RE suffers two razes in as many days

In the past two days, TUF has razed two of RE's towns. The first was on vgsrhhheth in the Long White. This siege was similar to the one on the failed siege on Knight of Ancients, taking advantage of the city's isolation from RE's main cluster in Westmarch. However, RE were unable to break the siege and the town of lonesome fell to ThorOdin at 9:32 on the 10th July.

Elfend was the second town to fall to TUF, this time to AianNick. The Illyriad Times reported that Xander also had a siege on Elfend. The town, formerly belonging to parthenon, was also isolated as it was in Middle Kingdom. This seems to reflect a common strategy for TUF where they pick off towns where help will take a long time to arrive. The town was razed at 18:13 on the 11th of July.

This double raze is likely to have been a big blow to RE's morale but could also reflect a depletion of troops after the recent tournament in which they lost just over 1 million troops. RE will still have enough troops to defend within their landclaim but towns further away might be left with insufficient support.

Author: Eowan The Short

Hedeby formerly belonging to Akiles has fallen to TUF's Mexican Dwarf

At 17:11 server time on 22nd June, Mexican Dwarf's forces stormed the keep at Hedeby and captured the town. This marks TUF's second successful siege in the YARR!/TUF war, the first being kaven's siege on Popayan. Mexican Dwarf was aided in the siege by Xander though there was little resistance from YARR! due to the distance from YARR!'s Broken Lands strongholds and Akiles' inactivity.
When asked about the siege, Ranalos released the following statement:'Akiles is 19 days inactive and in Elgea, where I have spent the last 7 months advising people they were indefensible. I'm not going to kick him to avoid Tuf getting the points because I don't care about the score card.'
Since the siege, the town has been renamed to 'YARR trophy town'

Author: Eowan The Short