Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24696651-20160625002154/@comment-24696651-20160702200248

20th of Hearthfire

The entrance to the gatehouse was behind Kvatch's line, so in order to get to it, Anvil would need to fight their way past dozens of men.

The archers on the walls suffered few casualties, but were suprsessed, and were unable to return fire at a high rate. The men in the gatehouse, however, could quite easuly inflict large numbers of casualties by throwing boiling oil onto the dense shieldwall from the gatehouse's roof, which was higher than the wall and had crenellations on all sides. There were also archers firing through arrowslits at Anvil's men from safety.

Though the shield wall tried to push outward, Kvatch had more men in this part of the battle and a deeper formation, were not fighting on ground slick with oil, and were not being pelted with arrows, oil, and stones. As a result, Anvil's casualties were high - Kvatch had lost 50 infantry and 20 archers, but Anvil had lost 100 infantry and 50 archers in the plaza, as well as 5 mages, 5 dragoons, 20 infantry and 10 archers in the gatehouse and outside the wall - a change of strategy was clearly in order.