It was a night to remeber with a back and forth all the evening.
At around 19:30 we started the Dwarf Gunline. Sniping at Furrigs Fall and getting unsportsmanlike whipped by FMJ there. Twice!
With the CNTK warband in the lakes and going in with a ram to siege the destro keep it went on. The Ram was intercepted at the tunnel on BFP side by a PnP warband if I'm correct. The Video is in their Media Thread.
After some skirmishes Destro had now the initiative and numbers were pretty even at around 20:30. I think destro with something like 15 more Players. Something like 130-115. 'Destro pushed to the Badlands Order Keep but the ram got damaged in between by attacks of the Cature and other Order Warbands. In the Siege the Dwarf Gunline racked in their kills. with pride I can tell that most of the Deaths of TUPs Sorcerers were made by us. Even shootin two times their wretched warband leader.
There were several pushes from Order to shove Destro away, but most of the time it were just feinted destro retreats to lure order out. Also on the PnP video you can see the following flank attacks of other destro premade Warbands like FMJ or TUP.
The damaged ram got destroyed but Destro hold the situation until the second ram was up. At around 22:15 outer door was broken and order funneled on main door. But an interception force of order Warbands kept the posterns clear so there couldn't come a flanking attack from there like on most other primetime destro attacks.
The siege was broken finally and destro looked like they disbanded with AAO going up for a short time to 60% in favour of Order. But TUP was still around and sought fights on their own in BFP and Badlands. On a scout mission near Goblin Artillery we made a quick stop to kill that lair lord there. While me moved out of her lair, we opened the door just to look at the TUP warband pushing at that very same moment into us.
Order repaired the doors and shortly after got their own ram and brought the fight to the destro keep in BFP. Outer broke down fast and Order pushed on inner door which went down also quite fast. But on the ground floor was still the TUP warband with another warband on the other side of the door.
While in Order chat several people had to repeat 15 times that you can't push into inner postern on a 3 star keep a second destro force was pushing constantly from outer door to reach the besieged. In at least 6 fights this relief force was fought back. All the while the destro relief force stopped Order reinforcements to come in and join the fight.
At around 23:10 a push into the destro keep failed and Order was whiped by pushing out destro defenders. A lot of players logged off after that. The gunline was down to 7 Snipers, 1 Runi, 1 IB. Perfect keep attack material we joked. But Cature and his warband had still the fighting spirit so we made it back into the destro yard and there was the word that TUP left the keep. Fighting off again destro pushes from the outside Order gathered and pushed in.
Immediately Order was then attacked by destro formations on inner door. So the Thunderers and another Order warband started a counter funnel. After the first brunt was fought off we moved up to snipe healers and warband leaders. But once there were 2 destro warbands gathered outside we moved back to ground floor the fight them off once they push in in force.
But alas, the big last push never came and around 00:10 Order took the zone.
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By the Ancestors, that was an evening you can only have in Warhammer Online. A forth and back on the battlefields. Whipes, counter pushes, premade warbands moving like warhammer units on the tabletop. Organ guns firing, the screams of despairing dps armchair generals in region chat and retreating pug formations at the first sight of more than six red names.
So thanks for all who were there yesterday, and on top the guild warbands:
TUP, FMJ, PnP, CNTK, Cature and his lads and just saw a Bene Tleilax formation at the keep in BFP.
