SIN continues to make sieging look easy, with its “Death squad” capturing the second city from SHARK for the alliance and raising its total successful siege count between the SHARK/VIC confederacy to 5 in just 10 days of war. SIN leadership provided details of the capture to the Times via its forum messaging account:
From: System
Subject: FW: Skogstad captured!
Received: 15 Nov 2015 22:15
Original Message:
Skogstad, belonging to Hevneren which was located at 924|-1742 has been captured by ChuckNourish.
The Death squad-led siege operation on Skogstad was executed in similar SIN fashion with what looks like a high level of planning and accuracy, bringing the city down in less than 24 hours. In the Newlands War, SHARK showed amazing skill in being able to stretch its limited Broken Lands-based armies to break sieges in even remote places of the BL map. In the early going of the war, however, neither SHARK nor VIC have had an answer for SIN siege operations in the BL. Only Deimo’s failed siege against VIC’s comus, which according to Times eyewitnesses did not appear to include additional SIN reinforcements or timed arrivals, has failed to complete a siege in the war thus far.
Meanwhile, SHARK is looking to get on the board with razes of their own, however, success has proved elusive thus far. As of yesterday, the Times reported on the ramshackle condition of He-Man’s besieged city of I WILL TAKE YOU ALL ON! in Kul-Tar, believing that the city was indeed close to falling. However, a new review this morning shows that in spite of the city likely being well past its raze population, SHARK have still not stormed its gates. The protracted nature of the operations casts doubt on whether SHARK truly has a handle on the operation, or the confidence to take on what remaining form He-Man has maintained inside the city limits.
On the other end of the server, SHARK’s siege of ChuckNourish’s outpost of StonetoothPeak has also taken much longer than expected, since it is perceived that SIN has likely conceded that siege to SHARK. And yet, a new siege camp that arrived yesterday may indicate that the first round of siege armies were crippled:
| ChuckNourish [SIN] | 4. Stonetooth Peak | [-626|-2656] in Kingslands | Allyssar [SHARK] | Sat 14 Nov 00:55 |
For SHARK and its supporters, the top-ranked alliance’s inability to to execute successful sieges at the same pace as SIN could mean a long-term pacing issue in the war, allowing SIN to raze and capture multiple cities in the time that it takes them and VIC to siege only one city. The Times will follow these sieges closely.
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