Originally posted by ZeroPing
Where did it go? we are winning by 20 bases! and we all the sudden are behind? rooks got 22 and i left in disapointment.. O well i know this is a pay to play game but some people like to win sometimes... NO need to flame just post your ideas and why we do this (rooks and bish too if they do this) its just very confusing sometimes
peace
I can tell you what happened in a nutshell. Simply this; certain to lose the reset, collectively, the Bishops elected to fight the Knits and not seriously oppose the Rooks. Barely a half-dozen Bish fought at A-18, the pivotal field, during the last 30 minutes.
Because the Bishops fought the Knits to a standstill, and because the Knits never expected the Rooks to galvanize as they did (this was truly remarkable too), the Rooks captured 9 or 10 Knit fields in about 30 minutes.
Indeed, the Bishops could not prevent a reset, but they could and did choose, to some extent, who won it. Furthermore, the Knights were caught by the assumption that they could capture two fields faster than the Rooks could capture 12. Their mistake was not realizing that two fields defended by 90 Bishops is harder to capture than 10 fields defended by no more than a dozen Knights.
Kudos must go to the Rooks for their patented "Rookskrieg" attack that involved about 90% of the players, who pitched in with great gusto. I flew on most of those attacks, and it was incredibly well organized. As many as 4 goons were standing by for each field. Understand that there was no centralized command structure. Everyone knew what they had to do, and did it without hesitation. Pilots didn't waste time landing, they simply augered and grabbed new planes. Yes sir, the Rooks seem to have a knack for organizing. Remember that monster B-17 raid back in tour 24? 40+ Buffs, and at least twice that many escorts!
My regards,
Widewing