PhoeniX reporting: AC round 6 [III] VS [HHH]

Did you miss me?

Hello there!

AC season 6 is finishing, and you did not see a single story from me and our alliance.

Well, today is your day...

I have a long "content" plan for you

Like New Arena

Sabrina story

Cool red mine

Today is KvK

And AC season pass by my stories

BUT!

Today I can't force myself to write you anything but THIS VERY MATCH

And this is the first time I break the chronology of the matches, starting from the end

Will keep you blind to all previous matches' scores, etc.

And there is only here and now!

As you can see, the alliance score is literally the same. So it is not some easy ride

And HHH are known for some big whales who can solo the full rally of our best players.

And that would be good if they had only one such a whale, but they have like 3-4 of them. So we started to browse our options on how we can deal with those whales

Looking into their AC match history, we saw that they have a participation problem: around 80 people. That is definitely to our favor

But if it is not SoW and if we let some of those like Matjenin / IronBANK / ImTofu / Black / Bear, sit on the building, we will not manage to remove them from. But we were evaluating some options to try to lock their bests in some buildings so the other buildings can breathe

But the participation problem is not the only! We concluded that we are much more organized and fast. So that would be our second advantage

Activity and battle attendance might be our third advantage, but we thought they got some reinforcement, and we ourselves aren't in the best shape.

Preparation - no one is doing homework as we do. Our main hitters and rally leaders had a list of "who is who" analyses

Me - always an advantage ;-)

So what is my role on the battlefield???

I have two.

The battle one - I am a simple reinforcement with all non-bow troop types (ironically), nothing interesting

Support commander - I keep an eye on the timers, enemy rallies, and buildings to raise the flag if something is urgent; I'm also the only one who activates the skills. Like bubble or disband "5 protectors"

So I have nothing to do with who runs where, who is doing rallies, and where; I am more focused on not fuck up what we managed to achieve and some common-sense advice.

So let's dive into the battle!

Our participation is BAD

But our fears that HHH would receive reinforcement did not come true; in fact, we did not even find Jason on their list

The first race was good for us; we immediately captured combo "Mother-Father-Outpost," which is a great boost to our base attack

We managed to secure swaps under the HHH whales' constant fire, and they started to create rallies at our warrior, where our strongest Cav player is sitting. Bad news for Matjenin, as he is on INF this day.

Meanwhile, when we understood that we could stand under this rain of rallies and solo hits, we created a rally on their outpost

WELLISA is our strong spear; she will experience some dangerous attacks and be contested a few times, but because the outpost is less important than Warrior or Port, soon she will drop out of enemy focus and will stay there until the end of the match.

They send MANY players to capture the port, and as a result, it was taken not by their best guy to hold

Our rallies were successful, but while we were aiming for OUR port, we lost ENEMY port to ImTofu. Shame, it is 1 of their strong

So we decided to focus on Casterly Rock meanwhile, as it is the main building at this time while mines are closed

And our leader and strongest spearman managed to do it. GOOD JOB!

While Casterly has its bubble, it created insane pressure on other buildings, but mostly on Mother.

They left hopes to capture Warrior, so they decided to break the combo by taking out Mother

We started a rally on their port, but only infantry, as infantry was busy reinforcing the Mother

KaBbI4Ka did it! it is good to have a horse there!

And if you forgot what the battlefield is looking like now - we have everything

And that looks like a piece of cake, yeah!? NO!!

At the beginning, I told you, "We are organized; they are not"

But it is the problem!!!

They are constantly attacking like 3 different buildings at one time or rallying two buildings at the same time

And if we do not say reinforce, no one will go there.

But they are attacking with their heavy hitters, whatever they want

It literally became the fight of order and chaos.

Gladly!!!! The bubbles did drop, and their BIGs are obligated to pay attention to the buildings; they can't focus on our players' castles

But we can!

And as I said to you before, all heavy hitters knew their targets!

And all of them except our spears were doing so.

Spears were and will be FULL busy on the Casterly Rock; as they were attacking it with rallies and solos constantly.

At some point they understood that their unstructured pressure against THAT very spearman is not effective.

So they decided to make a good pack of rallies, try to coordinate them as best as possible and take it out in a final blow

Under the rain of our attacks on their castles, they were collecting the rallies way too long

And even then I did not expect them to be effective, as we were reflecting the constant, painful but not effective attacks like the last 13 minutes, and that set of rallies is like 3d, but we were managing to stabilize the situation with reinforcements.

I did not expect them to be successful, so I was not holding the hand on the bubble as I was before...

That was an underestimation of the enemy!

And when I saw that things were going to hell, my long-long-ago Quake 3 and Counter-Strike past allowed me to save the day with the fast, precise click, right when all hope left the room.

That close we were!

They were gathering the rallies like 5 minutes

And after the bubble dropped, we saw that this bubble broke them, and nothing was as successful as this attempt

Not long before Mines, we switched two of our strongest and fastest runners to have their hands free to run at the mines

We won one and lost one to a not very strong castle

I prohibit him from swapping with an active skill

They bubble it to win some time, and we smash him with solo attacks after

The game sounds like a piece of cake...

Just look at the final score

But in reality... if we would not manage to refill their painful hits and let their monsters sit on the "throne," we would not be able to remove them, as they did not manage to remove us. It is not theory closer to the end IronBANK seat at the stronghold, and yes, some of our strongest were busy, but the rest were not able to scratch him

To illustrate to you the gap between what they were doing and what we were doing, see next:

They had 11/20 top 20 eliminators, and we had 13/20 top healers

BUT

If we, for a second, put Annushka out of the picture, then Matjenin did as much damage as the rest of us in the top 20

THAT hard he was hitting alone!

If we had lost Warrior to some of their strong, all could have ended up not to our favor...

In the previous season, I told you that we learned the lesson when we ended up !32! points away from the top 16, and in this season we will fix it - And we did!

Check out some reports I have! (press Print-screen button to stop the rotation)

From the nine reports I have, we won 2 ))) That pretty much describes this match: we were winning the war while constantly losing battles)))

Our happiness was endless!

This match proves that coordination and preparation beat personal power if the score is around equal

After the case with [GJs] switching timers in SoW, we did not reach the SoW playoffs; we are finally where we belong!