Andorn Investigation on the Battle of Aequalis

This is a full report by Brainstormkid of the Andorn Legion about the Battle of Aequalis that took place on 8/22/21. This report is mainly on the competence and leadership of the Andorn detachment deployed to aid Huitcan forces. This is not a full overview of the whole battle this is a report about Andorn forces.

## Background

Jingo, a High Archon of Andorn was notified about the battle between Huitca and the Kingdom of Councils around 1:00 p.m. EST on 8/22/21. He notified the leader of Andorn, Lucius von Savras and requested Andorn to deploy troops to reinforce Huitcan defenses. Jingo would received the green light around 1:30 p.m. EST. Jingo would begin talks with Lily Prism of Huitca if they needed Andorn troops for the defense around 4:00 p.m. EST. and received permission from Huitca and announced to Andorn the deployment of troops at 4:07 p.m EST. At around 5:00 p.m. EST, Andorn troops would be deploying at Aequalis. It is important to mention that Andorn troops or government had no involvement of the Huitcan defense strategy.

## Pre-Battle

Andorn deployed 11 soldiers(46% of all volunteers who were in the battle and nearly half of Andorn military) to aid Huitca against the KOC. (Note: There were 24 foreign volunteers that supported Huitca)

* duel123abc (Withdrawed before first wave)
* Howerett (Withdrawed before first wave)
* chaddudeman (Withdrawed before first wave)
* Jingo (Withdrawed before first wave)
* Bobo (Withdrawed before first wave)
* Unlimited (Withdrawed before first wave)
* Striker0 (Withdrawed before first wave)
* Brainstormkid (Last survivor of 2nd wave)
* server724 (Killed in 2nd Wave)
* Coop (Killed in 2nd Wave)
* Tasty (Killed in 2nd Wave)
* Svinn (Killed in 2nd Wave)

Although Andorn had sent nearly half of foreign military aid to Aequalis, Andorn troops were poorly briefed on the KOC's strength. Early estimates that were said by the Huitcans were from 2 attackers to all of mercenary's and bandits in Eldham and Huitca. Andornians were never briefed or told about the Huitcan's defense strategy until after the battle had started. No Andorn commander was put in charge of Andorn troops at all and were all told to stay in the town center for no reason. Also, no Andorn was given permissions or trusted in the city, so they had no access in opening doors or leaving the town center. Capna, the leader of the Andorn military was allowed foreign commander role in their discord, but was never in the battle(irl vacation).

## Battle

### Phony Batte

At 5:50 p.m. the battle of Aequalis began. For 40 minutes no combat took place because of Huitca's defense strategy and confusion about rules in land wars. Andorn troops would be sidelined and told to stand down by Huitca as they declared the battle already won. Around 5:20 p.m. EST, there was a confusion send by Huitcan leadership if Andorn troops were allowed to leave or stay. The Huitcans would announce in vc chat that all volunteers can now teleport out of Aequalis, **BUT** could stay if they wanted to. This would cause massive confusion between Andorn troops if they should teleport home or stay. At this point, nearly half of the Andorn force had went home because of duel123abc who ordered a full withdrawal of Andorn forces in local chat. This complicated things because of the chaos in global chat and no follow-up order was made in Andorn official channels, so half of Andorn forces did not withdraw.

### First Wave

Around 5:30 p.m. EST, KOC mercenaries had breached the outer walls of the city using an underground tunnel they found and started to do a small skirmish at the town center, but eventually fell back. Svinn of Andorn had spotted KOC forces breaching the walls minutes earlier and frantically tried to inform Huitcan leadership to prepare for battle multiple times in local chat. These warnings were continuously ignored with Huitcan forces already planning their celebrations after the battle in the town bar. Even after this small skirmish, Huitcans did not permit foreign forces to leave town hall to secure the rest of the city or open doors in their buildings in case of a withdrawal.

### Second Wave

At 6:42 p.m. EST, the main attack force of KOC attacked the town center. The remaining Andorn soldiers aided in the battle, but it became clear by 6:45 p.m. EST that KOC had the clear winning advantage. The town center became a slaughter house for all Andorn forces and foregin volunteers because they had no access into escaping into buildings or exiting the town center entrances since they had no perms in the city. Out of the remaining 5 Andorn soldiers remaining in the town square, only 1 would survive the slaughter while Huitcan forces escaped the onslaught by escaping into their buildings to teleport away. At 6:47 p.m. EST, all remaining Andornian forces were either dead or escaped the city.

Confirmed Andorn soldiers killed during the battle-

* server724
* Coop
* Tasty
* Svinn

## Accounts

These are full accounts of Andorn Legion members who were deployed to Aequalis. This is what they said, only things that were changed is what is in parenthesis. Please note: All this information was taken 1-2 hours after the battle. Please do not harass these individuals who provided their testimony, I personally asked them to give me what they experienced. If you disagree what they say, it is their opinions.

### Jingo

learned about it at 1pm est (The battle)
got green light from shadow(Lucius) at 1:30pm
talked to ambassador from huitca at 2:00pm
talked for 30 minutes ish
got the green light to deploy andorn soldiers to huitca
talked to lilyprism and got link to their discord around 4:00
Started sending andorn troops to huitca around 5:00
all we did was stand there, some left before battle occured in town square
some stayed and all who did died i believe
i left so i dont know what happened after 6:20ish
i seeked them out
obv they needed our help, but they kind of dismissed us
nobody knew what was going on while standing in that town square
which became a killbox
poor strategy for the numbers we had

### Svinn

So, first off when i teleport-ed there i contacted some people who names i cannot say. From their information i found out that the bandits were outside the walls, scared it seemed but they were making decent progress scouting the area. Now, while Crezy and the rest of the soldiers were standing there, dancing around i was trying to warn everyone about the close danger and to stay sharp. Nobody but Coop listened to me. Then almost 1 minute later we got ambushed on the rooftops while they were busy sitting and apparently even drinking alcohol. I will never support Huitica or in fact any other nation besides my own. about 5 mins after i ied
died
i think i was the last person alive
some other people /homed out
there were some people but they had no gear and were just fisting
there were about 10 of them surrounding me lmfao

### Tasty

i heard about the battle 10 min before it started. i la spawned there with a full set of diamond armor and a sword with a shield. i waited for the battle to start and stayed there until the got in to the city. i didnt have any prot or potion on me so when they did the first attack i hid in a house so i wouldnt get shot. when the janitor jumped down where we stod i got jumped by two janitors and died. when i respawned i took a new set of armor and went back but when i got there i didnt want to lose more sets so i left
and i will not be supporting hautica in any form anymore

### chaddudeman

so basically i went to the Aequallis place to help with the defence
and i was scared of losing my good stuff so i crafted some shitty iron armor and bought a cheap diamond sword off AH(edited)
so i got there and patch dms me asking if i have the supplys to fight
i say no
he comes over and gives me some kitted out diamond armor
and some golden apples
so i was waiting for like hour and there was a few reports of enemys in the town and stuff so we were all on high alert
i told a few jokes, fell in some holes and then i got out before the whole clusterfuck happened
thats my report

### GribbitsGames

so uhh, I waited for an hour, got shot at, logged off, logged back on, hit some people, hit some more, got no kills, didnt die, logged off

### duel123abc

Sat around and when I found out that Huitica metagamed, and when Huitica said all volunteers could leave, I decided it wasent worth it and dipped, and tried to convince the other andornians to go home as well, most stayed and died, I was able to get howertt out though

### server724

I arrived and there was chaos since they were worried about letting people in
i heard about it last night
they did some 500 iq trick that initially prevented the koc from attacking
admins came and got mad
they told us to just leave basically since they thought we already won
i stayed since i didnt want to abandon allies
eventually the janitors crimson wined in and slaughtered us all since must our forces left
no i would not support them since they have proven themselves to be so cocky they jeopardize the war

### Howertt

Nope I didn’t die as me and most of the andorn folks left before stuff really kicked off as we didn’t feel we were needed, however then they broke in and all hell broke loose without us. would I support huitca again? That depends if andorn or any of the countries I’m involved in want to get involved in conflict and aid huitca
I think like one person from andorn stayed and died
(Question: What did you think of Huitca coordination?)
I’d say they were decently prepared, however it wasn’t well disciplined
Whenever someone would make a call out, everyone went tunnel vision trying to go somewhere and get action

### Coop

ok
from the beginning I spawned their just running around talking for about 30 minutes then the war started then after another 10 minutes we found an afk janitor we killed and looted him but I didnt get any of the loot. Then after another 10-15 minutes they were complaining about not being and to place anything saying the war claim was broke so Atahz came and checked it out and quickly figured out what was wrong Then reclaimed the other part of the city then kept the original claim that Koc declared war on so it was alomost impossible for them to get inside. But they were wrong Svinn was spamming in chat telling Me and other people to tell the leaders that they were close and in the walls but the leaders wouldnt listen especially Lily since all he did was saying how good a tactic they pulled but while the leaders un alert and Svinn and I alert that something was gonna start it did and no im not going to fight for huitca again
(Question: What did you think of Huitca coordination?)
It was pretty crap
There commanding was bad
They said close to the end Just leave they gave up they cant get in here just wait

### Brainstormkid

**(I know I was the one to conduct this investigation so my testimony might cause bias, so you can feel free to ignore it) (Had tried to record the full battle since the start, but my recordings bugged out and I had 20 minutes of the battle missing. I do have a recording of my escape out of the town square.)**
Learned of the war at around 4:50 p.m. EST on 8/23/21. I teleported into Aequalis at around 5:40 p.m. EST. Once the battle had began, Huitcan leaders would slowly release information on their defense strategy to all of their forces while KOC and Admins were trying to figure out what was happening. At around 5:20 p.m. EST, I saw in local chat that duel123abc was leaving the battle due to Huitcan orders, but I saw server724 staying at the town with Coop. Just before 5:30 p.m. EST, Svinn would shout in chat multiple times that KOC had breached the walls. It wasn't until KOC had started shooting arrows from the rooftops when Huitcans would start to rush to defend the town center. KOC would fall back minutes later, and everything returned to an almost normal situation as it was minutes before. At around 4:45 p.m. EST, KOC would return in full force jumping from the roofs. I was I think one of the first few that tried to stop their advance, but I had to retreat to the only open door in the entire square. I would pop in and out in the minutes to pass hitting some KOC forces before retreating back to the small door. By 4:47 p.m. EST, Huitcan leaders would announce a general retreat out of the city. Even after the announcement, I saw that multiple people who could not open doors to escape be ganged up on. I would teleport out safely because KOC members not seeing the only door and possible escape out of the town sqaure.

## Aftermath

Immediately after the battle, an investigation launched was launched by Brainstormkid of Andorn to get the number of gear lost and focusing on what happened to cause such a massacure. A survey was conducted to all the Andornians who participated in the battle asking if they would send support to Huitca militarily or financially. Most came back saying they would not support another deployment of troops or aid to Huitca, some would even go far enough to say they would not support any country other than Andorn. It was clear that Huitcan leadership was incompetent in foreseeing a KOC attack and celebrate an early victory and not have look-outs or scouting teams to ensure all forces were prepared for defense. The reliance on Huitcan leadership for the planning in the battle allowed a confusion between Andornians if they were pulling out of the city or not and allowed more forces to be needlessly killed. The strategy of staying in the town center allowed KOC members to box in foreign allies besides Andorn and kill them with no escape(While Huitcans could escape due to their perms). It is estimated that Andorn lost approximately 400,000 dollars in the battle from their gear loss. In a statement from the Kaiser later on after the battle, it became clear that more Andorn troop deployments or financial aid would not go to support Huitca in the foreseeable future or to any country.