Over the course of our 26 seasons in Conqueror’s Blade, we have gone from a timid farming community that relied entirely on peace and diplomacy for our survival. Facing off with titan houses like Brutal, MING, Durrandon, Gaia, and many others. Through years of practice, combat training, and perseverance, our community flourished as one of the premier communities to learn the ropes and grow.
Looking back at the warriors we trained and sent off into the world, you’ll find iSecret, now leader of the iKingdom, iWyn, who is a major shot caller and occasional leader of WarForged, EliteJokerr, now plays for the UndyingWolves, GodnJapanForLife fights for UNfamous, DrakeShadows with the Regulatorz, and the list goes on. We are proud of these members and cheer their victories as they pursue their own path. Thousands of members have passed through our training community.
This is what makes us unique in the world of Conqueror’s Blade. We don’t treat people as property or possessions. We do not get salty when someone leaves to follow their passion. We build warriors that we expect will someday outgrow us and go off into the world and carve their own path in history. It is our goal, our focus, our passion.
To those who stayed to help defend the cause, Thank You. It has been a tremendous journey, and we would not be as successful as we are without you guys. I especially want to thank Izmina, ZoogieZork, EvolMitsu, Erholue, Donaliam, Radiologikal, Warchild, GunnHag, and DemiBeard for going on this crazy adventure with me, keeping us alive and moving forward since the early days of the game. You folks are true champions of Gaiscioch, and my admiration will always be yours.
Our Journey So Far
As Season 26 comes to a close, our Farmer Rebellion will soon rest. We can look back at our achievements over the years. In our early days, we settled in the Westweg area in Western Ostaria. Here, we built our very first rank 6 village at Westweg in season 2. Later in season 5, we’d take over the mountain village of Kuanggong and break that record with a rank 8 village, the only village to ever be rank 8 in Conqueror’s Blade. A record that still today stands tall.
All in all, Gaiscioch has built 45 record-breaking fiefs; our alliance, Hibernia, as a whole has 61 records. This season, 26: Echo, took all of our practice building fiefs and put them to the test. As the positioning round for the Conqueror’s City neared, our friend SOUP of the house Kitchen offered his land in the Borderlands to us, which somehow we managed to not only build a plan in less than 30 minutes, but also move to the area we were targeting, secure every one of our target fiefs, and even defend it from an incoming onslaught. At the end of the war, we were sitting about 1,500 prestige below the requirement to attack the Conqueror’s City.
Our friend Tgriff, the Liege of Regulatorz of the alliance NewWorldOrder, wrote me the morning of May 11th with the following.
This was the turning point, when Conqueror’s City was no longer a fantasy goal but a pure directive. Gaiscioch rallied their focuse under a single banner of Gaiscioch, having both GaisciochDubh’s Territory Wars players and OrderOfValors Territory Wars players all merge into Gaiscioch so that we could bring in 2 more houses to help us hold whatever we might take.
The timers were not in our favor, however, as we would need to endure the first war on our own without help. The first hurdle was clearing 1,500 reputation in less than 2 days. We called in every favor to our friends, fans, and countrymen, and somehow Gaiscioch not only earned the 1,500 we ended, but we ended up blowing every other house out of the water in the race, making us the only ones to actually contend for the capital at the start of the war.
We quickly secured all gates and then Conqueror’s City with zero resistance from the Legions. But then Warriors of NotLikeUs came storming through two of our gates, to which we found ourselves severely outmatched by the best alliance on the server. They quickly took the gates and launched their assault on Conqueror’s City. We endured 23 minutes as kings of Conqueror’s City. This was 23 more minutes than we ever dreamed possible, and we did it on our own. Nobody carried us, nobody did the work for us. We made the play, and we had a blast doing it.
The following war, Disciples and Latium would join us, and we would begin hammering the Conqueror’s City. Unfortunately, we would not see the city again, but we did have a tremendous season of glorious battle, newfound friendships, and huge, memorable experiences. We ended the season with the Gate of Earth, 3 Forts, 4 Towns, and 3 Villages, totalling 6,100 prestige. We faced off against Warriors, UNFamous, ForbiddenCity, WarForged, ImperialGuard, NoEvil, MortalConqBat, and RobberBarrons.
The season was a huge moment in Gaiscioch history as we turned a season where everyone was using us as their carpet to wipe their feet on, to a season where the server exploded with factions, divides among the player base, and overall hype and rivalry over the rise of our little Farmer Rebellion.
The Next Chapter
As Conqueror’s Blade 2.0 makes its way to the center stage, we will be refining the community for a season. This next season, 27: Three Kingdoms, will be focused on honing our abilities, becoming more organized, and building a new system that engages members, rewards them, and encourages them to progress in the community.
Gaiscioch - The Gatehouse
Upon the launch of season 27, Gaiscioch will become the entryway to Gaiscioch. In this house, members will gain Mentors (From our GaisciochDubh Players), they will be encouraged to join our Discord, attend Territory Wars, and register on our website.
DUTY:
Noble - Members who have attended Territory Wars this Week
Knight - Members who have registered and joined Discord.
Cadet - Members who have not joined Discord or Registered to Gaiscioch.com
Once a member has met the following qualifications, they will be ceremoniously promoted to GaisciochDubh, our Elite Band of Warriors, after their next Territory Wars appearance.
Registered at Gaiscioch.com
Joined Discord
Attended 5 Territory Wars
After each Territory Wars, we will rally back at home base as a community and welcome our newest Dubh’s to the fold.
GaisciochDubh - The Barracks
Members of GaisciochDubh will be the primary war force of Hibernia; they will be focused on specific roles this season. We will be building our new Battalions with this setup.
🛡️ Shieldman
Frontline: Spartan Chosen or Imperial Spearmen
Defensive: Symmachena Stalwarts or Sunward Phalanx
Assault: Shield Maidens, Myrmillions, or Spear Seargents
🔱 Pikemen
Defensive: Modao Battalion or Sunward Phalanx
Backline Protection: Orochi Samurai or Lancastrian Billmen
Frontline: Symmachen Stalwarts or Imperial Pikemen
Blue Season or Extra Leadership: Halberdiers or Rattan Pikemen
⚔️ Linebreakers
Spartans or Iron Reapers
Claymores or Zealots
Myrmillions, Symmachean Paladins, or Malberd Elite
Blue Season: Condottieri Guards, Mace Sergeants, or Prefecture Guards
🔥 Specialists
Lionroar Crew, Siphonarioi
Hwarang or Shenji Grenadiers
Zykillian Militia, Incendiary Archers, Rattan Vipers, or Rattan Pikemen
Blue Season: Ironcap Archers, Ironcap Arquebusiers
🐴 Cavalrymen
Liao’s Rangers or Order of the Dragon
Winged Hussars, Monastic Knights, Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry, Yanyuedao Enforcer or Cataphract Lancers (If fighting Ranged Heavy foes)
Yorkist Household Knights, Prefecture Heavy Cavalry, Yeoman, or Camel Lancers
GaisciochGlas - The Reinforcements
Upon the launch of Season 27, all Alternate Characters will migrate to GaisciochGlas and serve as an auxiliary force for our alliance. We will attempt to capture a Horse Node with our GaisciochGlas characters to provide a source of Income to fund our questing operations.
The Battalions
We will be building Battalions as such:
🟦 Lugh Battalion - The Speartip - Gaiscioch
25 of our Newest Squires and their Knights. This is the Proving Grounds where young warriors prove their mettle. This battalion will be focused on Village Defense and Assault.
First Division [15] - Primary Village Defense Force. We will begin finding roles for players and getting them trained in how to fulfill those roles. Members who excel and show consistency will be promoted to GaisciochDubh.
Group Leaders:Foghladha
Lotheym
Second Division [15] - The second division will be the muster whose sole job is to delay long enough for the First Division to remuster into the fight. Focusing on Siege Elimination and hero execution.
Alaois
🟩 Nuada Battalion - The Vanguard - GaisciochDubh
The Top 25 of our Most Consistent & Fiercest Warriors focused on Town Assault & Defense.
First Division [15] - The First Wave with focus on Sheildmen, Pikemen, Linebreakers, and Specialists.
Group Leaders:ZoogieZork
EvolMitsu
cridict
Second Division [10] - The Surgical Strike and Muster. Focused on Cavalrymen, Specialists, Linebreakers, and Shieldmen to help reinforce the First Division. You will be the Muster with a focus on damage control and perseverance. The muster group should have Shieldmen, Pikemen, and Linebreakers with a focus on delaying the offensive until the First Battalion can load in again. For this stack of 10 Warriors, I would like to place our Short Sword, Bastard Sword, Poleaxe, and Maul players who keep cool under pressure, have a good eye for flanks, and work as a unit to break lines. They will often be going into the fight and need to recover X or secure the final.
Group Leaders:Warchild
LordDonkey
🟪 Morrigan Battalion - The Raven - GaisciochDubh
This is 10 of our fastest-moving cavalry players that can keep eyes on our land and respond to hits quickly to delay for help to arrive. On occasion, they may secure villages with Ground Units if needed. This battalion is fast, agile, and good at reporting movements of our foes.
First Division [10] - Primary ERT & Scouting Force. Act as first responders, aiming to distract and defend long enough for help to arrive. Primarily cavalry with Camels for pikes and Yorkist Knights for quick response.
Leaders:Donaliam
Izmina
🟧 Dagda Battalion - Backline Brawlers - GaisciochGlas
Formerly known as our Raccoon Battalion, the Great Dagda only awakes from his slumber when it’s time to Club someone. Our Alt Battalion will camp out in strategic locations, ready to spring into action.
What About OrderOfValor?
This season, we decided that we wanted to focus on refining our processes, defensive strategy, and tactics without affecting another house. We did not want to force OOV to go without land or hold a single village. They need to work on their assault strategies as well as defense strategies, and will be going a bit more aggressively next season. Gaiscioch, however, will be coiling up like a rattlesnake, focusing on a small foothold until the end of the season, where we will aim to expand with what we’ve built.
In season 28, we plan to bring OrderOfValor and Gaiscioch back together, with each of us in a better place of strength. This is not a breakup or divorce, this is going off to bootcamp to better ourselves so that we can as a whole accomplish more.
Prepare Yourselves
The next season is aiming to be another one filled with loot and glory, and while we certainly won’t be aiming at any capitals this season, we will be aiming to break some new records. The goal of this season is to become strong enough to hold onto a town as we upgrade it to rank 9. We want to create the world’s first Rank 9 town, or in true Gaiscioch fashion, a Rank 10 town.
By keeping our territory small, our defense focused, and choosing the right fief to pull it off, we can break our first record of the new age.
Here’s what we’ll need to break the record:
Rank 9: 843,000 Resources
Rank 10: 1,243,000 Resources
Join us for an Epic Season of Growth and Perseverance!
Please feel free to leave some feedback. If you like the idea or hate the idea, I really want to know. For those joining CB or returning to CB, be sure to use the Code: S26CB030 for some free loot in the in-game menu before the new season begins.
I’ll see you on the battlefield! Slan go Foill!