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 layout- only the outer edge of Sempiternaleach ring was trapped, creating a safe zone on the side adheringclosest 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 bastionsdesign hadof beenthe brokenbastion fields was incorrect - and did sonot asadhere to allownerd themring principles. That is to buildsay athe reinforcedbastion stonefield roomprotecting ata ring extended past the headouter wall of the attack tunnelring, whichallowing wouldit laterto be improvedbroken byfrom replacingoutside. theThis stoneallowed withthe cobblestone.Mirian Whileforces thisto wasbuild a longreinforced termstone benefitroom forat Mir,the itouter alsoedge allowedof morethe usefinal ofring TNTwhich bywould LyndonLaRouchenot inhave thebeen shortpossible termif tothe blowbastions uphad unmaturedbeen reinforcedplaced blocksproperly.