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Post by zepp on Mar 19, 2015 18:13:11 GMT -8
I'm starting this thread as a place for lessons learned from Alex' and my trip to the Holy R'hollors as end-game mercs.
The goal is to talk about: Alliance management Alliance communication Mercing High-end AvA Personal experiences
The primary goal of this trip is to form an alliance and to hopefully get one of the top alliances to back our campaign for the "Modest Proposal" that we will hopefully be going for in January. I will also be keeping an eye out for friendly communicative members that may want to move to a smaller alliance...
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aris
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Post by aris on Mar 19, 2015 22:49:15 GMT -8
What is mercing? What means to be mercenary in the game? I mean, of course you fight for someone else but how are you payed?
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Post by zepp on Mar 20, 2015 7:16:50 GMT -8
Mercing is being a mercenary in the game. You join an alliance battling it out for one of the top spots and then you gain the prize that the alliance receives. If HR earns top overall Alex and I will receive the top prize for our participation.
We also have the opportunity to learn from them and to make friends.
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Post by zepp on Mar 20, 2015 18:12:46 GMT -8
Tactics: Outrider's Commander's Tactic of Intrigue Cavalry's Tactic Cavalry's Tactic of Battle
Targets (MotD):
***UPDATE*** March 20, 2015 20:25EDT
-Orders are listed by priority-
WESTERLANDS – Weltschmerz ----- Swindle/Fight @ Golden Tooth
IRON ISLANDS -Iron Vengeance ----- Best Attack @ Ironmans Bay
RIVERLANDS –1k1 ----- Swindle/Fight @ Red Fork
REACH -Paying The Iron Price ----- Spy @ Oldtown
STORMLANDS -Knights of the Winter Rose ----- Spy @ Marches
-Garrison any extra CP in the remaining Regions. Spy all alliances in the top 10 in the region
313 Members 309/500 War Participants
Current activity shows a lot of Garrisoning going on (Looks like the Mercs are coming in as well as people reshuffling to address the targets)
No chat, but that is not so surprising during AvA
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Post by zepp on Mar 20, 2015 21:46:45 GMT -8
The Merc chat for FB is very active. Half social, half talking about targets.
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Post by Tiklikov on Mar 20, 2015 22:23:33 GMT -8
all sounds a bit mercenary to me...boom boom ;-) keep that aid coming zepp...just woke.530am and schedenfreude clan been constantly attacking. hit a chap when hes sleeping. bunch of bleep bleep bleepedy bleep
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Post by zepp on Mar 20, 2015 22:52:16 GMT -8
Updates on targets are coming fairly frequently, about once an hour, sometimes more, sometimes less...
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Post by zepp on Mar 20, 2015 22:56:57 GMT -8
Can't do too much aid, have to keep to their plan (maximizing vp) but will try to send the occasional wave
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Post by zepp on Mar 22, 2015 9:55:32 GMT -8
Lack of reciprocity, lack of transparency, isolation of mercs... Where do I begin...
While I thought this would be a good opportunity, there have, to date, been more issues than benefits.
It started with the mole. A mole in the midst of HR cost those that didn't merc far too much.
Then there was the issue of the fuck up, to be polite, where they posted the wrong target for the MotD, which again costs too much.
In addition there is a lack of general reciprocity. The attitude seems to be twofold, "At least we're not the goats" and "You should thank us for letting you merc, you get the prize right?"
There is also a mantra of "trust their math" in regards to the battle plans. There is never an explanation about which target was chosen or why. There is no over-arching delineated battle plan. There is just a nigh-random assignment of targets chosen at the whims of the HR higher ups.
In other words. If we chose the path of using mercs to go for the top spot, there is a lot we should do differently from better than HR.
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Post by sam on Mar 22, 2015 13:53:06 GMT -8
This has certainly been a very eventful AvA, to say the very least, and I think that we have learned quite a lot from Z and Alex about how the Merc system works...at least for one of the top alliances. For myself I am not entirely sure that I would want us to go down the Merc route but I know that if we did we would do things very much differently to the Holy bloody R'hllors! It has been a great opportunity for Z and Alex to learn how the Merc system can work very well for the alliance taking loan of them but mostly not so well for the Mercs themselves. If we make the decision to go down the Merc route we will need to have a great deal of discussion about who we chose and how we use them. I want to thank Alex and Z for what they have done, it has turned out to be very enlightening in many ways. They have not had an easy time of it and at times it has caused us more than a little grief but it needed to be done. Thank you both! x
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Post by zepp on Mar 22, 2015 21:17:30 GMT -8
Ta for the support Sam.
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