Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150207130230/@comment-5543592-20150209001249

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

Pacman the great wrote: (This phalanx occupies the width of the street. It's going to be very, very difficult to break that line.)

Luciun's infantry charged at the cavalry, with the archers following close behind. As the cavalry reached the shield wall, Luciun's archers fired in the rear of the enemy, whilst the infantry charged at the shield wall to encircle it.

The archers behind the phalanx looked for an alternate passage up the walls to aid the infantry. They were becoming desperate, and fighting to the death, but the narrow frontage on the wall made the killing slow. (They outnumber your heavy infantry 4 to 1, it wouldn't be that difficult.) (Pacman's logic is sound.  The 300 Spartans held Thermopylae against a Persion army of 1,000,000.  They would have held out a lot longer than they did, except they were betrayed.