Hjaltland: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Content added Content deleted
m (adding bolded line for article title) |
Tankbuster44 (talk | contribs) (history) |
||
| Line 56: | Line 56: | ||
==Military Activity== |
==Military Activity== |
||
Hjaltland's military tradition stretches back through the years, self-defense being one of the nation's core tenets. They have not yet lost a war, and their leadership are considered among the finest military minds of CivClassic. |
Hjaltland's military tradition stretches back through the years, self-defense being one of the nation's core tenets. They have not yet lost a war, and their leadership are considered among the finest military minds of CivClassic. |
||
===Animal Farm=== |
===Animal Farm=== |
||
| Line 82: | Line 82: | ||
By chance, Mir and Anguish had settled in adjacent territory, and their relations had been cordial, but distrustful. With Anguish's declaration of war, Mir saw the attack as a chance to snuff out a dangerous force before it became a major threat. Hjaltland communicated extensively with Mir, as both nations were host to a great number of experienced players, and an attack was coordinated without hesitation. |
By chance, Mir and Anguish had settled in adjacent territory, and their relations had been cordial, but distrustful. With Anguish's declaration of war, Mir saw the attack as a chance to snuff out a dangerous force before it became a major threat. Hjaltland communicated extensively with Mir, as both nations were host to a great number of experienced players, and an attack was coordinated without hesitation. |
||
In the early hours of October 11th, |
In the early hours of October 11th, 2017, players from Hjaltland and Mir, alongside some allies from the Commonwealth, breached Anguish's 8-ring world border vault located at 12880,-1750. Due to the lack of a snitch grid that stretched all the way to skylimit, a simple bridge-based attack managed to penetrate to the heart of the facility, and was only discovered when Alliance forces descended onto the central bunker. After disabling the vault, multiple border skirmishes ended with the pearling of two Anguish fighters. |
||
With their stronghold in shambles and Mirian forces running rampant through their cities, Anguish transported most of its resources to Nox at North World Border. While the decrepit vault would become functional months later due to negligence by the Western Alliance, this attack effectively eliminated the only location outside of Lexington's territory from which Nox could safely operate. |
With their stronghold in shambles and Mirian forces running rampant through their cities, Anguish transported most of its resources to Nox at North World Border. While the decrepit vault would become functional months later due to negligence by the Western Alliance, this attack effectively eliminated the only location outside of Lexington's territory from which Nox could safely operate. |
||
| Line 92: | Line 92: | ||
===== Assault on Lexington City ===== |
===== Assault on Lexington City ===== |
||
On October 17th |
On October 17th, an Alliance force built an attack tunnel at bedrock into the heart of Lexington, precipitating the largest pitched battle of the war to date. Most of the bunkers there were disabled and numerous bastions broken, but only one Nox fighter was pearled that day. Meanwhile, two Alliance fighters were pearled after both were accidentally shot by roboninja77 with a Punch II bow into an enemy trap. Gregy never forgot this affront, and would sit out the rest of the war. While much damage had been done, the attackers were forced to withdraw. |
||
With skirmishes in the intervening days, a final push was made on October 23rd. As the bedrock and surface of Lexington were a mess of both side's blocks, no defenders contested. By the end of the day, the city had been looted, its bunkers disabled, and all nearby territory thoroughly snitched. The city would never recover. |
|||
===== Intervening Skirmishes ===== |
|||
On October 30th, two Nox fighters baited an Alliance force around Anguish's vault. In the chase, Diet_Cola, S4NTA, and Maxopoly were caught by a large bastioned sand-trap while others managed to avoid the hole. Through calm communication and careful fighting, everyone but S4NTA managed to escape. The pearl was a blow, but also a lesson, for the Western Alliance. |
|||
On November 5th, four Nox fighters attacked Hexcorp's vault again. SerQuaez managed to defend for a significant amount of time, but was knocked back into his own hole and pearled due to fall damage. A few bastions were broken by the time a large defending force could amass, but the attackers fled. |
|||
===== Defense of Mir ===== |
|||
On November 25th, a newly-repaired Anguish vault was used to stage repeated attacks on Mir's northern vault trench. These attacks continued for days, but a combined force held it from being breached even a single time. Throughout the campaign, incremental defenses were innovated to further strengthen the trench. An Anguish pearl was taken on December 2nd and consequently alt-banned an account-associated player. On December 3rd, a skybridge from the south breached deep into the vault and initiated a day of combat. No pearls were taken, but the offensive initiative changed the tide of the battle. |
|||
This evened out on the 5th, when numerous PvPers from the Big Dogs joined Anguish. JohnFairfax was pearled on the first day, but their attacks continued for a few days. On December 9th, a final skybridge completely rebroke the Anguish vault. This bridge was the first use of ladder-placed bastion breaking, an innovation that would eventually yield the Lexington Skybridge. |
|||
===== Attack on Nox ===== |
|||
tbc |
|||
=Geography= |
=Geography= |
||