Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160205120927/@comment-24510587-20160216161835

(And now, for something completely unexpected:)

As soon as the gate broke down, the soldiers manning the battering ram started retreating the siege engine. The men of the Golden Company realised they had been tricked; the fire was never meant to kill them, but rather to keep them from reinforcing the gate.

In order to cover the soldiers' escape, another hail of arrows was launched at the battlements.