A Story of How Our Tribe Beat an Alpha Tribe - PVP Official Server Xbox One

[JuanGoTeM]

I play on an Xbox EU Official PVP server, and have played since its server release date. A lot has happened in just a couple months, but the story I'd like to share today is how our tribe overcame adversity when it seemed like we faced certain defeat. I hope you enjoy my story, and I hope it inspires you to overcome whatever challenge you may face in your own server!

For the sake of not naming and shaming another tribe, I'll refer to the Alpha Tribe simply as Tribe A, the "second-strongest" tribe as Tribe B, and our tribe as Tribe C.

I am the leader and coordinator of my tribe, and began the server with a clear vision, to one day become the strongest tribe within the server, and have respect from other tribes as a tribe that doesn't attack others without good reason. Now keep in mind that this was our first play of a brand new server, where everyone started from level 1 at the same time. We began as two members and picked up players along the way.

 

The strategy was to create a base with such heavy defense early on that we would not be raided while offline. Our base location is on "Footpaw Island," on a high elevation cliff with only two narrow land entrances up into the base. We started by taming Dodos and Dilos, and worked our way through the "Kibble taming tree." So, fast forward after our initial base creation to about a week and a half into gameplay, we have countless dodos, about 10 Dilos, 7 scorpions, 1 male, the rest female, 5 ankys, one male and the rest female, 5 carnos, 5 sarcos, 5 trikes, 5 stegos, and we were on our way to getting perfect-tamed Argies, planning to get Spinos afterwards, etc.

Our highest level combat dinos at this point were as follows: one level 200 Carno, three level 200 Wolves, one level 170 Sarco, and about seven level 170-200 Pteranadons. We still had not tamed any 170 Rexes up to this point.

 

We had Plant Species X placed on single stone foundations, in close proximity to each other surrounding the entrances to our base. We layered them going outward, so imagine four stone foundations with Plant X on them close to each other but not snapped, then 6 foundations in front of them, and 8 foundations in front of them, etc., extending outwards from our land entrances. So in total we had approximately 25 Plant X in front of both land entrances leading to our home. 

The reason for this is because I know from experience that to take out one Plant X, it requires one rocket. So if you have 25 Plant X's in front of the base you're trying to raid, just to get to the front doors you need 25 rockets to take out the Plant X, assuming you don't miss any shots. So they needed to be spread out, so no splash damage would damage multiple Plant X from rockets. Also, with them being close enough together, it made it so a Rex, for example, could not run up to the Plant X and eat it, 25 Plant X is simply too much for a Rex to get that close.

 

Now, at this same time, enough time had passed for tribes to get to know each other a bit through scouting each others' bases, talking to each other in global chat, etc. No one was quite sure who the strongest tribe was yet, up until this point.

One day, I flew over Tribe A's base, which was located near "Giga Mountain," by chance, and spyglassed their base. I was shocked. In such a short amount of time, they had multiple level 200+ T-Rexes, multiple level 170 Spinos, and many other high level, kibble tamed combat dinos. They had a huge metal tower of a base, perfectly square with approximately 24 auto turrets on top, pointing in every direction. They had built in the center of a river, and had behemoth gates surrounding their base.

We were just beginning to change our stone base into metal, and had barely set up our Plant X, and had no high level T-Rexes and no auto turrets set up. I had seen other tribes' bases and determined that our base was ahead of most in regards to the levels of our dinos and our level of defense. It seemed that, possibly because we're on Xbox, most tribes had not taken the kibble-taming approach.

It was clear to me as soon as I seen Tribe A's base, that they were the strongest tribe in the server. They were so far ahead of everyone in regards to their defense and offense capabilities in such a short time, I determined they were clearly experienced players who came from another server. I immediately decided that I didn't want our tribe to have any problems with these guys.

 

Now there was, at this time, a tribe that many regarded as being very strong, they had a level 170 Spino, a 170 Rex, some other high level kibble tamed dinos, auto turrets, and behemoth gates surrounding their base. We'll call them Tribe D. One night while we're playing, someone happens to come across Tribe A attacking Tribe D's base. They had breached their defenses, killed all of their dinos, and successfully entered their base and was in the process of looting everything. It was a definite "Oh poop" moment for all of us in a party. In global chat they said something to the effect of, "Shouldn't have picked our member up with your Argie and dropped him from the sky" when asked by a member of Tribe D why they were being raided.

 

So it seemed like they had reason to attack! Well, we spoke to Tribe A in a party for the first time, and they seemed like cool British guys. They explained to us their reasoning and it seemed like we became cool with them after that. I definitely wanted to be on their good side because based on how easy he said it was for them and the fact they used like 40 rockets at a point in time where 10 rockets seemed like a lot to us, they seemed experienced in raiding where we were not and had a lot of supplies under their belt.

 

After that night, MANY people regarded Tribe A as the strongest tribe in the server. They shortly thereafter took out another large tribe for blatantly talking trash to them in global chat, completely wiping them from the server as well. As time passed over the course of a couple more weeks, we hung out in Xbox Live parties with Tribe A and became really cool with them, and we also got to know Tribe B. We had gotten to the point where we now had Argies, multiple Quetzals, two level 180 Spinos, and about seven level 200+ Rexes.

Tribe A, at this point, had a level 200+ Battle Bronto equipped with a platform saddle with a large number of auto turrets on it, a level 200+ Battle Quetz with auto turrets on it, and two Gigas, a level 40 and 70.

By this time, we had executed 4 raids successfully, and had learned the value of high level turtles vs. auto turrets. We had participated in a raid with Tribe B so we had gotten to know them well.

 

Tribe A was still way ahead of everyone else regarding the type and level of combat dinos they had. Most people still couldn't make a Quetz platform saddle. Most people didn't have the kibble to even tame a 120 Quetz, no one else had a Giga, and no one had a 200+ battle bronto. No one had anywhere close to the amount of auto turrets they had on their base and on their platform saddles.

 

Tribe A was the first tribe to kill The Broodmother, and now, approximately a month in, Tribes A, B, and C would regularly hang out together in parties, talking to each other for hours at times. It was understood that Tribe A hung out and was more friends with Tribe B than us.

Now that we had gotten to know Tribe A better, they told us that they used to be jerks in the server they came from, raiding people for no reason, and that they wanted to change their ways coming into this server. They said they don't attack anyone without reason, and they understood that when you wipe someone's base, they usually quit the server completely. They said they wanted as much people to play in this server as possible, so they wouldn't be attacking anyone without reason.

They said they had gotten to the point where there was nothing left for them to do, that they had every dino dossier, and they were beginning to get bored.

When I heard them starting to talk like this, red flags started popping up for me. I had a feeling that one day they would attack us, despite how cool we were with them, especially considering how they were in their previous server.

 

Now a little over a month in, Tribe A was regarded by all in the server as the strongest tribe, followed up Tribe B, and then us, Tribe C. Our tribe has a group chat on the WhatsApp app for iPhone and Android to keep in touch even when we're offline, and one day while I'm at work, someone says in our group chat "Tribe A is attacking Tribe B!" The group chat lit up, everyone was saying, "Oh poop, it's finally happening!"

What we had feared was finally coming true. It seemed that Tribe A had gotten bored with the game and was wiping the server because they were likely done with it. Everyone that could get online did, and we prepared for what we believed to be an attack on us coming next.

The group chat was constantly being updated with what was happening. Tribe A apparently breached Tribe B's defenses with relative ease, and slaughtered all of their dinosaurs. Tribe A was using their two Gigas, Battle Bronto and Battle Quetz. They suffered no casualties and entered their base and looted everything.

Members of our tribe sat above on Pteranadons to watch the raid, and one of Tribe A's members turned around and fired a warning shot close to them, seemingly telling our members to leave the area.

I was at work going crazy! I was certain that we were next, and frustrated that I couldn't be there to assist! The group chat was being lit up with everyone saying, "Well, it's been a good run guys, this might be the end of us." "We've learned a lot, we'll do things better, faster next time."

One of our tribe members invited Tribe A into a party, and a member of Tribe A joined, explaining their reasoning for attacking Tribe B. We asked that if they were coming for us next that they just let us know so we can put up as much of a fight as we can to make it fun, as we were certain we'd be wrecked. Tribe A member said, "No, we're not going to attack you guys, we'd certainly let you know if we were ever going to do something like that, but hey, my tribe mates are sending me a lot of invites so I'm gonna get back to them."

10 minutes later they were gathering outside of our base on their Bronto, Gigas, and Quetz.

A member spotted them outside and said in group chat, "Battle Bronto outside of our base." My heart sunk. I knew it was real, they were coming for us and it was happening now, and there was no way I could be there to help. I could only do my best to coordinate from the group chat and through speaking to my tribe mates on the phone. We had about 6 members online, and they had 4-5.

The group chat said things like "Well guys here we go" "Let's put up as much of a fight as we can" "It's been an honor," etc.!

I spoke to one of my tribe mates on the phone during their attack, and they began by bringing their Gigas in to take out our Plant X's, using the Quetz to drop a turtle in front of our auto turrets to tank the bullets. From what I heard on the phone, they blew open one of our Dino pens that had all of our eggs producing dinos in them, and all of our lower level dinos swarmed on one Giga, getting it stuck. One of our tribe mates started picking people off of the Gigas and dropped them, making the Gigas, now unmanned, much less effective.

 

We had just tamed a Paracerethium that we placed about 10 Plant X on the someone brought out to the Gigas that significantly slowed them down while others got on our 200+ Rexes to go out and fight. Before I knew it, I heard "One Giga down!" "Two Gigas down!" "Battle Bronto down!" Everything was going crazy! People were screaming, it was the most epic moment we had yet. We sent them retreating on their battle Quetz with their strongest dinosaurs dead. We lost about 30 dinosaurs in that fight, including 4 level 200+ Rexes, and most of our Pteranadons.

Now I still had about 4-5 hours until I was off work, and I immediately started formulating a strategy. We intended to attack their base that very same night. During those hours, our tribe crafted about 100 rockets and made about 10 launchers. I got home at about 10PM PST, and we immediately started moving out. We traveled across the map to the North, bringing about 4 level 200+ Rexes, our 180 Spino, 2 level 170 turtles w/ 10,000 health each, level 200+ wolves, Pteranadons and 100 rockets. Because we're all in the US, the time zone difference for the UK made it so most of their members had gotten offline.

We arrived at a mountain on the outskirts of their base and rallied our forces. As we approached their base, dispatching of the small outpost of 4 Plant X in our way, we saw something we didn't see before. Outside of their actual metal tower base with the 24 auto turrets on it, they had a metal tower, 2x2, going up about 6 metal walls high, with metal ceilings extending outward from the tower itself on different levels. On the ceilings surrounding the tower, which acted somewhat as "shelves," on each side, were 5 auto turrets each, on two different levels. This means that EACH SIDE of the tower had 10 auto turrets on it facing outward, and there were 4 Plant X bunched together at the very top of the tower. It was clear that this wasn't a base. It was purely a defensive tower to aid in protecting their battle dinos sitting outside of their main base.

Unsure of the best way to attack this tower, we began by dropping one of our turtles with a Quetz in the middle of their battle dinos, which were on Passive. The turrets began shooting the turtle, and we had someone being carried on an Argie with a rocket launcher attempt to shoot at the turrets. The problem was, even though the turrets were shooting the turtle, there were still so many that at least one would turn to shoot the rocket out of the sky. We wasted about 10 rockets trying to shoot the auto turrets while our turtle was being shot. After about a minute or two, our first turtle died.

I knew we had to change our strategy, as this wasn't working and we only had one turtle left. This time, we blew open one of their metal behemoth gates surrounding their base, and I ran the turtle to edge of the base, JUST in range of some of the auto turrets. I turned the turtle to the side, so as to take the bullets on the shell of the turtle, and just sat there, absorbing the ammo from the turrets. When they would stop shooting, I would move a little bit closer, spending the next turret's ammo. Eventually, we managed to get enough turrets to stop shooting on one side.

 

See, the problem with this tower structure, as great as it was built, was that it had nothing defending it on the lowest level. There were auto turrets in the middle on ceilings, and auto turrets on top, but there was nothing on the ground level. Once I was able to move in from one side, I got off the turtle and ran in on foot, getting directly underneath the tower. My tribe mates followed me and we pulled out our rockets, shooting the foundations of the tower, which were only four foundations, taking out the entire tower. Seeing that large defensive structure completely be destroyed by taking out its foundations was a big morale boost to us.

Because their dinos were on passive, after we took out the tower we were able to bring in our battle dinos and kill their high level Rexes, high level Spinos, their newly tamed battle Bronto with a platform already on it, their Quetzals, Ankys, and much more. But we still had their metal base to penetrate, which still had 24 auto turrets full of ammunition on it. Our last turtle was low on health, unable to tank more bullets. We tried to do what we could, but we were approaching what was now 4AM PST and many of us were tired. Tribe A's members had just started getting online and were now getting on birds trying to fight back by picking us up off of our mounts. They were unsuccessful, and we started to make our way back to our base, knowing this is something we had to finish the following night, if we survived that long. They still had many high level Rexes we hadn't gotten to, and we were unsure of how many rockets they had already made.

That day some of our members stayed on to defend our base, and while I was at work I was told they were attacking us ALL DAY, with everything they had, but were constantly unsuccessful. They would come over on what mounts they did have, high level frogs, birds, anything fast, and attempt to shoot rockets to get through our defenses and breach our base, but our online members would pick them up off their mounts and kill them. We suffered no casualties that day, and got over 50 rockets from their dead bodies.

 

That night, we did the same thing, we rallied up outside of their base with another 100 rockets, level 170 turtles we tamed that day for the raid, and every battle dino we had left. This time their dinos were on Neutral, and parked very close to their metal base to be protected by turrets. We would aggro them and lead them away, and kill them with our Rexes and Spinos, and repeat until everything was dead. We moved in, absorbed the turret ammo with turtles, took out the Plant X with rockets, and we were free to figure out how to get into the metal base.

We couldn't get in from the top, as there were still many auto turrets with ammo in them, so we decided to enter from the side. Up the scale of the building, which was about 8 walls high, we shot rockets at the metal walls, which, behind the metal walls, had metal pillars, with another set of metal walls behind the pillars. So using our 100 rockets, we were able to get into each floor. We found countless mastercraft items, but the greatest loot of all was their fridge filled with eggs of all types, over 60 Titanboa eggs, tons of Quetzal eggs, Spino eggs, every egg you'd want to have in abundance. Loads of prime meat jerky.

We brought our Quetzals and loaded everything we could into them, and threw everything else on the ground. We went back to our base in victory, knowing we had crippled and defeated Tribe A over the course of a couple days.

Looking back, it was clear that Tribe A intended to wipe the entire server. They viewed Tribe B as stronger than us, so they took them out first, and moved in on us. If we hadn't defeated them, they would have moved on to take out every other smaller tribe with ease. They underestimated our coordination and ability, and lost their two Gigas and battle Bronto attacking us. We went from thinking we didn't stand a chance to retaliating and breaching a base that everyone in the server believed to be impenetrable. We completely wiped out all of their dinos and resources, demoralizing them to the point they quit the server entirely.

At a time, I believed they were so much stronger than us that we just wanted to be on good terms with them so as not to be raided, only to find that we were stronger than them the entire time. Everything from our base location, our defensive layout, and the ability of our players, we were in another class in comparison to them. Above all, I'm thankful that all of the work we put in over that couple months was not destroyed by a tribe that was friendly with us and "got bored" of the game. I'm thankful that we were able to overcome that adversity and come out victorious, conquering the bully.

I feel it was a true David and Goliath story, and the entire server celebrated when we announced we had defeated Tribe A. Now that we have become the "Alpha Tribe," we realize it brings on a whole new set of problems to deal with, and I'm sure there will be more exciting adventures to come!

 

Thanks for reading my story, do you have any epic stories you'd like to share? Have a great day!

 

 

 

[Avios]

@JuanGoTeM, I enjoyed reading this quite a bit, and it was a well thought-out plan! I must congratulate you on your Victory over the Tribe A, as I'm sure it was a hard endeavor. Once again, loved reading this, and good luck being the Alpha Tribe! (Also, thank you for referring to the tribes as Tribe A, B, etc. makes my job easier  )

[JuanGoTeM]

5 minutes ago, Avios said:

@JuanGoTeM, I enjoyed reading this quite a bit, and it was a well thought-out plan! I must congratulate you on your Victory over the Tribe A, as I'm sure it was a hard endeavor. Once again, loved reading this, and good luck being the Alpha Tribe! (Also, thank you for referring to the tribes as Tribe A, B, etc. makes my job easier  )

Hi @Avios, thanks for reading, I know it was a long story! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thank you very much for your congratulations, as it certainly was hard!

[Mictiann]

Epic man 

 

[ImpureFrost]

Nice my story is similarish but on unofficial and less brilliant.. You really must have had fun!

[JuanGoTeM]

@Mictiann Thanks brother, I'm glad you enjoyed the story! @ImpureFrost Thank you very much, we certainly did have fun! We learned a lot from that fight, the most important being that NO BASE is impenetrable, and that it's important to stay humble!

 

A few weeks in as being the "Alpha Tribe," we already have some people saying that we're "the new Tribe A."  It's crazy how it works like that. But those are stories for another day.  

[FaneBlackwing]

That's really awesome, congrats on the victory! (:

Now that you're the Alpha Tribe, you've got quite the example to set. You basically define the server now.

[JuanGoTeM]

@FaneBlackwing Thank you very much! You're certainly right, as it's opening my eyes to new problems! It almost feels like we're getting negative attention now that we're regarded as the strongest. I'm doing my best to curb that attention and have us viewed in a positive light.

 

Just last night we raided another tribe that threatened to raid us for not crafting them a Giga saddle (lol), and the whole server went crazy saying they think we're gonna wipe the server like Tribe A.

It's like breh, chill.

[FaneBlackwing]

7 minutes ago, JuanGoTeM said:

@FaneBlackwing Thank you very much! You're certainly right, as it's opening my eyes to new problems! It almost feels like we're getting negative attention now that we're regarded as the strongest. I'm doing my best to curb that attention and have us viewed in a positive light.

 

Just last night we raided another tribe that threatened to raid us for not crafting them a Giga saddle (lol), and the whole server went crazy saying they think we're gonna wipe the server like Tribe A.

It's like breh, chill.

I think the best thing for you to do is act as guidance for the players on that server. If they need help, don't hesitate and ask what they may need. Even if it's them demanding a Giga Saddle just tell them you can't make them one/they'd need to gather the materials themselves.

(I always charge a little extra for the labor  )

[JuanGoTeM]

1 minute ago, FaneBlackwing said:

I think the best thing for you to do is act as guidance for the players on that server. If they need help, don't hesitate and ask what they may need. Even if it's them demanding a Giga Saddle just tell them you can't make them one/they'd need to gather the materials themselves.

(I always charge a little extra for the labor  )

I agree with you, our motto is we don't attack unless we're either attacked or feel legitimately threatened by another tribe. Otherwise, we do our best to remain under the radar and be regarded in the most positive light possible.

 

I love how this is a game that you have to politic with other tribes, it makes everything so much more interesting! You always have to think about the repercussions of your actions, specifically attacking another tribe.  

[DESTROYER]

Wouldn't a doed be more effective than a turtle when it rolls up into a ball 

[Painy]

22 minutes ago, DESTROYER said:

Wouldn't a doed be more effective than a turtle when it rolls up into a ball 

Most players are smart enough to put their turrets on player only so you have to ride the Dino to tank bullets. The turtle receives like 5 dmg per hit and does 25. 

[DESTROYER]

Having turrets set to players only is a bad choice it opens your base up to a whole lot of weaknesses

[JuanGoTeM]

@DESTROYER @PainyIn my opinion, Tribe A, in this scenario, did the most strategic thing possible. They had their auto turrets set to "All," meaning all wild dinos, tamed creatures and players. Their dinos, as I said in the story, were set to passive. I imagine they were on passive so we couldn't aggro them and lead them away from the turret tower and ultimately outside of their base.

 

One tactic we used that I didn't mention in the story above was picking up wild aggressive dinos and dropping them in their base to kill the passive dinos. Because their turrets were set to All, that strategy was ineffective as well. We did drop wild Doeds and turtles to tank some bullets at first, but because they had no saddle for armor and were lower levels, they were shredded quickly.

[Painy]

1 hour ago, JuanGoTeM said:

@DESTROYER @PainyIn my opinion, Tribe A, in this scenario, did the most strategic thing possible. They had their auto turrets set to "All," meaning all wild dinos, tamed creatures and players. Their dinos, as I said in the story, were set to passive. I imagine they were on passive so we couldn't aggro them and lead them away from the turret tower and ultimately outside of their base.

 

One tactic we used that I didn't mention in the story above was picking up wild aggressive dinos and dropping them in their base to kill the passive dinos. Because their turrets were set to All, that strategy was ineffective as well. We did drop wild Doeds and turtles to tank some bullets at first, but because they had no saddle for armor and were lower levels, they were shredded quickly.

All targets stupid...can even drop wild doedicurus

[JuanGoTeM]

@Painy I don't believe it was a stupid move on their part. It definitely made our raid more difficult.

 

Here's the thing, if they weren't on "Target All," we could have, for example, dropped a few Sabertooths in there and let them kill all of their passive dinos without us having to do anything. I believe "Target All" was the wisest move on their part, although we still penetrated their defenses.

[DESTROYER]

The battle sounds epic but how would it have ended if you didn't cripple them while they were offline do you think they would have still lost

[Sajiri]

That was a great read. The group I play with don't want to play on pvp servers, and instead we have our own private server that's just the single tribe and nobody else, with wild dinos capped at 60 even, so these sort of stories make me rather envious Sounds like it was a lot of fun

[Honest]

Congrats on the win dude, and thanks for sharing it, was a cool read!!

On our pvpve server there is minimal fights, us and the other larger tribes are all friendly with alliances. We have an 'enforcer' one of the leaders of an allied tribe who roams on a lvl 200+ battle quetz. Recently we have had a couple of occasions where tribes have tried to stamp their authority, but been quickly shut down by the enforcer!! 

Having had our entire dino collection killed off once, I am glad for the the alliances we have!!

Good luck, ruling your ark as alphas.

[Gluttonist]

My biggest accomplishment was also taking out an "Alpha Tribe" a week after I joined the server that they had already been on for months. After helping some people who were also new, word got out that im just a handy person to have around lol. A week in one of the other tribes asked for advice on hitting the Alpha tribe and provided me with the means to properly scout it (quick ptera, spyglass and some decent chitin armor) It took me all of five minutes to notice a huge Achilles heel.

I went back to the tribe that recruited? me and asked them for as much C4 as they could, which turned out to only be 7, and a distraction.

I trekked over to the Alphas base and got into position and waited for the distraction. The distraction turned out to be a not-so-subtle insult to their tribe leaders mother which, shockingly to me, worked very well. The position was a very small section of their base which was over water and supported by a single pillar. I watched in chat as the Alpha mobilized and listened while I heard their big dinos start to move out. When I stopped hearing doors and feet I blew the pillar down and, as a very welcome surprise, opened up a 3x3 section of floor under their base.

I started with the generators, taking the gas and dumping it, then moved on to their armory->fridges->crafting stations->resource chests. As I was dumping the resources I heard a hatch open above me and knew that my personal mission was about to get a LOT harder. I killed the guy coming down the ladder and found I now had access to their roof. Up on the roof was about 18 auto turrets, which were now off, and I took all the ammo I could and dumped the rest. During the escape I had to kill one other member of their tribe and run from a third.

I got back to my new friends as the Alphas forces were just arriving and loaded up their turrets with ~1600 more 'donated' ammo and coordinated them throughout the fight.

Roughly around three hours later the assault was over and the Alpha tribe limped back to their base where I was surprised again because during their siege on us some of the other tribes took out a very large portion of their crippled base.

The coming days were littered with guerilla attacks made by the former Alpha tribe on anyone they came across which died down as they mostly left the server.

 

 

I would have loved to have the challenge that the OP had but the moral is nobody is invincible in Ark. If you look hard enough you will find a weakness to exploit.

[chevalierknight]

15 hours ago, JuanGoTeM said:

@Painy I don't believe it was a stupid move on their part. It definitely made our raid more difficult.

 

Here's the thing, if they weren't on "Target All," we could have, for example, dropped a few Sabertooths in there and let them kill all of their passive dinos without us having to do anything. I believe "Target All" was the wisest move on their part, although we still penetrated their defenses.

people who have target all will be easy to raid painy most liky never attacked a tribe with turrets

[Avios]

1 hour ago, Gluttonist said:

My biggest accomplishment was also taking out an "Alpha Tribe" a week after I joined the server that they had already been on for months. After helping some people who were also new, word got out that im just a handy person to have around lol. A week in one of the other tribes asked for advice on hitting the Alpha tribe and provided me with the means to properly scout it (quick ptera, spyglass and some decent chitin armor) It took me all of five minutes to notice a huge Achilles heel.

I went back to the tribe that recruited? me and asked them for as much C4 as they could, which turned out to only be 7, and a distraction.

I trekked over to the Alphas base and got into position and waited for the distraction. The distraction turned out to be a not-so-subtle insult to their tribe leaders mother which, shockingly to me, worked very well. The position was a very small section of their base which was over water and supported by a single pillar. I watched in chat as the Alpha mobilized and listened while I heard their big dinos start to move out. When I stopped hearing doors and feet I blew the pillar down and, as a very welcome surprise, opened up a 3x3 section of floor under their base.

I started with the generators, taking the gas and dumping it, then moved on to their armory->fridges->crafting stations->resource chests. As I was dumping the resources I heard a hatch open above me and knew that my personal mission was about to get a LOT harder. I killed the guy coming down the ladder and found I now had access to their roof. Up on the roof was about 18 auto turrets, which were now off, and I took all the ammo I could and dumped the rest. During the escape I had to kill one other member of their tribe and run from a third.

I got back to my new friends as the Alphas forces were just arriving and loaded up their turrets with ~1600 more 'donated' ammo and coordinated them throughout the fight.

Roughly around three hours later the assault was over and the Alpha tribe limped back to their base where I was surprised again because during their siege on us some of the other tribes took out a very large portion of their crippled base.

The coming days were littered with guerilla attacks made by the former Alpha tribe on anyone they came across which died down as they mostly left the server.

 

 

I would have loved to have the challenge that the OP had but the moral is nobody is invincible in Ark. If you look hard enough you will find a weakness to exploit.

@Gluttonist, I love this story as well as the OP, but I believe I like this a bit more, mostly because of the importance of your personal mission, and the great distraction and plan you had. Good work to you as well!

[JuanGoTeM]

On 3/15/2016 at 2:04 AM, DESTROYER said:

The battle sounds epic but how would it have ended if you didn't cripple them while they were offline do you think they would have still lost

@DESTROYER Thanks so much, I'm happy you enjoyed the read. I believe there were a number of different things that went well for us that factored into us defeated them.

They attacked Tribe B first, which gave us a heads up to their probable attack on us next, giving us ample time to get members online and prepare. Also, they only brought four dinos out of all the combat dinos they had to our base, likely assuming they were going to defeat us easily. Upon us killing their two Gigas and Battle Bronto, we picked up  a lot of rockets from their dead bodies from that attack.

Now addressing your question, if we didn't carry out our first attack while they were offline, it would have been MUCH harder, and we may not have been successful. We spent quite a bit of time outside of their base looking for a weakness to the tower after realizing they were all offline. We spent time in dropping in our turtle, wild Doeds and turtles, and wild aggressive dinos like Sabertooths. If they were offline, we wouldn't have had the luxury to freely figure out a way to destroy the tower, much less actually tank the turrets with our turtle, run in underneath the tower, and destroy its foundations with rockets. They could have EASILY whistled all their Dinos to aggressive and we would have been murdered, losing a majority of the rockets we brought.

Even as it approached 4AM and they were just getting online, with the tower already destroyed, the feeling immediately changed, knowing there were now players trying to kill us.

This is why we decided to fall back to our base for the rest of the day, because we felt the combination of them having players online and their still-standing metal base with 24 auto turrets on it was too much for us to handle without another turtle and more rockets at that time.

 

I certainly think it could have gone differently if they were online. We attacked them without knowing if they were online or offline, however. We attacked as soon as we were ready, which is what I recommend to any tribe planning to raid someone. 

[JuanGoTeM]

On 3/15/2016 at 2:21 AM, Sajiri said:

That was a great read. The group I play with don't want to play on pvp servers, and instead we have our own private server that's just the single tribe and nobody else, with wild dinos capped at 60 even, so these sort of stories make me rather envious Sounds like it was a lot of fun

@Sajiri Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

 

I definitely recommend playing Official PVP, I feel that Official PVP is Ark in its purest form. Official rules, no rules, no gathering multipliers, no speed taming, and the Island is governed by its inhabiting tribes, however cruel or just that may be.  It makes way for possibility to SO MUCH! I feel that if I played this game in what I would call a "sheltered state," for lack of a better term, I would have been bored of it by now. The fact that we're constantly weighing whether it makes sense to raid another tribe or not, constantly building our defenses for a potential raid on us, and politicking with other tribes is some of the most exciting aspects of the game to me.

[JuanGoTeM]

On 3/15/2016 at 2:37 AM, Honest said:

Congrats on the win dude, and thanks for sharing it, was a cool read!!

On our pvpve server there is minimal fights, us and the other larger tribes are all friendly with alliances. We have an 'enforcer' one of the leaders of an allied tribe who roams on a lvl 200+ battle quetz. Recently we have had a couple of occasions where tribes have tried to stamp their authority, but been quickly shut down by the enforcer!! 

Having had our entire dino collection killed off once, I am glad for the the alliances we have!!

Good luck, ruling your ark as alphas.

Thank you for your congratulations, brother! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Your server sounds fair, which is what we like our server to be.

 

However, as the Alpha Tribe, I feel its my responsibility to ensure our tribe doesn't "police" the server, as it seems whoever plays that role eventually garners the, however hidden, anger from other tribes that believe it's not another tribe's right to say who can do what and who can attack who and who can't.

I try to play with the mentality that I feel got us into the position we're at. Minimal conflict with other tribes, and if we're attacked in any way, if even a dodo is killed, we respond by swiftly attempting to wipe them from the server, regardless of circumstances. We don't involve ourselves in tribes attacking other tribes, as I feel that is the nature of PVP.

Thank you for your wishes of good luck, brother, and I wish the same to you!