Battle of Oceanside: Difference between revisions

[[File:SouthOceansideScramble.webp|thumb|Scramble for southern Oceanside]]

By 11:18 PM on July 3, Cascadian General [[EstiQT]] had created a group chat for coordinating Cascadia's efforts to reclaim Oceanside before the RMF could, designating the plan as Operation LNFALL. Also involved in the coordination of Cascadia's efforts during the battle were President [[WrestlingWithGod]], Secretary of Interior [[EmpressCorgo]], Secretary of State Milgorn123, Secretary of Defense RealLIMPOPO, Representative 4llies, Voidus_X, Vosmyj, and Setrus. BearHugBuddha and [[TylenolEC]] also participated in the battle. The initial Cascadian plan was to focus on claiming the northern area of Oceanside, which bordered the capital city of Olympia. The plan was to form a new town in the area, named "Seaside", and claim south and east, eventually blocking off the RMF's claiming from the north and east. Although at the time of the battle it was possible to go in and out of claims to avoid being killed during PvP, Esti originally proposed a claiming strategy that avoided PvP entirely, by going underneath the city and claiming from there. While Esti would use this tactic through the course of the battle, the majority of Cascadians would remain on the surface, usually using invisibility potions. Going into the battle, Cascadian commanders did not have high hopes, as from the start of the battle the RMF had 8 people online and 1.5k gold prepared. Milgorn would point out, "The goal is not to win. It's to push them back," setting up the Cascadian goal for the battle to be preventing a major loss rather than achieving a major victory.  

Sometime shortly after 1:12 AM, July 4, the old town of Oceanside officially fell, and both sides began claiming the ruins. Cascadia began claiming from the north, while the RMF began claiming from a prepared siege town, named "Walla Walla", just off the northwest coast of Oceanside. During this stage of the battle, Covenhal, who had been described as "two-faced" by Cascadians during the RMF Wars, would distract North_Paso while WrestlingWithGod and BearHugBuddha claimed chunks. Some Cascadians have described this event as "The redemption of Covenhal". However, the RMF had more gold and players online at the beginning of the battle, allowing them to quickly claim north and block the Seaside push from reaching the sea and pushing south. By 1:15 AM, the town of Seaside had been completely cut off to its west. Meanwhile, in the southern part of Oceanside, shortly before 1:26 AM, Cascadia had formed a second town, named "Newport" in the southern part of Oceanside to stop the RMF from pushing south. The RMF responded by trying to push south before Cascadia could cut them off, while also creating a second town at the furthest southern point of Oceanside, named "Wailla Walla". However, by this time, Cascadia had raised more manpower and gold than the RMF had on-hand, and was able to move more quickly. By this point the race to claim the southern half of the former town had also become a PvP engagement, with Cascadian forces generally using harming pots and claim protections to counter the RMF's more experienced PvPers. It was also around this time that help from the RMF's ally of Texas, primarily for the Texan King North_Paso, arrived in Oceanside.