How to Take a Capital City

SamIam

SamIam

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Found this interesting, not ever having seen it before. This is an excerpt from Tobold's blog.

You have to keep in mind that a City capture is a long multi-stage process that requires all of the following elements (I will use Aldorf as my example).

1) You must capture two fortresses in Tier IV within 12 hours of each other. To gain access to a fortress you must seize and hold the neutral Tier IV zone and your opponent's zone in two separate racial pairings. Once you lock down one racial pairing, you only have 60 minutes to capture its fortress. Should you fail, then that racial pairing reverts back to a neutral state and you must begin anew.

2) You must then fight in contested Altdorf and gain control much like you would in a zone. There are two Battle Objectives, a Public Quest and opposing players you must contend with in order to accomplish this.

3) Should you accomplish the first two tasks, the opposing realm is ejected from the city. At this point you have one hour to cement your hold on the city. You must complete the Temple of Sigmar and Bright Wizard College Public Quests within the next hour. If you manage this feat within one hour, you then lock down the city for 24 hours and unlock the King. If you fail, then you have one hour before the city is re-opened to opposing Realm players.

4) If you defeat the King, then you can unequivocally say that you captured Altdorf.
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That dose sounds VERY fun, for attcking and defending. one hour to take a keep full of enamy can be VERY hard :)
 
SamIam said:
Yeah, I don't think it will happen very often, and when it does most will be 2am raids.
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True...sadly the most likely time to attempt this with the greatest possible chance of success is to plan it when nobody is on.

Which will make it very hard to get the necessary Victory Points in scenerios to lock down a zone. I think the near impossibility of actually capturing a city during normal hours being able to be on to defend it may well cause many to ask: Whats the point and leave the game.
 
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If I remember correctly, a few days ago, or maybe more like a few weeks ago Kutluch was with a group who took T4 for Order and were closing in on the last Chaos keep before the Inevitable City. The only thing that stopped them was a server crash.

It is not impossible.

Granted this was done at like noon time Eastern.

It does indeed sound like a blast.
 
It does sound like a hoot. But...it is so easy to do a server crash to force a full T4 reset. As a matter of fact, its the best defense.
 
Gods_Peon said:
It does sound like a hoot. But...it is so easy to do a server crash to force a full T4 reset. As a matter of fact, its the best defense.
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That's what we did on Percival in DAoC.

You are right, it was VERY effective for stopping relic raids!
 
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