First Real Siege Experience

On Monday we conducted our 'first' siege. I say first only because this was our first siege where there were no zergs involved and our first where we had an active role in the command of our forces. Our rag tag Yssam Rebel alliance (AKA the Vietcong) dropped a siege shard on the hamlet owned by DDi on the NW coast of Yssam. Once the siege had begun we quickly moved our shard holder back to Tolenque, the NPC city we call home and made our best attempt to defend it. Unfortunately, keeping a single player character (~250hp) alive in the middle of an NPC city is no easy task. There are multiple ways to enter Tolenque, a high ridge to the North of the city that can be used to lay down MM spam, and a multi-level layout that can be both a advantage and a disadvantage depending on the situation. All told I feel that we did a decent job for our first attempt, despite only managing to defend the shard carrier for a bit over an hour. We made a few tactical errors which when combined with enemy reinforcements led to our Shard holders death.

Our main error was attempting to dislodge the enemy from their position on the hill. In the process we ceded strategic positioning on the walls and were caught out of position by enemy reinforcements who quickly flanked us and established a foot hold on the north wall of the city. Under heavy fire the group tasked with defending the shardholder made a valiant effort but were unable to keep him alive.

I like to think had we kept our force in superior position the battle would have lasted much longer or even emerged victorious.

In either event, the siege was successful in the sense that I believe everyone involved had a ton of fun. I also learned a thing or two about siege tactics, I'm sure there will be opportunities in the future to apply the lessons learned.

In closing, many thanks the the Vietcong alliance:
Order of the Blade
The Tenth
The Shadow Legion
The Undead Army
The Select Few
Kaynes Embrace
Order of the Silver Star
Black Plague
and Solo Raiders (featuring Celiah Ailey - the 'Terror of Yssam'!)