6th in the rankings, being dragged back by the lack of synergy of his teammates, he had created his own team and chased the City of Glory ever since.

They had incredible results in the first 2 rounds together, and they showed no signs of stopping. SIR ST was having an incredible time with aims to capture the City of Glory for the first time this season. SIR ST is a warrior like no other in Westeros, he bears incredible strength, but also is of a stubborn nature like no other. His stubbornness was what stopped him from better results this season, but now he knew that he could relay on past teammates to overcome this issue of his. He knew that he could count on his old SKR friends to help him through it.

They have fought many times together not only on this battlefield, but in a multitude of other events as well. Not before long, SIR ST was a member of SKR, and had only recently joined VME, where he is chasing new heights.

In the arena of honor 6 factions clashed with one singular goal in mind: being at the top. There was one certain way of accomplishing that goal, capturing the City of Glory, the building that only the strongest of all 6 factions was going to accomplish. SIR ST wished that this time his faction was going to be the winners, however he knew that the challenge ahead was going to be a harsh one. Even if they were not going to be the ones to capture the City of Glory, they had other ways of ranking high, just like in the past, they could build trading posts and fight over the capture of various altars. This was the to-go strategy which they had used in all of the previous rounds.

Once they joined the battlefield, hopes grew for the capture of the City of Glory however, as SIR ST did not recognise any worthy opponent other than 2 factions: House Stark with Vangark and Dopehop alongside House Highgarden with Covya. Individually, SIR ST was the strongest of all previously named, but backed by a stronger team than his, he was skeptical, but still hopeful for what lay ahead of him and SKR.

Despite the slight chance at capturing the City of Glory, SIR ST was learning from past mistakes, where he did not opt to build trading posts, and instead, had raised them up this time and was going to take a safe approach, hoping for the best outcome possible. SKR followed his lead without hesitation, however, they were slow in building them up compared to the other teams, it was clear that they lacked not only the army size but also the T5 troops to speed the process up.

When the strongholds were done, the battle over the altars had begun, and with it SIR ST wanted to test if his assessment of the enemy houses was correct: that he was the strongest out of them. He thus marched to each of the enemy outposts, defeating the holders one by one, he was able to confirm his theory, but at a cost: he gave away his information as well to all of the enemies.

The battle of the altars continued with great victories on all fronts for SKR and SIR ST. They captured all of their own altars and were aiming to own 5 trading altars, a start that was nothing short of perfect. SIR ST was focusing on the defense, whilst everyone else was capturing more and more altars, a great strategy that kept them raising in the ranks more and more.

The points had slowed down however once the focus shifted towards the City of Glory, with it open, SIR ST was not going to defend anymore, but was going on the offense and hoped to bring home a certain victory. As he raised his rally for a swift takeover, house Stark rushed first, and managed to secure it before SIR ST.

He launched a small scout before sending his rally, and it was dopehop holding it with spears, it was going to be a hard fight. But as he launched his rally, some good news came from House Highgarden: Covya, the other rival, was launching his own attack over the City of Glory. If they hit at the same time it may come off as a victory, SIR ST thought.

The reality was sadly different, Covya's rally was not won, and SIR ST's was nowhere near winning either. The spearmen and T5 inside the City of Glory made the difference.

SIR ST not only had less T5, but also less troops at his disposal, with the majority being his, and no dragons to follow. He was indeed stronger than dopehop, but the depth of his team proved crucial to the victory.

With the battle over the City of Glory lost, and losing points by focusing on it, the campaign this time around, despite building trading posts, was a massive loss for SIR ST and SKR. They had dropped from the first place to a mere 5th, and there was no coming back from it.

SIR ST had not lost motivation at the sight of this loss, he only saw ways to improve, and had the motivation to achieve that. Next round will only see his team with more t5 at their disposal, ready to take on the new challenge ahead of them.