The Watcher
Thursday June 25, Near the Watcher's camp.
This is third wave. First one (in which we did not participate) was disaster, second one got quite far, captainawesome actually could se Watcher a moment before he got killed by Soulless spear. Hopefully this wave will do better.
Same mission, slightly different squad. Draq and Storyfag somehow managed to crawl their way back to our camp after failure of last attack and are joined now by asongforsimeon, zdzisiu, cassidy and serratedbiz.
First thrall ambush.
Asongforsimeon and Zdzisiu got one kill each but most of the chopping were done be expendable non-codexia berserkers because codexers needs to be in prime condition to finish the Watcher.
We are near the place were previous group landed. But we are going to continue going through swamp.
Another ambush. One thrall scored a hit on zdzisu but was cut down quickly.
We try to keep codexers in good condition but it's not like they are going to sit down and do nothing. Zdzisiu scored his third kill (fucking kill stealer...)
Land Ho! and it seems that Shade didn't spotted us...
Nope, he spotted us. We need to make to the other side of this small river ASAP. Shade are somtimes described in online guides as "slow", bullshit, they are fast, only slightly slower than berserkers.
Not so close to each other for gods sake!
One dispersal dream and we are all dead.
But he didn't cast it, and we made it to some small island. Shades can't cross water and he's stuck on his side.
But ghols can swim. I ordered few expendables to catch some wight pieces but this fight soon turned into uncontrolable cluserfuck.
Mostly because it is edge of the map and I can't see shit.
Ghols managed to kill two berserkers before they went down. All codexers are alive though.
Shade tries to follow us so we put Tyrvard to seduce him.
It works. Shade is completely astonished by Tyrvard and lost interest in rest of our berserkers.
Ok, we are on the other side of the river. Charming place but I have no idea what to do now. Draq is the leader now and he says that it will be best to keep marching south-east but cautiosly this time.
We were moving from island to island until we spotted large group of Ghols.
And Soulless. This island is too small to fight Soulless on it. We must fall back.
We got ambushed by Ghols during our retreat and now everyone must fight, codexer or not.
Ghols died but we must keep dragging Soulless away from water.
I thought this is far enough from water (it wasn't) and ordered attack.
Shit went wrong and we must send Codexers to help expendables because they drop like flies.
Then Soulless retreat into deep water and we had to fall back because we can't reach them there.
Another attack.
This time we managed to kill all soulless. But we are down to 9 berserkers (all codexers are still alive).
Then some random douchebag Ghol arrived and essploded one of our berserkers. I mean what the fuck, you can't just explode people like that. Ghols never attack large groups alone, and this one dude just comes here, and I was speechless. Then he pull out wight piece, throw it at Tyrvard and Tyrvard exploded and I was like "you can't do that!"
So Draq cut this bastard to pieces... This is, I mean... He was just standing there, Tyrvard, he was. And then this ape-thing just comes in and everybody is like "what the fuck he wants?" and then he throws something at Tyrvard and... I don't know, it happened so fast... it happened so fast, man.
Anyway, there is only eight of us now.
And we found Mazzarin, fucking great.
Another ghol. This one throws machete at Draq.
But he missed and got killed.
We put one berserker near shore to fuck with Mazzarin's head while rest tries to sneak past...
And it fucking worked!
The most interesting berserker in the world...
This ramp leads to the Watcher. But codexers needs to break through wall of Soulless first.
CHAAAARGE!
We killed them but this is not over yet...
Yeaaaah... and none of them will move. They will stand there and defend the Watcher. We can't do this, we don't have enough man. We SUPPOSED to get reinforcements but we didn't. We will go back to kill Shades to see if it will bring us reinforcements.
We went back to deal with Cormorant first.
He didn't even fight back.
Now it's Mazzarin's turn but he looks like he will fight back...
He killed Zdzisiu, but he could easily kill us all with one spell.
Mazzarin died and didn't drop any green gems. I think it means he couldn't cast any dispersal dreams. We wander a map a little bit after it and still didn't get any reinforcements so I decided to kill every Ghol on the map...
And then...
Corporate Jew Master brought three berserkers with him. This will certainly help but we could use more.
We killed every Ghol that was not defending Watcher petrified ass and we got more reinforcements!
Now we are talking! Draq ordered everyone to go near "wall of soulless".
And then split our force into two group. Glorious Codexians and Expendables. Zdzisiu is dead but Corporate Jew took his place so there is still 6 codexers with us, a force to be reckoned with. Now Draq orders general charge...
"A berserk at the Stair of Grief, having been told that the hosts of the Soulless were so many that their spears would hide the sun, is said to have replied 'Then we shall fight them in the shade.'"
-Berserk Flavor Text, Myth TFL
Artsy as fuck but look at them spears 'ma!
Oh shit...
Keep chopping!
From Codexers only Cassidy, Corporate Jew and Songforsimeon survived. But the soulless are dead.
Now we send expendables to deal with circle of Ghols.
Then we chop wall of thralls...
And finally, we order three remaning Codexers to attack Watcher at the same time. So we will never know which one shattered him...
And it's done. Second Fallen Lord to die at the hand of Legion during Great War.
Oh come on! We saw this picture after Across the Gjol mission! LAAAAMEEE.