Warhammer Online. It was a dark time for troop morale. Mythic had recently made large changes to the design of Keeps, adding a second access ramp to the keep lord above. Players screamed that keeps could no longer be defended against a larger force. A rare few commanders however, refused to yield and developed new tactics. One such commander was Foghladha...
Troll Country (Tier 2 Empire vs Chaos). Our foes outnumbered us 3-1. The situation seemed hopeless, and map chat was filled with the cries of defeat. We paid them no heed and remained undaunted. It was inside the walls of Stonetroll Keep that we decided to finally cease our evasive raids and make our stand. As the unending swarm of the enemy massed at the gate, Foghladha spelled out the details of the "Pandora's Box" defence. The tactic had proven effective, but it was still new and had yet to see proper test against such overwhelming odds. As the gates fell, we readied ourselves to sell our lives as dearly as possible before the end...
But the end did not come. Our defences held strong against wave after wave of foes, their ranks quickly replenished from a nearby camp and confident that so small a force as ours had never before repelled a force of such size. As best I recall, we held for two hours that night, before our foes continual failure to take the keep had finally dwindled their numbers and morale enough for us to push out and finish them off. Pandora's Box had stood strong beyond our greatest expectations.
Many were the cries of hopelessness directed at Foghladha at the beginning of that evening... by the end of that siege Foghladha had recruited 6 more members to the Gaiscioch ranks.
I don't have a pic of the specific event, but I do have a scenic picture of Stonetroll Keep (and all the other RvR objectives) if useful. Fog likely has the Pandora's Box tactic spelled out on this site somewhere if hyperlinks are an option, and it wouldn't surprise me if Fog even has a recording of this specific event somewhere.
