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.

RE on the Ropes Early as TUF Razes Another City

TUF appears to be focusing the majority of its offensive efforts on Roman Empire, with a new, active siege on an RE target in Elgea that has netted a raze. The Herald reported earlier on the details of the dual siege in its siege section:

parthenon [RE]	Elfend	[211|43] in Middle Kingdom	Xander [TUF]	Sun 10 Jul 17:18
parthenon [RE]	Elfend	[209|44] in Middle Kingdom	AianNick [TUF]	Sun 10 Jul 18:32

The dual siege by Xander and AianNick is well positioned in the Middle Kingdom amid dense forests around the city. The terrain combined with few supporting RE cities suggests that this is yet another opportunistic siege for TUF, who will easily pick up a siege victory in its ongoing war.

The raze, which was purportedly completed by AianNick, marks two successful sieges in a row where TUF will have risked little to achieve victories that, while not necessarily likely to drain RE troops or dramatically affect the outcome of the war, do show that TUF is in control in the early going of the war, putting together successful ops.