Week two of our Barren Land event started slow, but ended up in nonstop war! All the alliances started the week by taking the remaining buildings in our home zones for buffs. As soon as the campsites opened, we moved to the other zones to start building to the tunnels. Both Zlo and Inv started their builds in the northern SVH zone to move to the top right tunnel. Zlo did a tower transfer to SVH near their southern tunnel while Inv built down into Zlo’s zone to enter the southern clash.
Communication between the alliances was much better this week with the tunnels to the open clashes opening. Stone Camp decided that it would be best if all three alliances built to secure the southern wonder first, before building into the north clash. As soon as the tunnel bonus ended, Zlo and Inv built into the zone. Zlo then dropped the tunnel for SVH to enter. Across the way, Twi and QOL took the southern tunnels while JPN went into the northern clash alone.
Zlo was the first ally to get a taste of battle against QOL with a fight at the ferry southwest of the wonder. After hours of fighting, they were able to stay across the ferry and hold QOL at bay. One minute before protection started, Zlo dropped one half of the ferry to allow SVH to cross once protection stopped at reset. The plan was for SVH to continue the fight while the majority of Zlo was in their night and early morning hours. Inv built further north in an effort to cross a leaf west of the wonder where Twi was waiting.
Once reset hit, SVH took the ferry and began destroying QOL towers. Meanwhile, Twi started to build down towards us, and building to the leaf that Inv was attempting to cross. QOL didn’t put up any fight because they were drained from fighting Zlo earlier in the day. Our focus then turned to Twi that was attempting to build to Zlo’s towers, knowing it was their inactive time. SVH connected and destroyed the Twi towers as their attention turned towards Inv further north.
Inv and Twi battled for hours with Twi holding them back at the leaf due to large march times. Eventually, SVH was able to make a significant break through and started to build to help bring Inv across the leaf. Together, SVH and Inv started pushing Twi back. Zlo continued thier build towards QOL towers once it became morning for their alliance. With all three alliances working together, we were able to secure the area around the wonder and push both Twi and QOL back.
After 16 hours of nonstop fighting, it was a relief to get into our protection time. With the damage that was caused to both Twi and QOL, JPN finally abandoned their build in the north and started to build into the southern clash to come help their allies. We expect them to reach the wonder area within a few hours of reset tonight where we will be waiting for them.
Here is a look of the map as it sits now…
In our first full day of fighting, it has become apparent how difficult this event will be due to the protection time and 16 hour fighting window. So far, Stone Camp did an amazing job to push through the enemies and secure the southern wonder. We will continue to push back Twi and QOL. The first fight with JPN will be coming sometime after reset today. Once we have completely secured the southern zone, we will begin our journey north to the other wonder.
As the SVH motto goes…To the last ant!
