[UPDATED] SHARK Captures City in Newlands; TVM Siege Breaks 2, Puts King A On the Ropes

[UPDATED 10/19, 13:45 ST — This article has been updated to reflect that Sagleruk’s city was not razed by SHARK, but that the siege was broken. This was originally reported as a SHARK siege but has been updated in the article below and on the War Score Card.] 

The new dawn in Illyriad has brought with it major outcomes in the recent spate of siege operations taking place on the Newlands peninsula between SHARK and TVM, with top-ranked alliance racking up a successful siege, while TVM continues to scrap for a major win against King A.

Of the three sieges initiated by Shark, one has so far been a success, with .Mordred. capturing the town of R-06 from the purportedly inactive Rojak.

TVM, however, have had successes of their own in the field this weekend. The SHARK siege on Salgerluk’s city of Blah HA HA HA HA HA was reportedly broken by TVM. The siege against Fediglio’s city of 3 – Meat appears to have been broken by TVM forces as well, though the outcome of this battle is yet to be confirmed via an official combat report.

Perhaps even bigger news is the status of the current siege against SHARK’s King A, which has seen the fiercest fighting of all four battles in Newlands over the weekend. At one point, the Times observed that King A’s city of New Troy had been prestige built to double-digit population. The city now currently stands at a sub-2,000 population, and while Lorcan’s early siege was broken, mccannj’s secondary siege has picked up the slack and still appears to be firing:

King A [SHARK]

New Troy

[45|-2286] in Newlands

mccannj [TVM]

Sat 17 Oct 04:08

The raze population for the city is unknown, however, if TVM is successful, it would bring the score for this weekend’s round of sieges to one raze, one siege break for TVM and 1 capture, 1 raze for SHARK.

Dueling Sieges in Newlands: SHARK Answers With Fresh Siege on Rojak

Just as TVM initiated a new, high-stakes siege against SHARK’s King A in Newlands, the top-ranked alliance has answered back with a fresh siege of their own ion the embattled peninsula. The Herald noted the new siege earlier this morning:

Rojak [TVM]

R-06

[124|-2179] in Newlands

.Mordred. [SHARK]

Sat 17 Oct 09:10

Rojak’s city of R-06 may be among the poorest-placed cities in the war thus far for defending a siege, as it sits at the base of a large mountain. Large mountains afford ranged units a commanding +30% defending bonus. Spears benefit as well, at a +20% defense bonus. Any TVM effort to break this siege will be costly.

.Mordred. is predominantly an Elgean player, with only one BL city, located far from the siege site in the Kingslands. As a result, wherever the siege initiated from, Rojak and TVM likely had prior notice that it was inbound.

SHARK has shown an uncanny ability to flex its comparably lean BL forces thus far, easily handling the vast majority of DSD operations. Now, their new siege will undoubtedly complicate TVM’s game plan against King A, forcing them to either split their forces and lose substantial troops on hittingMordred’s large mountain siege on Rojak or abandoning their alliance mate to see the King A siege through.