Champions of Fate - Season 5 Round 3

While Westeros is still dealing with a harsh winter, with snowing and cold, [N0X]LadyKnight has to prepare for yet another round of Arena of Honor. Going into the 3rd round, she's comfortable staying at 2 wins, one in solo que and one with the Fantastic10 team and now she's preparing to hopefully continue the streak. In the 2 weeks between the round, she tried her best to get stronger and while venturing into the Ruins Treasure Hunt she managed to find Sararer's weapon and now her strongest commander got even stronger. She returned from expedition on Saturday late night, just in time to get her commanders prepared and gather her troops as the Arena of Honor round was starting on Sunday, even before sunrise. As the road to the Arena of Honor battlefield was quite long, as early at 5 am she took her troops, commanders and dragons and left the [N0X] castle in a rush, fearing she might be late. Once she arrived at the battlefield and met with the rest of the team, they all got ready for the fight and Tominy registered the team for the upcoming round.

As soon as the matchmaking got completed, it was time for the teams to enter the battlefield and see whom they'll fight this round. The Fantastic 10 team was chosen by the Lannister's to represent them in this round and together they headed thru the scorching southern dessert towards the south-east forests where the House Lannister's Clan Castle was located. Once they arrived there, they started doing last minute preparations and strategies and Shado sent spies all over battlefield to see what the other houses are up to.

The spies returned with nothing but bad news, as the 2 teams they were set to face in this round were extremely strong with the Starks having invited a [RoD] team and the Targaryen's having a [WxD] team led by Evgen0197 fighting for them. With so many strong warriors on the battlefield, the round was announcing as being a bloody one once again, but the team was up to the challenge. The horn announcing the start of the battle was heard not long after and the strongholds dropped their protective bubble, so everyone rushed at them to start the points generation.

Once the occupation time passed, it was now time for the construction to start and Tominy as the team commander decided to go with military camps once again, specifically infantry camps to counter the neutral NPCs residing in the watch towers and catapults. Workers did an amazing job and in a matter of minutes the strongholds were fully constructed, and they were already preparing for the next set of altars while the soldiers were getting ready to fight for the altars. As soon as the altars started opening, it was clear it's going to be a hassle to hold them and LadyKnight decided to do her best to answer the reinforcement calls from her team-mates.

The reinforcements game was going very well, the team managed to handle the attacks very well and the altars were being claimed left and right under the House Lannister's banner.

With the fight for altars going their way it was time for the warriors in the team to move their sight towards the center of the battlefield as the City of Glory was about to drop the bubble and open for attacks.

As soon as the bubble dropped, the strongest warriors on the battlefield launched devasting solo attacks that were so swift and powerful it didn't give time for anyone to send reinforcements.

It was ImperialRock that managed to secure the city for enough time to actually receive reinforcements, and it didn't take long for the other 2 teams to swap strategy from solos to rallies. Both the Starks and Targaryen's sent their best warriors to rally, Evgen and Mikhail for House Targaryen and n1kO and Tangra for House Stark were the chosen ones and in a matter of seconds the rallies got filled and they were already on their way towards the City of Glory. As soon as they arrived in the vale and noticed how many troops there are there, the team knew it's going to be a very complicated battle. The rallies started hitting in quick succession and while none of them were winning, each of them was chipping the team's troops in the city so they always had to pull their march back and quickly speed back in. Every rally was extremely bloody for both sides but none of the houses wanted to stop and cut the loses so the millions of troops kept clashing each other, turning the snow around the city red in minutes. Despite having a few close calls with the defense army in the city dropping way too low for their comfort, the team never gave up on holding the castle and they kept healing their troops and sending them back to the city as quickly as possible. Ultimately despite having the numbers, the Starks and Targaryen's had to succumb to ImperialRock's raw strength, and the top-notch reinforcements provided by his team.

Very hard round for the team as being shown in the points result, but they fought valiantly every second of the round and ultimately their relentless dedication led them on the path to another win. A question remains on the lips of everyone, how much this streak that started at the begin on season 4 will keep going? We'll have to wait and see. See you all on the battlefield!