TUF-RE in Full Mêlée as YARR Siege on Josh Broken

a portrait of Blaxx Stoneaxe

RE’s Blaxx Stoneaxe appears to be taking the brunt of a shotgun approach to sieges by TUF, playing host to a string of operations against her in Elgea that seeks to capitalize on her isolation from the rest of the RE homeland in Westmarch. The Herald’s siege section is reporting on no less than 7 independent sieges, most of which are taking place in Perrigor:

Blaxx Stoneaxe [RE]

Easy isolated target

[192|-264] in Perrigor

Spektor [TUF]

Sun 17 Jul 22:15

 

Blaxx Stoneaxe [RE]	Target of unbowed scrub	[190|-269] in Perrigor	Xander [TUF]	Mon 18 Jul 02:01
Blaxx Stoneaxe [RE]	Isolated easy target 2	[316|-241] in Perrigor	Spektor [TUF]	Mon 18 Jul 02:12

 

 

Blaxx Stoneaxe [RE]	Target of unbowed scrub	[189|-271] in Perrigor	Spektor [TUF]	Mon 18 Jul 03:33
Blaxx Stoneaxe [RE]	Just bored	[217|-267] in Perrigor	Spektor [TUF]	Mon 18 Jul 06:06

 

Blaxx Stoneaxe [RE]	Easy isolated target	[190|-265] in Perrigor	AianNick [TUF]	Mon 18 Jul 08:01
Blaxx Stoneaxe [RE]	Banished from bl moses?	[-46|341] in Norweld	moses [TUF]	Mon 18 Jul 08:54

The Roman Empire will be hard press to defend these cities and break so many concurrent sieges at once in Elgea.

Meanwhile, TUF has also appeared to have smashed yet another siege, this time breaking what looed like a robust attempt on Josh in Clarien. The siege break is yet another big defensive win for TUF, who is defying the odds against the triple-threat of YARR, RE and SIN by aggressively attacking what they perceive to be a weak RE, breaking sieges by YARR, and largely ignoring SIN. Even if SIN remains successful is sieges, TUF’s decisive wins against RE and YARR will allow them to outpace any losses and keep their momentum going.

Footnote: Persona Non Grata Razed Again

SIN officials shared a raze report from its recent siege against persona non grata:

From: System
Subject: FW: beggars at my gates? razed!
Received: 16 Jul 2016 11:09
Original Message:
beggars at my gates?, belonging to persona non grata which was located at 508|-2775 has been razed by OleBlacklord.

Because persona non grata left TUF prior to OleBlacklord’s sieges landing on the city, the raze will not count toward scoring on the TUF-SIN War Score Card, until or unless persona was to rejoin TUF. Because persona non grata formed the [way] alliance, declared war on SIN, and suffered a raze, the Times will publish a new way/SIN War Score Card to track sieges in this appendage of the TUF-SIN war.

TUF DAY FOR KARL: YARR Breaks Aegis’ Norweld Siege as Dlords Pile On

TUF’s Karl Aegis finds himself embroiled in both wars that his alliance is currently involved in, losing an isolated siege in Elgea while being targeted by Dlords in a siege operation of their own. News of the siege break, which the Times reported on days ago, was sent along by YARR officials:

From: System
Subject: FW: Victorious battle against Karl Aegis’s forces at [71|352] in Norweld by SamODell’s forces from 001 – Guiyang
Received: 09 May 2016 05:21
Original Message:
Two opposing forces clash against each other.

Even the smaller crags in this mountainous area will hinder attacking cavalry, as well as more heavily armoured swordsmen.

TUF Notches First Raze, Looks For Soft Target in Elgea; ajqtrz Stuns Siege on Doralia 2, But YARR Prevails

Similar to its still-ongoing war with Dlords, military alliance TUF continues to get off to a good start in its war with YARR, notching an opportunistic raze in Calumnex against YARR while making a strong showing in Almenly, shrugging off one siege operation on ajqtrz and stunning another that subsequently fell.

TUF officials confirmed the razing of YARR player Tang’s city of Popayan, which was originally located at 514|-2876 in the heart of the uncanny, glassy Calumnex terrain. TUF’s kaven picks up the official raze. TUF noted that Tang dropped from YARR’s roster after the siege landed, “probably because they realised they couldn’t defend it.”

YARR leader Solanar sought to frame the decision to drop Tang and capitulate Popayan as strategic, saying in comments on the Times that he “[k]icked Twang,” going on to note: “His sitter ran out the same day the siege hit, so not able to assist in any way. We did hit the sieges a bit though. Terrible ratios on our part. Cheers Tuf for hitting the weak link.”

In their note to the Times, TUF officials corroborated the prospective attempts to break the Twang siege: “There was two 10k t2 cavalry hits that attempted to break separate sieges but failed. These came from solanar and ranalos.”

Stomps Sieges SIN’s DaenerysTargaryen in Elgea

Amid swirling rumors that the Stomp/claimers war might be dying down, Pico has initiated a bold, new siege on one of SIN’s rare players with a city in Elgea. Early this morning server time, the new siege posted in the Herald:

Player Under Siege: DaenerysTargaryen [SIN] City: stomped is desperate [-154|291] Sieger: in Norweld Pico [Stomp] Date/Time: Sat 25 Jul 21:38

Player Under Siege: DaenerysTargaryen [SIN] City: stomped is desperate [-152|290] in Norweld Sieger: LePue [Stomp] Date/Time: Sun 26 Jul 03:26

Using his LePue alt as well, Pico has staged a major siege operation, complete with two siege forces and two blockades.

The new siege for Stomps follows a long dry spell of overt offensive military operations against the land claimers. According to the Times‘ War Score Card, the last siege attempt was on July 7, 2015, when PhoenixFire’s [Stark] city of Harrenhal was captured by Bimoda.

Stomps appears to be using its close proximity to DaenerysTargaryen and her relative isolation to get another much-needed raze under their belts, similar to SIN’s opportunistic sieging of Agalloch and Elfs Bane in the early onset of the war.