The woodworm

It was a quiet winter day when a friend contacted L0ry and offered her a target. Yes, there was no gift more welcome to L0ry than receiving a target as a gift. Her friend knew L0ry was an infantry player, so whenever she found castles with spears around the servers, she called her. Sure, sometimes they were castles that were too strong for her, but it was always a welcome gift and a sign of friendship.

Back to us, here's what happened that afternoon. L0ry's friend had found a castle on the K204 server, home of YGI.

L0ry knew that server well; she had faced that alliance several times in the past, often their duke, a very strong cavalry castle.

The target gift for L0ry was a 1.3b castle with 17 million troops, almost all of them spears.

At that moment, that castle wasn't ready for battle; it was in rebel gear, but its wall showed some preparation.

Weakness spears were active, Jaime and Drake were there, but there was more, since Leila Mormont and Arya were also present, and there was even a small female combo.

L0ry didn't even have to repeat the objective twice; she was already ready to jump, but a little voice inside her was putting her on alert. It said, "Be careful, L0ry, you've never liked the Weakness spears synergy, be careful."

In fact, while L0ry was preparing, that little voice had put her on alert. It was like a worm searching for something that pierced her confidence. Yes, it's true that she was infantry, a perfect counter to spears, but those synergies... The worm continued to insinuate doubts into L0ry, so much so that in the end she was overcome with doubts and consumed a 75% buff. Those buffs were so rare and difficult to obtain, and using them inappropriately was almost sacrilegious. But only after using that buff did the little voice finally fall silent. L0ry looked around and saw that the knight castles were currently offline, the strongest ones were either in rebel gear or absent. Everything seemed perfect.

The moment had come. L0ry prepared her troops. She knew the first blow would certainly hurt, so she slightly increased the number of T3s in the formation, hoping to soften the blow. Here we go, the troops had launched their attack, and yes, there was the first impact.

L0ry nervously waited for some window or notification, but well before the notifications, she saw her power rapidly decreasing. Ouch! There had been several deaths and injuries among her troops.

The troops retreated, and even some T5s were missing. The blow had been strong, but it was still bearable; she could continue. All this was only possible because she had increased her troops in the last few days, and so now had more soldiers at her disposal.

The first report described an impact against a first line of spears. Despite the presence of more than 4 million T4 spears, L0ry was unable to reach them, and found herself facing a wall of T1s. More than 6 million troops. The second line of the castle was cavalry, but luckily for L0ry, there weren't many cavalry in the castle. Although this first impact had caused the enemy to lose more than 10 million troops, the merit gained from the fight was very low, only 1.5 million.

After an initial healing, L0ry sent her troops out again for another strike. Healing T5s was never pleasant, at least there were few of the dead and wounded. However, having to use 100 million resources for each strike was something she no longer wanted to experience after improving her formation. But alas, the stronger L0ry became, the more she wanted to face increasingly larger and more difficult troops.

Finally, it was time for the second strike. Now she would face the enemy's T4s. How would it go? More losses?

The troops set off, boosted by their speed boosters, and reached the castle. The fight was long. Interminable. Then suddenly, almost by surprise, she captured the lord.

After the somewhat costly first impact, L0ry hadn't expected to be able to capture the lord on the second attack. That little capture icon had appeared there at the bottom, almost as if saying:

"Hey, did you see? So much fear, and then here's the lord."

L0ry almost immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She felt relieved not to have to make any more attacks, but above all, not to have to spend so many resources again. However, it was not the time to let her guard down. She was in enemy territory, in the middle of King's Landing, surrounded by enemy castles that wanted to attack her. So, even though part of her kept looking around, quickly clicking on the speed-ups to get her troops to safety, another part of her felt satisfied with her success. When the troops finally returned to the castle and were secured, L0ry jumped away, then thought that she had captured a lord of the main alliance on that server and it would be wiser to free him so as not to be tracked. So she freed him and jumped away again.

This adventure on the k204 server was over, but it had taught her to respect weakness formations; they were never to be underestimated, even if she was a counter to spears. In the future, she was sure, it would happen again, and she had to be ready.

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