AatW War Report: Incarnation vs Leaf Clan
~ Written by Guran from #35 ~
As many may have noticed, Alliance #35 isn’t the biggest fish around. It is mainly built from solo tribes I recruited since my return as a leader in the world of Orkfia. Of course we couldn’t let our newly formed alliance be un-noticed. So I decided to declare a war on the Leaf clan, (Alliance #44). Mainly to test my alliance in war and of course because we wanted to butcher someone!
The plan was simple, I would declare war at 18:45. Everyone should do a hit close to the 19:00 update. Our target was their raven.
I was happy to see my small alliance active, Photoboy, Vre Dragher, Maestro and I were ready to start.
The First Waves
After two or three miscalculations (I hate doing calcs), Photoboy turned out to be a calculation whizzkid. After this calculation part, I attacked the raven with barren grab, he had 131 barren acres and I managed to snatch 113 of them. The others kept raiding on…all night long, brilliant! And throwing fireballs. During the night Zxzxi joined our war ranks and started raiding as well. But it was around that time that our opponent noticed they had been declared upon. They started to hit back. I took some hits, a blasphemy crusade, a raid and some DragonMages. Unfortunatly some people noticed me getting landfat and two out of war tribes went at me for some acres. But it was nothing to worry about, we had a kill to make.
Oh, Nooohwz they be stealin my kill!!!
When I woke up next morning, my faithfull tribes had brought the raven down to 300 Citizens. It was up to me now, I readied my wolfriders, sharpened the wolves teeth and blew that warhorn thingy. But then…..our target just dropped dead.
I asked Maestro to do a fly over, showing us the reason why. It seemed that M3#61 beat us to him in a fraction of some minutes, stealing our kill and the acres we needed for our warvictory.
The Second Waves
A little setback, but both alliances could still pack some punch. I restored quickly and posted up the new target. This time Shumacher was up, and after some raids and fireballs, he was down. We only needed 436 acres to win our war now. Unfortunatly their final member was pretty big for us. Only Maestro could hit with some luck, so it was up to him and his fireballs. But he couldn’t pull it off by himself. We tried of course, but in the end it became an auto truce.
View on the War
From the beginning of our declaration of wardependence I was sure we would win. My alliance friends were active, we did some good hits and we simply had a lot of fun fighting together. I hope that I’ve shown a lot of the solo tribes how fun warring in an alliance could be, and I know I reached that when looking at Vre Dragher. After the war, he decided that he wanted to play more competitive and wanted to move to a bigger alliance. Thats fine by me:p
I think we fought good and so did our enemies, alltough we didn’t give them possibility to do much. So far for this war.
Battling time for the #1 position
It was Tuesday, June 17th 17:24 server time when KARMA POLICE (#27) was very comfortable in her no.1 position. With 10,000 acres more than the no.2 alliance Orkfias Twelve (#12), everyone in the alliance IRC channel was having genuine fun. It was then that Darkwing realized that both Jamzi and Vortex had reached the age of 99. This was a cause for both celebration and mourning, as reaching the age of 100 is a great achievement, but together their deaths would result in a loss of roughly 13,000 acres.
With no intention of parting the no.1 position KP had worked so hard for solutions were discussed. With Vortex’ immortal words “Declare war? When me and Jamzi are about to die? Sounds good!” everyone was alerted and the war preparations began. With no further assurances than educated guesses on acre loss due to death by ageing it was decided to declare war upon OT as soon as possible. The decided time was 03:55, and as most of the alliance is near or in the server time zone this was cause for some amusement. Jokes on inconvenient KTs were followed by grunts of goodbye as most KT members set multiple alarms and sought out their beds, anxious for the third war in the history of the alliance.
By Wednesday, June 18th 3:45 server time KT had come and slowly everyone showed their faces in the alliance IRC channel. Assisted by the necessary quantities of caffeine intel was gathered and calculations were made. Fear gripped hearts of many a KP member as Jamzis ruler had reached the age of 100 and her general had left. She could die any tick, and with that notion war was declared at 3:56 server time. In two hours time [OT] Boze buurman, [OT] Im Back and [OT] Masquerade fell to a combination of Arsons, Dragon Mages, Dragon Apprentices and Fireballs. However, at 6:00 karma came for Jamzis ruler, who died at an age of 100. Joy ensued, for all fears had been quelled: dying of age did not count as lost acres in war!
The war continued, and noticing war mode conversion on several of their tribes, it was decided to kill those we could. OT’s elder, Spiral Architect astounded all by being continuously on-line from the start of the war until the very end. It did not matter, however. At 8:02 server time [OT] BuggyMonkey and [OT]Revenge had fallen to the same deadly cocktail as their late alliance members and the war was won. Orkfias Twelve had been brought down enough to prevent us losing our no.1 ranking to them.
By now VorteX had reached the age of 100 and his general had left as well. With the prospect of a heritage for 2,000 acres the no.1 ranking had been secured. All hell broke loose though, when the dying ritual was investigated more closely. Apparently, when dying of age, one appears as having 400 acres before the heritage bonus kicks in. United Races (#15) held the no.2 ranking now, and this difference would make them first for a little while. Still unwilling to give up the no.1 spot it was decided that one of their tribes had to go. With Pez being large, but not very well defended a KT was set for 10:55 server time so everyone had time to recharge. Not everyone could be on-line then though, so in the hours leading to the KT several already opped.
The first attempt on Pez’ life failed due to his on-line activity, and time was limited because VorteX had calculated that he had until noon to live. The second attempt, however, was successful and exactly at the noon tick Pez’ karma was delivered.
The moral of this report is, of course: death comes swiftly and unannounced. As it turned out, VorteX didn’t die until 19:00 ST and time would have allowed a properly organized KT. Nevertheless, it was a successful, albeit long, long day.
~ By AtanAsfaloth of KP ~
Infinity – War report
Diary of last week’s wars between #27 vs #32
~ By VorteX of Karma Police (#32′s perspective hopefully to come!) ~
As #32 kept growing confidently we realized that something had to be done to stop them. They had already killed 3 of us a week before, and once nearly all our tribes were capable of using DA I started planning. We had 4 fairly nice spirits (Bolle, Jamzi, Joe, MingD,), 1 big eagle (me) and miscellaneous races including a 700 acre templar (Darkwing). We aimed to allow 5 days so that our thieves (the 4 big spirits and the eagle) would have enough credits to train thieves. 3 days passed and tragedy struck as the server went down. We hoped it would be up by evening, but it was not up by then. We thought of letting it off, until finally the server came back up, and I decided to risk it all. The money still kept coming in when the server was down, albeit without spells. However, I calculated that we had enough thieves to take on #32. The greatest effort was from Darkwing, who grew 300 acres at such a small size without the necessary defence. He did it just on time J
I had already told the others that the KT was to happen at around 1:55. However, the server only came back at 16:00, and so we did not have enough time to attack at that tick. So I postponed the KT to 3:55 ST, amid some grumbles (and understandable too) from some members. I took a look at #32 and decided the first target was to be Kotarak. The thieves trained, the mages prepared themselves, and most of us took short naps to be fresh for the KT (An incident worth mentioning: At conversion tick 12 tribes were online. I went frantic and raved for 20 mins that #32 would know what we were up to. The others thought I was having a heart attack). I nearly forgot to mention that we were NOT in war range – we would only be in range if we killed a fairly big tribe.
The alarm went off in 12 different homes, and most probably 12 different hands fumbled to quiet the alarms. @ 03:45, I saw with great satisfaction that all of our tribes were online. I quickly shook myself to try to get to my senses, and started planning the times of opping, spell casting, etc, while our Atanasfaloth and Joe+Bolle calced the homes needed (I’m hopeless at it). I decided that while the thieves should target Kot; I also decided that our mages should go for lepel 1 tick after since I reckoned that they were not full yet. KT came and the thieves went all out for Kot. The vision showed he still had 60k citz. I was quickly starting to doubt my decisions; it was not the first time my war plan failed miserably. However, I quickly realized that we had enormous firepower since we were in ultra-full war mode. 04:59 came and the thieves got enough homes to get down Kot; Lepel was dead as well. 05:00 tick came, and I instructed the others to get Kot down, and to leave lepel untouched at 200 citz. Kot was dead (Tank) and the war was declared… but lepel was nowhere near dead. We were very happy about the result with Kota, but a lot had still to be done to win the war.
In that tick I changed the target; Mr. Sanzo was to be our first kill in that war. Lepel was after all an efficient 7k acre spirit, and we needed full-opping on him to get him. Mr. Sanzo was a much easier target: without any effort he was killed the tick after (again, our Tank killed him), and the war bonus kicked in giving us back our thieves and half our mps. Again, I asked our Calcing Team to recalc the homes needed to get lepel, showing that about 300 homes more were needed. We were pretty much all full, so I decided that a double kill would be possible. Our thieves went for Sile (vaspaoul) this time, while our mages went for lepel again. The plan succeeded magnificiently, as both Sile and Lepel died (Jamzi and Atan) the tick after amidst the joy of our alli. Tiia came online at that time, along with Sanzo, and since Tiia was a co-elder, she decided to accept defeat and our alliance won the 1st war after only 2 hours.
To be continued…
