SHARK Lands 4 Sieges in BL in Major Push Against TVM; TVM Answers With Northmarch Siege

Military operations appear to be on the move in the Newlands War, as a total of 5 total sieges have posted in the Herald, 4 of which were initiated by SHARK. All four of the sieges landed in relatively close succession today:

elguapo [TVM]

Cudillero

[-303|-2067] in Oarnamly

Allyssar [SHARK]

Tue 20 Oct 11:48

GrrlyOrc [TVM]

Bondage Barracks

[-149|-2076] in Oarnamly

Halcyon [SHARK]

Wed 21 Oct 11:59

mccannj [TVM]

The Golan Heights

[-232|-2104] in Oarnamly

Spekkio [SHARK]

Wed 21 Oct 12:00

Lord Moonpie [TVM]

Borax

[-368|-1828] in Northmarch

Hevneren [SHARK]

Wed 21 Oct 13:39

 

A secondary siege has also set up on Lord Moonpie:

Lord Moonpie [TVM]

Borax

[-366|-1828] in Northmarch

Hevneren [SHARK]

Thu 22 Oct 00:41

The three Oarnamly sieges are set right within the TVM heartland against the alliance’s some of the more high-profile players.

TVM did, however, answer with a siege of their own, in Northmarch:

Allyssar [SHARK]

DiamondIsle

[-444|-1817] in Northmarch

vgsrhhheth [RE]

Wed 21 Oct 16:21

The Times will monitor these sieges, but also asks TVM and SHARK to cooperate with us in helping report the most accurate stories of siege outcomes of all of these battles.

 

RE Attacks SHARK, This Time In Northmarch

Allyssar under siege by Gothos

The Dark Star Dominion has responded to SHARK’s recent attacks with a siege on Northmarch-located AmberInlet, belonging to Allyssar.

Player Under Siege	Town Under Siege	Location	Under Siege By	Siege Began

Allyssar [SHARK]

AmberInlet

[-468|-1828] in Northmarch

Gothos [RE]

Tue 13 Oct 05:30

Gothos has all his cities located in Westmarch, a neighboring region to Northmarch. The siege is located on a plains square, making it vulnerable to heavy cavalry strikes. Currently there is no blockade enforced on the city, which stands at a population of 11,183.

Posted at 12:27(11:27 in-game time), 13/10/2015

[UPDATE] Siege no longer in effect. If anyone ahs any information please PM the forum account aReporter.

AJ’s City Razed by B!B, TVM Triumphs Against Stomps in Northmarch

Lorcan pictured storming Valdorum’s city in Northmarch. Photo courtesy of Jasper Stonescrotum

Morning this day in Illyriad opened to the completion of two high profile sieges, marking the first blood drawn in the B!B/HIGH conflict as well as the sixth successful razing of a Stomps city in the Broken lands.

In the late hours, server time, B!B reportedly took down ajqtrz2’s city of Elgoria 2 BH-B2. As of last night, there had been fierce fighting in the dense Almenly forests at the site of the siege, with AJ and his compatriots mounting the best defense they could muster. The Times reported yesterday that the B!B blockade was successfully broken, which allowed HIGH to run much-needed basic resources into the city for prestige building. However, the dual B!B sieges, which landed at precisely the same time and were firing on the hour, must have proved insurmountable even to pres building as the catapults became increasingly accurate over time.

Over in Northmarch, however, it was the tale of two cities, as TVM’s successful raze of Valdorum proved to be a variable cakewalk compared to AJ’s tenacious defense.

TVM, Stomp Spar in Northmarch; Valdorum Under Siege

Trivium and Stomp are set to do battle for the first time in the Broken Lands, with TVM managing to set down a siege camp on Valdorum’s recently exodused city in Northmarch.

Word of the siege came at midnight server time when the Herald posted the siege details in their siege section:

Player Under Siege: Valdorum [Stomp] City Under Siege: Trivium can Suck It [-562|-1806] in Northmarch Under Siege By: Lorcan [TVM] Date: Mon 13 Jul 00:00

A secondary siege was established later by TVM’s Lord Moonpie at 05:38 ST. Currently, TVM is utilizing 5 squares to siege from in Northmarch. Valdorum chose a strong spot to settle on, as the city is surrounded by plains, which exposes siege and blockade armies to potentially withering siege-breaking cavalry attacks from Stomps. Look for Stomps to potentially use cavalry from Elgea to break this siege as well as from cities in the BL.

To try and mitigate the poor terrain for offense, TVM has two sieges and three blockades. Often times, alliances will use 6 to 8 squares for plains sieges to deny their opponents one simple target. However, it remains to be seen if two siege armies will get the job done for TVM, given Stomps’ potent military players.

The city “Trivium can Suck It” is Valdorum’s State of Grace, which made headlines last week when a reader tipped off the Times that this city had originally been the target of a SIN siege in Pawanallpa, but successfully exodused away. It appears that TVM put an operation in place in order to take advantage of the city’s vulnerability after the exodus. After cities exodus in Illyriad, they are subject to a 5-day “cooldown” period where military and diplomatic units cannot be used, nor can the city re-exodus.

In a comment to the Times about this siege, Stomp alliance leader Pico stated that “the majority of Sin´s razes have been against small pop towns, small stomp players, brought in to take on smaller alliances with land claims.”

Given the fact that Stomps is substantially outnumbered in the Broken Lands, the upstart alliance has effectively used exodus to avoid a number of sieges in the BL, the most high-profile of which was Ron Fay’s city of La Vila Strangiato, which exodused to Elgea from the Newlands to avoid TVM’s first siege attempt in the war, and has since reappeared in Pawanallpa to join the fight there and provide support to embattled Stomp cities.