War report – Skirmishes

March 3rd, 2009War Reports2 comments

Top alli’s skirmishes,

a concise war report by Joe.

Pushed off the topspot by their quarrel with the Smurfs, the brave Jedi Defenders of the Karma Force concluded that the time had come to reclaim their place at the top. Bored by a long battle versus a certain Rusty Raven player who had claimed immortality with succes (raidkilling resulted in hurrying OOP and continued hitnrunning in the same tick at our poor 500 acre tribes) we needed new enemies to sharpen our lightsabres on.

Despite our weakened position, it was decided that a frontal assault could surprise our enemies and the scales might tip to our advantage. Guilds were built in the morning, hideouts and academies in the afternoon. A huge army of clerics was trained by Atanakin, an army that proved to be very effective later on in both dealing and absorbing damage.

The first KA was set at 19:55, target would be a #62 tribe. Simply sticking to the straightforward plans it was decided that the elder would be the first to go. Surviving the first tick, the death note appeared as a green line in our news at 23:03:51. After evading Atanakins sophisticated cleric army he fell to Bolle’s brute force assassins, who had become enraged by a pointless Blasphemical Crusade by Kelvin in a not so adorable style. An epitaph was sent to him by Atanakin after his reappearance as Light Elf:

“Here lies a great eagle chief,
a great mage though life was quite brief.
Since we hate paying guards
and prefer running yards,
we’re glad that he won’t go thief.”

#62 responded quite quickly on this kill. A lot of tribes appeared online and alot of tribes also converted to higher defensive standards. The ravens started a hitnrun campaign the next morning against poor Atanakin’s clerics, who would suffer heavily during this war. Quickly a Jedi Hunting Squad was formed to make them ravens pay. Greybacca was the first to profit from the defenseless birds.

The ravens suddenly changed plans by starting to raid Viceman Nute Gunray, a 4k acre Wood Elf that appeared to have only 40k citz left. When #17′s huge Raven (the despised Fat Tony, may he burn forever) joined in the raids, we got pretty annoyed since this seemed pretty much 2 alli’s vs 1 sleeping dude. Failing a kill on #62 in the night we used mp to keep Viceman alive until he would wake up by voiding ravens just before the tick and hunting them when possible.

At the point that Viceman was at 700 citz (after 5 raids, of which 3 were from #62), he was slapped a few dozen times and got woken up by the beeps of his computer. He logged in, was about to push the ‘release soldiers’ button but got raidkilled by the watchful [DN] Rem on a full semi-suicide. It appeared to be a very messy kill, where one #62 tribe started a DM serie on his own on him, while #17 had planned a KA on him in the next tick. #17 continued to op but #62′s ravens noticed the low citz and started their raiding spree to finish him.

Misunderstanding the causes of Vicemans death, we wanted revenge on #17. After some messaging it appeared that it actually was #17′s kill that #62 was interfering into, but at the time that this was clear it was too late for ‘Machine Gun Kelly’, a raven of considerable size who fell at 15:00:01. Though it seemed a bit unwise to start killing into the second alliance while warring the first alliance, we were outnumbered in the first place anyway and their mutual treating of Viceman required an answer without too much sophistication. Another Gangster fell at 20:00:01 by lack of t/m defence, John Gotti, a 5k Spirit.

The next morning, the original hitnrun campaign on Atanakin continued. My own tribe, a Light Elven one without defence, was also grabbed a few times by #51 ravens because it had grown too big by hunting #62′s ravens. When [DN] L missed the tick, his death note was signed though. His mod def was texted to Atan, who happened to be in the train, to optimize our grabbing spree on him.

After Atan’s grab, Jamzi was drawn out of her shower to be the second one. After that Bolle BC’ed and Joe grabbed as well, making this poor Raven 1600 acres lighter. With a KA planned at 10:00, his chances looked grim, but by releasing straight at the tick he managed to survive first, also thanks to his pretty strong turtlemode. At 13:00:01 Atan pulled the trigger though and sent a nice limerick in honour of L’s life and death, to put on his tombstone:

“This leader of ravens was cunning;
the speed of his movements was stunning.
But he fell like a brick
when his hit missed the tick,
else he would now still be hit and running.”

[DN] Rem continued the hitnrunning and clerics fell left and right, Atan was down to ML 32 at some point and started to consider himself useless, also since the #62 thieves had been arsoning him pretty 24/7 and he hadn’t slept that much either the past day. With the thieves reaching their 3000st home he built some GH and urged on permission to convert back since the credit crisis was striking his lands heavily.

A last kill was landed on #51′s raven on Joe’s request, since he kept grabbing his acres and making his ML drop while running next to no t/m defence, profiting in unacceptable ways from our occupation with the two top alliances. At 00:00:00 [PS] Bacardi Razz fell as third raven in our killing spree and the Jedi Defenders of the Karma Force decided that coping with the credit crisis was of fundamental importance now first.

Results:

- Still no top spot!

- 2 deaths in 2 top alli’s.

- One death amongst our own kin, by the combined efforts of them evil bastard Gangsters and Death Note Signers! Go kill eachother instead of letting us do all the work

- A certain shared hatred for the raven kind.

See you next quarrel!