CCS be like "Get In, Tank 5 Hits, Get Out" - Smart Reinforcements = 1.5M Elims with Minimal Losses

Champion City Siege is one of those events nobody should skip, regardless of account strength.

Granted, it is essentially the biggest whale watching event, but even smaller accounts have a role and I'm going to prove that with my alt.

The time slot for my alt alliance was a convenient 10AM. So I prepared some fresh coffee and logged to check the CCS map.

But before we move forward... my alt is in a somewhat delicate situation, namely, I'm not troop heavy. Lord of Lords just started, so I did not bulk up in Phase 3. More importantly, I am pushing toward 1.5B power for that final Nobility rank and the 10k army size bonus.

Losing weight right now is not ideal, so I need to be careful how I play this. On the other hand… red badges look good too. And 60 Battle Diamonds for 1.5M eliminations are hard to ignore. Temptations everywhere.

So the objective was rather simple: Find a whale, reinforce smart, get my eliminations and minimize my losses. Easy, right?

Checking my bigger context, LoL Phase 6 was not up, Daily Elite was Enhance Commanders... so there was zero incentive to burn any troops right now. Bravery Tokens are nice, but after my nobility rank. My power push has priority now.

Time to check Discord for a plan.

But there is no plan to be found. Fine. Plan B it is. And plan B is simple: just wing it. I'm good at that, especially in CCS😅

Forty minutes before start, I scanned the map. Ideally I wanted a Cav whale rally lead. Instead, I found a few Spear accounts and a suspiciously quiet battlefield. Back to my coffee. I'll check back later.

https://youtu.be/n94apQsYbLQ

As the match was about to start, the alliances fighting became clearer. KAC, HD!, and KUM were running in their main shells? The only dedicated CCS shell available was QSU? And Strike was in there.

Auto-accept alliance. Cav whale rally lead. Good enough for me, right? Wrong!

I joined voice on Discord since my alliance friends were there and an immediate comment comes my way: QSU is a RoD shell! And we are not exactly on friendly terms with RoD. So as the match started I hesitated with my reinforcements a bit.

But the reality of this match is simple. No one was accepting unknown accounts into their main alliances. If I wanted eliminations today, RoD shell it was.

New objective: get in, get my points, get out. Don't help RoD more than I have to. This is simply a quick transactional relationship.

Before I could even figure out what I'm doing, center was changing hands repeatedly. A bit of a chaotic start for everyone. Eventually "we" commit and I get hit almost immediately.

First hit: small account and we tank it easily.

But the second hit... wiped me out.

From just two fights I am already halfway to my elimination target. Nice!

I go back in. And another two, rather similar hits later my situation is looking great.

One weak rally we tank comfortably.

And the second one wipes me again. Amusingly enough, it kicks Strike out entirely. Amusingly because it's Zara, running Inf, knocking out Strike, who's Cav.😅

But I am not here for faction politics. I am here for personal eliminations and I'm getting those super fast. After four hits, I am nearly done.

On the other hand, my hospital bills are beginning to climb. The first exchange was cheap. The later ones are not.

I tank one more hit from Dra. That is number five.

Battle Tokens confirm it. 1.5M eliminations secured. 60 Diamonds locked. Mission accomplished. My job here is done!

The last hit was expensive enough to remind me of something important: my hospital capacity on this alt is not where it should be. I cannot comfortably absorb repeated wipes. That is something I should probably address soon.

Still, five hits. Target achieved. Time to disappear from the RoD shell before anyone else notices.

With my personal mission complete, I switched to spectator mode.

Strike was locked for first place unless something dramatic happened. The real question was second place. Could they maneuver tHeBrAiN into 2nd? Or would Dra hold it?

Center kept flipping like crazy. Mid-game it became clear: Strike had first secured. So the focus now must be to deny Dra 2nd place?

https://youtu.be/9cHj-vYq1lw

As tHeBrAiN moved in, that kind of confirms my theory. But holding center, however, is a lot harder than just taking it. Rallies kept coming. Reinforcements rotated, but I could see they were fewer and fewer. Players were slowly porting from the map after getting their own elimination rewards.

Still, every time tHeBrAiN was kicked, Strike cleared center again to reopen the window. This dance continued for nearly fifteen minutes. It genuinely looked undecided. Five minutes before the end, Dra and tHeBrAiN were neck and neck. One well timed rally could decide silver.

https://youtu.be/1Az8g1VKQTc

In the final stretch, support started thinning to the points that tHeBrAiN could not hold center anymore. Strike eventually moved back to RoD, and time ran out for tHeBrAiN to close the gap.

Dra got 2nd.

https://youtu.be/fmBqiYAai1o

My part of the story ended in the first quarter. Five hits. Objective secured. Minimal losses and minimal RoD support.

But the rest of the match remained entertaining until the final minutes. It was genuinely unclear whether RoD could lock both first and second or if KAC would squeeze in between them.

In the end, players leaving after getting their elims meant lower support for RoD, and they could not secure both top positions.

For me, though? Small account. No plan. Minimal commitment.

And still... Battle Diamonds secured. And with relatively low casualties.

Would I have preferred not reinforcing RoD? Obviously.

But nobody else was "recruiting". So adaptation became part of my strategy.

When the map gives you whales, you reinforce the right one and get out before the bill arrives. 😜