(most Rooks start to log on around 9 and leave around 11 or 12).
However, as for being ridiculous .. I have to say that even with the numbers quoted from these screen shots take a look at the bases. In 1 hour of fighting with 200+ players the Rooks were only able to get 1 Knight base ..
9:36 25 Bishop Bases, 24 Knight Bases, 20 Rook bases
10:43 25 Bishop Bases, 23 Knight Bases, 21 Rook bases
It looks to me like those Bishops and Knights who log onto sundays instead of avoiding have come up with some very effective strategies to hold the Rooks back. Now, yes they have no hope of actually resetting the Rooks or siezing bases back during this 3 hour to 4 hour window on sundays but the ones on have adopted practices / tactics of hunkering down on the defense and not giving an inch without a fight. Was effective this sunday. And has for the last 3 sundays.
So they have adapted and gone from being clubbed like baby seals to coming up with ways to withstand the Sunday numbers by concentrating on defense instead of avoiding the night like some squads have posted they are doing.
Imagine what it would be like if instead of avoiding sunday if more Bishops and Knight squads actually rallied and turned out on sunday to stuff it in the Rooks face.
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Cant say for the bish as I dont fly for them. But for the knights. Those effective stratagies was 3-5 of us running around all night long doing nothing but porking barracks. and basically thats all I did. All night long. Untill all the front linebarracks were down
Least thats what I was doing. Fortunately for me anyway it didnt seem like many rooks were interested in stopping me as on several occasions I flew right past entire formations on my way to target and only once did someone somone try to stop me and only one other occasion did someone break off to come after me. and even then he either changed his mind or it was decided I wasnt a threat to their flight and he rejoined his formation. that enabled me to kill the last of the front line barracks
Normally this is not the case. Normally Im lucky if I can make it to 1 or 2 feilds to kill barracks without getting ganged en route let alone to the 3-4 I did manage to get in at. and even then half the time those barracks are back up by the time I can get back there.
Now I dont know if they tried but it seemed the barracks stayed down an awful long time for being rook horde night. Typically I have witnessed with my own eyes rooks think nothing of sending what looks to be to me entire squads who's sole job it is to resupply bases and get troops back up I didnt see that this past sunday
Also it would seem that rooks have some very dedicated players who think nothing of flying goons from 3-4 bases back to bring troops in.
Now I dont know if they tried or not but I didnt see any of that which is not the norm. I say that because I specifically look for such activity.
I owe much of the lack of rook success to poor planning and execution dispite the great missions they put up.
And they were great missions. Problem is, they seemed to lack cohesion. And were overloaded with bombers. Or so it seemed to my eyes.
Made for a great view and probably some pretty cool films but didnt accomplish a whole lot
Also I have to hand it to the knights that night also as we seemed to put up a tenacius defence despite the odds.
But then again the lack troop availability and lack of imagination used in the planning stage went a long way to allow this defence.
Particularly since on several occasions the rooks were on the brink of overall success but Im guessing they lacked troops to complete the task
Im sure the rooks will eventually figure it all out and soon enough will be rolling along like roving mongols of old distroying everything in their path and bringing in 5-6 goons at a time as they normally do.
Overall I'd say though the rooks did more to stop themselcves more then the knights did to stop them.