Both VIC and SHARK have contacted the Times claiming that a recently razed city in Fellandire by the confederacy was in fact a siege operation originally targeted at a SIN player. A SHARK member, who asked not to identified on account of the sensitive nature of the information, noted on January 26th that a siege on ElJamon, up until recently a SIN member, was in fact meant to target the player while still in SIN. Since then, the city has fallen. These were the siege details:
ElJamon Warrior Storm [834|-2341] in Fellandire Stephen Stormcrow [VIC] Mon 25 Jan 02:00
According to the information, the siege touched down 28 hours after ElJamon left SIN. The timeframe suggests that the siege on his city was already on the move when ElJamon left or was dropped. Later on, Stephen Stormcrow himself contacted the Times and explained that the VIC siege was actually part of the recent rush of SHARK-VIC counter-sieges in Fellandire and Newlands. Stephen noted the timeline of events of ElJamon leaving SIN:
This city/account appears to have been a sat account by one or more SIN members and up until the day or two prior to the actual siege landing, was a part of the SIN alliance.
Prior to the siege actually landing, SIN ejected this account from their alliance. While I don’t know the reasoning for this action, I do find it interesting. Perhaps the alliance did not wish to waste military units defending a sat account, which I find completely understandable. What I find peculiar is the need to kick the account out of their alliance. Perhaps SIN felt they could avoid negative publicity by not having the city on their roles prior to it actually being razed.
While it remains to be seen if ElJamon was a sat account that SIN lost control of in the run-up to the siege, or if they dropped the account from the alliance to avoid having to defend yet another siege operation on bad terrain (ElJamon’s city had already been defended once and had a building next to it), his player growth charts suggests that the account began to flatline on the 25th when he was dropped from the alliance:
The departure of the ElJamon account from SIN in the face of this VIC siege could suggest that the alliance has run thin of defensive infantry in Fellandire, that the account was indeed sat and could not be exodused or pres built, or both.
This is not the first time that accounts have dropped from their alliances to avoid being counted as sieges. Early in the war, VIC’s Pehu attempted to drop out of the alliance with an inbound siege approaching. After rejecting SIN’s terms, we rejoined VIC, but managed to exodus his city away, avoiding the raze.
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