Early in the afternoon Khorvis sent out a call on the hearthstone saying that the Alliance were attacking the Brewfest gathering outside of Orgrimmar. I was one of the first to arrive on the scene and we quickly learned that they outnumbered is, and were well organized. Reinforcements were called and we set about doing battle with the Alliance. Very quickly we realized that they were evenly matched to our forces and no one could seem to get an upper hand. We pushed them into a lake, they forced us back to the gates of Orgrimmar, and the fighting didn't seem to make any progress. After much time more Alliance forces showed up and overwhelmed us. Despite the many members of the Horde in the area most were too cowardly to engage the Alliance.
We decided to take a break from fighting and enjoy some of the seasonal brews.
After a few hours to sober up we met up to bring battle to the Alliance, however our gathered forces were insufficient to engage them directly. We broke up into several smaller groups to fight in the arena and I teamed up with Leyujin and eventually Lupinum.
My inexperience in the arena showed immediately. In the first couple of matches I bit the dirt faster than one can yell, "For the Horde!" Despite the early failures, we pressed on and I started to become more comfortable with fighting in an enclosed environment. After some more matches we started winning more often and I even kept a score card from our final arena match
A few more Grim showed up later on in the evening and we decided to take the Alliance on directly, albeit with the help of some untrained members of the Horde.
Our first destination was Arathi Basin. The Alliance forces were no match for even a few of our coordinated members. Any direct confrontation quickly went in our favor. The only issue seemed to be that many of the other Horde began abandoning their posts and following us around.
After our success in Arathi we went into Warsong Gulch confident in our position; however, we faced off against some better equipped Alliance this time around. When they hit, we felt it, but we countered in force. Despite our failure to secure the area we fought hard. Here is a more detailed report on how things went.
