Calradic Campaign #26 - Operation Overnord

A wind over Calradia’s Northern coast turned towards the ocean

 

The most valuable asset of the Nordic King was in need of repair. While it maintained strength enough to raid coastal settlements, the longship fleet was unprepared to face further opposed landings, the King’s favoured method of assault. In his characteristic monotone, King /u/Smug_Alpaca instructed his shipwrights to dock the fleet and begin construction on a series of landing craft. He told his men of his planned reconquest of Tihr from the Swadians, and was met with grand applause from the frenzied warriors. Swadians, it was shouted, looked like girls, and surely Nordland belonged to the Nords! As soon as the fleet was ready they would set sail and land their siege equipment against Tihr’s walls.

 

These rallying cries did not go unheard by Swadian scouts. Despite the immense burden of their riders, the weary horses bore their messages back to Praven, where they were wheezed past dairy stores into the Swadian war room. The warning of the imminent attack evoked a shrill curse from /u/KingHarlausOfficial - they had not intended for war with the Nords! This is nothing short of betrayal! After regaining their composure, Swadia’s leadership devised a daring plan - they would ride immediately to the Nordic shipyard, roll through their unprepared camp and capture the fleet before it ever threatened Swadia’s coast. The Nordic barbarians would be cast back into the ocean, where they would surely be at home with the salty brine. Swadia, triumphant, would drive the Nords from their defences using their own fleet. They would march at dawn.

 

Saltwater sprayed ancient pine as longships tore across the coast.

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Welcome to the 26th Calradic Campaign

This month we will see the Nords and the Swadians vying for control over territories in the area of Tihr. The event will follow the usual format - a field battle followed by a siege battle. The winner of the field battle will get to attack in the siege.

If the Nords win both field and siege, they will receive Tihr.

If the Swadians win both field and siege, they will receive Hrus and Chalbek Castles.

To join the event, just join the server! There are no sign-ups required, and while it is recommended to join voice chat for bants and vague tactics, it isn't required.

Before the event begins there will be a pre-event deathmatch - feel free to join and warm up as well as ask any outstanding questions.

After that there will be the ceremonial duel in our custom dueling arena, between the respective faction leaders. This doesn't decide anything but it is tradition. After that is concluded, we move onto the field battle. We will likely reset the map after everyone has loaded in, and will announce when the event is "live", meaning that it will count in the campaign.

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Server Info

• When: Saturday, March 3rd, 4:00PM EDT

• Server: Calradic_Campaign

• Password: reddit

• Voice: Mount&Blade Discord

Campaign Map

Calradic Campaign Starter Guide

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Becoming Involved in the Calradic Campaign

The Calradic Campaign team is always looking for new additions, whether it be scene makers, technical wizards, writers, or anything else of use.

Particularly, we are always looking for mapping talent. Don't be constrained by our regular format either, get creative - a new deathmatch map so we don’t have to use arena for 200 people, a new dueling map, a really innovative use of an underused game mode, anything!

If you'd like to contribute your area of expertise, be sure to join our Discord to connect with the members of our team. Many of us earned our positions by bringing something new to the Campaign. We hope you'll join us in continuing one of the top community events in Warband!

Donating to the Calradic Campaign

The Calradic Campaign server is our own, and we run it ourselves on a donation basis as we have for over a year. We now have a Patreon that you can put in a monthly or one time amount to contribute. There are multiple reward tiers with more coming, and with a larger pool of money we can expand our community events (like Mod Night!) as well as preparing for the expected high server costs of Bannerlord. Or an EU server.

Leave any question, complaints, observations, memes and faction based riffing in the comments below!

Submitted February 26, 2018 at 08:33PM by Saultnami http://ift.tt/2CndBx8