CCS vs LR: Stacked Events, Double Efficiency!

Champion City Siege is back and it's on a great timing for me this round.

I was away this weekend, but it's an evening slot, meaning I should be online to play. I kind of need this CCS to go well for my AC Challenge. If my math is correct, there should be another one just before AC and if things work out in both, I could maybe, just maybe, squeeze out 2 Red War Badges before AC. Now that's wishful thinking, but who knows. With a clean execution, I might be able to pull it off.

Good news is: I make it back home before our slot. Not-so-good news is: my Lost Realm team had to push our weekly event because of my absence, so now CCS and LR overlap... but just a bit. The LR boss is summoned as CCS starts and we go in about 15 minutes before the timer ends so we're not missing out on alliance rewards. This means I have roughly 45 minutes for a clean CCS execution.

Let's see who's on the map so I can get an idea of what my chances look like tonight: https://youtu.be/Z1tgNrv4mTE

Things are promising! Not only do I port right next to BA NA NA, but they are also opening rallies on Center. I don't get a full march in, I even forgot the army size... but I do make an appearance and the 1st hit is really good. We kill a good number of troops and my eliminations are off to a great start.

I don't manage to reinforce BA NA NA the 2nd time, but I join Stalkerz' rally and, being a counter to the holder, we get an even better hit. More kills, fewer losses and this time I had a full march with 50% Army Size in the rally, so my score jumps nicely.

Unfortunately, we only weaken NIGHT TEK and we're not able to take Center. A good opportunity for Lord Pratap to sneak in. This is a good account and it's getting reinforced, so we might have some issues taking the city, but our sheer numbers should do the trick.

We have the leads, we have the reinforcements and soon enough we're sitting in Center. BA NA NA takes 1st turn and we reinforce to the limit.

Needless to say, from only the 2 initial hits on center, I got almost double the eliminations I needed for my max rewards. But I'm here for kills and Battle Tokens more than I am for the 60 Battle Diamonds... that I also need... so I guess I'm here for both😂

My elims are starting to rack up as we tank a lot of hits with relative ease. There are a few accounts that beat us, like Lord Pratap, but overall we're in a solid spot.

There is a bit of a problem though, as I keep getting sent back for some reason? I'm not getting any annihilated reports, so why am I getting kicked?

This happens a few times and I don't understand why. I'm reinforcing with over 1.3M troops and a solid dragon, not to mention I'm sending full T4 marches. Are my troops not welcome here?

Until I notice something interesting... It's that new commander that was added, the Mountain. He's nice and all, but he's... Inf.

And hoodie guy is also Inf...

And the blonde guy is also... Inf...

And that's all nice and fine, until you see those 1.34M Cavs in the reports.

Yup! Those are mine, lol.😅

I thought BA NA NA was Cav, so I reinforced with Cav. That's probably why I'm being sent back.🙄

I fix my lineup and send back Infs. I was kind of hoping to get rid of Spears and maybe Cavs, but under no circumstances did I bring enough Infs for my plans.

And I need to build up some Inf troops for AC because we're kind of Inf heavy... so this is not ideal.

But on the flip side, I'm now sitting on 10M Battle Tokens, so this CCS started rather well for me.

As 15 minutes pass, center is getting harder to reinforce. Everyone wants some easy eliminations and there's plenty of people trying to get in.

I manage to send in again and get a nice streak before Lord Pratap puts an end to my troops. Now it's time to take a hard look at this game and decide how I want to play it out.

The hospital is almost full and the hospital bill in terms of RSS and speeds is starting to look like a SoW match.

And the worst part is... I'm dangerously low on Infs and I need Infs for AC.

I am getting good kills and resources are not that hard to come by, but it kind of looks like our amazing start is slowly coming to an end.

Fewer players are reinforcing now as more people have gotten their max CCS rewards and are probably playing safe. The low attacks are also slowing down because the opposing teams have probably also gotten their points for max rewards.

Now only the big rally leads hit and each of those hits kind of hurts.

And with LR creeping closer, I'm already getting messages on Discord asking me if I will join. It's time to decide what I want to do.

I already have max rewards from the CCS brackets, so that's done.

From a kills perspective, I got the 4 "cost efficient" blue chests + 192 Level 1 Badges, so that's 1 Gold Badge done. Rather good for 1 CCS. If I can do the same next time, I should be able to convert 2 Red War Badges before AC.

But I did donate quite a bit of Infs and resources to this CCS war effort and while that's expected, my gut is telling me I should stop here.

Since there is now room in the Great City, I squeeze in some Bows, mostly to get a few more reports and see what people are up to, but I know I'm leaving any minute now.

After BA NA NA gets 30 minutes inside and is clearly going to end in 1st place, we swap in CrimsoNDawn and GUA VAA and I can safely say that "our" team won this CCS just as well as I can say that my personal objective for this event was met.

By the time CCS actually ends and I'm kicked onto the main map, I was already spamming heals in Lost Realm.

Funny thing: when I was ported onto the main map, I was also kicked from the LR map. I had a little panic attack seeing my view change to my unbubbled city, but quickly realized I wasn't being attacked and it was just CCS ending, lol.

Good CCS, good LR, perfect "efficiency" with double events in the same time slot, and a great way to end the GoTWiC week.😏