Winterwind Vehicle Works Says: Personal Conduct-Please Don't Let It Affect the Brand Image

The "Heroic Spirit Corps" had its first encounter after setting out when the players' vanguard entered the swamp and ran into a gnoll patrol. The moment the two sides met, neither hesitated for even an instant. Three hundred newbie players charged straight into fifty gnoll elites.

The newbie players had no chance of matching elite gnolls head-on. What should have been a massacre lasted less than five minutes from start to finish.

The players lost 120 people. The gnolls were wiped out.

These little lunatics didn't hesitate to use the most classic "newbie tactic." They blew the entire squad of elite soldiers to pieces with high-grade Light-Eater Victory Wine.

Before setting out, Five-Pair Wheel had repeatedly stressed that the goal of the operation was to destroy the munitions depot, and the sooner the better.

The newbies might not have been strong, but they followed orders. To secure victory, they decisively used the fastest method of attack. Their advance after that was much the same.

By the time the player army, blasting its way forward, neared the gnolls' main munitions depot, fewer than a thousand of the two thousand newest players remained. They advanced so quickly that the gnolls at the depot hadn't even finished preparing their defenses when a horde of red-eyed Transian war spirits came screaming in.

Most insane of all, as the players charged, vampires swooped down in an ultra-low bombing run and carried out a saturation bombardment with incendiary bombs.

Lines of fire burst across the defensive area. The most extreme bomb strikes even hit players in the middle of their charge, but nobody had time to complain. Everyone was fighting to be first into the fray.

Although Lord Murphy had said many inspiring things before they set out, one important factor in this death-defying advance was