First there was the long stare between the sides as they sized each other up. The critters of Redwall stood proud and unafraid of the pending battle. The Lady Shael stood in the center with Volkov on one side and wolf bite on the other. Next to them were the Woof and Honor clans respectfully, then JKWC, Northern and EOTP. In the next line of warlords stood the unclaned. It was so silent the grass could be heard growing.
On the other side were the 4 white Hares of the Long Patrol. They chomped and hissed waiting to bring the blood of their enemies back to their master, The Badger. They could hold back no longer and charged. Shael gave out a gasp and with that Redwall warlords charged the hares. Blades and spares were clashing. The Woof clan all aimed at one hare and the force of their armies charging knocked the first hare onto its back. Honor used its skill attacking the second hare by ducking the hares blow then swinging up on top of it and riding the beast. Juska took on one by himself with his massive amount of rats who completely covered the third hare. windy organized the unclaned warlords to charge the forth hare who turned and ran in fear.
The first wave of attacks went surprisingly well as the hares proved to be untrained fighters. All 4 of them retreated back across the field. Redwall rejoiced and cheered that they had won. With the hares pushed back so fast even The badger would be no problem. Holby and Firetooth even started to plan afternoon tea.
TS said, "I thought they were white, now they are gray?!"
Everyone looked over and sure enough, the Hares were bigger and gray. Again to the war lines everyone went for the second wave. Woof charged, but this time the Hare plowed right through them. Honor with all agility attacked, but the Hare clapped its paws together and squashed them. Juska's rats attacked the third but the hare simply jumped over them. Windy's crew beat their chests and drums but this time the hare charged them, forcing a fast retreat.
All made it back inside the town's gates which were then firmly sealed with the sound of the 4 hares scratching at the walls. Everyone thought the hares were not fearsome but they must have mutated or something. "Who saw what?" demanded Shadow, "someone write down what we know so we can formulate a counter strike."
[The Hares are evolving and may become more of a threat then first perceived. Use this thread to note what you have observed to uncover the secrets of the Long patrol.]
Wolf Bite
(Admin Duties)
Squad beta number 53 attacked his own clanmate Squad Charlie 4x with Naval assault. Unsure how this works.
Sun, 16 Oct 2016 09:00:02 -0700 Squad Beta (#53)
Clan: LP Squad Charlie (#54)
Clan: LP Naval Assault
546 Acres
They also copy attacks to a degree. Used mostly navals after being hit with navals and since being hit with frontal started using frontal.
The badger hasn't dropped networth so perhaps they are gaining those benefits?
Someone keep an eye on if they grow during your run. I think they're hidden races all called hare but they have different bonus. Different defense on leaders when I tried to get all of their stats. They had the same leader count, I got 2 of them and failed the third. Later on got the third which had identical leaders and land.
So there's a few starting points at least. I think the more you indy the bigger they grow and the more resources we make the more they get resources instead. No idea just speculating blindly.
When they first started I noticed they take time between each of them running. They seem to attack people 4 times, unless they don't break then they don't attack that person again.
Also strange is that after they run they seem to get bigger. When they started that were about 93M net. now look at them. Not sure if that is a race thing, they are getting aid, or are running full turns in indy. But maybe something to watch.
Right now they are:
8 ? Squad Beta (#53) 15,355 $158,389,015 LP (War) Hare Western Shores
9 ? Squad Charlie (#54) 14,807 $147,559,452 LP (War) Hare Western Shores
14 ? Squad Delta (#55) 25,119 $136,924,453 LP (War) Hare Western Shores
15 ? Squad Alpha (#52) 16,095 $127,505,166 LP (War) Hare Western Shores
Wolf Bite
I'm not sure how this works yet but I noticed the badger got attacked once and dropped around 400million networth? Were they killed in one failed attack or has he started burying assets?
Cos if the badger is aiding there is a great chance his ratio is not as powerful as we assume. Unless there's some cheating and he can hold more leaders than huts it's not going to be very difficult for me to get through his leaders.
I'll keep a very close eye on the activity of this LP crew. Whoever can actively post their stats please feel free to copy regular espionages and paste them here or send them to my warlord for evaluation.
Interesting to see. I hope they run turns soon so we can gather more information. Perhaps we can get someone who is ready to run to test a few moves against them?
So when Lucy did her attack to the badger lord, I see that the 4 hares at an identical time attacked her with a standard attack. Just something to note if one becomes big enough to hit the badger.
Otherwise they have been running 12 hours apart and use all of their turns in basically "0" seconds.
Ahhah, awesome.
I just put in the bot retal last night, and Lucy attacked this morning.
Cheers for testing that Lucy!
To be clear, the bots are actually only sudo-NPC's.
My old Turbo bots were full NPC's that played by the game's rules, the RtR bots are special (simpler and way more resilient).
The initial bot setup was slightly different than running state, but they've all run now.
The Badger's networth was supposed to be recalculating as it went (it'll lose a little net each time a bot runs). When Lucy attacked it forced a networth update and the sudden drop.
Not a bug, necessarily, but an oversight. Sorry 'bout that.
I do need to make a minor adjustment to the Badger, it's net will go up just a bit due to that (wont affect troop totals).
Oh, I did have a typo initially ($user vs $users) that allowed Beta to attack Charlie. I fixed that, they shouldn't have attacked each other since.
Some stats:
Squad Beta (#53)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #8
Workers (?) 450
Acres (?) 15,355
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $158,389,015
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 4,760,041
Moles (?) 3,180,432
Hares (?) 3,180,432
Ships (?) 7,543,910
Officers (?) 2,598,061
Squad Charlie (#54)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #9
Workers (?) 224
Acres (?) 26,239
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $152,599,872
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 4,070,084
Moles (?) 2,713,389
Hares (?) 9,422,514
Ships (?) 1,695,869
Officers (?) 2,625,000
Squad Delta (#55)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #12
Workers (?) 259
Acres (?) 25,119
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $136,924,453
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 3,007,435
Moles (?) 2,004,956
Hares (?) 7,287,980
Ships (?) 1,253,099
Officers (?) 2,625,000
Squad Alpha (#52)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #15
Workers (?) 292
Acres (?) 16,095
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $127,505,166
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 3,738,117
Moles (?) 8,000,485
Hares (?) 2,492,079
Ships (?) 1,557,550
Officers (?) 2,511,244
I think a coordinated run on the LP clan is needed. Inflict some real damage, and see how they react. I'd also like to see if its possible to kill a member of the LP clan.
I agree. Honor will work with woof to remove the hares from the game.
I just did a run on Alpha after one of the woof members started. I got it under 1,000 land. So They Can be killed!
Must use Standard attack under 1,000 land.
Go for it team!
I figure one of them will run by 9 PM PST, so get it done now.
16 ? Squad Alpha (#52) 959 $110,113,601
Wolf Bite
Tried. No good.
what happened when you tried?
She made several failed standard attacks.
The hare has a rather large army for his size. Since most of us are only running one or two attack armies, it will take a lat of them to standard.
Mice (?) 3,738,117
Moles (?) 8,000,485
Hares (?) 2,492,079 Less now that we have been attacking stoats
Ships (?) 1,557,550
Did I mention that there is only about 2 ours left before this bot may run and we have to start all over again?
Wolf Bite
I got a few standards through, but I had almost no resources to work with so I couldn't finish
Your raiders gather their provisions and venture forth,
3 empires rushing to defend your target,
Your battlefield healers move quickly around the battlefield, healing the injured.
Your Army breaks through Squad Alpha's defenses and captures 1 Acres of Land! In the effort, you lost:
1,746 Weasels
370,132 Stoats
355 Skiffs
In their defense, Squad Alpha lost:
17,140 Moles
145 Hares
638 Ships
Squad Alpha (#52) has been destroyed!
You've killed one of the Badger's helpers! The Badger has been weakened.
Hah.. should have given the poor guy more weasels
Since the networth update isn't functioning at the moment, before and after
1 ? Badger Lord (#51) 500,000 $9,987,668,572 None Badger Western Shores
1 ? Badger Lord (#51) 500,000 $8,276,098,853 None Badger Western Shores
Make of that what you will
Interesting.
Great work on the kill.
Note on Vargarth's kill readout that the LP are sharing forces.
Great job gang by the way!!
Wolf Bite
Wow, that knocked the badger down by a bil NW. Tomorrow we should try to kill another member of the LP clan. If anyone wants to join Woof for the unlimited attacks so we can get this done faster, I'll accept requests.
Updated a couple minor things with the Badger, nothing troop related
New net is
1 ? Badger Lord (#51) 500,000 $8,984,670,282 None Badger Western Shores
I edited the scripts so hopefully any changes to the Badger's net are updated automatically.. will keep an eye on it
Delta just ran turns, gained 50m networth, no attacks, didn't prepare raiders so I can't stat it. Can someone check him when they run? See what it grew and we can plan a kill
Delta maay have hit a glitch, it doesn't look like he saved a run file either so I can't say for sure what went wrong.
I re-ran him manually and everything worked (including attacking), so /shrug (the way these things are set I can verify Delta didn't get any bonus from the second run, it's as if the first didn't happen).
I'll check again after a bot or two runs tomorrow, if a bot doesn't attack something is wrong so lemme know, thanks!
Quote from: Sevah on October 19, 2016, 11:12:57 PM
Delta just ran turns, gained 50m networth, no attacks, didn't prepare raiders so I can't stat it. Can someone check him when they run? See what it grew and we can plan a kill
AFTER: BEFORE:(Volkov's Espy)
Squad Delta (#55) ""
Turns (?) 550 (max 550) ""
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150) ""
Rank (?) #7 ""
Workers (?) 259 Workers (?) 259
Acres (?) 26,745 Acres (?) 25,119
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000 same
Food (?) 3,500,000,000 same
Loyalty (?) 500 same
Networth (?) $187,972,214 Networth (?) $136,924,453
Location (?) Western Shores ""
Race (?) Stoat ""
Health (?) 98% ""
Tax Rate (?) 11% ""
Mice (?) 6,000,000 Mice (?) 3,007,435
Moles (?) 4,000,000 Moles (?) 2,004,956
Hares (?) 15,598,859 Hares (?) 7,287,980
Ships (?) 2,500,000 Ships (?) 1,253,099
Officers (?) 2,605,500 Officers (?) 2,625,000
Here you go.
These are for who wants to compare from initial start of kill until now: (below)
Squad Charlie (#54)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #9
Workers (?) 224
Acres (?) 26,239
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $152,536,198
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 4,070,084
Moles (?) 2,713,389
Hares (?) 9,422,514
Ships (?) 1,685,739
Officers (?) 2,625,000
Squad Beta (#53)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #12
Workers (?) 223
Acres (?) 21,692
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $134,254,752
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 2,902,255
Moles (?) 1,934,838
Hares (?) 1,934,838
Ships (?) 4,640,732
Officers (?) 2,598,061
Wait one part of wolf bite's post caught my attention - Holby is playing this round?
0.7 hours ago Squad Beta (#53) attacked you! Your enemy captured 441 Acres of Land and destroyed:
130,554 Weasels
You managed to destroy:
546,719 Moles
0.7 hours ago Squad Beta (#53) attacked you! Your enemy captured 231 Acres of Land and destroyed:
43,285 Weasels
You managed to destroy:
32,685 Moles
0.7 hours ago Squad Beta (#53) attacked you! Your enemy captured 54 Acres of Land and destroyed:
91,048 Weasels
You managed to destroy:
80,778 Moles
0.7 hours ago Squad Beta (#53) attacked you! Your enemy captured 1199 Acres of Land and destroyed:
119,885 Weasels
You managed to destroy:
361,920 Moles
Looks like moles are strong offensively. I still need to prepare raiders. Anyone interested in taking them out with me?
Squad Beta (#53)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #11
Workers (?) 196
Acres (?) 31,987
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $143,278,185
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 4,445,552
Moles (?) 8,864,352
Hares (?) 2,963,703
Ships (?) 1,852,314
Officers (?) 2,598,061
Updated since the bots run
Knocked him down to 7k land, was hitting mostly with stoats. Hopefully someone with turns can knock him down some more or finish him off.
Knocked him to 2K.
I sense impending doom.
As they say in Mortal Kombat: FINISH HIM!
That son of a hare attacked and is up on land again.
Quote from: windhound on October 19, 2016, 08:56:09 AM
To be clear, the bots are actually only sudo-NPC's.
[...] the RtR bots are special (simpler and way more resilient).
^_^
Clearly we need to be more organized then.
For some reason, the server is spreading the land?
I gather over 100k land per run. Even last run when it was scattered and the best target was 50k. If anyone needs some training just message me ingame I'm number 6.
At this rate we're going to take ages to break this badger. Whoever runs next should really hit these hares under 10k land so we can get a kill happening.
I didn't want to, but I can help on a kill run today. Message me in game.
I knocked Beta under 10k land, if anyone is around to knock him down more or finish him off. The other members of LP are around 10k land as well.
I hit with a few standards, his army should be weak enough to finish easily
He ran turns, he's back up to 13k land. We need better coordination.
With the death of one of the hares, they all seem to be more active. Prior accounting for estimated run time may have changed.
Wolf Bite
I'm willing to briefly clan, to help kill some of these off.
managed to catch squad beta during a run and get an espy:
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #14
Workers (?) 8,054
Acres (?) 39,050
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $169,081,852
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 99%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 4,870,281
Moles (?) 3,246,855
Hares (?) 3,246,855
Ships (?) 6,848,367
Officers (?) 2,463,788
funny thing is that i logged in just as they had attacked me
I'm sitting at full turns, if anyone else is around and wants to try and get a kill on one of the LP clan.
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:05:02 -0700
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:05:02 -0700
This is getting nuts. Seems every 8 hours it is doing 24 attacks. Let us take this thing out. based on this it will run at 5:02 AM game time next. We will have until 1:02 PM Wednesday to take it out. I will be making a run against it and will need some help. So let us make this the last of these beasts.
Wolf Bite
Okay, we are getting the last one done. Can't stop now or it will run at 1PM game time.
TS got it down to 21,000 and I just hit it 77 times and took it down to 284!
It must be hit with standard attack. After all my standards it still takes 30M rats at 100% health to break.
We need to get this done now it or will take another run and we have to start over. Ouch.
Wolf Bite
Honor has taken out the last hare!
Wolf Bite
ZOMBIE HARES!!!
Alpha resurrected itself. Seems like rather foul play, wot wot.
Squad Alpha (#52)
Turns (?) 550 (max 550)
Turns Stored (?) 150 (max 150)
Rank (?) #9
Workers (?) 212
Acres (?) 29,207
Cash (?) $15,000,000,000
Food (?) 3,500,000,000
Loyalty (?) 500
Networth (?) $153,673,943
Location (?) Western Shores
Race (?) Stoat
Health (?) 98%
Tax Rate (?) 11%
Mice (?) 3,714,265
Moles (?) 2,476,176
Hares (?) 9,576,575
Ships (?) 1,547,610
Officers (?) 2,503,734
windy!!!
Your raiders gather their provisions and venture forth,
Your Army breaks through Squad Beta's defenses and captures 1 Acres of Land! In the effort, you lost:
424,581 Rats
1,794 Weasels
5,765 Stoats
338 Skiffs
In their defense, Squad Beta lost:
33,142 Moles
17,063 Hares
5,672 Ships
Squad Beta (#53) has been destroyed!
You've killed one of the Badger's helpers! The Badger has been weakened.
Wolf Bite
Windy, you're evil. :P
Good work on the kill clan Honor!
Ahhah!
That ones a bug, not a feature
Will fix when I get home
I don't mind it, honestly. Should have pretended it was a feature.
LOL, well I mind it, after all the effort Woof put in to kill them!
However, Shadow is right, you should have pretended it was a feature. Would have been pretty funny.
Mm.
Mostly didn't want the Badger to take another hit, he's getting on the weak side.
OOC: Yes I know it is a bug, but still wanted to RP it.
Briar raised her hindpaw and placed it firmly on the chest of a Long Patrolhare and pulled her sword out of his chest. The hare crumpled to the ground, dropping his sabre and clutching his chest as the front of his tan tunic blossomed a deep, crimson red. She breathed heavily as he watched him take a final, rattled breath, the light of life growing dimmer and dimmer until, finally, his head rolled to the side, lifeless.
Her tattered, emerald cloak whipped in the evening breeze. She wiped away the trail of blood that was trickling down from her ear.
"An inch closer and I'd have lost my eye," she thought to herself. In thanks for her new battle scar, she spat on the newly deceased hare.
The stench of death and the cries of the wounded filled the air. Briar scanned the gruesome scene around her. The bodies of moles, hares and mice were strewn across the battlefield. It had been an almost endless battle over the last week. Members of the Woof and Honour clan could be seen picking over the bodies of the various Long Patrol squadrons. Carrion crows, magpies, and jackdaws flew high above the carnage, looking to make a quick meal out of the fallen beasts. In the distance, smoke from the funeral pyres reached their fingers upwards into the clear Autumn sky.
Every time ground had been gained against the Badger Lord's minions, they would come back, stronger each time. It had taken significant coordination between the great clan warlords to finally finish them off. Briar's troops had been sent out on numerous suicide missions in order to weaken the Long Patrol's forces. Little time had been spent gathering supplies and by the way her leaders moved across the field, she could tell they were battle weary.
As Briar turned to head back toward camp, a soft sound met her ears. She stopped cold. Her eyes wandered back to the hare she had just finished off. Was it a trick of the waning light? Or had she just seen his left paw twitch?
Next to him, a headless member of the Long Patrol also appeared to be moving. Slowly at first, but after staring, disbelieving at the corpse for what seemed like eternity, the hare began to grope around the ground for its missing head. Surrounding her, the entire Alpha Squad of the Long Patrol began to reanimate.
"Impossible", she cursed to herself, "what power has the Badger Lord being dealing in?"
With much haste and fate rushing against her, Briar ran at full speed toward camp calling out to her fellow warlords "They live! Gather your forces and regroup at camp. The Long Patrol Rises!"
That was a great post Briar, and very season appropriate. LOL.
10billion food to Volk after he kicked me, so he has food to support the rats to break the badger. Mark my words, rn I am Walder Frey and he is Robb Stark. I will be richly rewarded for this...
LOL, dude, you owed me after all the trouble you caused for me earlier in the round.