The History Of Red Shadows
A sneaky start
The RSA leaders of the event me, Goorg, Phil and Legit used Ventrilo to hold a Chinese parliament type, quick discussion, for most of the major decisions. Goorg was in charge of the forward attack force and would scout out the level of guards and defenders of towers etc, with the remit to take any low level towers he came across.
With Goorg's group being sent ahead to try and claim a quick tower and get us off the mark the rest of the alliance met up off the shores of Caer Erasleigh. Once everybody was gathered we hit Caer Eras's towers 1 and 2 and took them quickly. By this time Goorg's group had taken Caer Eras tower 3. Looking at the war map I could see that LFoM had started simultaneous attacks on Caer Berksteads towers 1 and tower 2. We decided that by taking one of Caer Beno's towers we could cut the Albion port from our north and hopefully direct the Albion Zerg towards Caer Berk's, and LFoM, from their south. The Caer Beno tower fell extremely quickly, so quickly in fact that we had taken 4 towers before LFoM had taken 1. Now we had 2 choices. The first was to travel down the Albion coast and pick off unclaimed towers for easy points or we could cross over the river, separating east and west Albion, and help LFoM with Caer Berkstead. After a quick discussion we sneakily moved over to Caer Berks tower 3 and quickly took it before moving back to Albions west coast.
Now this may seem a strange tactic but it helped us, and more importantly hampered LFoM, in 2 ways. Firstly it prevented LFoM taking the tower and gaining easy points and secondly it gave the Albions the impression that a 100+ force of Midgardians were assaulting Berk's possibly to use it as a base to strike south at Caer Boldiam where the Albs were holding a relic. The plan worked a treat. As soon after moving the RSA zerg back towards Caer Eras a large scale Albion/Midgard battle icon appeared just south of Caer Berkstead. The Albion Zerg had joined the party and decided to try and prevent us from taking Caer Berks. This was just fine by me as RSA had moved and left LFoM to fend for themselves.
