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Last night was a major disappointment to me. It all started around 11pm when I was talking with my t3 scenario group on vent. Someone mentioned that with population numbers, they thought altdorf would get invaded in about a week. Well, 30 minutes later we heard that reikland was under attack, so despite not being of level, we decided we'd see what we could do to help. Having made it through altdorf, reikwald and finally into reikland, we were too late and reikland was lost. Next they would move on reikwald.
I dont know how many of you have seen reikwald fortress or the dest equivalent, but it is a massive and imposing place. A true fortress. A large keep occupies the centre of the map, complete with terraces, battlements, pads for siege weaponary. Outside of the keep there is a town, with buildings, guards, and a fair old walk to the large outside wall encompassing the area. It is on this wall that I stood as I counted the forces of destruction approach. There were around 30. It's okay I thought to myself, they have no ram, they are mostly sub-40, they are not a particularly large group. Despite the lack of player defence, there is no way they will get through this place. And if they can, it will take so long that we will have a sufficient defence force ready by the time they get to the lord. Five minutes later they were through the wall's door. I thought that was quick considering the lack of ram, but nevermind, they've a whole town to fight through now. Twenty seconds later they were at the main keep, having had to fight no guards that I could see, guard patrols being too spaced out. The door on the keep should hold them back a bit, and maybe last longer than the outside doors. Surprisingly, they ran around to the back of the keep and clicked through the rear door to enter the keep in the same way that order do. No need to bash down the front door at all. Makes you wonder why it's there and why they bothered to put a ram pad infront of it. Anyway, they strolled up to the keep lord and took him down in another 5 minutes.
And I'm in no way exaggerating. The whole thing, for a small group of sub level 40s with probably very poor gear compared to end game, took 15 minutes tops. This is supposed to be the final objective in an epic battle to unlock city sieges. While comparing with mythic's previous game DAoC, it's about as hard as taking a regular keep in old frontiers. Feeling bad, and terribly disappointed, I went to bed.
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