And so the campaign ends...

Lasting from 23rd of July through 01 of August, the latest Alliance campaign has reached its end. I’ve personally had a blast with the RP and *cough* most of the PvP, and I can safely say I’m not the only one.


From the meeting that took place in the Westbrook Garrison, here portraying many of the officers that answered to the call of war.


The Blazing Shields being inspected by Brigadier Angelos and Lieutenant Helmsley of the Bloodwind Regiment, in front of Menethil Keep.




The Bloodwind Regiment being presented by Field Commander Netherian Helmsley(the blonde one!).


From the midnight mass hosted by the Bishop himself.


The forces of the Alliance gathered before marching North.





Screenies taken by Mandui and myself, more than this I don't possess so post post post!

I would like to thank everyone that contributed to this campaign, mainly:

The Disciples of Light, Dwarven Rifle Squad, Kingdom of Arathor, Blazing Shields, Lions of Lothar, Second Gurubashi Empire, The Cult of Shadow, Sin Belore, Blackblood Clan, The Sunfury Elite and... Did I leave any guilds out? I might've!

Also the vast number of freelancers that showed up deserves a thanks on the most part.

Now. Some will claim communication was poor, and in one way it was, but I think it's important to know that people roleplay in different ways, and plan things in different ways. A clash of styles happened at times, mostly misunderstandings, and little else more. It's not really something to be smart about, when you're not the one planning things, when maybe you're not meant to know, or maybe your own officer forgot to inform you, or you missed a line in the chat.

I wanted people to rely on IC information for the most part, and clearly there were some complications with that. That has been clearly noted by myself and my officers, and we'll do things a bit different next time.

But overall I deem the event a success, despite a certain incident at our first battle. We salvaged the campaign nicely, and a bunch of patient horde officers sure helped well with that ^^ Looking forward to our future clashes.

As for the end result, the Alliance did not succeed in all of their goals, but one thing is for sure, they drove the horde out of Caer Darrow and Andorhal... For now.

*salute*

A great event and a welcome initiative! Keep it up and I hope you guys will host more events for everyone to attend!

Looked and sounded like a lot of fun!

The alliance looked fantastic! Really good work. =)

Was indeed a lot of fun. And as I have said before a massive breath of fresh air to finally get out of Stormwind for a fairly long while. I can safely say that we shall be hosting more large scale events in the near future, so don't you dare put aside the battleaxe just yet. And again, thanks to everyone who showed up and contributed to making the whole thing come alive.

All in all it was indeed grand fun. Seeing so many poeople come together and bring a random corner of the world so alive was wonderful to see.

Also thoroughly enjoyed the chance to RP with the few inglorious of the 1st SCYTHE Regiment in an extended campaign setting. I think we really got a feel for it and it gelled well. So good work!

Loved every minute of it. Big thank's going to all Roleplayers that attended on both Blue and Red teams!

All in all I'd say it was a successful event - always great fun to get away from Stormwind Cathedral Square for a while

Just curious, did anybody post / plan to post any IC reports / journals / write-ups about the event?

I'm working on an IC intelligence report. Will go up soon.

I also find coincidentally amusing that in the screenies posted any of the SI:7/SCYTHE members captured are always partially obscured XD Quality!

Aarian Northlight wrote:Just curious, did anybody post / plan to post any IC reports / journals / write-ups about the event?

Will write an article about it in the Lion soon enough.

I don't blame people for enjoying W-PvP, but I must say, is this really all that Alliance RP is now? Bunch of people stroking their epeens and making themselves feel important through a no-brain, no-plot, no-character PvP event?

I'm just a bit dissappointed I guess that people treat this as the biggest thing to happen to Alliance RP when really, nothing happened? Is it too much to ask that there be a plot?

You obviously have no clue at all then what has been going on. If you don't get involved and don't know what an event is about, you will find it uninteresting about 90%+ of the times.

If you were present for all the RP that happened during the course of the campaign. You would be well informed. However, this looks to be the opposite.

Clique-based "personal RP" isn't the same as having a plot, hon. If there'd been a plot, maybe I'd have been there, but since I'm not part of the Stormwind clique I can't say I felt very compelled.

Merandil wrote:Clique-based "personal RP" isn't the same as having a plot, hon.

Err.. Clique? I don't recall anyone being barred from attending, I for one saw more rp in Menethil than i've seen in SW for so long.

An amazing event, i'm only sorry I missed the final days.

Merandil wrote:I don't blame people for enjoying W-PvP, but I must say, is this really all that Alliance RP is now? Bunch of people stroking their epeens and making themselves feel important through a no-brain, no-plot, no-character PvP event?

Yes, the fact that we ICly planned this for an entire month prior to the campaign itself is clearly not enough to prove the opposite. ICly seeking out and discussing with the leaders of all RP-guilds and even lone wolves, ICly preparing tactics, ICly creating field packs for every single person who participated, ICly dividing the forces into divisions with specific tasks, ICly marching from point A to point B and then to point C, while playing out our stay at those locations for several days and ICly following and developing the plot laid by the last campaign, clearly shows that no second was wasted on planning at all. We shall all do our best to top that for you next time

Also, I'd barely call 70+ people from the alliance and just as many from the horde a clique.

A war plot plain and simple. It's not The Divinci Code..

Jayse wrote:A war plot plain and simple. It's not The Divinci Code..

Which is exactly my point. You can throw around numbers all you like, ultimately this was just another war event. Mind you, I'm not dissing this event - People had fun, that's the whole point, mission accomplished - but I am dissing the fact that so many people seem to consider a hairbrain excuse to have lots of W-PvP the pinnacle of RP plotting. I'd expect better from a server that has seen so much as Defias has in the past.

Merandil wrote:

Jayse wrote:A war plot plain and simple. It's not The Divinci Code..

Which is exactly my point. You can throw around numbers all you like, ultimately this was just another war event. Mind you, I'm not dissing this event - People had fun, that's the whole point, mission accomplished - but I am dissing the fact that so many people seem to consider a hairbrain excuse to have lots of W-PvP the pinnacle of RP plotting. I'd expect better from a server that has seen so much as Defias has in the past.

Sorry just gonna say. That Defias is most famous on the world stage as the best Rp-Pvp server in Europe. Because we engage SO much in World PvP. So excuse us for wishing to live up to that. Everyone had fun, everyone enjoyed the pvp and the rp. It all went down brilliantly. To quote myself, 'There is always someone unhappy' We sit around Stormwind, people moan. We go out and make world-pvp, people moan.

Less whine, more contribution to the RP-PvP scene. Great event eitherway.

Merandil wrote:..but I am dissing the fact that so many people seem to consider a hairbrain excuse to have lots of W-PvP the pinnacle of RP plotting. I'd expect better from a server that has seen so much as Defias has in the past.

The only one who considers it so is yourself apparently, since no one claimed this :/

But yeah, like Ana said, whiners will whine, no matter what.

It's at times like these where I wish I wasn't purple and had pointy ears ^^. The event looked like loads of fun from the pictures so well done to everyone involved!

Mandui wrote:The only one who considers it so is yourself apparently, since no one claimed this :/

I think it's implied by the fact that there hasn't actually been any major non-PvP events for years beyond the form of "one-night party tiemz". Even my own main event last year - the Festival of Light - didn't have much of a plot, it was just an excuse to party and, for me, bring some life to the Draenei scene. Its the main reason I'm so keen on Elloa's Flashback events, since its actually doing something that hasn't been done, and isn't focused around something so ultimately fleeting and, frankly, hollow.

Allow me a brief Old Biz detour, reminding everyone how much I adored the Dark Sphere takeover of Stormwind a few years back. That's the kind of thing people end up remembering - now tell me, do you remember every single W-PvP battle that took place during that year? Or even more than a handful? Any? Of course not, they were all ultimately far less consequential, being more explicitly about the moment, the thrill of the fight, the scale of the operations - much like this event.

I'm not opposed to W-PvP events in the slightest, I just think it'd be nice to have something truly memorable and unique once in a while.

Merandil wrote:

Mandui wrote:The only one who considers it so is yourself apparently, since no one claimed this :/

I think it's implied by the fact that there hasn't actually been any major non-PvP events for years beyond the form of "one-night party tiemz". Even my own main event last year - the Festival of Light - didn't have much of a plot, it was just an excuse to party and, for me, bring some life to the Draenei scene. Its the main reason I'm so keen on Elloa's Flashback events, since its actually doing something that hasn't been done, and isn't focused around something so ultimately fleeting and, frankly, hollow.

Allow me a brief Old Biz detour, reminding everyone how much I adored the Dark Sphere takeover of Stormwind a few years back. That's the kind of thing people end up remembering - now tell me, do you remember every single W-PvP battle that took place during that year? Or even more than a handful? Any? Of course not, they were all ultimately far less consequential, being more explicitly about the moment, the thrill of the fight, the scale of the operations - much like this event.

I'm not opposed to W-PvP events in the slightest, I just think it'd be nice to have something truly memorable and unique once in a while.

So, if I may simplifying. Unless we are psycic and know our events are going to be so spectacular we shouldn't bother our asses?

First of all. It was Hand of Nightmares that took over Stormwind. The Sphere just got in on the fun for being evil cultists also.

Secondly, I remember quite a lot of WPvP events, simply cause they are all so unique in their ways, special and lots of fun in RP. And I think a vast majority of the server would agree on that. "New" things are fair enough and fun. But also, considering you speaking about cliques, the Flashback event if anything is a clique event, only for draenei or orcs. Where as this campaign was for everyone on the server that wished to join.


As for this event, very nice (again, I know I've said it before). A real treat with a nice back-story and plot to it. A lot of thanks to the people hosting this, hope you guys do this again soon!