Battlegrounds

Three battlegrounds, one muster, and the field remembers.

The war season musters on the 15th of every month, and the three run as scheduled world events, fought like a real-time strategy game with lanes of soldiers, ground to take and a side to break. calendar shows when. Fall in any of them and you are hauled to your side's ground to recover, never killed for good.

WINDS OF FATE, the castle siege. Two armies, clans or two open teams, across a field between two forts, each led by a worldlord-tier COMMANDER and reinforced by footmen, archers, knights, healers, cannoneers and engineers. Capture the field's rooms: the more your side holds, the more soldiers it can field, and as the enemy loses ground their reinforcements dry up. Kills score, player kills scale by level gap, and the enemy commander is worth a fortune you cannot reach without an army at your back. An hour, extendable to two; the higher score wins. siege.

TIDES OF WAR, the naval assault, and it is not symmetric. The ARMADA pushes a moving flagship toward an island keep by holding the water ahead of it, column by column, until it can bombard; the KEEP's garrison sails out to contest the water, board and sink the flagship, or simply outlast a fleet that starves as it goes. Fought on the water with the raft mechanics: brace, rock, sink. tides.

THE SUNDERED SPAN, the leaping fight. Two sides on stone platforms over a lake of magma, fighting to hold the CENTRE for points; destroy an enemy pillar and its whole section crumbles into the fire, gone for good, and anyone standing on it with it. Movement is a leap from platform to platform, and you cannot leap onto what has fallen. Raze every pillar of a side and it is eliminated; or simply out-hold the centre to the bell. Lighter on soldiers than the other two, and quicker on its feet. span. (There is also a raid of the same name in the thirties, a long one on the Overworld; the battleground borrows the ground, not the boss.)

THE ANNALS keep every one of these whole: annals opens the scoreboard of any battle, per-team spawns, rooms taken and lost, cannons, kills, deaths, the rosters, the top hands.

See also: help annals, help calendar, help allegiance.

Syntax

siege
tides
span
annals
calendar

Examples

siege
annals last