Well... 5 hours after it began I logged out to call it a night.
It all began around 9pm gmt with the usual RvR when I noticed 2 small alb cups in hib. 1 headed for the crau spire, another headed towards nged t3.
The crau tower fell before it really started, when I noticed the siege on nged t3 and the growing cup I got suspicious and quickly set up a minor BG. When nged t3 fell and the larger cups began to appear, followed by guardspams that indicated over 100 albs attacking bolg and crim.
My group got wiped and we released to dl, rapidly spamming dl/dc and /As about the RR and my BG.
We grouped at ail, and by the time we moved crim was doomed, and bolg was about to fall. We could muster no more than 3fg + a few randoms for our main zerg.
We were under heavy time preasure since we had no time to prepare or organise when this massive assault hit us. And our first strike was an attempt on nged t3 to recapture it and reopen port. This attempt was switly prevented by a number of high rr albs left to defend. Who did a quite good job during the evening to prevent us from retaking nged t3.
By the time we had managed to regroup we had again the 3fg + randoms with 15-20 additional people stacked in crau to defend. Before our zerg again moved on nged t3 bolg had gone and the albs were clearing up towers to secure port. This time we succeded in taking the tower, however poor communication combined with the appearance of another alb force dispatched to deal with us - we got wiped and the tower was lost once more.
Our next move was to move what we had left to defend crau, we sailed there but there was some confusion durign the dropoff, where people disembarked into either albs or mids who had appeared, however not to honour the hibgard alliance but to farm rps.
Before the entire hib force had arrived the outer walls were breached and we were forced to retreat to the inner keep. No reinforcements were from this point able to aid the defenders trapped inside.
The keep held for a good while, it took some time before the inner gate fell, however there was nothing we could do to stop it. We survived good 10-15 mins in the lordroom thanks to a large numbers of pb's, bains and ani's. In the end the keep fell, the albs just kept comming.
At this point guardspams had indicated over 100+ albs (Could have been duplicate guardspams since they weren't from exactly the same time, I guess some alb would know.) The entire numbers of hibs in nf was 126 at that time, excluding anons. So it was a fight uphill. Our defence BG counted 5fg's + random. 2 of the fg's were not with the zerg but roaming around doing diffrent tasks individually though.
Nged or behn had to be the next targets to open relic gates. It began with nged but I reckon the albies no longer possed an advantage in numbers that could outweight the advantage of being a keep defender. Combined with the fact that the albs had chosen to put all their trebs in a bunch so they all went down from our palitone fire was another mistake. Albs took nged t1, and camped that, while another force moved on behn. They were unable to capture any towers since we were now prepared to organise a defence.
When nged t1 was razed and the albs defending it overrun, and the albs on behn was wiped by a hib force of similar size with the advantage of being the defender the raid was no longer a serious threath.
From that point we had to work hard on reopening Nged port and repairing behn. But that is now done, here around 2am gmt.
Bolg, Crim, Crau is still under alb control but for now the RR is off I think.
Well played albs, good initiative on a well performed RR during primetime. (Maybe a few hours late since it seemed like a bulk of your force logged around midnight.) But in the end it was good fun, questionable rps - but you sure made me have a nice evening, beliving that our relics would be lost by the end of the night.
Well played hibs for a quickly assembled defending force, with an impressive amount of defenders.
Well played mid I guess I didn't experience any organised interference though, farming gankgroups was all I encountered, being a nuiseance to albs aswell as hibs.
More primetime raids in the near future please, hopefully it will be the albs defending next time.
It all began around 9pm gmt with the usual RvR when I noticed 2 small alb cups in hib. 1 headed for the crau spire, another headed towards nged t3.
The crau tower fell before it really started, when I noticed the siege on nged t3 and the growing cup I got suspicious and quickly set up a minor BG. When nged t3 fell and the larger cups began to appear, followed by guardspams that indicated over 100 albs attacking bolg and crim.
My group got wiped and we released to dl, rapidly spamming dl/dc and /As about the RR and my BG.
We grouped at ail, and by the time we moved crim was doomed, and bolg was about to fall. We could muster no more than 3fg + a few randoms for our main zerg.
We were under heavy time preasure since we had no time to prepare or organise when this massive assault hit us. And our first strike was an attempt on nged t3 to recapture it and reopen port. This attempt was switly prevented by a number of high rr albs left to defend. Who did a quite good job during the evening to prevent us from retaking nged t3.
By the time we had managed to regroup we had again the 3fg + randoms with 15-20 additional people stacked in crau to defend. Before our zerg again moved on nged t3 bolg had gone and the albs were clearing up towers to secure port. This time we succeded in taking the tower, however poor communication combined with the appearance of another alb force dispatched to deal with us - we got wiped and the tower was lost once more.
Our next move was to move what we had left to defend crau, we sailed there but there was some confusion durign the dropoff, where people disembarked into either albs or mids who had appeared, however not to honour the hibgard alliance but to farm rps.
Before the entire hib force had arrived the outer walls were breached and we were forced to retreat to the inner keep. No reinforcements were from this point able to aid the defenders trapped inside.The keep held for a good while, it took some time before the inner gate fell, however there was nothing we could do to stop it. We survived good 10-15 mins in the lordroom thanks to a large numbers of pb's, bains and ani's. In the end the keep fell, the albs just kept comming.
At this point guardspams had indicated over 100+ albs (Could have been duplicate guardspams since they weren't from exactly the same time, I guess some alb would know.) The entire numbers of hibs in nf was 126 at that time, excluding anons. So it was a fight uphill. Our defence BG counted 5fg's + random. 2 of the fg's were not with the zerg but roaming around doing diffrent tasks individually though.
Nged or behn had to be the next targets to open relic gates. It began with nged but I reckon the albies no longer possed an advantage in numbers that could outweight the advantage of being a keep defender. Combined with the fact that the albs had chosen to put all their trebs in a bunch so they all went down from our palitone fire was another mistake. Albs took nged t1, and camped that, while another force moved on behn. They were unable to capture any towers since we were now prepared to organise a defence.
When nged t1 was razed and the albs defending it overrun, and the albs on behn was wiped by a hib force of similar size with the advantage of being the defender the raid was no longer a serious threath.
From that point we had to work hard on reopening Nged port and repairing behn. But that is now done, here around 2am gmt.
Bolg, Crim, Crau is still under alb control but for now the RR is off I think.
Well played albs, good initiative on a well performed RR during primetime. (Maybe a few hours late since it seemed like a bulk of your force logged around midnight.) But in the end it was good fun, questionable rps - but you sure made me have a nice evening, beliving that our relics would be lost by the end of the night.
Well played hibs for a quickly assembled defending force, with an impressive amount of defenders.
Well played mid I guess
I didn't experience any organised interference though, farming gankgroups was all I encountered, being a nuiseance to albs aswell as hibs.More primetime raids in the near future please, hopefully it will be the albs defending next time.
