Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150207130230/@comment-24696651-20150212170432

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

While the phalanx moved back the warriors were able to strike at them dealing a few more blows before they retreated. The warriors fighting the skirmishers continued to engage them and tried pushing through their ranks. Out of the 30 remaining men in the phalanx only about 20 were able to retreat unharmed. As the warrior's focus turned to the skirmishers and they were in the archers' line of fire, the Skirmishers in the west suffered 10 casualties. However the warriors also suffered losses. The situation was now 475 vs. 445.

The dismounted cavalry leader repeated again. "Do you surrender?" The men on the wall were ready to start fighting the infantry again should they not put down their weapons. A few of the archers on the wall were hit by Skirmisher arrows, they lost about 10 men. Now only 80 archers in total remained, but only 70 of them were firing down on the skirmishers. As the infantry men were at roughly only 70 or so soldiers left and on the wall Whiterun still had 100 dismounted cavalry and 80 archers some of them contemplated heading down to reinforce the cavalry.

The shield wall had split up as soon as they were attacked from the east, so they had little trouble keeping their formation as the men behind the front rank were already in position. In the east of the Skirmish there were 160 warriors and 140 cavalry fighting the 305 men that were with Luciun. So the numbers were pretty even. The warriors were faring better than the cavalry, except for the great cavalry which were easily holding their own and still numbered 35 men. Both sides lost men and soon the battle was at 455 vs. 420. With Luciun's men suffering only 20 casualties and their foes suffering 25. (I'm not going to be able to reply much for a while, I had a meningitis jab and was allergic to it.)

The skirmishers started to break rank and run, outpacing the shield wall due to their lighter armour. The phalanx, realising this, also ran. Though they were as heavily armed as the shield wall, they didn't have to worry about keeping formation, so could retreat.

The infantry commander stared at the ground, remaining silent.

Fifty of Luciun's knights focused on taking out the great cavalry, supported by the skirmishers, whilst the rest of the knights fought the shield wall. The infantry primarily focused on the other dismounted cavalry, but some helped the knights against the shield wall.