Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150125010554/@comment-17114085-20150126141518

SaladMate wrote:

(What are Gorehounds?)

Madanach had a large army, roughly 1,200 trained Forsworn of both genders. With mages and warriors, stealthy ones and Briarhearts. He also brought with him about 100 Dwemer Spiders in several carriages close to one another along with catapults, trebuchets, siege towers and ballistae. They marched to the outskirts of Karthwasten as he readied his men for the first battle of the Forsworn-Haafingar war.

Before that however, he sent some of his elite stealth Forsworn to gain intel from Dragon Bridge and Solitude. And one of them was an assassin, Madanach's finest stealth Forsworn and she was tasked with killing the Jarl of Solitude and cause chaos in the city where he resided.

"My people! Today we fight an enemy, who took a part of our land while we were still divided and weak! Unable to take back that part! Now we are united! And for as one for our gods! And for our pride! And for our territory! Make the God of the Hunt proud! And hunt down these weaklings! Hurrah!"

He announced to his men before the Battle for Karthwasten started with ballistae firing enormous steel bolts onto the village folk, killing most of them in the process as the footmen of the Forsworn shouted words such as "Hurra!" and "For the Forsworn!" (You don't have 1200 men. Last time you had 1000, just after having united the Reachmen, and you haven't done any conquests since then. Thus you still only have 1000 + the 100 Dwemer Spiders, so 1100 in total. Also you never had catapults, trebuchets, siege towers or ballistae. You'd need to build them.

Gorehounds are the special units of Solitude. They are elite soldiers that wear helmets that resemble a dog.)

Karthwasten had a garrison of 800 soldiers. The city was loyal to Solitude after having been conquered roughly 4 years ago. Dragonbridge had a similar garrison. Solitude had 1000 men. The Jarl would be nearly impossible to assassinate due to the city's only entrance being heavily guarded. A Forsworn would never be able to slip in unnoticed.