The Empire Strikes First (Pics and Video)

[Onizuka]

Hello, adventurers!

As some of you probably already know, recently there have been attacks by the Garlean Empire in certain areas of our Eorzea. Yesterday, I had the chance to partecipate in one of them:

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...MB4pCzYuys.jpg

For those interested, I fully documented the event in my latest journal entry:

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...entry?e=213729

And, as it doesn't seem anyone made it yet, I also recorded a simple video, just to give other adventurers a glimpse of the battle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUDhpPL1_m8

Now I'm trying to participate in a similar event near Camp Tranquil.
Did any of you find the militia with the chocobo near Camp Bloodshore as well? If only we could understand the frequency of his/her appearance...

Well, for now just keep an eye on Alfgar: if he's in Ul'dah, speaking with him not only will grant you the achievement “The Empire Strikes First” and access to the hidden raid dungeon in the Hoth syst... oops...! ...errh, never mind this last sentence... Anyway, if he's there chances are you'll find the Militia in Horizon; I'll see if this applies to Tranquil as well. Also, if you participate in the battle you'll get another achievement.

The threat in Eorzea is surely increasing fast, let's do our best!

[Platinumstorm]

I was able to do it in Tranquil. It was kind of screwed up because the empire was coming in the direction of Gridania, which looked really silly.

It also wasn't balanced well for rank 25s [no sp either, which was disappointing], you would have needed a huge fleet of 20-25s to finish them off, and it was obviously trivial with two-three high level characters beating through them.

I like the idea but they could have thought it through better in the mechanism.

My pictures of what happened are here.

http://www.thekots.com/Platinumstorm...alinvasion.png

This is looking just north of Tranquil, so the enemies are coming from the direction of Gridania, which is silly.

This dude had nice armor.

http://www.thekots.com/Platinumstorm...lcenturion.png

[Vahzl]

Wait was this a retaliation from the 3rd war, or the 9th Crystal invasion? I am pretty sure that Emperor Bandrai was part of this event, and he was only present during the 3rd umbral moon of the 5th war of the Katanga Canyon.

Hopefully we will soon find out what took place after the 5th Chocobo War, and before the 7th battle of Clayton Ravine.

But my mocking of this games awful storyline aside, the video is really good, nice to see a high quality upload like that, shame that the battle itself looks a little boring, but I am an achievement hunter, so this is right up my street.

Thanks for letting us know

[Starlord]

Holy crap.. That was Epic.. Wave after wave after wave... after WAVE of Imperials.. WOW O.o Now THAT what I call Content....!!!!

One of the Imperials talked as he died.. wow.... Epic

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Holy crap.. That was Epic.. Wave after wave after wave... after WAVE of Imperials.. WOW O.o Now THAT what I call Content....!!!!

One of the Imperials talked as he died.. wow.... Epic

wait what.. you haven't been in one? psh.. im disappointed in you

[Starlord]

wait what.. you haven't been in one? psh.. im disappointed in you

lolz how do I get into one of these things called " Imperial Battles" lol =)

[Valark]

Would be cool to see them expand on this in the future. Maybe something like campaign, and be a way to get a few GC seals. I assume the claiming feature is the same as always, which could maybe be changed for only events like this. It wouldn't make sense if people were meant to rally together to defend our areas, and the fights becoming a claim battle.

Though yes, I do realize this is a flavor event that is probably leading up to something bigger Good find.

[Mikita]

I assume the claiming feature is the same as always, which could maybe be changed for only events like this.

It seems like the claiming system is different for these events.

I was doing it as a Rank 26 archer. I thought I had claimed an enemy, but there was a Rank 50 Thaumaturge and Rank 50 Archer who were just blasting away with AoE attacks and taking my targets with them.

[Davorok]

I wonder if this is also an experiment to implement the new Claiming System? I took part in the event the other day but it was rather frustrating cycling through all the enemies trying to find one that wasn't claimed, only to have it claimed before I could engage.

It seems to be geared towards Open-World action rather than a Party-based fight, so maybe they will implement a Campaign-style system where we can all attack the same mobs and actually help each other as opposed to fighting each other for claims? (and if it does become more Campaign-style, we need some mega/mini bosses to gang up on...Garlean Machina please).

[Sephr]

I'm pretty sure that one imperial said "My death is for the empire", by ze way.

Thanks for doing that, though, I was interested in seeing it!