The Daily Brief

Each day's war in a few paragraphs: the fronts, the fights and who led the day. Written after midnight, US Eastern, for the day that ended. All briefs

Monday, October 19

Alliance sacks Undercity as Horde raids the Alliance's lands

Ron Burgundoom here, filing at a very confident hour from the Undercity approaches, wearing a cologne called Eau de Gankmoor and a tie I ironed with my own hands. The Alliance held more fronts, but the Horde won more of the fighting. The biggest fight of the day was the Fall of Undercity, where the Alliance sacked the Horde's capital at night, decisively, on more kills.

The Horde pressed hard everywhere else. It raided Sentinel Hill in Westfall, then the Wetlands in the Black Channel Marsh Raid, then Redridge Mountains in the Lakeridge Highway Rout, all decisive. In Moonglade the Horde took the Lake Elune'ara Horde Push in the afternoon and kept that front. In Hillsbrad Foothills the Horde shoved the line toward Southshore, narrowly, though the Alliance answered with the Darrow Hill Alliance Upper Hand.

The Alliance still holds Arathi Highlands, Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills and Stonetalon Mountains. Gidhon Wins led the Alliance killers. Mhureth Theolia led the Horde's, and <The Click> led the guilds. The Horde took the battles, the Alliance took the capital, and the maps are still arguing.

Stay classy, Azeroth.

Today's hot zones Hillsbrad Foothills (16 to 30) and Tirisfal Glades (1 to 15)