Sunday, January 27, 2008

Shifting Tides

2007.1.27 Caravaggio Server



Before I begin let me just say that this is my Angie's baptism of fire. Welcome to the battlegrounds.



Warp slot assignments were more than the usual thus forcing us to delete some of our old save points or not opting to make a save point at all. This has proven to be a problem for my faction.

During the first 15 minutes, it appeared that most of the factions were waiting for each other to declare war on each other. The declaration of war of Reconquista against BarurotBoyz broke the silence as later, Eden has declared war on Adeptas Fraternas.

While waiting for the 5 minute declaration leeway, my faction camped at Rion Prairie, Eden colony.



Eden, on the oher hand camped at our colony, Rio Albi. During this time, while waiting for the declaration to begin, Reconquista has already occupied one of BarurotBoyz' colony. As proven by the previous colony wars, Reconquista has always been one of the fastest factions to break the colonies. This was further proven as Reconquista further advanced against BB and then later against Eclipse.

When war was declared between Eden and AF, it was now a matter of who had more people, valks and blades. AF broke Eden colony first, and some 8000HPs later, Eden broke AFs.

From this point on, things became messy.

AF was more on the offensive side while Eden was on the defensive. As AF tried to acquire more colonies for itself, Eden has always been successful in repelling AF.

Among these skirmishes included:

The Battle of Rio Albi.

As AF tried fiercely to occupy Rio Albi, the elite members of Eden have always managed to keep us at bay.

The Battle of Topolo Durga.

Although the first few attempts were unsuccessful, later AF was able to get hold of this colony.

However, in exchange, Eclipse was able to get hold of the Pradera Ceniza and the Lago Celeste. I know that there are a lot of Eden members, but I believe that AF had enough members during this war. But the lack of warp slots have made offensive strikes often unsuccessful. Frequent attempts were made to acquire Bonavista or reclain Rio Albi, but both proved futile.

This was during the last 30 minutes of the war. Eclipse have attempted to take a few of Reconquista's colonies. At the same time, Supperclub, BarurotBoyz and Azyr have had their own skirmishes against the Reconquista faction.

During the last few minutes, even in the danger of losing Rion, AF opted to go to the offensive to keep Eden busy. This resulted to the Battle of Pradera Ceniza as AF tried to retake the said colony.



I think this was the first time, since I came to AF, that we had exclusively warred against Eden. During the previous CWs, AF have always had war with Reconquista with Eden at the side. This is why I have just noticed and realized that a lot of the elite members of Eden came from my previous faction: ReBorn Faction, one of the top guilds (if not the best) in Caravaggio history. This fact has just reinstated my belief that our faction, along with the rest of Caravaggio are doing battle with the top 2 guilds of the server, Reconquista and Eden.

This alliance have become stronger thus shifting the tides of war in their favor.

Adeptas Fraternas - 3
Azyr - 1
BarurotBoyz - 1
Eclipse - 1
Eden - 8
Reconquista - 7

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