The War Of The Old Gods - SS38 Battle Reports Thread.

**Kiki.** · 03-03-2016, 03:04 AM

Ouch. 3.5mil mech in one hit

**ssfgrgawer** · 03-03-2016, 07:17 AM

Originally Posted by Kiki.

Ouch. 3.5mil mech in one hit

your not wrong. :/ But since then SDMF has managed to replace a good deal of the mechs lost, so no great loss, with the res to replace more. Just gonna have to plan around when hes out to restock the war citys again.

One of these days im gonna get to throw a horde wave... hehehe.

Just looking but im guessing because those few mechs landed first he actually wasted a lot of mechs on that horde wave, Could have saved himself 100k+ each mech lol.

**jakrough** · 03-03-2016, 09:56 AM

I was only poking fun "Hub" wise lol. If you can tell me how to make the picture bigger it would be appreciated as I'm not great with that kind of stuff. I was on....um Evony imposed vacation near the end of serv5 before the merge and didn't return until after the merge. Last days were spent in SPARTA.....weird group who mostly yelled "SPARTA" in chat all day so there is a gap in my playtime.

Originally Posted by ssfgrgawer

The backstory - Bombastic managed to get into Dacia's main hub, much to our annoyance. SO SDMF moved close by to pester him whenever the opportunity arises. This means bomb spends a lot of time in hols and only comes out when he thinks he's safe to do so. Bomb isn't in an alliance so we cant throw debuffs on him (Something that needs to be patched, since he throws them on us when we hit him lol) and he is a good enough defender to make dislodging him hard, especially when we are trying to fight Tj at the same time, hes just more of a thorn in our side.

He has proven a few times that he is an effective attacker, and this is more proof of that, Hes the first person to ever catch SDMF with his pants down completely offline, and wipe one of SDMF's War cities.

Bombastic - Firstly, he makes it seem like I holiday due being threatened by Dacia. They attack me so little that it's barely a reason when compared to food. Secondly, he spends far more time in holiday than I do. And when he is out, he truces too fast I truced him about 15 hours before I hit him and got him in cooldown. He was not "completely offline"
Which was why I was sending breakers and scout heavy waves. If he'd been completely off, I'd have spaced my waves, ensure i got good heal between each hit and they'd have all been mech waves.
In fact the banner wave would have been rams instead of scouts and wiped the entire city

Just passing on Bomb's thoughts on that battle ssfgrgawer.....

**MirsDej** · 03-04-2016, 06:12 AM

Ported around today too, but unlike all my recent posts, no major attacks on war cities. Stryder's little wc ported out, Gil's truced and Dayenna's support city dream truced after a 30.6b plunder. I planned to go for her war city but ported to the wrong one accidently

Nonetheless, that had a pleasing result which I will refer to at the end.

After I truced Gil, Ironsides, his close friend, bannered me with SBs and descouts that were actually effective to a degree. My fault since my top hero prevented my intel hero to defend at the start.

Ironsides Vs MirasDej

http://evonyurl.com/c6adj0
http://evonyurl.com/hd9dow
http://evonyurl.com/iz8a0w
http://evonyurl.com/wsz43h :l
http://evonyurl.com/s29n42
http://evonyurl.com/54evm3
http://evonyurl.com/0ummo1

MirasDej Vs Dayenna

http://evonyurl.com/ywoasx
http://evonyurl.com/8agrg2
http://evonyurl.com/n79l4e
http://evonyurl.com/gg3z2m
http://evonyurl.com/qw3w4b
http://evonyurl.com/ykhkf3
http://evonyurl.com/tmoki7
http://evonyurl.com/q98lj8
http://evonyurl.com/l9x7wo
http://ww.evonyurl.com/kuz7t4
http://ww.evonyurl.com/6kqhzb

After clearing it and beginning to farm, her hub kept reinforcing her with scouts producing the reports above.

**ssfgrgawer** · 03-04-2016, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by jakrough

I was only poking fun "Hub" wise lol. If you can tell me how to make the picture bigger it would be appreciated as I'm not great with that kind of stuff. I was on....um Evony imposed vacation near the end of serv5 before the merge and didn't return until after the merge. Last days were spent in SPARTA.....weird group who mostly yelled "SPARTA" in chat all day so there is a gap in my playtime.

The easiest way to post larger images is to first upload the image to a photo hosting site like: http://imgur.com/ Or http://s588.photobucket.com/ and then copy the [IMG} tags link to here. it will show the picture in full size and scale, and not be tiny, unless you take a really small screenshot of something.

Originally Posted by jakrough

Bombastic - Firstly, he makes it seem like I holiday due being threatened by Dacia. They attack me so little that it's barely a reason when compared to food. Secondly, he spends far more time in holiday than I do. And when he is out, he truces too fast I truced him about 15 hours before I hit him and got him in cooldown. He was not "completely offline"
Which was why I was sending breakers and scout heavy waves. If he'd been completely off, I'd have spaced my waves, ensure i got good heal between each hit and they'd have all been mech waves.
In fact the banner wave would have been rams instead of scouts and wiped the entire city

Just passing on Bomb's thoughts on that battle ssfgrgawer.....

@Bomb (The bolded part): SDMF has a valid reason to truce fast. You are next door for one, and ive no doubt certain other reds would love to catch SDMF with his pants down, if only for the potential for massive kills, and technically "TikTikBoom" truced SDMF 15 hours prior. At that point Bombastic was still holidayed, he only came out of holidays to attack then went almost immediately back into holidays afterwards. A truce at 100 might put you out of action for 12 hours, But it also saves your war city, unlike trucing at 99, where by the time that 99 is met, The war city is smoke and ashes.

As for my completely offline comment - I refer offline to their being no defender. Automated defense might as well be completely offline, as it is extremely easy to work around and you of all people should know that. Especially when there was no Pol hero in the city to rebuild walls, you should have known that as there was not much in the way of walls rebuilt at all. Automated defense is very simple to predict and adjust for. There really isn't any reason you shouldn't have used the heavy ram wave instead, given how slowly walls were rebuilding, and how often you were able to scout prior to attacking, not to mention with two cities you could have easily kept walls down. Perhaps i chose the wrong word when I said "completely" offline. I should have instead said "No Human Online."

Originally Posted by MirsDej

After clearing it and beginning to farm, her hub kept reinforcing her with scouts producing the reports above.

That was nice of Day - Almost as nice as that red i found years ago who after i farmed all the resources from his city, he nicely enough kept moving more in!

Link for those interested: http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?...ice&highlight=

Oh and Siege? Dont double post or ill have to merge them again :P

**MirsDej** · 03-06-2016, 03:31 AM

Well, today was a rather interesting day! The following is a story of survival, perseverance, chaos, team work and some bloody fatigue amongst other things I care not to identify at this point lol.

To provide some context within a brief summary, I wake up to my ...'twin' DaGriz having taken a beating by Bitty (Dacia host - ssf's leader) while attacking one of her feeders. Swordfish (hurley237 in forums) comes to my aid, and the battle is frozen for a few hours until DaGriz returns stocked up with some troops again to the place got beat up. Griz exacts some revenge on Bitty, Astolpho ports in and my host, Hesstified, shortly after. After a few hours of tiring warfare we all head home and the results are as messy as my room right now 0.o

SO! From the beginning, Bitty attacks DaGriz. Swordfish attacks Bitty, she retaliates.

Bitty vs DaGriz

I had 10m arch.
http://evonyurl.com/vu0ihi
http://evonyurl.com/yub7ci

Got a sitter.

http://evonyurl.com/qz3vi2
http://evonyurl.com/jfdz4n
http://evonyurl.com/xgv2j3
http://evonyurl.com/hv05ti
http://evonyurl.com/ggr7vn

Swordfish Vs Bitty

http://evonyurl.com/8awfj7

Bitty vs Swordfish

http://ww.evonyurl.com/kqy81b
http://ww.evonyurl.com/kvbxpl
http://ww.evonyurl.com/dagznd
http://ww.evonyurl.com/ts9xub
http://evonyurl.com/459lml

Few hours later after DaGriz restocks some troops, he attacks Bitty. Her city (small wc, she has 5.. one with 90m arch :l) had no arch shield really, and it had 18333 Ats and 1 trap. MirasDej didn't set up on her because I planned a hit and run originally then decided to practice some defending.

DaGriz Vs Bitty

http://evonyurl.com/kflkjs 1st Hit
http://evonyurl.com/b6rhdc hehe
http://evonyurl.com/d26li0

http://evonyurl.com/xgi91r x2 SB. lol. Why not?

Then as Astolpho ports in, so does Hess on him to even out the field.

Here is a collection of reports;

Hesstified Vs Astolpho, Astolpho Vs Hesstified

http://evonyurl.com/z1iu5q
7 hits no reports
http://evonyurl.com/v2wnlg

Asto sends a small series, dies on walls
http://evonyurl.com/rxltjn

Hess's 2nd series killed more layers, and archers:
http://evonyurl.com/soba0m

Then he smacked Hess with banner waves:
http://evonyurl.com/opxsu1
http://evonyurl.com/q8l4cb

Gates close couple trans waves:
http://evonyurl.com/ydw7da

Last set Asto opened. Finished off the archers he didn't move out:
http://evonyurl.com/5ijmq2

Bitty Vs DaGriz

http://evonyurl.com/cf6csf - This, and another wave below, were timed well with 20 meach eaters (henceforth RSBs, breakers, SBs as a group) Ram defence nullfied their effect.
http://evonyurl.com/voekne - Ouch. After Bitty killed ~250k Griz rams hours before, this and Astolpho's ram kill below compounded Griz's ram loses.

A pause, then the following

http://evonyurl.com/ibkh7o - hit the city I kept my layers, about 8 of these approximately.
http://evonyurl.com/rbmpb4 Approx two dozen of these in total.

http://evonyurl.com/zlzbhy Another report to chuck out here, layer kill.

DaGriz Vs Astolpho, Astolpho vs DaGriz

http://evonyurl.com/vy1o2i x4
http://evonyurl.com/v2a7ma x5 - Only hits I really did on him, others were cav/phract/scout spam for Hess to drop him into CD. Lag made that an unsuccessful venture. Rams ommited unintentionally.
http://evonyurl.com/s7p6x8 x3
http://evonyurl.com/toddi9 Nice! I didn't see this one coming. Ram kill.

Scout wise, Hess lost 30m, Griz 7m, Bitty ~5-6 from Griz and another ~10 (?) from Hess, I don't know how much Asto lost.
Hess's minion, IeatBabies, descouted Bitty a bit: http://ww.evonyurl.com/gfyo5p x4

It was fun, and something like this is certainly to look forward to. Friendly whispers were exchanged between the 4 of us, showcasing how a war ought to be fought.

**ssfgrgawer** · 03-06-2016, 08:38 AM

A Continuation of the battle Dej described above, here are some reports from our side - Plus a few that TJ might not have gotten reports for:

Section: BITTY VS DAGRIZ! (This is after Dej's retaliation.)

Bitty sends as small set of 20 waves, which is gated. I think Dej was expecting a gate breaker. So she decided to go big or go home with the second set, a large set of mabey 20-30 waves, not counting spam. we didn't get many reports from here.

http://evonyurl.com/nut80s - From Bittys second set at Dej after his retaliation. one of the few reports we got.
http://evonyurl.com/csirak - We did manage to get some rams, so the set wasn't a complete failure.

http://evonyurl.com/wk29lm - Dej attempts to throw the honour back on Bitty, but she gates to keep the heal.

http://evonyurl.com/btfzss - Player 3 joins the fight! Astolpho ports in to help out. Dej has since grabbed a lvl 10 for defence. Bitty and Astolpho throw sets each but neither generates a report. Hesstified also ports in shortly after this and begins the attacks on Astolpho you saw from Dej's perspective. These are the reports we got:

http://evonyurl.com/nqbg1k - Astolpho forgot to rebuild his walls, and change them and takes some massive hits this set. Fortunately both players get a 13% heal due to Astolpho losing so much, so Hess didnt get out with a nice heal on these.
http://evonyurl.com/jsz6z3 - more carnage as Hess tears into Alto.
http://evonyurl.com/n2wd5x - one of the less brutal hits.
http://evonyurl.com/zdgefz - But we are soon back to form. Note the wall situation :/
http://evonyurl.com/9bz7wi - Ouch.
http://evonyurl.com/0w6ch6 - see previous comment
http://evonyurl.com/rbt646 - and one more booboo for Asto to lick at a later date.

From here Asto goes on the offensive, undeterred by his losses and not honored up due to how much he lost in the last set. we didn't get many reports, mostly due to the untimed nature of his attacks, something ill have to talk with him about later...

http://evonyurl.com/4fkb4f - First report we got, probably due to Hess not getting towers up in time.

Hess drops the honour like its hot, and strikes back at Asto. Set 2:

http://evonyurl.com/643ipf - Ouch. solid hit, but at least walls are standing again.
http://evonyurl.com/xea0rt - and the timed mechs just keep coming.
http://evonyurl.com/mjlsh4 - obviously Hess's top mech hero.
http://evonyurl.com/6efb14 - Bittys Top hero putting in work defending beautifully. at this rate its gonna cost Hess an arm and a leg to break through.
http://evonyurl.com/s8o6ne - this one doesnt go so brilliantly.
http://evonyurl.com/0hnkja - nore does this one.

Asto strikes back with another set, including a few big bad banner waves, But unfortunately due to their untimed nature we got no reports, and Hess got a lot of honour. Hess was nice enough to provide us with a report to one of those hits however:

http://evonyurl.com/opxsu1 - shame those towers were in the way because Hess didn't have his intel in the city. could have been a massive set.

Bitty then fired a set at DaGriz again, but this one yielded no reports. Her timing was pretty shocking :P step up boss lady! So instead ill post some reports from hess's next set against Asto.

http://evonyurl.com/vrbin6 - here come the mechs
http://evonyurl.com/ou77x5 - and again
http://evonyurl.com/d8bffu - and again
http://evonyurl.com/260xhe - Guess what?
http://evonyurl.com/9tuhbn - Ill give you a hint, its more mechs.

So now we have a few retaliation waves from Asto, but none of those gave any reports at all. So we move onto:

Dej/Hess VS Asto

http://evonyurl.com/rf3g93 - Dej opens the fireworks and it looks like Alto has moved a few of his archers away.
http://evonyurl.com/z02ayk - More mechs but the low hero struggle to find traction.
http://evonyurl.com/njvv7h - Mechs again
http://evonyurl.com/47rrk8 - Guess.
http://evonyurl.com/xd1jrl - More mech. Note DaGriz's lack of a ram layer.

From this point the tiredness of the attackers on both sides began to show. Timing worsened for all sides, and after a bit of wall spam and a few gated sets, i think all sides had enough and called it a day.

This was a brutally long battle lasting many hours, and by the end both sides were worn down. Dej and Hess probably killed more due to how much of Asto's war city they got, but Alto did put them through an awful lot of mechs given he was playing CD tactics (Outlasting) while in a 5k defence. Bittys hero was the real MVP here, easing the pain from a lot of the hits that would have been much worse otherwise. This is a good example of what makes SS38 still one of the most active late game servers. neither side shys from a fight and its not a matter of war city killing, its simply trying to wear the opponent out, for as long as possible. and around these parts, a week is a long time to be down for!

Congrats to all players involved, and i hope i didn't miss any reports, cause i had to look 40 pages back into WR for these.

**MirsDej** · 03-06-2016, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by ssfgrgawer

Congrats to all players involved, and i hope i didn't miss any reports, cause i had to look 40 pages back into WR for these.

I had to look back 350 pages for Bitty's first hits on Griz. lol.

The city I was launching the mechs from had no layers, and when I moved in everything but rams I decided to send them anyway to land within a minute of Hess's set. I didn't want to delay the launch.

Yeah, poor heroes :/ Grizzly wasn't meant to attack a city with 10m mech and 15 or so million arch :P He just wanted to nibble at Bitty for her being a bad gal lol.