Last Stand at City of Glory - Arena of Honor Season 6 Round 3

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As the Summer is still swinging full force in Westeros, [N0X]OliverQ is preparing to embark in a new Arena of Honor adventure. After the first 2 rounds were one cold and one hot with a 1st and a 3rd place, he's eagerly looking for the second win of the season to actually start climbing the glory rankings. Within the 2 weeks between the rounds, he did his best to smelt and smith more valyrian weapons for his troops and also, he concentrated on upgrading commanders and after countless quests and events and spending most of his wealth, he managed to get Leyla's Mormont weapon.

With nothing left to upgrade for now and since it was already Sunday, he took his most trusted commanders and dragons along with his best trained troops and departed towards the mercenary camps. Once he arrived there, he went directly to the registration office and signed the papers required for him to participate in the upcoming round and then went to the tavern to get a beverage and wait for the Old Gods to be done with the matchmaking.

The matchmaking was done even before he got to finish his beverage and the battlefield gates opened for the house representatives to get out and choose the warriors they want to fight in their name. OliverQ was chosen by House Stark and together with him Arya also choose 9 other warriors to join her team.

Once all the teams were chosen, everyone stepped inside and headed towards their respective clan castles with OliverQ and his team heading towards the frozen North where the House Starks Clan Castle is located. Once they arrived there, everyone started setting their camps around the castle and as mostly always, OliverQ decided to do a battlefield sweep and see what they are up against.

The news wasn't too bad, the battlefield had some strong warriors on it, but the House Targaryen's team composition was looking like it's going to be a problem as all of them were bowmen and with similar avatars, they were looking like a premade team but even taking that in consideration the team actually had a good chance to win the fight, if they played well of course. Match started quickly after with the opening of the strongholds and everyone rushed to occupy and reinforce them quickly to start the points generation.

OliverQ as the team's commander decided to go with military camps once again, despite the AI teams being much stronger now, he still wanted the chance to get a clan castle later into the fight and if possible, the catapults to make the battle for the City of Glory easier for him and his team. As he expected, the first NPC attacks did nothing in terms of damage to the other Clan Castle but that didn't mean his plan failed. With the strongholds now constructed, it was time for the team to turn their attention on the altars that started opening and especially on the altars of the warrior, as they needed a lot of them to strengthen their NPCs and make the plan viable.

His strategy worked for a while at least, as he was taking enemies by surprise and end their domination swiftly but as the time progressed, they started reinforcing each other and OliverQ suffered some crushing defeats, so he had to go back to scouting before attacking. Despite suffering some setbacks, the House Stark managed to secure enough altars in time and good that they did cause the most important building, the City of Glory was about to drop the protective bubble open for attacks.

While being a bit ahead in points, the Starks still needed the City of Glory badly if they wanted to win the round so OliverQ decided to take the lead on this round too and quickly organized a rally to take the city.

Everyone reinforced quickly and in a matter of minutes the rallies were already marching towards the city ready to challenge the ownership. OliverQ's rally arrived first in the vale where the city if located and without 2nd thoughts he challenged the neutral NPCs residing in the city and within minutes he managed to overcome them, and Starks started the 4 minutes occupation on the city.

Taking the City of Glory was the easy part, keeping 'it for the whole duration of the round it's going to be a way more complicated problem. Every warrior in the team reinforced the city, there were so many troops defending it, but the rallies were outnumbering them 10:1 and despite having the catapults their mission to defend the city will probably be close to impossible to fulfill.

Despite doing their best, the rallies were too many and coming in a quick succession it was almost impossible for them to defend, so the city fell into enemy hands once again and they got back into attacking position. The battle continued between House Stark, House Targaryen and House Lannister for tens of minutes, troops falling on all sides, but as OliverQ noticed at the start of the fight the House Targaryen's team were fully prepared to challenge the city and even when they got kicked out they got back in even stronger.

Ultimately, the Targaryen's managed to secure the city but even without it the Starks were ahead in points, so they decided to do everything in their power to get the first place. They fought valiantly for every building on the battlefield and when the round ended, they noticed their efforts paid off.

After a very hard-fought battle, OliverQ and the rest of the team seen the results of never giving up and fighting till the end. Excelent win for them, and a very important win for him as he managed to get above the Lord rank in the glory rankings and now his next goal is the King one. Will he be able to get there while continuing to go on solo que? Or maybe he'll find a team before the next round? We'll have to wait and see. See you all on the battlefield!