NA-1 is getting exciting

by Alk, Level 1

Last updated at August 10, 2009, 8:44 am

Agon's NA-1 political scene is shaping up

The alliances on NA-1 are already very clear, some bigger than others but all are trying to get their grasp on strategic political landmarks.

Based on the political map, the only subcontinent that has not been unified yet is Rubiyat, it seems that the BFTA have a better positioning to move and take over Rubi, yet their numbers probably don't allow that yet as they have only about 250. BFTA has the strong Call to Arms at their doorsteps, if they do choose to extend south any political mistake it could cost them their northern assets. Is Rubi worth it for them? I'd say yes. Even if it's considered as the worst subcontinent, it's still a huge advantage to lock one down for a single alliance as it allows for increased security which speeds up character developement and ressource gathering. If BFTA’s leaders are looking for land im sure they could talk most of the small guilds of Rubi into their alliance, or just kick them out of there.

On the opposite side of the world, the red army is growing steadily, they have the biggest population and fully occupy the sub-continent with the most ressources and the arguably the best pve spawns, Yssam. Most of the clans part of the red army have secured hamlets on mainland, allowing for fast travel from and to Yssam and of course to cut the ressources available to the Force alliance. Day by day the red army is growing stronger and they have shown to SoN that they are not afraid to fight and are much stronger than SoN. What remains to see is how the red army will fare against stronger targets, they did not have the chance to display their full military power yet.

As for the other two sub continents, SoN took a hold of Nhif and Carinivores are well established on Cairn, theses two have been the center of some intense political action on the forums lately. Mainly because of a guild called the Freemasons whom advertise themselves as a neutral trading guild. They chose to stay far from the political center of agon and took a hamlet in Nhif, as far as possible from everything else, thinking that SoN would leave them alone considering that they are neutral. SoN viewed them as a door for others alliances into their continents, so they invaded the hamlet stating that Carinivores had dealings with the Freemasons and could use the hamlet to SoN's harm. The supreme general of freemasons made an outcry on the forums asking for help, red army and several others responded by taking a city from SoN. From the reports it seems like it was fairly easy to do so, therefore exposing SoN as an easy target to the rest of the server. Is the 8 man guild freemasons for real? Or is it a fabrication of another alliance to play in SoN’s background or pull the trigger on a war between SoN and Red Army..?

Speaking of Cairnivores, most reports state that they have Cairn completely locked down and that nobody even bothers them down there. Considering the island of Cairn has great pve spots but few ressources, it would be justified to assume that they are building up their characters down there and keeping it quiet, quite scary when you put it that way, but not so quite when you realise that red army outnumbers them by 3 to 1. It's also the same strategy for mostly everyone on the server, they wouldn't want to invest on conquests and taking land when in a few weeks from now highly developped characters will be transfered from EU-1 and could take everything from them unless they built their characters high enough.

The Call to Arms and Force alliances have also been quiet lately, having their cities on the mainland is a double edged sword, in one way they are highly exposed but then again who would want a city that much vulnerable. If theses two can build strong enough military to hold against the upcoming transfers they could have just as much as an advantage as thoses on the continents because their assests seems less valuable to take on. So in conclusion, the whole political soup is stirring up, land is clearly divided between a few large alliances after the server's first month. Most alliances seem competent to defend themselves well enough to keep that land besides maybe SoN which now needs to strenghten their military otherwise they risk losing everything to a smaller alliance or upcoming transfers.