Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27200931-20161127030422/@comment-30079501-20161203020236

Reddieeddie wrote: Dragonovith wrote: Come on guys, I wanna hear your sordid stories too. Sadly, I have a few of those....unfortunately, I'm not sure they make very entertaining stories. Either that, or I've been sworn to secrecy. :P

OK, most of them aren't that bad. Although I can think of one instance...

Basically the only server I play on these days is DOME ("A New Age: The Dominion of Middle-Earth"). They have extremely specific rules concerning wars, battles, etc. Aside from standard hunts (which have to be declared), there are sieges, which take place between warring kingdoms. Each player can only have 10 troops at a siege, and each faction has a max of 4 aiding players from two different factions (which have to be officially recongized kingdoms). Despite having played on DOME for almost 9 months now, I've only been in one siege....

At the time, I was with Dunland, still something of a noob to the server. The High-Elves were at war with Angmar, and each side had won 2 sieges, so it was tight. One Saturday afternoon, the High-Elven king declares that he's going to siege Carn Dum. Initially, I didn't pay much attention to it. A few minutes later, however, an Angmar commander messages me, asking if I would like to assist them in the siege. After thinking it over for a bit, I took him up on the offer. The siege was about to start, so I grabbed some units, and tped to him.

The fortress was set on a hill/cliff, with the main entrance being accessible only by a long, broad stairway. As I recall, much of the battle consisted of us shooting down on the High-elves and their allies below, while they fired back up on us. Naturally, I had forgotten to bring arrows. And my units were glitching out, so I couldn't seem to command them properly. So I was basically stuck doing nothing, waiting to engage the Elves at melee when (if) they reached us.

One odd thing I remember about the battle was the random fires that were found on the staircase. They almost looked intentional, but they were probably resulting from bombs exploding, or something like that. Either way, they didn't help us, as the King of Angmar (Calbeius) burned to death, and a Gundie player almost suffered the same fate.

Nonetheless, the siege was going well for us. I believe we killed 4 good players before they even managed to break down the first gate. Then someone started asking questions about who all was on the evil side...

As I mentioned before, you're only allowed 4 allies from 2 different factions. In addition to the Angmar players, there were two Gundabad players who had been there since the start, so that was one. Then somebody had gotten a Haradrim player to join. And then there was me....

That made 3 factions. Then someone else realized that Dunland wasn't a kingdom yet. I had forgotten that one had to be a member of a claimed kingdom to join a siege. At that point, the High-Elven king (a mod) broadcasted that Evil had too many facs aiding, and one of the facs (Dunland) wasn't a kingdom; therefore, the whole siege was invalidated.

In short, the siege was declared illegal 'cuz I was there.

And I didn't even do a darn thing. :\

Oh well. And I forgot, I do have one screenie from the battle. For whatever reason, an Uruk was standing kinda within an armor stand, which held a suit of Angmar armor. It looked funny, so I took a screenie. And of course he moved just as I did that. :P Not sure why I didn't delete it, but I still have it, so here it is.