Second Siege of Sempiternal: Difference between revisions

The vault-break began at approximately 5am EST. Under the pretense of griefing the bedrock outside the vault, as they had been doing for the last few days, Krallen (Mir) was sent to the outside of the fourth ring to begin mining a port of entry into the vault's ground level, followed soon by the rest of Mir Team 6, hitting snitches immediately. Utilizing Lysika_Lantariel's (leader, Mir) previous vault-breaking experience, they employed his preferred tactic of ring skipping—mining into the second to last ring before breaking the bastions—whichbastions. This was quitepossible effectivedue givento design of the bastionrings, layoutbeing that only the outer edge of Sempiternaleach adheringring was trapped, creating a safe zone for bastion breakers on the side closest to the designcenter of [[Nerdthe Rings]]vault. They were also able to do this without much initial danger because there was only a single defender online for quite a while. shadedoom (Columbia) had again been the first to log on and notice the attack, but despite his efforts to harass the Mirian forces in the vault hole, he was poorly equipped and had unwisely moved his Columbian-based combat alt from Sempiternal to Hallow's vault the night before, thus making an effective defense impossible without reinforcements. As a direct consequence, Mirian fighters were able to break the outer rings very quickly.

Progress was slower on the final ring and ground bunker of the vault. LyndonLaRouche logged in after the second ring was broken, and organized the defense force made up of Gbalelul (Hallow), shadedoom, and himself. Whilst the Mirians began breaking the final ring, they were harassed by a familiar barrage from debuff potions, on top of TNT and bow fire. While this tactic from NATO did somewhat slow the Mirian advance, enoughthe bastionsvault's hadbastion beenlayout brokenincluded soan asextra tobastion in ever ring along each cardinal direction. This allowed the allowMirian themforces to build a reinforced stone room at the headouter edge of the attackfinal tunnelring after breaking the ring's bastions, whichat that point contesting the extra bastion along the West cardinal of the ground bunker. The room would later be improved by replacing the stone with cobblestone. While this was a long term benefit for Mir, it also allowed more use of TNT by LyndonLaRouche in the short term to blow up unmatured reinforced blocks.