The October Crusade, Chapter one, Hillsbrad.

The October Crusades, Part I, Hillsbrad Foothills.

Update!: the first battle starts on sunday the 16th. pvp starts 20:00 Alliance prep 19:00 Horde prep: ask Drathun



The October crusade is a two part RP-PVP campaign organised by the Shining Strand the Cult of Shadows. The Campaign is focussed on RP and tactically controlling a region, or contesting a region, through more focus on small scale tactical skirmishes, then on solely big battles.
For this, we shall be using a few mechanics that will hopefully create both interesting battles as well as foster a better RP environment for Roleplay in the Religious and Military spheres.

The Campaign will start on Sunday the 16th of October, and will end on Wednesday the 26th at the lastest.

To Join this campaign if you haven't been invited yet either contact myself Amaryl as Alliance, or Drathun from the Cult of Shadows on Horde side.

Crusade

An Alliance crusader army comprised of multiple orders and regiments, will be invading Hillsbrad foothills, with the purpose to stop the Forsaken Advance, Strengthen the Stormpike defence, ensure supply lines from Arathi, to the Stormpike camp and from Chillwind to Stormpike. Additionally, hopefully the Alliance will bring enough strength to bear to lessen pressure on the Gilnean front, and move further north to burn the forsaken down.

The horde and the forsaken, will have to struggle in this first chapter to keep control of Hillsbrad, its strategic positions and natural resources available, in a fight for their (undead)lives. Hopefully they'll be able to crush the puny and sad Alliance crusaders and make a push southwards, to burn down the poor farms of Arathi and replenish their troops by viciously slaying and raising the poor helpless humans cowering in their homesteads.

So you have a lot of icons and shit on that map? what does it mean?!

That's the strategic value of hillsbrad. pointing out camps, resources, supply lines and sphere of influences.
To create a more immersive RP experience during this grim crusade, and lessen focus on big battles, we'll create a few strategic capturable points for small group pvp, that can easily be intermixed with RP, instead of the basic hour fighting followed by an hour licking wounds followed by desertion of everything and nobody knowing what they're doing and what they're fighting for, to do it all again the next day.
so the question is:

What does an Army need to be strong and fight?

Two things:

Morale



Armies need Morale to stay together.

an army that lacks food, lacks victories, lacks faith, is not an army that functions well, it is an army that will have problems with itself, desertion, fights, whining, moaning and the like will occur and if morale gets low enough there is no chance for the army to keep staying in the field.

on the other hand, with food, victories and faith, no bridge is too far, no task too impossible and even the darkest terrors will be met with cheers.

So we're introducing the Morale bar, that will set the mood for the RP in the Army.

So, the morale bar goes from 0 to 10.
0 being the army leaves the region. that might happen early.
10: The army has unquestionable faith, and nothing seems impossible, for this purpose and The Army can force the final regional battle early.
additionally the morale of your army should give you an indicator of the level of optimism your RP will have.

So how do I gain or lose morale?

You gain or lose morale through:
1. You gain 1 morale for winning a big battle
2. You gain 1/2 morale for winning a Skirmish
3. You can have 4 morale for having access to every supply unit available.
4. You can gain 1 morale for exceptional RP events, like an inspirational mass.
A. You Lose 1 morale for losing a big battle.
B. You lose 1/2 morale for every small skirmish.
C. You lose 1 morale for every lacking supply unit available to your army.
Both Factions Start with 5 morale, under the assumption that on the first day they have every supply unit available.

Supplies

Every Army needs supplies, for this campaign we have 4 categories.

Armaments. Ammo, weapons, medical supplies.

Fortification. nothing is as terrible as holes in your defence with nothing to fix it.

Food

Special items. Plague for Horde Holy water for the Alliance.

Supplyroutes. A line of supplies from other regions, which can transport one supply unit a day.

Camps accessible to Supplies.

Camps Inaccessible to Supplies.

Al-right so how does this work?

The Crusade starts a region with a traditional Big Battle and ends it with a Big Battle. the remaining days will be spend to fight over supplies, and supply lines to gain an advantage over the opponent in the region.

The fighting over points of interest will be handled through Skirmishes.

meaning 5 lvl 85s, VS 5 lvl 85s Per objective max.

Every objective that's being contested is done with the full knowledge of both parties.

Each objective can only be contested Once a day.

meaning that Either the horde attacks a point and the alliance defends or vice versa.

The objectives are:
1. fighting for a place that contains supplies. indicated by the icons on the map.
you can only fight for a resource point if it is adjacent to your sphere of influence(Blue or red), or is currently contested (Grey)
2. Attempting to successfully get a supply train to your base camp with one supply unit. this event must be contested to be successful.
3. Fighting for a road intersection to push your sphere of influence further into the map.
you can only fight for an intersection that's adjacent or in your sphere of influence.
After 5 days unless a side reaches 0 or 10 morale another big battle is done to kick out the opposing army and burst into the new region.

Rules:
PVP gear during fights is allowed and recommended.
No flying mounts during fights
No combat ressing during fights.
And numbers will be balanced, so during rounds some people will be asked to step out, but we will try to circulate the ones that have to stay out.
keep the drama to a minimum, losing isn't bad, it's about RP and OOC whining ruins that.

Friday 21:00 the battle that will decide if Hillsbrad becomes thoroughly contested or still firmly in Forsaken control!

good luck! hope this turns out well!

This looks awesome and the Seal would like to take part.

Looks awesome. It means that there is a purpose behind everything ic.

With smaller skirmishes is it possable to get a few lower lvl fights. For the lvlers? Give them some action to.

Nothing more to add this is great.

This is very, very thought out. I do applaud the level of planning you've gone to!

Nicely done! All the best for the execution!

Intriguing. It might be a bit over-complicated, but I do like the idea of small, easy-to-balance skirmishes over large difficult-to-balance battles.

Might be interested in taking part.

Crusading DKs

Ofcourse, Arathorians will be there!

Drustai wrote:Intriguing. It might be a bit over-complicated, but I do like the idea of small, easy-to-balance skirmishes over large difficult-to-balance battles.

Might be interested in taking part.

well lets see how it'll work out

Very good work indeed. The gates of Durnholde will be open for you and the swords, spears, and hammers of the Legacy of Dawn will be ready to aid your cause. I myself will not participate in the battles per se, but will join in on the RP surronding the event.

*Stamps the thread with the Silferdrake seal of approval*

Silferdrake wrote:Very good work indeed. The gates of Durnholde will be open for you and the swords, spears, and hammers of the Legacy of Dawn will be ready to aid your cause. I myself will not participate in the battles per se, but will join in on the RP surronding the event.

*Stamps the thread with the Silferdrake seal of approval*

But but... what happened to the mercury elemental D:
Did Sylvanas put him somewhere else?

The mercury elemental is dead. We killed him. That's how we roll.

;_;, poor D-1000.

Lovely, Amaryl I will poke you ingame for some more information!

This makes me want to start up my account again and join my Forsaken comrades. VICTORY FOR SYLVANAS!

I want to join in on my furry, but she's only level 32. Maybe I'll join the Horde on my Mage... :>

Morinth wrote:I want to join in on my furry, but she's only level 32. Maybe I'll join the Horde on my Mage... :>

It's in october, we'll be of higher level by then, don't worry.

RUSH TO 85!!!!

This sounds great, i love it

Interesting campaign, good luck!

Looks really cool, The Lordaeron Alliance would be honored to fight along side you.

Geneviève wrote:This looks awesome and the Seal would like to take part.

Lexgrad/Dreth wrote:Looks awesome. It means that there is a purpose behind everything ic.

With smaller skirmishes is it possable to get a few lower lvl fights. For the lvlers? Give them some action to.

Nothing more to add this is great.

I'll say this though, if you want to join, i'm sure there's a place somewhere (though we will be balancing fights) but you'll have to ICly join in also! Since if Amy has no reason to invite someone, they simply won't be, unless one presents itself

Amaryl wrote:

Geneviève wrote:This looks awesome and the Seal would like to take part.

Lexgrad/Dreth wrote:Looks awesome. It means that there is a purpose behind everything ic.

With smaller skirmishes is it possable to get a few lower lvl fights. For the lvlers? Give them some action to.

Nothing more to add this is great.

I'll say this though, if you want to join, i'm sure there's a place somewhere (though we will be balancing fights) but you'll have to ICly join in also! Since if Amy has no reason to invite someone, they simply won't be, unless one presents itself

Could there be an IC announcement asking for troops so that we know about it ICly?