New headlines for the current Broken Lands conflicts and war crisscrossed in a busy afternoon on the server, as SIN forces racked up another siege victory in Newlands while DRIFT’s Dsasa established a new siege on YARR!’s Princess Botchface.
News of the fresh razing in the Second Newlands War came from SIN officials, who provided the siege report:
From: System
Subject: FW: Orchard Mills razed!
Received: 10 Mar 2016 16:17
Original Message:
Orchard Mills, belonging to Coltman which was located at 113|-2208 has been razed by OleBlacklord.
For OleBlacklord, it is his fifth successful siege in NW2, and for VIC, it is the eighth lost city to SIN sieges. Compared to other sieges in the war, this one appeared to be largely uncontested, as the Times and its correspondents never witnessed even one unit hit the siege camp or enter the city. The city was likely capitulated due to either an inactive Coltman and/or highly unfavorable terrain.
Just south of the Newlands in Almenly, DRIFT desperado Dsasa continued his one-man campaign against both YARR! and Roman Empire, establishing a new siege on YARR!’s Princess Botchface. News of the siege flashed across GC earlier:
[16:39]<System> ** News Flash: Princess Botchface’s [YARR!] large town of Xiao Pei is now under siege by Dsasa’s [Drift] sprawling city of Diviniti
. . . and was subsequently posted in the Herald:
| Princess Botchface [YARR!] | Jianye | [-191|-2582] in Almenly | Dsasa [Drift] | Thu 10 Mar 10:29 |
Similar to Dsasa’s first lost city in the conflict, Botch’s besieged city offers plenty of favorable sieging terrain, including large and small hills. That being said, the city is within reach of both RE forces in the eastern section of Westmarch as well as the Pirate Isles, suggesting that the YARR!/RE consortium should be able to break the siege in time.
[UPDATED — 10:10 pm ST] A second DRIFT siege has also set up today — this one against an RE city in The Long White:
[21:55]<System> ** News Flash: ‘s [RE] large city of lonesome is now under siege by Dsasa’s [Drift] sprawling city of Malanorai
The Illyriad Times 