Commander of Ashenvale Sentinels looked pretty on the top of the hill. There were deployed his hunters, several druids were stealthed nearby. For more than hour Kaldorei were effectively blocking horde communications between crossroads, Splintertree post and Felwood. Eventually horde will gather forces and drive kaldorei from highground. But now horde was closed in Splintertree post and not only they can not move but also cannot get reinforcements from Barrens. Several weeks ago two his diversion attacks against Warsong lumber camp were beaten back by several strong horde guilds. Being heavily outnumbered and outleveled kaldorei changed tactic.
First for him, it became obvious that kaldorei can not alone stand against orcs, taurens and trolls from Orgrimmar and Thunderbluff. One race against three, forces are too uneven. To be successful they will need help from Eastearn Kingdom.
First who joined them were humans from New Alterac. Ashenvale Sentinels made an expedition to Hillsbrad Foothills, were heartly accepted as guests there, took part in the fight with horde for Southshore and got allies who promised to join Kaldorei attack in Ashenvale.
Allience council in Stormwind did not decide anything but introduced Alliance guild leaders to each other and gave opportunity to contact human leaders in person. This way he continued looking for allies.
Before launching all out kaldorei offensive there was need make to probe attack, check horde defence and improve understanding and coordination between allies. There also was important not alert horde too early so the probe attacked was made by only one elf guild and one human’s. This probe will also give valuable information about horde strengths and positions, according which nightelves are planning with help of humans to launch all-assault on Splintertree post and drive horde from Ashenvale forest forever.
(OOC: This a RP-PVP campaign that is launched by nightelves to drive horde from Ashenvale forest. Military actions will be in Ashenvale forrest and nearby areas. Every part compaign begins from the end of previous part. It is possible to end this compaign in Barrens or in Darkshore.
Chain of command: guilds are led by their guild leaders and only from them guild members recieve orders. That is similar to medieval feudal armies when lords were coming into the battlefield with their men. To implement this feature every guild will have their own raid. 6 guilds – 6 raids. No more raid warnings and OOC raid orders. Guild leaders discuss tactics in say, returning to their troops and give orders via say or yell.
Did noticed where others come and now lost with your guild, welcome to the list of generals who went wrong road and were lost during the battle. Lead attack with your troops and was killed? - Now your troops without command, and others guild leaders can not interect with you until you revive. Many battles were lost at the moment where the commander was killed due to follow-up disorganization and lost of morale. These rules will be implemented on alliance side, horde can still fight in old way with one raid.
Taking part in campaign for Horde or human allies is possible for after invitation. Write here if your guild would like to take part in campaign or contact me in game (Deletraz#2521).
We are also looking for an individual roleplayer - human/dwarf/gnome journalist who will travel with humans to tell people of Stormwind how humans beat horde in Ashenvale forest. He shall take interview from human soldiers and leaders and write into Stormwind newspaper pro-humans reports. (and what about elves? Well, they also were somewhere there, but let return back to our heroes… ). Purpose of this journalist - not to write a big report but to give additional RP flavour for humans guild during events.
Overall situation: orcs and nightelves are fighting in Ashenvale forrest and neither side has advantage. To break this deadlock Ashenvale sentinels came to Eastern Kingdom to get help from humans. Severed human guilds answered the call and now Alliance are ready to surprise horde with unexpected increase of their numbers and attempt to turn tides of war in their favor. OOC over)
The story about our first fight you can read on reddit for our realm
Results: horde victory
Influence on campaign: Horde morale rised high, confidence in their strength increased, operations against Southshore will be still priority and no reinforcements will sent to Ashenvale.
Commander of Ashenvale Sentinels will make report to nightelves leaders about the successful probe that allowed them to see defense and strength of horde and will suggest to make a full-out elven attack with humans against now well known positions of Horde. Horde do not get any idea about Elven Storm coming for them in Ashenvale.