A New Beginning - Ruin's Rivals - Season 2 Round 1 - [N0X] vs [PLQ]&[mfa]&[HVL]&[GEU]

It's summer in Westeros and also the time for a new event, Ruin's Rivals. What is Ruin's Rivals you might ask? Well Ruin's Rivals it's an event that runs in Westeros during the Ultimate Conquest so the other alliances that didn't qualify for UC have something to play. [N0X] didn't manage to qualify for this season so they will do Ruin's Rivals instead and try to do their best there. A few days before the actual fight, [N0X] leadership started sharing information's to their members, telling them what's the event about, how to play'it what buildings to aim for and other mandatory things. Once everything was set in place, it was time for Scythe, the queen of [N0X] to register the alliance for the 1st round and hope the Old Gods will bless the alliance with a not so hard matchmaking.

After the matchmaking was done, a raven was sent to the alliance with the result. There was quite good news, first [N0X] was chosen as Barren Army, a thing they really wanted and 2nd their opponents despite having a combined alliance score of 77.3M weren't the strongest possible and the fight was looking like it would be a very good one. Despite the alliances in combined army not being the strongest [N0X] could've got, they could bring up to 4 times the numbers [N0X] could so [N0X] decided to not treat the fight lightly and advised all his members to prepare tremendously for it. The day passed quickly with everyone busy with training their troops and commanders and before they knew it was already evening and time for everyone to head to Ruin's Rivals battlefield. They arrived there just a bit after 18:30, just in time to start entering the battlefield, and upon entering they set their castles around Casterly Rock while the combined army took the 4 corners of the battlefield.

With just a few seconds before the actual start of the fight, there were 73 warriors for [N0X] vs 206 for combined army. The combined army had almost 3 times more warriors than [N0X], can [N0X] face such a large army by themselves? Well normally no, they probably couldn't but barren army alliance is helped by 9 Desolate Ruins that provide a very large health and army damage buff. Time for strategies was over as the battle started with opening of a few desolate ruins, several mines and camps. Shado decided to race for one of the camps to practice for the upcoming Alliance Conquest season and despite having a few opponents on the race his flip flops choice was better this time, and he managed to win.

Despite Desolate Ruins having priority on defending, every building on the battlefield helps in a way and [N0X] were determined to keep as many of them as possible. The combined army didn't stay too long doing nothing and started trying to take buildings from [N0X], especially the desolate ruins, but at the start of the fight it's really hard for them to do anything without very strong rallies due to the buffs provided by ruins.

While [N0X] had no problems defeating the combined armies at the start, as the battle progresses, the more ruins the combined army manages to purify the weaker the barren army will become. The fight went on and it was now time for Crystal to take a few rallies coming from the combined army.

She managed to deflect the attacks without too much effort, but as the combined army were getting their hands on more and more buildings, things were getting a little bit harder for [N0X] as the fight went further. The combined army even managed to occupy a few desolate ruins but the power of [N0X] solos combined with the buffs provided was too much for them to handle and they couldn't keep the ruins for the 3 minutes required to purify 'it, at least for now. But it didn't take long for the combined army to start overcoming the difference at least against the warriors in [N0X] that weren't the strongest and they occupied the desolate ruins once again.

Despite that win, the combined army still couldn't handle the pressure coming from [N0X] solos and once again they lost the desolate ruins right before the 3 minutes needed to get 'it purified. The fight continued like that with the combined army forces managing to take a few desolate ruins from [N0X] then [N0X] sending a wave of solos from their strongest members and take 'it back. However, things started to get harder for [N0X], the combined army was catching the barren army in stats and their rallies were doing a lot more damage than they did at the begin of the fight. even their solos started hurting. Despite all the pressure coming from all the 4 corners, [N0X] did a great job reinforcing and retaking the desolate ruins for the whole fight and when the horn that announces the end of the battle, they managed to end up with keeping all the desolate ruins.

It was a great first round for [N0X] they coordinated very well for the whole duration of event and managed to overcome the force of the combined army. Will they be able to do the same on the next rounds too or as the season progresses there will be stronger and stronger opponents that they'd have to handle? We'll have to wait and see. See you all on the battlefield!