================ Last Match of the Season ===============

As it was time for the last sixth match before the great Play-Offs, spring moved on in silence, slowly leaving SoW season behind with only one match left.

For [N0X] it was a good time to farm anniversary rewards like amethysts or the special SoW castle exterior fragments, to become stronger in the last match and possible SoW Play-Offs. So far Noxians has 3 wins and 2 losses, the chances to get into the Play Offs are very slim, yet quite possible!

The discussions on all of kingdoms across the Kings Landing woods were very live and hot. Mostly royal Lords were curious about their bets and for the main part - who will become The Champion this season?

Returning back to [N0X], their matchmaking has completed and as the best local fortune tellers predicted it was the match against [GJs]. Quite a tough opponent, yet Noxians came victorious after fighting even stronger alliances. Let's see whether they lost their grip?

As they always do, alliance management team instructed everyone before the match. Helped with army formations. Gave targeting and movement tips. And with such readiness state - the gates into the Siege of Winterfell battlefield has opened.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Odds --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Once the gates opened, ravens informed everyone of participation:

-[N0X]: 90 warriors filled with ignited eyes and determination to win at it's best.

-[GJs]: 82 warriors with a clear advantage of SoW technology tree and 2.5k more initial points.

The army's is what makes your alliance strong - Noxians had a slight advantage in 8 warriors difference in comparison to Jokers. 24 army's is just enough to flip the fight! Though Jokers had a good lead in points.

Our shot callers, Belore, Scythe, Waffles and Micky prepared their voices so they could cut the opponent plans straight away and gave few reminders. These are always helpful for any people and cost nothing to repeat - move in groups, focus marches with Night King, and for the love of the Seven - do NOT go afk!! The last comment was made specifically by our beloved leader Scy, and if she says something - we simply cannot resist and thus we obey!

The horns blew. Winterfell trees has shivered and the season’s sixth battle has began.

---------------------------------------------------------------------- The First Captures -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Alex marched to the beautiful lakes of Hotspring. Snow under his army's foots was as heavy as a bucket full of steel. Yet his alliance cavalry army's were marching just fine, no matter the road. Unlike slow and heavy units like inf/spear or bows - these beasts of a horses will come through every way to the designated target in a reasonable amount of time.

Apparently [GJs] strategy was to heavy focus one of the sides, and luckily for Hotspring teams it was their side of the map. The more action you get, the more elimination you get and more noticeable you become, which is often a good thing in alliances!

When both Jokers and Noxians engaged in a fight at Hotsprings - the number difference of 61<103 army's in favor of Jokers cleared all the doubts and everyone saw that [GJs] are getting it's first capture on the Hotspring and will keep it for a while. Perhaps until [N0X] send the required reinforcements.

At the same time this situation is a two sided coin - when there are so many marches on one side of the map - the other one must be feeling much emptier! And that's exactly how Noxians won themself a first capture on the Armory, as well as both Strongholds in that part of the map.

Once the strongholds were captured, shot callers made few commands:

- Heal, respawn - you know the drill. Hurry up! let's go. Was said in a sweet voice.

The prime commander Belore made a spot on decision - Micky pick 10 of your brave men and send them to Hotspring side. They need much help.

Waffles as one of the Hotspring shot callers advised to not rush into the Jokers crowd, but assemble at one building and clear the whole side as a tide. Even from the different side of the battlefield you could here the names being said - ...Chris, Ohboy, Drogo, LG, Bearface... clear the Hotspring side, now!

The buildings on the Hotspring side kept changing colors from blue to red, while Armory side were fully under control of Noxians which lead to [N0X] getting a lead by per minute points gain - making 2x times more than Jokers are.

------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dragons Arrival -----------------------------------------------------------

Two light beacons lightened up and the skies got pierced by the mighty roar of ancient creatures. Those big lizards were ready to lend and help with buffs and points to either alliance that is worth their power.

Most warriors moved to these lizards, some wanted to show off their battle technics and impress the creature, while others were there looking for fight and blood. They better not end up in their own pool of blood, haha!

Yet while most were fighting over the lizards - some warriors did all the labor work of flipping buildings, as those too give points!

Everything seemed to go smooth and according to plan as Alex with other warriors kept fighting-dyeing-healing on repeat. Teleports were being used every minute to the point you could charge am army per gold dragon and would quickly be able to afford royal equipment!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Map Control ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

20 minutes into the battle and the scores still hold up at about equal numbers! Yet Noxians very operating smoothly, pressuring every side and every building working for map control, which pays out and gave them a lead, both in collected points, and points per minute!

Yet Jokers fight well. Their resilience is strong and spirit unbroken. Perhaps going for both Dragons can equalize the loss of points per minute they have? So far [GJs] aimed and always secured one Dragon to their base, occasionally receiving marching speed buff.

Huge fights kept happening over the map, mostly on Strongholds as those give the most amount of points! Just look at this 70 to 40 army's fighting each other...

Yet Noxians held Stronghold tight, to the moment the Dragons showed up.

[N0X] knew that by now it will be hard for [GJs] to recover, so their only option could be is gaining a momentum of points by capturing dragons. And so shot callers called for warriors to assemble at both dragons, at least for a while to escort the lizards onto the friendly territory.

Jokers didn't expect such heavy concentration of armies to be at the dragon and stood no chance in turning lizards onto their side of the map. Control over few buildings, such as Strongholds and Armory with Hotspring was lost for N0X, yet both Dragons made their way home and gave huge addition to points.

Alex's shot caller Scy said her warriors now need to focus on flipping buildings, so once a Stronghold was recaptured - Alex flew straight to it via teleport:

The moment [N0X] flipped all the buidlings - new lizards ahs spawned and this time [GJs] went all in on the one Dragon.

at the beginning it seemed like Noxians got a control over it by overwhelming amount of marches, yet majority of the warriors were stuck in the heavy snow on the way to the Dragon. A big marching speed speed would make a difference, yet it was not the greatest strength of [N0X] so far.

The dragon kept swinging back and fourth, going up and down... Jokers were not surrendering at any costs and kept fighting mightier than a mouse that was locked in corner. The lizard was moving closer and closer to Jokers base and then it happened. The [N0X] reinforcements came from the North side and stole not only the Dragon, but also a spot light of the match and the lizard kept moving up, to the Noxians base

--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Final Countdown --------------------------------------------------------------------

Such actions of flipping the buildings - escorting the dragons - healing and teleporting in between, set the flow of the battlefield with a winning pace for [N0X].

With 15 minutes left on the clock, [N0X] were close to their beloved 80k points, meanwhile [GJs] kept moving towards 40k.

It's a common occurrence in these snowy woods to get as close to the enemy base as possible and "lock" enemy armie's down, eliminating, perishing and intercepting everyone who's trying to break through such a "blockade".

But these was not the [N0X] way. Noxians have standards and always seen in an 'enemy' rather as an opponent who simply playing an event. Blockading said opponent would bring no joy and only dishonor themselves. If someone wants to fight or to get points for the alliance - they will eventually come out to the objects. In other words base camping was strictly prohibited and seriously mentioned by Prime Commander Belore not once by now.

The last minutes were no exception from the others before, no miracle ahs happened and with crushing difference of 100k to 45k points [N0X] emerged victorious!

So far it's a 4 wins and 2 loses for Noxians. Alex immediately checked the rankings to check what place did Noxians get by the end of the season. Maybe there is a chance to get into the SoW Play-Offs?! That would be amazing! Just imagining the rewards he could get, Alex started drooling.

Yet after checking the rankings, Alex saw that Noxians took 20th place this season among everyone and among the best.

- 20th place is not the Play Offs, he said to himself, - yet it's for the better. We are not strong enough to rock that stage... Perhaps next time.. yes, next time we'll show the all....

--------------------------------------------- Author’s Afterword ---------------------------------------------------

As in any other 'Real Time Strategy' event - speed and reaction of every army is above all. [N0X] knew it quite well and demonstrated it to [GJs] almost flawlessly.

Completely crushing an alliance of similar to yours power has proved that [N0X] has most of all - a clear communication skills which are by far the most important skill for the alliance to have, beside counting the better middle strength of accocunts.

For [GJs] it was a defeat. Yet their spirit never gone, and was there till the last second of the match which lead them to 40k points. It was a test endured because in defeat, they learned. And with new knowledge they are able to seek for new opportunities and growths.

=================================== The End ==================================

Thanks for reading and hope you fully enjoyed this crazy lizard SoW season!

Remember that in GoTWiC you are not only playing the game, sometimes you want to impress a lizard, instead of the people around you! →_→

AlexHarret