End of the Grace events

The grace was lifted and after a week long period of disabled pvp, nations were allowed to finally go to a war. Although actually most of the factions remained in defensive positions, 2 nations seized the opportunity and launched multiple offensive operations.

Northmathr, just as expected, assualted it’s close neighbour – Celtica and first laid siege to Calais. Celtic city quickly was proven to be practically defenseless against the hordes of the Norse and simply warlogged. In the meantime Carthage attempted to invade Anatolia and to capture it’s only city, Sinope. Immediately after the Carthaginians put the very first warflag, Anatolians decided to warlog aswell, seemingly being incapable of fending off the invaders. Even the punishement for warlogging – which was unclaiming of a city’s storage room, allowing the invaders to loot it freely, didn’t prevent players from evading the conflicts.

Carthaginians, looting Sinope’s storage 

Subsequently, Northmathr attacked and seized more towns like Gwynedd, Portchester and Kiev. Carthage, still wanting to prove herself in the field, launched an invasion on it’s former ally – Dacia and laid siege to Apullum. Dacians, severely outnumbered couldn’t take on large Carthaginian forces and most likely Apullum would fall – if not for the Norse, who abrubtly broke their secret non-agression pact with Carthage and went to help sieged Apullum. Completely surprised and unaware Carthaginians were easily taken down by a small expeditionary squad of the Norse thus Apullum was saved from destruction and managed to reclaim all the losses.

Start of the 14.0 only confirms that Northmathr still is the only truly dominant force in /int/craft – a fact clearly causing an outrage in the community and discouraging many non-pvp focused nations to play the server as they are under the constant threat of the Norse. Carthage, which attempted to project power on it’s own was brutally punished – and even if this Mediterranean nation seeks revenge, by betraying it’s former allies it prevented itself from forming any anti-Norse coalition and probably the only hope to realistically take down the Norse.