Today, Monday 27 February, at 12.15pm, the first game of week 7 of the second season of Clash of Worlds began.
Our opponent, JPN2, is a Silver League Japanese guild on server 13.
Despite being in the Silver League, server 13 started more than two years earlier than server 100 and is more mature, so their overall strength is much higher than Alone100's.
Alone100 has a slight advantage over the Titan team, but JPN2 has an overwhelming advantage over Alone100 in terms of hero team power.
Even so, they are not totally without a chance to win.
We hope to enjoy the game while proudly upholding the fighting spirit of "Alone100", which is a united all-out attack and never giving up until the very end.... from byakko
Strategy procedure
※This time, no attack will be made on the 'Fortress'.
Until the occupation of the "Hero's Bridge" is completed, without permission, attacks on strongholds that do not fall under the Strategy Procedure are prohibited.
① Free attack to occupy the "Bridge".
② After successfully capturing the "Bridge", aim to capture the "Flame Fort" in a free attack.
③If the team succeeds in capturing the 'Flame Fort', it will aim to capture the 'Hero's Bridge' in a Free Attack.
The team defending the Bridge of Heroes is so powerful that you may not be able to defeat them in one turn.
In this case, do not force them to attack, but report it in the guild chat and request other members to attack.
④ If you succeed in capturing the 'Hero's Bridge', attack from the base with the highest occupation points in a free attack, taking into account the war situation, and fight to gain as many points as possible.
You do not have to think about winning.
Think of it as an event to test the results of your daily work, fight to your heart's content and enjoy the game.
According to my estimation, we can get around 5,000 points.
Fight as hard as you can and enjoy the game with a small chance of winning.
It is fun to fight with strong opponents through trial and error.
SAYANBO is very concerned about Kirin, and I have to tell you about it.
As you can read in the old guild article, Kirin was brought in from Thurper 113 when "Alone100" was still in the Silver League and had only 18 members.
Although low-powered, he was active as a guild champion for a long time, but many high-powered members have joined us, and recently he has fallen outside the borderline for guild champion.
With 30 members, Kirin's role in Alone100 seems to have come to an end.
As I talked with Soltydogs, when a player stronger than me joins, I will ask him to leave the guild to vacate his seat.
After the departure, we will create a "Alone100" sister guild on a server within server 113, with Kirin as guildmaster, to continue information gathering and recruiting.
Once a player stronger than me joins, I will be removed from the Guild Champion role, regardless of the Guild Champion's borderline ranking, and will concentrate on the Guild Master role.
I will temporarily prevent the members from leaking from the Guild Champion borderline by removing myself from the Guild Champion.
I am not a strong player, and I will continue to lead the guild and Clash of the Worlds as before, so it will not affect many people.
As I always say, the biggest rivals of the Alone 100 members are not the Tiger-Bus or SKYRIM players.
Just like professional baseball and football teams, the rivals for the Guild Champion are your fellow guild members, so please be aware of this and do your best not to lose.
I'm training at my own pace to be able to fill in for absent members in guild battles and play adventures with them.
Alone100" will aim for a higher level with the motto "A guild where everyone can enjoy the game".
We ask for your cooperation in the future as well.･･･ From byakko
I lack the ability to keep things short and concise in short sentences.
That's why my private messages are long LOL
So I've turned my reply to your question into a blog post.
Please bear with me for a while.
As an island nation, Japan has had wild wildcats (Iriomote wildcat
), but there were no cats on the mainland.
They seem to have been brought to Japan around the same time as rice cultivation was introduced from mainland China, around the 10th century BC, as a countermeasure against rat attacks.
From around the 5th century, when sericulture became popular in Japan, cats became important as a countermeasure against rats that harmed silkworms and silk threads, and their numbers increased, and they came to be worshipped as the guardian gods of sericulture or as beings that bring wealth.
Along with this, farmers began to keep cats to protect their rice and grain from rat attack, and fishermen to protect their fishing nets from rat damage.
Cats also came to be kept as pets, and records from the Heian period (784-1180) show that successive emperors were also fond of cats.
Around the 5th century, Buddhism arrived in Japan and spread, but cats were considered an abomination in Buddhism.
There is a story that goes like this.
The Buddha's mother, Lady Maya, who was in the heavenly realm, tried to deliver a 'medicine of death and rebirth' for the Buddha.
However, a large number of birds blocked her way and she was unable to descend to earth.
She is forced to throw the medicine on the ground, but it gets caught on a tree branch.
A mouse immediately went to retrieve the medicine, but the cat got in the way and the medicine did not reach the Buddha, who is said to have died.
Because of this, combined with the cat's mystical element, it is sometimes regarded as a 'cat is a demon'.
However, since ancient times, damage caused by rats has been a serious problem that threatened people's lives, so the existence of cats as beneficial animals that prevented this was valuable, and they have been worshipped and loved since ancient times, with many Buddhist temples worshipping them as guardian deities.
On the other hand, cats were worshipped as gods at shrines because they exterminated rats, which were harmful to silkworms.
Since cats had the role of exterminating rats, which were a pest to crops, they were also a symbol of fertility, and there are many shrines throughout Japan dedicated to cats.
In Japan, there is an ancient legend that when a cat reaches the age of 50, its tail splits and it becomes a demon called 'Nekomata'.
Besides the legend that this 'Nekomata' is a demon, there is another interpretation that it is a god that protects the house.
It is necessary to talk about the Japanese people's particular religious beliefs here, so I will describe them here.
Shinto shrines, which exist everywhere in Japan and are the object of worship, are based on the Shinto religion.
The number of shrines, large and small, is said to be as many as 200,000 or 300,000.
Shinto has its origins in primitive religions such as shamanism. ,
It is a religious view that all beings, visible and invisible, in the whole of nature are inhabited by a deity.
It believes that mountains, oceans, lakes, rocks, large trees and fish, and of course dogs and cats, are also inhabited by divine beings.
This is called YAOYOROZUNOKAMI.
The Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters) states that Amaterasu Omikami is the supreme deity who presides over the sun, and that emperors are descended from Amaterasu Omikami.
Regardless of its authenticity, the Emperor is the highest-ranking Shinto priest and his most important role is to pray for the peace of the country and its people.
For this reason, he is respected and honoured by the people.
They were different from the descendants of warlike kings, as in the West and the Arab world.
Because of this religious view that God resides in all beings, when Buddhism was later introduced, it was accepted without resistance, and Shintoism and Buddhism were fused together and continued for more than 1,000 years.
Later, with the Meiji Government's policy of separating Shinto and Buddhismin 1872, shrines and temples are now separated, but there were many ambiguous parts due to the influence of customs that had continued for more than 1,000 years.
They also have a special religious outlook, so on the 100th day after their birth, they visit the shrine of their neighbourhood's clan god, to give an unveiling speech, and on the occasion of an entrance examination, they visit a distant shrine of the god Tenjin, with whom they have no connection to the school, to pray for success, and even though they are not Christians, they hold a wedding ceremony in a Christian church to pledge their eternal love to Jesus Christ. When they died, they would ask the priest of the temple they were a student of to recite sutras to them and entrust them with the attainment of Buddhahood after death.
The people had a mysterious religious outlook that Westerners and Arabs, with their monotheistic beliefs, could not even imagine and even despise.
My family has been a fisherman for generations in a coastal town near Hiroshima City.
In Japanese fishing towns, stray cats have been carefully protected for a long time.
This is because the cats help to kill the rats that eat up fishing nets.
The fishermen feed the cats with small fish that are not for sale and do not harm them, so when the fishermen appear in the harbour, the cats come to them to get food.
This is a common sight in fishing communities in Japan.
In Japan, there is a saying: 'Cats have dried bonito flakes.
It means 'give them your favourite food to make them happy'.
In Japan, even today, everyone thinks that cats' favourite food is fish.
However, I have recently learned that wild cats catch and eat small animals and insects such as rats, frogs and lizards, and only eat fish when there is no prey for them.
The truth is that cats do not like to eat fish.
So why did everyone in Japan think that cats' favourite food was fish?
It has to do with Buddhism.
In Buddhism, it was taboo to eat four-legged animals such as cows and pigs.
Eating the meat of birds was permitted.
Whales and dolphins were also favoured because they were positioned as fish.
For this reason, when eating wild boar, they called it 'mountain whale' and ate it with discretion.
It was not until the Meiji era (1868-1912) that the Japanese began to eat cattle and pigs publicly, but even then they were expensive foodstuffs, so the general public did not have the opportunity to eat them.
For this reason, inexpensive small fish were fed to cats, giving rise to the saying 'katsuobushi for cats'.
Today, however, the staple food of cats kept as pets is pet food, which can be easily purchased at supermarkets.
I have already told you that my family has been fishermen for generations, and we had a cat before I was born.
My brother took over the family and is a fisherman, but he still has a cat.
I think they have been keeping cats for generations.
The cat that left the biggest impression on my memory was a male black cat named TAMA.
The name TAMA came from his tail, which was shaped like a round ball.
In Japanese, a round ball-like shape is called a 'TAMA'.
TAMA was very good at catching rats and sometimes sparrows and pigeons.
When TAMA caught a rat, he would catch it, put it in his mouth and put it in front of me with a proud look on his face.
Then I would praise him and say, "TAMA is great at catching rats..." Then he would put a satisfied look on his face and go away with the prey in his mouth again.
TAMA was a strong fighter and popular with the female cats, and when I noticed that there were more black cats with rounded tails in the neighbourhood, I asked my father about them.
When I asked my father about it, he replied, "They are all TAMA's children, because TAMA is very popular.
TAMA stayed with us for more than 10 years, until one day, when I was in my third year at university in Kyoto, he suddenly disappeared.
When I went back to Hiroshima, I noticed that TAMA was nowhere to be seen, so I asked my father.
TAMA suddenly disappeared around spring. I looked everywhere, but I couldn't find him. Maybe he became NEKOMATA." He said with a straight face.
A"nekomata"is a mutated demon of a long-lived cat.
I was sad that TAMA was no longer with us, but I gave up on the idea that if she had become a NEKOMATA, there was nothing we could do.
TAMA is what we now call a Japanese bobtail, but it is not a special breed, it is just that there is a gene in Japanese cats that shortens the tail, and this gene was strongly present in TAMA.
As an aside, there was this episode when I was a student.
It is now more than 40 years old.
I was enrolled in the Faculty of Economics at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.
One evening, I saw some men catching cats in the park.
At first, I thought they were public health officials exterminating stray cats.
However, they did not seem to be health service workers, as a health service worker would have finished their shift at 17:00.
The men are putting food in some containers, catching the cats that have gathered, putting them in carrying cases and carrying them to a van parked nearby.
We watched them for a while from a little distance, but the situation was a little different.
They seemed to be selecting and catching only certain cats.
I was very curious, so I went up to the man I thought was the leader of the men and asked him some questions.
The man said.
'We only collect cats with short tails.
'We collect short-tailed cats and send them to America to be bred.
"Japanese cats with short tails are very popular in America and make money."
The man told me in a very gentlemanly manner and in a soft tone.
I greeted him, thinking: 'I didn't realise there was such a business.' I thought, as I greeted the man and left.
Looking back, it was illegal even back then to capture a stray cat without permission, so I think I politely ignored him because I didn't want him to make a fuss and report me to the police.
I was curious about this, so I told my aunt about it when I visited her in Oregon, where she was married to my Uncle Harry, an American lieutenant colonel stationed in Japan after World War II.
According to my aunt.
'It became popular among the American military families stationed in Japan to have a cat with a short tail, which was in Japan.'
'When they returned to the US, they brought the cat back with them.
Other Americans who saw the cat started to want a cat with a short tail."
Japanese cats are popular because they are gentle and clever."
My aunt, who told me this, also had a female tortoiseshell cat with a short tail.
It seems that the capture of cats with short tails was carried out nationwide, and at that time there was one cat with a short tail out of every five, but nowadays it is rare to see a stray cat with a short tail.
In Japan, until about 30 years ago, more houses had dogs than cats.
Today, however, more houses have cats.
The main reason for this is that, due to changes in housing conditions, more people live in apartment buildings than in detached houses.
Also, small dogs such as Chihuahuas and toy poodles are becoming popular as breeds that can be easily kept in apartment buildings.
Unless you live in a detached house with a garden, it is difficult to keep a large dog such as a collie or golden retriever.
When I was a child, it was popular to keep a collie in Japan under the influence of American TV dramas.
In Japan, most apartment buildings are rented and pets are prohibited in most cases.
This has also influenced cat lovers who are not allowed to own pets to go to 'cat cafés' to relax with cats.
Cat owners also visit cat cafés because they can meet a wide variety of cats.
Cat lovers gather at cat cafés to show off their cats, meet the various types of cats in the cafés and talk about cats.
At the most popular 'cat cafés', you often have to make a reservation to get in.
Cats are much loved by the Japanese.
Dogs are obedient to their owners, but I think cats are charming because they are lovable, whimsical and mysterious, and do not flatter their owners.
I live in a rented flat, where pets are not allowed, so I do not have a cat.
However, I live with my son, and because of my work, my hours are irregular and I am too busy to take good care of the cat, so for the time being I will not have a cat.
When I retire from work one day, I may take in an old cat that someone else can no longer keep.
If I die first, I'll be worried about what will happen to me afterwards, and I won't be able to become a Buddha, LOL.
Shalom... I wish Bloodmoon and his family all the best... from a corner of Asia.･･･from byakko
Unfortunately, we lost the first game of the sixth week of the second season of Clash of Worlds against Origin, 5299 points to 6380 points.
However, everyone fought through all the attacks, achieved a perfect game for the third week in a row, and exceeded our goal of 5,000 points, which allowed us to fight the good fight against a strong opponent and enjoy the game.
With the result, we are now ranked 497th (previously 351st) in the Marquis League of 5, with a ranking score of 8640 points (previously 8749 points).
Today at 12:15 p.m., the second game of the sixth week of the second season of Clash of Worlds began.
Our opponent this time, FUJIYAMA, is a Japanese guild in the gold leagues on server 76.
Server 76 is a mature server, so they are a very strong opponent.
Alone100" is slightly ahead of "FUJIYAMA" in terms of Titan power, but "FUJIYAMA" is slightly ahead of "Alone100" in terms of heroes of lower ranked members due to their maturity. Alone100" is expected to win more points than "FUJIYAMA".
I would like to enjoy the game again this time with the fighting spirit of "Alone100," which will never give up until the very end, proudly displayed by the united all-against-all attack.... from byakk
※The Clash of the Worlds game against "FUJIYAMA" will end at 10:59 pm on Sunday, February 25.
Strategy Procedure
※Start your attack now by following the "Strategy Steps" in the blog post.
※Until the occupation of "fortresses" is completed, attacks on bases that do not fall under the strategy procedure are prohibited without permission.
① Free attack to occupy "bridges".
②After successfully occupying the "bridge," aim to occupy the "gate of nature" with a free attack.
③ If the team succeeds in capturing the "Gate of Nature," the team will aim to capture the "Hero's Bridge" in a free attack by members who are confident that they can defeat the team in one turn.
The team defending the "Hero's Bridge" is so strong that there may be cases where the team cannot be defeated in one turn.
In this case, please report in the guild chat and request other members to attack.
④ After successfully capturing the "Hero's Bridge," aim to capture the "Temple of the Sun" with a free attack.
⑤ If you succeed in capturing the "Temple of the Moon," aim to capture the "Fortress" in a free attack.
Play only against enemies you are confident you can defeat in one turn.
If you stumble in your attack, do not force the same enemy to chase after you.
⑥ If you succeed in occupying a "fortress," attack from the base with high occupation points in Free Attack, and fight to gain as many points as possible, taking the war situation into consideration.
According to my estimation, it is likely to be a battle of around 6,000 points, and "Alone100" is estimated to gain a little more points than "Alone100.
It is still just beginning, so please fight with importance to the attack turn so that it may not end up in a useless attack.
This is the key to victory, so please keep this in mind as you play.
I feel that when you play against the Japanese guilds, you will develop a different awareness from the others, and you will have a stronger desire to correct your posture and fight without embarrassment.
Our first match-up, 'BrothersGrimm', is an English-speaking guild from the Silver League on server 26.
The strength of the two guilds is almost equal, but because of the power of the lower-ranked members, BrothersGrimm's overall strength is much greater.
The second season of Clash of Worlds has seen a number of changes.
The Lighthouse has been changed to have a constant five members and the buffs of the Support heroes added to it.
Support heroes such as Sebastian, who had no role, now have a place in the game.
The 'Magic School' and 'Barracks', which used to have a constant of five, have been changed to three each.
I don't know when this was changed, but unfortunately, it is not supported at all.
My opponent, 'BrothersGrimm', also didn't support buffs in the 'Lighthouse', so I think it was a sudden change.
This time, it couldn't be helped, so next time we'll deal with it.
I played against them as a spearhead, but the previous 30 points per base was changed to 35 points per base.
Various other features have been added, but it seems that you have no choice but to get used to them as you play the actual matches.
On 14 January, haretaraiine suddenly left the team, so to fill the position where haretaraiine had been deployed, we filled it with a high-powered hero team that had been deployed in the 'fortress'.
As a result, the fortress's defences have become vulnerable, but the existing members will have to do their best to compensate.
A tough battle is expected.
However, it does not mean that there is no chance at all to win, so we will enjoy the game with a united all-out attack, proudly upholding the fighting spirit of "Alone100", which will never give up until the end. ... from the White Tiger.
Strategy procedure
①Aim to occupy the "Bridge" with the designated members.
②If you succeed in capturing the 'Bridge', aim to capture the 'Gate of Nature' with the members you have designated.
③If the team succeeds in capturing the 'Gate of Nature', it aims to capture the 'Hero's Bridge' in a free attack by members who are confident of defeating it in one turn.
The team defending the Bridge of Heroes is so powerful that there may be cases where it cannot be defeated in one turn.
In this case, do not force them to attack, but report it in the guild chat and request other members to attack.
④If you succeed in capturing the Bridge of Heroes, aim to capture the Temple of the Sun with a free attack by members who are confident of defeating it in one turn.
⑤ If you succeed in capturing the 'Temple of the Sun', aim to capture the 'Fortress' in a free attack.
Only play against enemies you are confident you can defeat in one turn.
If you stumble on an attack, do not force the same enemy to pursue you.
⑥If you succeed in capturing a 'fortress', consider the war situation and fight to gain as many points as possible by attacking from the base with the highest occupation points in Free Attack.
The second season of Clash of Worlds is a long game, fought over three days and more than 70 hours.
There's no need to rush.
Take your time and enjoy the game.
Since it has just started, please fight with importance in the attack turn so that it doesn't end up in a useless attack.
Keep this in mind as it will be the key to bouncing back from a bad result and winning the game.
It is also fun to fight against strong opponents while using your wits.
The first week of the third Clash of Worlds tournament started today at 12.15 pm (Japan time).
Our opponents, Spirit-Aura, are an English-speaking guild from the Surper 54 Gold League.
Thurper 54 is mature and has a clear difference in strength to 'Spirit-Aura'.
The Titan teams are particularly well-layered, with even the least powerful teams exceeding 500,000 power.
Hero teams are also strong, and 'Alone100' can only manage to capture the 'Hero's Bridge' and does not have the strength to capture the 'Fortress'.
We have no chance of winning, but as always, we will fight to win as many points as possible and enjoy the game while proudly displaying the fighting spirit of 'Alone100', which is to attack as a united team and never give up until the end. ･･･byakko
Strategy procedure.
※Until the occupation of the "Hero's Bridge" is completed, attacks on bases that do not correspond to the strategy procedure are prohibited without permission.
(1) Aim to occupy the "Bridge" with the designated members.
(ii) After successfully occupying the "Bridge", aim to occupy the "Fortress of Fire" with a free attack.
(iii) If you succeed in occupying the 'Flame Fort', aim to occupy the 'Hero's Bridge' in a free attack.
(iv) If you succeed in capturing the 'Hero's Bridge', the attack thereafter will be a free attack.
The attack targets are limited to the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon, and this time there will be no attack on the Fortress.
Take the battle situation into account and fight to gain as many points as possible.
You have only just begun, so make the most of your attack turns so that you don't end up attacking in vain.
The Clash of the Worlds against Spirit-Aura will end at 10:59 on Thursday 2 February.
The second game of the first week of the second season of Clash of Worlds has started.
Our opponent, The-Undertakers, is an English-speaking guild from the Silver League on server 30.
With their win over BrothersGrimm, they moved from 654th to 242nd in the table, so we expected them to face a strong opponent, but the difference in strength between them and The-Undertakers is clear: the difference is as big as between the Gold League and Bronze League.
However, with such a big gap between the two teams, it's much easier to play against them.
We have no chance of winning, but we will enjoy the game while proudly upholding the fighting spirit of "Alone100", which is a united all-out attack and never giving up until the very end. ... from the White Tiger.
Strategy procedure
①Aim to occupy the "Bridge" with the designated members.
② If you succeed in capturing the 'Bridge', aim to capture the 'Gate of Nature' in a free attack.
③If you succeed in occupying the "Nature's Gate", you are free to attack.
Attacks on the 'Bridge of Heroes' are prohibited.
Please choose the right opponents and fight to gain as many points as possible, taking into account the war situation.
The Clash of the Worlds is a long game, fought over three days and more than 70 hours.
The battle against The-Undertakers will last until 10.59pm on 22 January.
There is no need to rush.
Take your time and enjoy the game.
You've only just started, so make the most of your attack turns and don't end up attacking in vain.
It is also fun to fight against strong opponents while using your wits.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Are you enjoying the game?
The results of the guild battles since we were promoted to the Gold League are
Monday, 16 May, 'SKYRIM', 80 points to 1400 points.
Tuesday, 17 May, 'PoZiTiVe', 696 points vs 1080 points
Wednesday 17 May 'Frenchies', 622 points vs 1351 points
No winners, but apart from 'SKYRIM', they are fighting well.
I have to be stronger than Kirin, at least. I think you understand what I mean when I say that.
It's been a while since we last played each other, so we were completely groping our way through the battle, but once we had fought them once, we had a good grasp of their capabilities and composition, so I think we'll be able to respond appropriately.
However, there is a difference in ability, so I think it will be a long time before we can win, but let's close the gap little by little.
We have only one game left against Tiger-Bus and KOREA-KINGDOM.
Our opponents in today's guild match will be either Tiger-Bus or KOREA-KINGDOM, but we will all attack and enjoy the game. ... from byakko
I am friends with guildmasters and players of various guilds.
I spend more time on private messages with them than I do playing, and it often interferes with the training of my heroes and titans.
This can be for the purpose of gathering information, recruiting, or simply enjoying conversation.
Among them, a unique presence is KOREA.JW, the guildmaster of KOREA-KINGDOM.
JW, the guildmaster of KOREA-KINGDOM. He comes to us every week to talk about merging KOREA-KINGDOM and Alone100.
On the day that Alone100 and KOREA-KINGDOM were promoted to the Gold League, he also came to me with a merger proposal.
I sent the following private message in response.
Dear Mr JW
Good morning.
Merging is a good strategy to build a strong guild.
If your guilds had 15 members each, I would be in favour of a merger.
KOREA-KINGDOM has 26 members. Alone100 has 22 members.
We would have to cut down 18 members.
I would not cut off weak members to allow stronger players to join.
I don't want Mr JW to cut out the weak members in order to let the strong players join.
In Alone100, all members, high-powered and low-powered, are important friends.
No guild member wants to lose their friends.
Therefore, in Alone100 we do not forcefully recruit.
We only invite people to join every day in server chat.
We want to be good rivals with KOREA-KINGDOM.
In the Silver League, NO-BS-JUST-PLAY is going from strength to strength.
They are currently ranked fourth in the Silver League, but will surely be ranked first.
Guildmaster Mr White is a respected player.
He will be a good rival for us.
In the Gold League on server 100, the top ranked player is SKYRIM, followed by Tiger-Bus and Frenchies, making up the top three.
Now, you can't beat them.
It is like a cat fighting a tiger.
But fighting a strong enemy is part of the fun of the game.
Even if you lose, enjoy the game.
And train yourself to win one day.
We wish you and KOREA-KINGDOM all the best. From byakko
Earlier today, we received a private message from Mr KOREA.JW.
The following is the message.
thx bro
we are 22 members
but i think there r activity player just 15member
that's why we don't take guild action point max nd titan stone too
i am sure if alone nd KOREA-KINGDOM be same guild
then we can play well more than past.
so if ur guild want to join our guild then we can make some place for ur guild family.
These are the private messages received from KOREA.JW.
Nevertheless, I don't know how to describe it, it is a statement from the top.
Is it a peculiar temperament of Koreans?
Does he understand the content of the message I sent?
But I do not dislike his carefree nature.
I cannot hate him for some reason.
I am troubled with what kind of reply I should write this time. ... from byakko
