Grandpa... tell us about the war

In keeping with the story telling, one of our members has one he wanted me to share with you all...

As many of you know, our neighborhood down around the Great Lake in Tallimar that many of us call home has had a few new neighbors... Several of the folks who are at war with us have settled there, including a few that have new ones that we can only surmise were created for the war (who names their alliance "cash"???)...

Well... in the name of neighborhood friendliness, I sent a few folks to welcome one of our new neighbors... I guess they sort of crowded the city, because they were obviously mistakenly run down by a group of folks racing horses by some guy who, rather daringly, named himself "Danger Russ". He must be referring to his traffic habits!

Regardless, our member decided to go visit this fast driver to say hi and saw that he had, besides quite a few fast driving cavalry, 452 welcome torches for us shaped like Catapults and Ballistas. Needless to say, we were completely grateful for the amazing display they made when they burned! We have never, in my experience, seen that many siege engine shaped torches go up in one visit in the history of Illy!

Congrats on another defense Deranzin.  Amusing stories by both you and Starry adding colour to this thread.

Another smaller story this time with a slight different name :

Two alliances vs 1 player

Having already a siege from vCrow and VICX pounding on the buildings of one city (everything landed at night and didn't really watch that), I noticed that another siege in a different town was going to land in my first town from Dittobite, the head vCrow so I thought I might look things up this time ...

A couple of early occupation forces, I decided to take out, unlike other times, since the siege was coming near, but the timing didn't seem to be any good ... I do not know why they did that since they did have scout reports from my towns and they should have known that I still had some troops left, mostly pikemen though.

Before the siege, finally two large occupations hit the same spot, so more or less I knew the point of the siege, but I waited in case by some weird mistake it landed on another point ... it didn't.

Out went the scouts.
In came the reports
out I sent the pikemen BEFORE the knights, because it turned out that all the units gathered there didn't have a lot of spear defense ...

So, I time my attacks like this : Pikemen - knights - knights - pikemen for the final clear.

At that point I was a bit late in sending all of these because I was reading scout reports and checking the other siege as well ... so, 20 minutes after finally sending everything I perceived an incoming on the map going at 2-3 arrows !

I counted the map tiles again and again as time went by ... my knights were faster, my pikemen where slower than that so the last and conclusive attack was going to hit at the same time as the incoming. I HAD to watch that show, despite the very late time

First and second hit came and went confirming that for a small margin I would definitely need the 4th attack ... 3rd attack lands and only 1 catapult is left in the siege ! SO CLOSE and both of the other forces are over the spot ...

I counted the last 20 seconds one by one ... and my pikemen hit first ( I think around 10 seconds earlier than the reinforcements ! )

Down went Dittobite's siege
Up went the occupation force
Out went my city which I moved a bit east to avoid their follow-up siege, but mostly for fun, because they will eventually re-send a siege even there

TOWN SAVED !!! ... for now ... and the score to the 2 alliances vs 1 player tale, went to 2-2 ... also for now, since they are sieging two towns of mine atm and even though I still have some troops left, I think that the amount of stunts I can pull off, just ended ... but I think that I had the maximum fun out of both my cities and my troops, anyway

Nice post, Starry...

This is a great thread.  Now all it needs is Cliff's Notes.