Have been having a great time in Korrak’s Revenge (now that most of the mount farmers are gone!) but wanted to put this one down for prosperity. (TL:DR at the bottom)
I joined the match as a refill (and apparently a fair few people did as there were remarks in chat about how the newcomers changed the game), with Alliance players having no towers down, lost Stonehearth & Icewing Bunkers and being pushed back to Dun Baldar. I and my fellow refills join the battle by jumping down from the starting cave, into Stormpike Graveyard and proceed to cap it (Horde were past it and storming North bunker).
From that point on, it was a domino effect - we rallied together and pushed them from Dun Baldar and recapped Stonehearth Graveyard. We were gaining ground. Then came out Lok’holar the Ice Lord. He began advancing towards us, just as someone activated the druids to start their push to summon Ivus.
Lok’holar got stuck at Stonehearth Graveyard, we had upgraded our units from nothing to Veteran (which forced an NPC respawn on top of all Horde advancing) and the druids had joined our battle. We killed all Horde surrounding Lok’holar and proceeded to take him out. The druids continued to march to their summoning location. Out comes Ivus.
Ivus pushed south, allowing us to capture Iceblood Tower and the Graveyard. Horde were being pushed back. Wing Commander Slidore was rescued and made it back to base.
We upgraded our units to Champion (30% damage buff and really hard hitting NPCs) and summoned the Commandos; these helped push Horde back all the way to Frostwolf. Iceblood went down, Tower Point became contested. We were now on even terms (2 towers down, 2 bunkers down).
Ivus died, Commandos went down. We fought for a long time at Frostwolf Graveyard, not able to push into their base. We collected wolf hides and summoned the calvary - Ram Riders went into battle. At the same time we managed to gather enough medals to release Slidore’s Gryphon, who helped us by raining stun bombs from the sky. We pushed into Frostwolf Village and killed the Frostwolf Shaman who had respawned before they tried to summon a new Lok.
Another wave of Commandos pushed through Frostwolf, allowing us to cap our third tower. Horde were fighting strong, refusing access to Drek’Thar and West Frostwolf Tower. Vipore was freed and made it back to base, so another aerial assault was unleashed. We killed Captain Galvangar to stop the many NPCs respawning enroute to Frostwolf Village.
Our druids had respawned and we activated another march to summon Ivus; a combination of commandos (third wave), ram riders, gryphons and Ivus would surely break through their defenses.
The stone was dropped, we had ten people click. The stone disappeared and no Ivus was to be found. We were very sad. However we had everything else we needed so we joined the front lines and reinforced the Commandos.
We pushed them back to Relief Hut, taking the last tower. The final battle for the graveyard took at least 25 minutes, but we took it.
The map north started turning red as Horde started spawning in their cave, which meant they were closer to playing offensive, but it was too late for them. The final tower was gone, the graveyard had turned blue, our team was taking out Drek’Thar.
The game ended and many people commented on how epic the game was and what a turnaround it was. That is what Alterac Valley is supposed to be.
TL:DR
2.5 hours of AV, Alliance were losing
Refills joined, pushed Horde back from Dun Baldar, summoned 3x Commandos, Champion Units, 1.5 Ivus the Forest Lords, 1 Lok’holar, aerial and cavalry assaults and took the win.
<3 Korrak’s Revenge
