There has been little action in the Dlords/TUF-Tuna war in the wake of three sieges by the Dlords on a recently dropped TUF member in Elgea revealing that, despite attempts to control the narrative in GC, TUF likely dropped their alliance mate to avoid having to defend a hopeless Elgean TUF member and suffer falling behind in the war.
Well-timed Dlords sieges against Bikey John flashed across the screen in GC last week in triplicate, followed by a posting of them in the Herald’s siege section (the fourth siege arrived later). TUF co-leader viperone was quick to get out in front of the issue concerning the siege, claiming in GC that Dlords’ targeting of Bikey John amounted to targeting inactives:
[08:51]<viperone> clarifying ‘bikey john’ is not a permasat…rather a semi active player who was not aware DLords had declared war on TUF
[08:51]<viperone> so it looks like DLords is doing exactly what they accused TUF of doing and attacking non active players…..how ironic
[08:53]<viperone> skips merrily over to his neon pink siege blocks….sits down
[08:53]<Chris G> stirring the pot are we viper?
[08:54]<viperone> no clarifying remarks made earlier
[08:54]<viperone> just the truth chris
However, despite viperone’s claim that Bikey John is a “semi active player,” his growth chart indicates steady builds, recent attack and diplo activity, and even a possible exodus over the past 30 days:
An independent Illyriad Times investigation in fact reveals that that the timing of Bikey John’s departure from TUF coincides with a triple-launch of Dlords siege on him in Elgea. Bikey’s profile indicates that he left the alliance on Aprill 11th:
| Player |
Alliance |
From |
To |
| Bikey John |
The Unfettered [TUF] |
30 Oct 2015 11:45 |
11 Apr 2016 19:37 |
After Dlords leader Belegar Ironhammer confirmed to the Times that the siege armies traveled at the maximum dwarf siege velocity of 7.5, the Times used the GC and Herald siege information together with Digioso’s Distance and Travel Speed Calculator to confirm that Bikey John either left the alliance or was booted by TUF leadership after sieges were en route.
Siege 1:
[08:00]<System> ** News Flash: Bikey John’s small city of Blacktop City is now under siege by Belegar Ironhammer’s [Dlord] huge city of Karak Hirn
| Bikey John |
Blacktop City |
[-200|-193] in Tor Carrock |
Belegar Ironhammer [Dlord] |
Thu 14 Apr 08:00 |
According to DillyTools:
Siege 2:
[08:00]<System> ** News Flash: Bikey John’s city of Campfire City is now under siege by Jack Aubrey’s [Dlord] huge city of Ashgrove
| Bikey John |
Campfire City |
[-225|-214] in Tor Carrock |
Jack Aubrey [Dlord] |
Thu 14 Apr 08:00 |
According to DillyTools:
Siege 3:
[08:01]<System> ** News Flash: Bikey John’s thriving town of Pikey Park is now under siege by Curiam Nicht’s [Dlord] huge city of 4. Schnauzer
| Bikey John |
Pikey Park |
[-200|-204] in Tor Carrock |
Curiam Nicht [Dlord] |
Thu 14 Apr 08:01 |
According to DillyTools:
A fourth siege opened up on Bikey John later, after this initial grouping:
| Bikey John |
Queer Town |
[-208|-290] in Tor Carrock |
Belegar Ironhammer [Dlord] |
Thu 14 Apr 12:22 |
The cities appear to have been subsequently razed, and Belegar confirmed that TUF did not contest the razes.
For the purposes of scoring sieges on the
Illyriad Times‘ War Score Card, the editorial staff’s policies do not require a player to be active — only that the player be in the alliance at the time a siege touches down.
The rules also protect against alliances from dropping players from their ranks to avoid being counted as a raze, and then adding them back:
” . . . if an alliance drops a player out of the alliance before a siege touches down, it will not count on the War Score Card unless the alliance re-instates that player after the siege. If the player is reinstated at any point during the war, any sieges conducted against his or her cities will be retroactively scored for the sieging alliance. However, if the player is never brought back in, then we deem it as a victory for the sieging alliance in that their siege effectively chased out an enemy combatant, weakening the alliance.”
The razes will not count on the war’s War Score Card. However, if Bikey John is reinstated back into TUF or Tuna during the war, all three razes will be retroactively scored in Dlords’ favor. However, based on Belegar’s comments to the Times, that is unlikely. “Bikey John never reached out to surrender until after the sieges landed and then by way of a 3rd party,” noted Ironhammer. “We never reached an agreement and decided to leave him with 3 cities as was customary in the old days of Illyriad. The account has since moved to a training alliance. I consider it to be a poorly-managed permasat (his largest city lost 6k pop in an apparent food shortage a week or so before we attacked) so we are no longer concerned about it.”
The uncontested sieges on Bikey John have been the only action in the war since a battle on April 9th when the Dlords executed a decisive siege break against TUF leader Agalloch, claiming that he lost a million troops in the melee.
In a surprising twist, the Dlords/TUF-Tuna war came to an abrupt end today, with an AESIR spokesman indicating that they had brokered the truce. Earlier announcements of an 18:00 press conference in GC led to this brief announcement:
The Dlords have broken TUF’s recent siege in Elgea, quickly staunching the most recent siege in a long pause in the war. An anonymous tipster provided details of the breaks to the Times, indicating that elfs bane’s siege on Gladys AxeWright’s city of 
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