Ch.313″Everyone had only one thought in their minds.” (4)

For the record, I had no way of knowing at the time that they were all plotting against each other.

After all, I only learned about these stories by chance through the exposés that erupted among themselves after the battle was over.

But looking at it objectively from a step back, there were many problems with the temporary clan’s assault on Tannhäuser.

The temporary clan was, as the name suggests, “temporary,” and should have been disbanded after the battle.

The first problem was that the fleets of users participating in the siege couldn’t be properly configured for a stronghold assault.

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Title: My Personal Analysis of Why the Tannhäuser Assault Failed.txt

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of user battleships being devastatingly destroyed.jpg]

People talk about internal conflicts and whatnot

But that’s a secondary issue. The most important problem was that the fleet composition was typical PVP style

In this game, PVP between users basically means small fleet battles

And a PVP composition ultimately means organizing an elite force centered around high-performance ships or capital ships

This might work when fighting against other “users” with elite forces, but it creates serious problems for stronghold assaults

Since there’s a limit to how many ships a single user can deploy, most people don’t realize

When the enemy comes at you not with 2-3 times your numbers but 5+ times, you just get crushed

At level 7, the security fleet=vanguard alone has about 50,000 ships

And the main combat fleet, from battleships to destroyers, had 5,000 ships in just one fleet this time

That’s a total of 250,000 ships, while each user has at most 20-30 ships

Could the temporary clan’s combined 30,000-40,000 ships possibly stop that?

Sure, most of those 250,000 are small ships, but even the battleships number in the thousands lol

There’s a reason the veterans said during the Tunguska incident that you’d need several thousand users to properly counter this

Comments:

-[For real]

-[Not easy]

-[So it was like hitting a rock with an egg from the beginning?]

-˪[Yep](Author)

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“Someone did a decent analysis.”

“Isn’t that what you wrote, Commander?”

“Shh.”

And there was another problem besides that.

It was a method both I and Latten Water had used…

“I didn’t expect those folks to genuinely attempt a head-on battle.”

“They’re just acting according to the game’s rules.”

The second problem was that the temporary clan failed to use the “blocking gates to stop the main fleet” strategy that I had used when taking Avalon.

This issue was particularly relevant to me since I was planning to attack Tannhäuser myself, so I checked it very carefully.

Since this was the first Level 7 stronghold siege in the central zone, I analyzed the evidence videos many users uploaded to the gallery.

“But Tannhäuser has so many problems.”

“What do you mean?”

“The gates. They can’t be handled with Neranja, or even Kraken’s ultra-short-range strategic missile teleport.”

“Ah… that’s right.”

That was precisely why the “gate blockade” strategy I mentioned using during the Avalon occupation was impossible for me.

It wasn’t that the gates had insane durability that our firepower couldn’t destroy.

“There are too many gates. Didn’t Avalon have 5?”

“Yes, but Tannhäuser has 15… and they’re scattered all over the place.”

Unlike Avalon, which had a concentrated structure allowing for simultaneous strikes, Tannhäuser had gates scattered throughout the stronghold, making it impossible for our firepower to block the main fleet through simultaneous attacks.

Naturally, the temporary clan members weren’t idiots and tried their best to destroy the gates.

They actually managed to destroy 10 of the 15 gates, but before they could destroy the remaining 5, the main combat fleets emerged through those gates and everything went sideways.

And there was an even more serious problem.

Since Tannhäuser was a “gateway” fortress, it had a large and impressive large-scale teleport system inside.

This meant that the main fleets that couldn’t come out because of destroyed gates could suddenly appear right in front of—or “behind”—the users’ fleet formations through the gateway.

And as mentioned above, those fleets included tens of thousands of “small ships” specialized in close-quarters combat in just one fleet.

The users tried to hold the line with their ultra-high-performance ships and superhumans obtained through gacha.

But with such an overwhelming difference in numbers, the temporary clan’s fleet, which allowed close combat with the stronghold defense fleet, collapsed.

And as the situation deteriorated, internal conflict broke out between the clan leader and loyalists(?) versus the revolutionaries(?).

The users were greeted with a truly miserable failure.

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But as always, there were many, many people who considered others’ failures to be their own happiness.

As soon as the gossip about the temporary clan’s betrayal and backstabbing ended, the gallery exploded with reactions mocking them.

Or more precisely, it was filled with reactions from ordinary users who found humor in the situation.

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Title: Upvote if Tannhäuser’s Failed Assault is Sweet as Honey

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a toad laughing mischievously]

The backstabbing keeps happening, and it’s hilarious how they all naturally aimed for after the stronghold conquest

Isn’t it comedy gold that they never even considered they might fail to take the stronghold?

Comments:

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[“Huh? There’s no way we could fail, right?”]

-˪[LOLOLOLOL]

-[“However, this photo was never used as a cover.”]

-˪[“The temporary clan, having spent all their energy on political maneuvering”]

-˪[“suffered a crushing defeat in the subsequent stronghold siege.”]

-˪[That’s Goroshiya, you idiots]

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And among those reactions were posts that dragged me into it (?) even though I was minding my own business.

Of course, the content was about why I didn’t take Tannhäuser after it was attacked by the temporary clan…

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Title: But Icarus Isn’t Attacking This

Author: Anonymous

Content: [GIF of a 50,000-ship fleet moving from the past]

That guy makes like 50,000 ships when he needs to

Seeing how he mobilized all his mercenaries this time, he could probably pull out over 100,000 ships, no joke

Why is he just sitting there not attacking?

Is there some kind of deal going on?

Comments:

-[Maybe it’s because the temporary clan got wiped out so pathetically, and all the combat fleets are intact and came out?]

-[Considering that guy got hit by a large-scale attack just a week ago, he probably couldn’t even if he wanted to]

-˪[He got compensation, so that’s enough]

-[To take that down, you’d need not 100,000 but 300,000 mercenaries, wouldn’t you? lol]

-˪[That would cost hundreds of thousands in minerals just for one day’s contract]

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I shook my head at their reactions.

I decided to close the gallery since they were just talking among themselves without any interesting jokes or proper analysis.

And although I had concluded that I couldn’t take Tannhäuser right now,

After analyzing this incident from various angles,

With more mercenaries than planned, plus having two Krakens now, and above all…

If I had “some kind of ship capable of definitive dealing,” I thought there was a reasonable pos-sibility.

“Jessica, I’ve decided.”

“What is it, Commander?”

“Until we get a battleship or ‘annihilation ship’ that can be used for sieges, we’re completely halting stronghold assaults.”

“Huh.”

I decided to completely abandon the idea of pushing too hard and ending up with the same outcome as that “temporary clan.”