This is the third week since the war for Arkhona (officially) began. Only now is a clear picture of the hostilities becoming apparent. Also I only thought of doing this at the end of Week 2...and I missed two days, sorry. In the last week, Loyalist Space Marines made significant territorial gains, only to lose most of them in the final day. Starting in a weak position, they pushed back the Orks and the Eldar, but we unable to hold onto their gains, and were consistently pushed back by the forces of Chaos. The Green Tide was pushed back on most fronts throughout the week, and failed to capitilise on their offensive against the Eldar, losing most of their gains in that sector. They do however continue to maintain a stranglehold on the territories, controlling nearly a third of the landmass. The forces of Chaos made a small but solid gain, increasing their holdings by 12.5%, the most of any faction this week. Most of this expansion was at the expense of their most hated foes, the Loyalists, only taking one territory from the Eldar and barely holding back the Orks. The Eldar fared the worst in this week's battles, losing nearly 15% of their territory in total. While they managed to blunt the Ork offensive and retake most of their losses, this drew their attention away from the Loyalist and Chaos frontlines, and the Loyalists were able to make their most significant permanent gains here. By the end of the week, Orks are the dominant faction with Chaos a close second, mostly at the expense of the Loyalists. The Eldar have suffered losses, but still retain nearly a quarter of the territories.
We need total player counts for each of these factions as well. I think the ork small community tends to cause a clumping of ork vets with higher rank loadouts on a single team. On rare occasions I see surges of new "default" heavy ork teams which usually get completely stomped out. Otherwise I see about the same 40 or so people in most of the ork games. I think at one point the entire well known members of the orky forum section were in a single match. PS sorry for running you over Thrakka was a complete accident I swear!
Was changed somewhere around launch. They still got a ways to go for a proper map adventure shenanigans, but for now it at least has a small purpose.
