JaredThinks said:
Is this the first or second war? I heard there was a war earlier today before the last one we had.
Edit:
Nope, this isn't the last one we had of 6/25. I'm guessing this was the earlier one. The last one we had was not long after we reached our peak of 103 players and we had a barricade of carts. A bunch of Romans also attacked an allied elephant rider, which I also thought that the Macedonians betrayed us or something (I heard there was a betrayal against the Romanii).
The one I was at was huge and fun, though I was hit twice, and that was by teammates.
Here's the 2 wars from my perspective:
First War:
The one in the video was the first war when the International Council was first formed by Servi Severus in response to Rome ransacking them in Lugdunum (probably spelled that wrong) for not opening their gates to allow us (i'm with Rome) to pass through their city. Romania was doing some military patrols and ended up at Servi's gates requesting passage. However, Servi didn't respond and so we made our way in. Ithlobaal, Appollonia, and Servi rallied against Rome for that (even though they weren't allied before the ransacking). So then war ensued. My only gripe with that first war was the lack of RP leading up to the battle, but everyone had a lot of fun fighting such a large scale war. Invasion, city defense, formations, battles dotting the city streets, shield walls, and many other events that occured. Probably the first time I had fun fighting in a war on a Persistent server since it wasn't just a one sided massacre.
Second War:
The second war was even more fun than the first. It was Ithlobaal, Appollonia, and the
Pict Tribe (I think there was another group too but i forget their name) vs. Romania and a surprise ally. I logged on right as the war was beginning and people were already at the southern gate of Rome in a shield wall and the top of the stairs were barricaded with carts (which actually helped us out a lot). I was surprised to see that Macedon had allied with us (accompanied by a war elephant) and showed up behind our shield wall (cheering ensued). Then our leader informed us that the west gate was down and everyone rushed over there. Luckily the invaders hadn't broken through and some men plugged up the left door that was down. Then another announcement that the southern gate was down. Everyone rushed up to the forum and to the southern stairs next to the barricade. Appollonia broke through and some spear tag on the stairs began. Then fighting started in the forum behind us (enemy had broken through the west gate into the forum). Luckily we fought them off in the forum still holding the stairs with the help of the cart-i-cade. The war elephant came bulldozing through the Appollonians at the bottom of the stairs then retreated up past the barricade (some men accidently mistook the elephant as an enemy but quickly realized he was ally, sorry Macedonia). Then fighting ensued outside the southern gate into the village and after some back and forths we finally drove them off and peace was made.
It was a tough battle and both sides fought incredibly (I was no help at all with 2 kills but had a lot of assists). Second battle was amazing.
That was a lot of typing but I wanted to share what happened on Rome's side. Tried my best to remember every detail and type it down but i'm no author. Hope someone for the opposing side shares their perspective of what happened. Also can't wait for another large scale war to occur!