SIN went 1 and 1 in its recent siege operations against TUF in the south of the Broken Lands, razing kaven’s city of just stolen while losing their siege on AinNick’s city of Freiburg. SIN officials provided the raze report for just stolen, which according to Dilly Tools was a city of 18,000+ population prior to the start of the battle:
From: System
Subject: FW: just stolen razed!
Received: 28 Aug 2016 10:12
Original Message:
just stolen, belonging to kaven which was located at 439|-3071 has been razed by What The DEUCE?.
SIN reported heavy fighting on both sieges, stating that “millions” of troops were involved in the operation. “The siege on Nick was much, much smaller than a normal SIN op,” explained SIN leader Jejune in comments to the Times. “For us, our main objective was kaven and we were successful in that endeavor.”
Rumors abound of who What the DEUCE? — the mysterious account that sieged the city — might be. while SIN themselves had no comment, sources for the Times who have insights into SIN suggest that the account is the alt of a prominent player, with rumors ranging from Pellinell to Kodabear. None of the rumors can be confirmed to any degree.
In GC after the raze, TUF leader Agalloch looked to downplay the raze, and vowed to find out who What the DEUCE? belongs to and take revenge on their main account:
[09:02]<Agalloch> wait till i find who is their main
[09:02]<Duran> Now, now, you leave DUECE alone.
[09:02]<Agalloch> i ll take a large deuce on his main
[10:05]<What The DEUCE?> DEUCE DEUCE DEUCE
[10:05]<What The DEUCE?> https://elgea.illyriad.co.uk/#/World/Map/43910:05%5D<Agalloch> big deal
[10:05]<Agalloch> come back soon
[10:05]<Agalloch> the days of SIN are a thing of the past
[10:05]<Agalloch> I am going to own all your asses
The Times will update this story as we gather more information.
For the Freiburg siege break, SIN shared that the final break came from ThorOdin, known to AinNick’s alt, revealing a combat report showing 60,000 of ThorOdin’s stalwarts finishing off the second siege. The Times is unaware of who broke the first siege camp.
The Illyriad Times 
1 broke siege on N and S, just read the Herald then you can figure out the numbers. i had a big smile reading that the siege was smaller than normal:) even i left the city there with hills and forest… nice try, proud of my stals and bows roaaar:)
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Saying the Freiburg siege was “smaller than normal” is hot air. Who decides the definition of a normal-sized SIN siege? Our deployments come in all sizes. The Freiburg siege was split into multiple camps, which spreads out the forces into smaller occupations. All camps were broken under heavy fighting. There are positives and negatives to that, but overall it was an entertaining fight. TUF did not disappoint.
The siege on Kaven was heavily loaded. It was a single small hill, so that’s unsurprising. Single square sieges tend to be highly concentrated because you’re planning on being there longer, which means your adversary can get more clearing troops there from farther away.
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Editor, you mean “1 and 1”, or 1-1.
The phrase “1 for 1” indicates 1/1, or 100% success.
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Edited — thanx!
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Was a clever tactic to use an unaligned account…build it up with troops and siege equipment…exo it to a safe but closer distance..then align with SIN when the siege is launched…a ‘trojan horse’ so to speak…if any of the ‘rumored’ players utilized this account it would of course qualify as multi-accounting since most well known players have 2 accounts….time will tell if the mystery account owner will be discovered. Congrats to SIN on a nice clever and successful OP
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Too bad you don’t have a land claim to defend yourself against that kind of tactic! =P
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We do not need one, we are going to take over yours in fellandire.
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Indeed, we had some good battles!
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Yeah, it will certainly make players more likely to enforce their borders against unknown cities…
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