Dota
Yurnero
All Pick
by Aditu
The town had two circles. An inner one, which was the safe zone, and an outer one. Both were surrounded by walls. In the outer circle was the heart of the town that held the town with all its buildings alive. It was guarded with two towers. Around the heart were several houses and barracks, all on higher ground than the area outside the town. The inner circle was only used by merchants and as regeneration point for the top soldiers, the heroes. The merchants sold mostly weapons and armour suited for everyone, who would fight in this town war.
The town was in an eternal war with its neighbour town and had to defend itself endlessly. So everyone was trained to fight and then sent into battle as soldiers. It was the only thing they could do. If the heart was destroyed, all buildings of the town would fall apart. Both towns got assistance in the war from heroes, who came from the real world and did the fighting in the town wars as sport or entertainment. Or why ever.
The main goal was to keep the heart of their town safe. And the second one was to attack the enemy, maybe even to destroy the heart of their adversary's town. But it was not easy. They had skilled fighters, soldiers as well as heroes, too, and it was an endless struggle, who would become victor of this war. Nobody could tell, who would win, because the two towns with their soldiers and heroes were equally strong. The balance of power always shifted a little. Depending on which hero was on the field and what items the heroes had been able to buy, the balance could shift with every fight. Both towns were able to hire five heroes, whom they paid and who were resurrected inside of the safe zone with a delay, if they died in one of the fights.
At the present, the war was just about to start and both towns had still all their towers, in and around the high ground of the heart.
There were three ways between the two towns and on each way were two towers of each fraction. One more at the three entrances to the towns. If you wanted to destroy the heart you had to get the three towers on one way down and then the two in front of the heart. Five towers minimum. That was not easy to do, because they had a self-defence system, which would start firing, as soon as an enemy got into range. Those shots hurt and could easily kill someone, if they weren't strong enough.
Most times, two or three heroes would try to destroy a tower with some soldiers together, to divide the fire power between them all. That way everybody would get injured, but nobody would die. The problem here was, the enemy had soldiers as well, and heroes equally as strong. They had to be killed first, preferably not under the tower, but outside of its shooting range. Then they could destroy the building.
Well, it was not as easy as it sounded, of course.