Only One Can Stand - Arena of Honor Season 6 Round 4

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As Westeros is heading towards Autumn and Summer it's already preparing to leave, the warriors in Westeros are preparing for another round of the 6th season of Arena of Honor, the 4th one. Things aren't different for [N0X] Shado and the team, after they managed to win on the 1st round and the get 2 times 2nd place, they are ready to get back to winning otherwise the Glory King ranking they all aim for will fade on the horizon. As always, Shado prepared as good as he possibly could and while not being able to get Jaqen in his commander's lineup yet, he did manage to get 3 new dragon skills for his dragons. He was just returning from the Dragonstone quests when he noticed that it's already Sunday and as the sun was setting it was time for him to head towards the Arena of Honor battlefield. Once he arrived there, he met with the team, and they all signed up for the round and once the team was registered, they waited patiently for the Old Gods to finish the matchmaking.

After just a few minutes, the matchmaking concluded and it was time for the warriors to step in the arena. The house representatives were ready to pick their teams, and on this round the team was chosen by the Lannister's to fight for their house, so everyone headed towards the south-east forests of the battlefield where the House Lannister's clan castle is located.

With just a few minutes left before the fight actually started, while they were discussing last minute strategies, Shado decided to do his usual quick scouting on the other houses and see what they are up to.

The scouts returned quickly with the news, and as expected, the news weren't too good, they were set to face 2 very strong teams, one of the strongest [NBe] teams with Winternig as leader fighting for House Targaryen and a [RRH] team led by MadMaz fighting for the House Stark. It was looking like it's going to be a very hard battle once again, but Shado's team had a lot of strong warriors too, so they were up for the challenge. Fight started quickly after with the opening of the first set of strongholds and everyone rushed for them to start the points generation as quickly as possible.

The team decided once again to go with military camps and try to occupy another Clan Castle and why not give themselves better chances at fighting for the City of Glory with the help of the catapults. Everyone sent all their troops to help with the construction and good that they did, as they finished just in time for the opening of the altars. The team was hunting mainly Altar of the Warrior to help with the stats improvement for their NPCs, but as every tiny bit of points count in this fights, other altars weren't spared either.

Shado was doing everything in his power to help the team securing more warrior altars than the enemy, and despite losing some of the attacks, that didn't discourage him and he kept healing his troops and sending them back on the battlefield.

Despite all their efforts, the Starks strategy of going for the trading posts was working way better, for now at least but as they were approaching the half of the battle, the City of Glory was about to open for attacks, and the team needed the city if they wanted to win the round.

The team decided to skip the solo massacre and let the Lannister's and Targaryen's kill each other while they sent Wind5, their strongest rally leader, to form a rally instead.

The rally was almost instantly filled and within seconds it was already heading towards the City of Glory ready to challenge the Targaryen's residing there. There were so many troops on both sides, millions of spears from Wind5s ready to fight the millions of spears that Winternig had residing in the city. The battle that followed was one that will probably remain in the history of Westeros as the bloodiest that took place in the recent history. Troops were falling so quickly on both sides, Winternig's infantry bleeding Wind5's spears so quickly, creating deep wounds that couldn't be healed in time by the commanders.

Unfortunately, Wind5 spears couldn't handle the mass of infantry that were stationed there and had to finally admit defeat. Despite the crushing defeat, the team didn't stop trying to take the City of Glory and with the help of catapults they were quite close a few times but ultimately the Targaryen's reinforcements game was too strong, and they managed to secure the city.

Unfortunately for the team not only they lost the City of Glory but while being very busy trying to win, they lost the Starks from the sight and helped by their trading posts they managed to sneak an underserved 2nd place. It would have been better for the team to drop the fight for city and focus on getting 2nd place? Maybe, but they always play to win and they always will. They are heading back to their alliance base with a bitter taste and hopes that their luck will change in the upcoming rounds. Will they manage to turn their luck around? Time will tell. See you all on the battlefield!