Ashes Between Empires - Alliance Conquest Season 23 Round 4 - [N0X] vs [SFu]

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As the Spring is packing its bags and prepares to leave Westeros, the Alliance Conquest's Season 23 it's getting closer and closer to its end, now heading towards the 4th round. [N0X] record isn't looking too bad after 3 rounds, with 2 wins against [GJs] and [KIK] and one lose against [RRH] but if they want to keep their chances at Ultimate Conquest alive, they need to continue winning. In the 2 days after the [KIK] match the leadership carefully strategized everything they could about the 4th round, especially since they noticed that based on the current rankings, they'll meet a quite strong alliance. Once the strategy was made and announced to the other alliance members, it was time for Scythe to register the alliance, and everyone waited on their toes for the matchmaking to be done at midnight.

Nobody was surprised once the matchmaking was done and the opponent announced, as based on the rankings, [SFu] was the closest to [N0X] in ranking points and the most obvious opponent. [N0X] met [SFu] quite a few times in the past in both Alliance Conquest and Siege of Winterfell and despite winning back then, none of the fights against them were easy so everyone in [N0X] had to bring their A game once again if they wanted to get the win.

Knowing who they are and now seeing their record in Alliance Conquest made [N0X] leadership take the fight even more seriously if it was room for that. The match day passed quickly while being busy with the last-minute strategies and it was soon time for everyone to head towards the Alliance Conquest battlefield. They arrived just in time as the battlefield gates opened and tens of warriors from both alliances leading millions of troops each started entering the battlefield.

With a few seconds left to enter battlefield, [N0X] was having a bit of lead in terms of numbers, but in Alliance Conquest that doesn't mean much if you aren't very coordinated. The racers took their places in the starting pits as the round was about to start within a few seconds.

The initial buildings got split equally with [N0X] getting the Targaryen outpost and the Temple of Mother with AlexHarett and LordofHunger and [SFu] getting the Lannister outpost and Tower of Warrior Xx DYT xX and MaceWinduJr. Then it was time for the swaps to free the racers so [N0X] swapped LordofHunger for VERGO

and AlexHarett for DYW.

[SFu] however decided to not swap their racers and instead just reinforce them but that gave [N0X] an opportunity they didn't expected to have and as soon as the bubble dropped the rallies started to assemble in order to siege the Tower of Warrior and get the base stats buffs rolling.

The rallies got filled almost instantly and when launched it took [SFu] by surprise as they didn't get time to reinforce in time and despite having strong defenses, MaceWinduJr couldn't withstand 14 rallies without reinforcements.

With Tower now under their control, [N0X] attention swapped to the Lannister outpost, and Shado had the brilliant idea of trying to solo Xx DYT xX without trying to scout first, like how strong can he be right?

As it turns out, very strong, as least for Shado's solo capabilities, his infantry got turned into rumbles very quickly. While [N0X] kept being occupied with the Lannister outposts, [SFu] decided to rally the Targaryen outposts in exchange.

Their rallies were timed and they managed to kick quite some of DYW's reinforcements, but the [N0X] reinforcers were on point and managed to save the building without too much hassle. With the outposts battle still going, it was time for the ports to open and the racers were once again getting ready to rumble.

[N0X] racers were once again on point and Belore II with AlexHarret managed to secure both ports. While Belore II decided to stay there, [N0X] swapped AlexHarret for Mickyvee despite [SFu] trying very hardly to intercept the swap.

With all the map under their control [N0X] had only a few critical moments to deal with in order to win the round and not only that but win'it at a very high score as they needed to. One of those moments was the opening of Casterly Rock where AlexHarret did another perfect race and managed to win the initial points. But unlike other buildings, this time [SFu] had a slow march coming from their strongest member, urielki, that was ready to intercept their swap.

Somehow, despite [N0X] trying to time their swap perfectly, urielki managed to intercept the swap and it gave [N0X] second thoughts like: it's this the moment [SFu] needed to come back into the fight? And they tried to come back with some well-timed rallies on the outposts but once again [N0X] reinforces were on point and denied [SFu] another building.

Then they tried to take the Tower of Warrior from XSPRITZ, it was looking like holding Casterly Rock gave them wings and this time, their rallies were even better timed, and they actually managed to take the tower from [N0X].

As soon as the bubble dropped, [N0X] decided to challenge urielki to a fight to the death with the rally leaders they had left with having most of the strongest ones locked in other buildings across the battlefield.

Once again, [N0X] speeding their rallies in took [SFu] by surprise and they managed to secure the Casterly Rock too and now they had the full control of the battlefield with only mines left to be disputed. Will [SFu] try their last stand at the mines, or they will completely give up and save their healings and speedups for other fights?

They didn't give up, urielki was once again the one that secured one of the mines and with most of the rally leads locked in other buildings, [N0X] didn't had the firepower needed to kick him out so [SFu] managed to completely empty one of the mines and that basically ended the round.

[N0X] managed to emerge victorious once again but losing that mine hurt them as they couldn't get the maximum ranking points they could've get, 368. While 6 points isn't looking like much, when trying to qualify for Ultimate Conquest, every point counts. Will those 6 points stay in the way of [N0X] qualifying? We'll have to wait and see. See you all on the battlefield!