AC XEN vs tAL

The Siege of Winterfell (WF) has ended and Xenith (XEN) have come out unbeaten, some enemies were rather easy, lots were tough. Finally, the XEN troops can leave behind the cold and windy north for the warm and green sceneries south of the Stark’s lands. While the change is appreciated indeed it is not yet home for the brave XEN soldiers who now start another round of Alliance Conquest, fighting over Lannister and Targaryen buildings. XEN’s first enemy of this round is Catalyst (tAL), a few strong players, like XEN but it seems number would be the biggest advantage here. 

As the counter comes to an end and the match finally begins, XEN has 10 people in while tAL only has 7. Let the Conquest BEGIN !!!! 

XEN immediately take both the Tower of the Warrior and the Temple of the Mother. On the other hand, tAL captures the Targaryen outpost. They did not move in the first two minutes but all of a sudden captured it. This surprised the XEN forces as they were not using speed ups after the first minute passed and no movement had been seen from tAL. The Lannister outpost is left untouched by XEN for some reason, tAL could take it without any losses as it is left alone but they do not go for it either.

As the ports open and both are taken by XEN, tAL concentrated on a different matter and attacked the Temple of the Mother. The strength of one player alone was enough to defeat the inattentive XEN troops and take over the building. They started slow but they are strong in their attacks. XEN used to be weaker and fast attacks would cover this weakness but, their forces have grown since then and though not strong, tAL is not an impossible opponent hence giving them an equal opportunity on power and an advantage on speed.  

That being said a proof of the XEN forces’ growth is shown right away as they capture the Temple of the Mother back from tAL and resist without any trouble an attack from them too on the Tower of the Warrior. The strongholds open up and both are taken swiftly by XEN, the usual fast take and then reinforce. The Lannister outpost had been left open and alone until now and someone from XEN finally takes it. XEN now has a pretty big lead 11k points to only 3k for tAL. Their ability to take buildings first and then reinforce them fast is paying off. 

The Targaryen outpost is taken back by Noct, always the one on tAL side’s to force through every reinforcement. The outpost at this point of the game is almost useless though so XEN decides to leave Noct there hoping that way the other tAL members wouldn’t be able to take over the other buildings. That plan did work as both mines are taken by XEN and no attacks are sent to either of them. Noct’s outpost is reinforced and this reassures XEN to leave it untouched. Outside of him, no one in tAL can take over any reinforced buildings controlled by XEN. Leaving him in this outpost keeps him from attacking any other main since you can only control one building at the same time. Also, having the strongholds still strengthened XEN and thanks to the constant attacks against tAL it forced them to concentrate on defending that outpost instead of being offensive. Thanks to all of this, the mines were not attacked until the end of the game allowing XEN to almost completely drain every point left in them. tAL being focused on that outpost also allowed some XEN members to take out their reinforcements in other buildings and sending them to the mines instead to get more points faster. 

 As the match comes to an end, it is an overwhelming victory for XEN who starts off their AC training grounds the best way possible. The best players would remark that indeed XEN didn’t get the 80 000 points but for a small game of 10 vs 7, being able to dominate this much and come out with 75 000 points is much more than enough for XEN. One thing they could’e done better though was reinforcing the mines. Even as time went on, the mines were never full with the 10 people XEN brought into battle which is a problem, maybe having everyone in them would have allowed them to get 80k points. Nonetheless, XEN are happy enough with this first game, first win of AC. tAL on the other hand need to be more active, the other players that are in need to help Noct much more and allow him to concentrate on strong buildings by them taking and defending smaller ones. That would allow them to be much more competitive by capitalizing on their strongest player.