In its fresh war with YARR, TUF has struck first, laying down a siege on a YARR player located in Calumnex. The Herald’s siege section reported the landing of the siege camp, which happened late last night, server time:
| Twang [YARR!] | Popayan | [513|-2875] in Calumnex | kaven [TUF] | Fri 06 May 01:58 |
TUF and kaven are being opportunistic with this siege, since kaven’s cities are located in Jurgor — not too far from Twang’s city of Popayan — and they can capitalize on the relative isolation that Calumnex offers, given its complex, unforgiving terrain.
The city of Popayan is poorly placed — itself being positioned on plains, surrounded by small mountains. The glassy mountain terrain, however, has been reported as behaving slightly different in terms of terrain modifiers to regular mountainous territory.
YARR will be hard-pressed to defend the city of Popayan, which could likely end in an easy raze for TUF, getting them ahead early in war in terms of siege victories. This was a similar approach that they took in the outset of their still-ongoing war with Dlords.
Meanwhile, debate and invective has intensified across the server about the YARR/TUF war, particularly over the underlying issues that led to the war declaration and whether YARR’s decision to declare war on TUF while the embattled alliance is still fighting Dlords was indeed a just war declaration.
At present, both yARR and Dlords still remain non-confederated and both vehemently deny any collusion or coordination. That being said, TUF is put in the precarious position of fighting two alliances who have preemptively declared war on them.
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