The Conquerors of Season VI
As the pawns, kings and other pieces on the Conqueror’s Blade chessboard align themselves for Season VII’s endgame, it seems a good time to look back on the last moves of Season VI to see how the final battles to secure Augolia fared.
The following reports are based on recent communications with the champion alliances. You can check out all the winners of each season on the Hall of Fame page.
Server: EU1 (Crystal Sea)
Alliance: Revolution
Member Houses: HUN, Eden, Heretic
Friendly Alliance's three straight seasonal wins was overshadowed somewhat during season V, when, having transferred across from the EU East server (where it was Season IV champion), Dominion emerged as fitting winners. During Season VI a revenge story, of sorts, played out, as Heretic helped engineer Revolution’s first seasonal win, in spite of the alliance having to endure a costly betrayal amid claims that opponents were employing unsound tactics . With Heretic a long-term member of Friendly during its hot streak, some measure of pride seems to have restored.
Server: EU2 (Sicania)
Alliance: BlanK
Member Houses: ENDGEGNER, Schwarzfeder, NordischerOrden
Three wins in five seasons as the lynchpin of two alliances is a good showing for ENDGEGNER, which once again held off SPQR to claim its first consecutive victory at the head of BlanK alliance. With SPQR in command of Reginopolis and Mirage holding Turul Varos, BlanK had a tough time retaining its Ostarian influence, but in the end managed to hold firm and claim a deserved victory.
Server: EU3 (Teutatis)
Alliance: OttomanEmpire
Member Houses: OTTOMAN, OTTOMANII, OTTOMANIII
Having won the previous two seasons, OttomanEmpire was the clear favourite to dominate a third, but was almost thwarted from the beginning by losing one of its closest allies and then failing to conquer Augolia at the first attempt. It managed it at the second, thereafter facing stiff competition from the likes of NorthAlliance,Triforce and Horizon. Inevitably, perhaps, OttomanEmpire held out to win. It will be interesting to see how the alliance fares during Season VII, with Teutatis now a figurative enclave of Crystal Sea.
Server: EU4 (Empyros)
Alliance: Eclairides
Member Houses: Lusitanos, AuroraBorealis, AuroraPolaris
Two of the houses that won Season V for Omerta this time were only the losing side, fighting against the Eclairides alliance. The plan for the insurgent was simple, to take and hold as much of Ostaria as possible. The execution was hindered by early diplomatic errors that created enemies out of potential friends, but, aside from a threat from the Ottomans, Eclairides held out for a relatively comfortable win. Eclairides’ only regret was in sticking to its defensive strategy, which meant there were too few fights to keep the membership engaged.
Server: NA2 (Cloudwing Valley)
Alliance: YellowTurbans
Member Houses: DigitalOrder, Radiance, Atlas
It would appear that as Season VI progressed, Cloudwing Valley became more and more like a proverbial ghost town, as alliances fled to Eagle Range. It’s been suggested that the exodus was a bid to escape the impending dominance of HeavenlyKingdom, which would be ironic given that HeavenlyKingdom itself soon took the last caravan eastwards. It says something about YellowTurbans’ eventual victory that by its own admission, the most difficult opponents were the Cohorts and by the end of the season, there was “little resistance” to be found.
Server: NA3 (Eagle Range)
Alliance: HeavenlyKingdom
Member Houses: ForbiddenCity, aiko, TheWolfSyndicate
Technically a new world, but for HeavenlyKingdom, winners of three consecutive seasons on the NA1 server, it will be rightly considered a fourth. It was a challenging season, fought in the midst of a mass migration from Cloudwing Valley to Eagle Range in the wake of Asterion’s closure, but HeavenlyKingdom made the transition with minimal casualties and embarked on a campaign every bit as ruthless and efficient as in seasons past: “There is a foundation of loyalty, respect, trust, and friendship keeping us together no matter what trials each season brings.”