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Strategus => Mercenary Recruitment => Topic started by: Slamz on February 05, 2012, 11:43:34 pm

Title: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Slamz on February 05, 2012, 11:43:34 pm
This video explains everything you need to know:
http://youtu.be/7oVzfzuts3o

Additional, practically irrelevant information:

Mercs are attacking Ambean on Monday, 4:57pm eastern with 1249 troops.
The Norse Horde stands ready with 2400 troops.

We have all manner of equipment stockpiled, including hundreds of mail shirts, hundreds of helms, enough heirloomed spears to build a fence around the village, bows, crossbows, etc.

I think we have a solid chance of destroying the Merc army if we can just equal them on the roster.  If you're pretty sure you can make it, sign up for Ambean.  (Double true if you can use a spear.  I don't know why we have so many, really...)

Preference will be given to those in vent 15 minutes before the battle (check the battle page about an hour before the fight for vent info).



Lo there do I see my father.
Lo there do I see my mothers and my sisters and my brothers.
Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning.
Lo they do call to me.
They bid me take my place among them.
In the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on February 06, 2012, 02:04:53 am
Good luck.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: RibaldRon on February 06, 2012, 08:17:32 am
I will gladly carry your spear into battle, and utilize it in a poking fashion towards the Mercs who seek to ransack this innocent village.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Vovka on February 06, 2012, 08:48:26 am
I hope u have wooden sticks, cudgels and throwing shit  :lol: :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0GXzIGSVIY&feature=related
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on February 06, 2012, 11:39:05 am
That video was horrible...
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on February 06, 2012, 04:19:13 pm
Help us defend our peaceful village against this unwarranted aggression.

Not happy to see our civilized neighbors joining the attackers. I can understand you don't want to upset your masters who will soon be ruling over your lands.  We'll see you on the battlefield. 
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Lt_Anders on February 06, 2012, 09:37:19 pm
Jeez unhire an NA player to hire on more EUs. Well, hope ya loose then.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Segd on February 06, 2012, 10:34:37 pm
I don't see TS-adress.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Lt_Anders on February 06, 2012, 11:35:38 pm
Jeez unhire an NA player to hire on more EUs. Well, hope ya loose then.

heh and you lost.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: RibaldRon on February 06, 2012, 11:38:42 pm
Well, was a nice try.

It's always sad to see so little team awareness, I saw so many team hits on people who were rushing trying to get kills.  Several spearmen to their left - and they circle their opponent to the left.

Of course, those people in their hunger for kills ended up doing a lot of damage to allies as well.


Shame we had so many no shows, especially since it seems some people were dropped from the roster.  :(
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: okiN on February 06, 2012, 11:41:53 pm
Screw team awareness, I hardly had awareness of anything watching that slide show. No more trips to NA for me. :lol:
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Slamz on February 07, 2012, 12:30:36 am
Thanks to all those who came out!  We had a pretty full roster, just not nearly enough weapons to go around and Operation Loot the Enemy Weapons did not go as planned.  We wiped about half their army before finally getting overrun and spawn camped.


To Anders I say, "y u no in Vent?"  We had literally 100 people sign up for 50 slots.  I looked for you in vent and tried to find you in CRPG_3.  Figured you for a no-show and got someone I knew was there.  Everyone who showed up in vent got in as well as everyone I managed to eyeball in CRPG_3 (shame about the no alphabetical ordering there; makes it very hard to be sure if I have everyone).


There really should be a better system for making sure rosters can be full.  Definitely penalizes pickup groups where you can't be sure who's online and who's not.


And to those who were wondering why we kept spawning when we were being camped, it's because there's no retreating with gear in a village battle.  Whatever we ended the fight with, Mercs would have kept, so we spawned just to burn the gear and the troops (I am a big fan of "scorched earth").


All I really wanted to do was make sure nobody got Ambean for free, and we did that.  A few hundred more weapons and it might have been a lot more interesting.  We'll bear that in mind for Strat 4!
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Lt_Anders on February 07, 2012, 12:51:48 am
I got hired YESTERDAY and then, at 2 ish today (3 hours before battle) i was unhired. So, I applied for both, mercs got me. And I fought for the mercs.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Slamz on February 07, 2012, 02:18:23 am
Like I said, there were 100 signups for 50 spots.  I unhired anyone I couldn't find online 5 minutes prior to the battle and hired someone else in their place.  Sorry to anyone who showed up and couldn't get in.



P.S.

As the NH treasurer I decided to pay out 10 gold per kill to everyone who attended.  I know it's not a great deal of money but I thought people should get paid something at least.  Congratulations go especially to Cooties, who killed 47 people.  (Next highest was Koldborn with 32 kills.)  Normally I would pay out some arbitrary values based on kill ratio (so that 20:18 does not necessarily pay better than 10:2) but with the burn-the-gear spawn camping at the end, there was no way to know what the "actual" KDR was, so I just went with kills.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: BADPLAYERold on February 07, 2012, 08:36:53 am
Help us defend our peaceful village against this unwarranted aggression.

Not happy to see our civilized neighbors joining the attackers. I can understand you don't want to upset your masters who will soon be ruling over your lands.  We'll see you on the battlefield.

I'm trying to process this quote but I don't think I understand it, if I got it right please explain more about how the Mercs and Kapikulu are going to take over all NA lands.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Lepintoi on February 07, 2012, 10:13:19 am
I'm trying to process this quote but I don't think I understand it, if I got it right please explain more about how the Mercs and Kapikulu are going to take over all NA lands.

By a miraculous bugexploit off course...
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: CrazyCracka420 on February 07, 2012, 07:50:22 pm
I'm trying to process this quote but I don't think I understand it, if I got it right please explain more about how the Mercs and Kapikulu are going to take over all NA lands.

Mercs, Kap, fallen, HRE, etc.  They may just be carving out a piece of the pie, but their bellies won't be full from such a small portion.
Title: Re: Last Stand of the Norse Horde, defense of Ambean
Post by: Noctivagant on February 08, 2012, 05:34:15 pm
Mercs, Kap, fallen, HRE, etc.  They may just be carving out a piece of the pie, but their bellies won't be full from such a small portion.

We don't want anything from

Chaos
The Knights Of New
LLJK
United Kingdoms of Calradia
Antarian Empire
ATS

We might offer buying some, that's all and this place is temporary solution for us. If I was hungry for NA lands I wouldn't leave Reyvadin area (especially Tilbaut castle) to Chaos nor I'd be bothered to talk to Smootrich about how we don't wanna cause problem for anyone in the area.
As you may see Kapikulu also canceled their battle to Kwynn.