Raid on Grailerhorn

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old.Finster

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Congratulations!

/salute and bow to all who were there

i won t post any specific credits this time because they always leave someone forgotten and unfairly out in cold.

all in all i can only say: i logged back on at 22.15 cet to find our forces in disarray in emain and DC taken. i was somewhat drunk, angered and just decided to go with the head through the wall and see if albion would follow. i msgd all the usual suspects and asked them if they were ready. everyone pretty much said: thx howabout some minimum advance warning but what the hell we drop what we re doing.

/enter army of albion in 25minutes

15minutes after starting the organization an RL friend (unguilded) phones me and tells me they re shouting it all over lyoness. arf, security breach. keep cool. mids didn t exploit similar on the first raid. i distributed rams from vault and ported over and we got going around 23:00 cet. scouts were at yggdra and reported all quiet, while i gave a siltent prayer it stay that way.

when we obtained merlins staff a fast team of 2FG raced it home while the rest of the army tried to stay in control of the relic keep. unfortunately some aggrod the respawned named guards and the charged the keep. the position getting uncontrollable we lost the keep within about 5minutes as men went down faster than they could be ressed. not prepared to give up we gathered the army in sauvage and odin s gate and regrouped. odysseus observed vindsaul and informed me of the names of all defenders (almost) so i knew we were up again about 20 with 2-3 aoe mezzers maximum.

the rest can only be described with the words Kcinimodus of Dve found:

we re organised, we re disciplined and we re lethal.

we chose an approach through the tight trees NE of grailerhorn and we pulled 6 uberguards and dispatched them before the midgard defenders realized we had returned. Lukas quickly grabbed the horn of valhalla in the chaos and handed it to Herbal Remedy to carry it home, escorted by the army that bore the victory home.

i logged in the solace of outer snowdonia, my head felt like a steamtrain had run over it and i couldn t sleep for about 2 hours after.

respect to xanatea for having at least tried and /salute to the brave few who died on the slopes of grailerhorn.

@Fatbelly, Shade and Xanatea: this game isn t over with lv50. it is a wargame about organization and social networking. i hope you will wake up and settle differences. as leaders you will be flamed and often have a thankless and misunderstood task. there will be conflicts and your egos and attitudes will get in your own ways, as you anger allies or ignore them at the wrong moment. still leadership has to be taken and not given and it is the most rewarding experience offered in DAoC if all goes well.
i wish killgorde luck on his alliance and i hope you find the strength we found in our defeat or midgard will break and fall over this.

/em misses the forrest of svealand where it all started.
 
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old.Shade

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Well, i left nolbypride like almost 2 weeks ago now in the middle of planing a relicraid. but its hard to do unguilded and i was pretty pissed atm so i put it on ice and figured to let some1 else take matters in their own hands and plan these things. Unfortunatly no1 else seems to wants to put time and effort into doing so. And fatbelly plays his alts on prydwen now so he wont do anything either.

At least killgorde took initiative to try and fix the alliance and all honor to him fer making that effort. (now if they only fix this damn alliancebug so alliances can be remade).

The last 2 weeks i have seen a VERY poor initiatave from midgards side. And im starting to think ill have to do something about it.

But it wont matter so much anyway excalibur will turn into another prydwen before long, just the fact that you could muster an army able to take a relickeep on that time on a weekday clearly shows that. Unfortunatly to many choose albion on this server just as to many choose midgard on prydwen.

Ive no doubt that we can take a relic on a weekend with proper planning but since we dont have enough ppl on the weekdays at the time you albions has(i myself most often log before 0:00cet) you would just get an army toghter in a few hour on a weekdaynight and take it back. nothing wrong with taking it at that time, you can we cant it is as simple as that.

Well luckily the PvPservers is interrealm and therefore they cant get unbalanced in the same way.

Now im of to xp my gimpmaster some and later n00k some peeps

:cool: yeah u know who u are :D
 
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razorboy

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gratz to the 'very big' albion army :)

shame midgard is losing his players :/ (Im currently playing alt on hib too :) )
 
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c0ngo

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Well after taking the 1st Relic Midgard clearly had enough warning that we'd be back for the 2nd (2 good an opportunity to miss with all 3 doors down)

There had to be more Middies on than the 15 or so that turned up so why weren't there more defending ?

If Excalibur dies the fact that there are a large number of well organised commited Albs isn't what will cause it to happen, it'll happen because the Middies don't seem to bothered enough to defend their relic or to attempt to retake/take one.

All three realms can easily take a relic now, it doesn't need that many people, as long as the attacking army isn't detected.

Albion has tried and failed to take a number of relics at various times but at least we keep trying. I'm still not convinced that any realm has the strength to take a defended relic.

So hibbies keep an eye on yours, check on them regularly, leave alts there with wood, and drop everything to defend yours if you hear we are coming and don't just let us march up and take it.
 
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old.Jazhara

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Looks really that Excalibur will be another Prydwen just that Albion is in lead here *yawn*

Game gets boring for me now too.

GOA doesn't inform us about upcoming patches, it's a bit annoying. Darkness Falls should be in by now to spice the game up a bit.

Jazhara
 
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Keri

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I still can't understand why people keep whining about patches. Forget that DAoC US exists; stop reading the DAoC US news and forum sites; enjoy playing the EU version; create alts that you can level up to be the right levels to play in the Battlegrounds when we do get them. There are plenty of ways to still enjoy this game, but unfortunately, the players who raced to lvl 50 are the ones who see no challenge in the game any more.

Do you also whine about movies/music/TV shows coming out later than they do in the US?
 
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Olgark

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Main reason as to why there where not many of us Mids there was due to a lack of communication. The Nolby Pride alliance is breaking up from what I can see, ( imo) and we do not have the new alliance that Nazgul is working on is not yet up and running. ( It looks good so far, and I am hoping to be a part of it.)

Rome was not built in a day nor will any good alliance. Takes time for things to get sorted and settled.

Lack of frontier communication on our part allowed you a easy take of our relics. And the mere fact you can gather 250 people over 40+ far out does what Midgard can gather. Usualy we have about 200 people on the realm but I would say only 30% are over 40. imo
 
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old.Stix

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Originally posted by Jazhara
Looks really that Excalibur will be another Prydwen just that Albion is in lead here *yawn*

Game gets boring for me now too.

GOA doesn't inform us about upcoming patches, it's a bit annoying. Darkness Falls should be in by now to spice the game up a bit.

Jazhara

Yeah and Darkness Falls will be permanently alb-controlled lol
 
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old.Jazhara

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Dear Keri,

i don't whine, just stated that the game is a bit boring for me atm.
I don't like to play any alts *yawn*.

I prefer to RvR, but since Albion outnumbers the other realms most of the time the RvR is not a real challenge.

Darkness Falls will spice it up a bit (at least i hope that).

Jazhara
 
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Herbal Remedy

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Originally posted by Olgark
Main reason as to why there where not many of us Mids there was due to a lack of communication. The Nolby Pride alliance is breaking up from what I can see, ( imo) and we do not have the new alliance that Nazgul is working on is not yet up and running. ( It looks good so far, and I am hoping to be a part of it.)

Rome was not built in a day nor will any good alliance. Takes time for things to get sorted and settled.

Lack of frontier communication on our part allowed you a easy take of our relics. And the mere fact you can gather 250 people over 40+ far out does what Midgard can gather. Usualy we have about 200 people on the realm but I would say only 30% are over 40. imo





mmmmmmmm 250 whered they come from?
I think there was what 70max
 
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Brennik

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Oh and Finster: true, the game isn't over at lvl 50. The game is over when it's starting to get boring, as it sure is. I love being the underdog, but too much is just too much. Then again, I'm sure the game will be very different in three months. The question is, will anyone be playing it anymore...

"A winner is you."
 
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old.Finster

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i m SO tired of this. the real problem is that midgard has no sense of realm like hibernia or albion does.

75. we were 75 ppl some of them 30ish at grailerhorn.

and in leading you get flamed. you make mistakes. raids fall apart. players screw up.

but who has to do the harsh things? HE WHO CAN.

so please either grab leadership in your realm if you re obviously able to do it and do not flee from responsibility into some lowbie alt. DAoC isn t a mmorg, it isn t a diablo clone, it s a massive multiplayer Wargame and if albion wins then because we understand this and field the army it requires and give that army scouting and communications. we get wiped just the same when we run around uncoordinated in emain, the hibbies regularely defeat us when they have superior coordination. albion wins on the battlefield when we get our act together, as does hibernia so damn better listen to Killgorde or any other, because in this game a bad commander is infinitely preferable over no commander at all.

and to those who tell me they care crap about relic: i did 421 a smite on tylar (fix) without powerrelics. i do 505 a smite with 2. reminder to all those who decided not to care and let grailerhorn be looted twice.
 
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Olgark

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Originally posted by Herbal remedy






mmmmmmmm 250 whered they come from?
I think there was what 70max


I am talking on a average day at a average time, not that particular day or time as I was not on then so can not comment on the numbers there.
 
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Bootae

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If you got 250 albs in RvR you'd kill em easier, their lag and framerate would suck so bad u could nuke them from afar with ease :p

And I dunno how u see that as an average day, since Beta I RvR fairly regularly and can count on one hand the times I've seen 200 players in battle at once, let alone 200 from one realm.
 
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Alrindel

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...I'm sure the game will be very different in three months.
three weeks ago albions were fleeing like bunnies from any opposing force sent against them and the midgard high levels were still wreaking havoc all over the frontier whenever they felt like it.

who knows what the game will look like three weeks from now. or who the underdogs will be :D
 
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old.tRoG

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hot dang and diggety, i do remember that only a few weeks ago people were saying albs were woosies, running away all the time...

looks like they got organised :)
 
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tilde

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First we flees and get called chickens, then we strike back and get flame because we're to many...

Any suggestions how we can do without getting blamed for something?
 
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Olgark

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Originally posted by tilde
First we flees and get called chickens, then we strike back and get flame because we're to many...

Any suggestions how we can do without getting blamed for something?

hehehe yeh I have one, stop breathing.
 
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old.Woodmansee

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Well Done Albion!
Plz keep the relics safe untill we get them back :D
 
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BlueJam

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Originally posted by Finster
i m SO tired of this. the real problem is that midgard has no sense of realm like hibernia or albion does.

reminder to all those who decided not to care and let grailerhorn be looted twice.

Cobblers, we have a sense of realm alright, and the ones that defended Grallerhorn the second time around where a good section of the high level players online at that time. The rest just simply weren't online.

They where probably out taking in the fresh air, washing or having sex with girls, try it sometime Albs, you might like it :p

(I apologise on behalf of myself for that last paragraph )
 
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Brennik

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About the three months, ok, it may not take that long, but still a while for ANY of the realms to field a force that can take a defended relic. At the moment the things are going to stay the way they are now. I honestly don't think anyone can get the relics from the Albs at this point. That's one of the reasons I'm not even bothered to try anything like that. In two-three weeks the situation will be a lot different I'd imagine.

Or well, maybe we could take the relic at 10 am when all the battleweary Albs are finally sleeping :D What's the point in that though... "Hooray, we killed some NPCs." Not the way I want to play this game, that's why I've always found the late-night keep raids also utterly laughable :)
 

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