Intense Fighting on Middle Kingdom Tournament Square as RoFC, ACHE, TCol, Aesir, mCrow, Roads and RE Battle for Control

RofC member and RIF fund manager Eowen the Short has filed a report from the front lines of the tournament battle for the Middle Kingdom square, highlighting a 7-way struggle to take control of the tournamanet marker as the tournement enters its endgame period. The following sequence offers a play-byplay account of the battles that have recently swumg possesstion of the square from one alliance to another, with bow and infantry units factoring in heavily in the fighting.

At the start of the day, Princess of Shadows of Aesir held the square with just over 1200 Trueshots.

The first attack arrived before dawn, at 2:00:00 from XueLang of RoFC with an army of Yeomen and Halbardiers . Despite being slightly out numbered Princess of Shadows troops dealt with XueLang’s army decisively and at the end of the battle, two thirds of the occupying army remained.

A dawn charge from Ara of ACHE and a later attack by Olaf the Mean of mCrow were repulsed but at a cost. At 10:46, just 60 trueshots remained. At 10:57, Eowan the Short of RoFC’s legion of Axemen overran the survivors and seized control.

However, their victory was short lived, at 11:18 Parthenon of RE destroyed Eowan The Short’s armies with a strong force of Trueshots. 5697 infantry fell, taking with them just 2021 Trueshots. Olaf the Mean attacked the square a couple of seconds later but his army was no match for Partenon’s host.

Revenge came swiftly for RoFC, at 11:24, just 6 minutes after the square was lost, Nreic of RoFC recaptured the square. He was quickly reinforced by Folliculo and AdamPrime and by 12:00, nearly 4400 troops occupied the square.

However, Princess of Shadows was also thirsty for blood after her earlier force was finished off by RoFC and at 12:01 her myriad attacked the square. RoFC were crushed, killing only 855 of Princess of Shadows’ soldiers.

Princess of Shadows’ army then withstood a number of attacks from both ACHE and RoFC until they finally fell to Helmsman of ACHE at 12:37. He was reinforced first by Woody and The Hijacker and later on by Drama Princess, Islacrusez, Derby and Bogbreath.

At around 13:30, a group of cotters from Nreic arrived at the square. For reasons which are unknown, they were allowed to scavenge from the battlefield by ACHE’s forces. Perhaps ACHE were too busy preparing their next defense or perhaps they felt that enough blood was being spilt. It is not currently know what happened to these cotters.

ACHE’s combined might held out against numerous attacks from RoFC, Aesir and Roads, with victory finally going to Lord Raine of RoFC at 18:51.

This started a series of short occupations with Lordzeal of TCol taking the square at 19:07, followed by Princess of Shadows at 19:19 who was defeated at an unknown time. The next record is of Bogbreath losing the square to AdamPrime at 19:28. Ara then recaptured the square for ACHE at 19:43 before having JoeK4 of Aesir take the square at 20:12.

The final battle of the day was at 20:14 when Woody wrested control back from Aesir, from ACHE. ACHE still hold the square at the time of writing.

Yesterday, there were 43 battles on the Middle Kingdom Tournament Square in total with the death toll at the end of the day being 94860. Defending forces made up the bulk of the casualties with just under two thirds of the deaths being defensive. This could show how elite forces are being used to maximise the effectiveness of troops when attacking a square.

Though the numbers of troops involved in this are relatively low, the number of missions at the square much higher than usual. If the tournament was this active every day then by now, each square would have over 1000 battles.

Nreic’s cotters at 13:30 seem to be a glitch. This glitch could be caused by the recent attacks by Nreic and other RoFC members or by the fact the RoFC has a NAP with ACHE.