Glorious Battle

THE STORY OF LONGREACH 

Once Again, the land of GoTWiC was engaging in a grand event known as Glorious Battle. This event was one of our favorite ones of this GoTWiC world we live in . During this 7-day battle, kingdoms joined forces to fight for control over different regions of the land. 

This is the Story of how Longreach became to be to face their Enemies and make Friends along the way, through all their Sacrifice, Sweat, Blood and Tears

The Factions Who Answer The Call

War horns cried over the lands of GoTWiC, and three Factions rose to fight

Shadow Faction The Cursed Knights

Tempest Faction The Sacred Militia

And lastly Longreach of the East, a Faction unfamiliar with most of their new Allies. But instantly seeing the determination from every Solider willing to stand their ground and fight for Glory.

Day I - The Beginning of War

These lands once stood united in peace, but no longer. We will take back the lands they stole from us and burn every Village. We have only to remove those who oppose us. And it will begin with four Cities, Longreach hit fast and silent our swords cutting through the NPC Guards garrison.

The fight started as the adversary crowd moved toward the city, their standards fluttering in the breeze and their rallying calls reverberating through the valley.

Victory was in our sights as even in victory order was still held "Once you get inside the City, recall all players want points" as we tried to be fair to all. 

The Longreach Banners waved high in the sky this day, but it was only the beginning. Day II would be when the real war began.

Day II - The Fortress Race

The goal was simple, we tried pushing against Shadow and Tempest at the same time taking our Gates swiftly needing to win both races to stand firm and strong against our opponents.

But today was not our day as Tempest and Shadow pushed faster and harder than Longreach expected by time the Longreach Gates fell into our hands our Enemies were already on their way to the Fortress's.

Heavy hearts, and morale dropping whispers among the troops "Are we worthy of fighting?", "Is there a point in trying?", "They seem so much better than us".

But then a thought came amongst the Leaders "What if we try to Alliance ourselves with Shadow?" and so our diplomats went out on their voyage to meet with Shadow Faction unknowing if they would ever return.

Minutes felt like Hours, Hours felt like Days but before nightfall Longreach's diplomat's came back with great news "Shadow will support us and us in return will support them".

So there it was two Factions against Tempest in both Factions eyes nothing could go wrong.

Day III - The Endless War

With the knowledge that Shadow wouldn't fight us in the North, Longreach had only one goal to strike Tempest fast and hard, with every man, woman, and child who could hold a sword was thrown into the battle. Today would show Longreach's true strength across these lands. 

Tempest sat inside the Fortress with 437 strong Militia Warriors, Longreach waited just outside the Fortress to gather more troops before the walls would shatter beneath us, We had 230 Soliders as the fight started and more on its way. The battlefield roared to life with swords clashing, arrows cutting through the sky, siege weapons crumbling the walls around us.

For every Solider we lost Tempest was losing 20, Victory was near, but the power of Tempest Faction. could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded. Longreach got so close to victory but Tempest one on one was too strong and we could not keep up.

Longreach had no choice but to retreat our men and women were to injured and broken, but we kept telling ourselves "They may have won the battle, but the war is just started"

Day IV - The United Front

Shadow couldn't do anything yesterday but just watch as Longreach got close to capturing the Tempest Fortress but losing at the very end. Shadow had a plan "What if we declare at the same time", Longreach liked the idea and agreed, while Shadow would fight at the Tempest Gate, Longreach would go for the Tempest Fortress again.

Splitting Tempest forces they would need to choose which building would fall into their Enemies hands, and this time only 87 Tempest Militia Warriors would defend the Fortress, Longreach took this advantage and pushed HARD against them this time not waiting to gain our forces to be higher than theirs just going in as we got to the City.

The enemy was slain very quickly with reinforcements from Tempest coming back the ground shook as Mondry was headed to the Fortress as he was unable to stop Shadow at the Tempest Gate.

Tempest's focus shifted as they knew the Gate was lost and the only goal not to lose both Cities was to go full force against Longreach once again. 

Every soldier, every scout, every unseen fighter gave everything they had. but it was not enough our banners tattered and broken. Shields and Swords scattered on the field. with Fires burning high and smoke covering the lands. 

Longreach was defeated...

Day V - The Day To Remember

Longreach battered and bruised and unknowing if we could continue was giving up hope, our Enemy was too strong and our Allies in Shadow were winning Glorious Battle. We sat in last trying to think of ways we could do better but before long Tempest decided our next move for us. 

Tempest decided enough was enough and they were going to go on the Offensive declaring on Longreach Gate. Our Diplomat's ran for aid from Shadow requesting they declare on M. Merchant on Tempest so they once again would need to fight on two fronts. Luckily for Longreach, Shadow agreed. 

This time we must not fail our Leaders said. This time we must win and have everyone here. The wait was brutal as more and more Soldiers entered the Gate unknowing if they would ever return home. Someone in the crowd asked "How many showed up?" and the answer was "707 strong". Joy filled the air as we knew this would be a brutal fight for Tempest and we kept seeing more and more of our troops send to the Longreach Gate.

After a very long fight Tempest broke through all 700+ Soldiers and started claiming the Gate as their own and panic swept through Longreach orders from every Alliance Leader "SEND MORE TROOPS THIS FIGHT IS NOT OVER" no one questioned eachother we just all moved as one unit and before long Longreach FINALLY got a victory.

Our lines were shattered, formations bled. But our resolve was deeper than fires. We did not have long as only in a few hours we had to get a move on once more.

Longreach knew that this was it, if we won the race on Glory Gate we could declare on the L. Militaries and L. Merchants before our Enemies and Allies. The Fortress's were open for all to send 5 marches of 10k T1 troops. Everyone listened. Because by then we no longer could fight alone we had to fight with eachother and even with some mistakes we got the Glory Gate seconds before anyone else declaring on everything.

Day VI - The Day of Chaos

Longreach and Shadow acted first declaring on everything Tempest owned hoping to break their spirit. This would make or break the field as thousands of troops walked across the lands, killing anyone standing in their way.

Longreach decided if it must be that we would drop L. Merchant and Longreach Gate to Tempest as we must keep the L. Military from being taken by Tempest. What felt like hours was not long at all. The cries as Soldiers laid waste on the ground. 

As the fighting was coming to an end, Longreach was able to defend all of their Cities and FINALLY won the Fortress from Tempest as they had to stay focused on their Glory Gate and fight Shadow hard for it but they would ultimately fail. Tears and Happiness through Longreach ran through as we were victorious.

But with victory came heartbreak for many wouldn't rise again another day. Their names carved into the stones of the Cities they fell in. 

We made a deal with Shadow that we would not race for the Glory City as we were just fine with taking second place in the land of GoTWiC.

Day VII - The Final fights

Our lords and ladies were broken and with placements permanent on the Glorious Battle map many of us stayed at the Longreach City celebrating all of our eventful fights and the making of new friends along the way. 

While some would celebrate some still wanted to go out and fight anyone who stood in Longreach's way not wanting to stop till the very last moment.

And so in the end thanks went out to 

The Top 3 players in Eliminations:

[NpW] Neveziad,

[NW1] KING BELIAL,

[0ch] Minity,

Their sacrifice in troops helped immensely and made a real difference in these fights.

Thanks went to all players who achieved ALL of their Contribution points (489 players)

and to the 92 players who completed ALL of their Eliminations.

And lastly, a personal thank you to all of the Alliances and Leaders who helped make this run possible.

The coordination, support, and willingness to work together is what allowed us to punch above our weight and secure 2nd place.

This result didn’t come from one or two players it came from a United Faction