Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150125010554/@comment-17114085-20150126192432

Pacman the great wrote: (There are scattered trees on the road to the east of the fork. Though I confess, perhaps "forest" is a bit too much. Let's just say the archers dispersed among the rocks and trees and used them as cover.

The only way that Sungard's forces could reach Whiterun in a reasonable time frame is if the go along the road, so they wouldn't encircle the ambush anyway. They'd just be prepared for it.

Question: Did the scouts of Sungard scout the entire ambush, or just the western bit? There's no route to get to the eastern part of the forces without going along the road (there are steep rock faces around the woods they're hiding in), and they'd be spotted then. Did they see the ditches/stakes and whatever. I wouldn't think so, because it's very close to my men and they couldn't have spotted it without getting very close.)

Sigmund's infantry fell back to the fork in the road, and they ran a little ways down the road so they occupied it. There was about fifty yards between the fork and where the infantry's shield wall was.

The skirmishers, now dispersed amongst the rocks on the flank of Whiterun, fired another volley, hitting the front of the column of march from to places at once. (They didn't scout anything, they are on the hill. I said multiple times that their position lets them see for hundreds of miles in either direction. They could see Falkreath's forces waiting to ambush Whiterun's forces. Also Sungard is going along the road, from the west. Since the town is Northwest of the ambush site. They are on the same road as Whiterun is but they are heading in the opposite direction. They'll meet where the road from Sunderstone meets with the main road, which is where they are.)

The volley from the side did more damage than the one from the front, but no major casualties to the army.

"Sir, they are in the south, attacking us from the flanks." One of the officers said.

"Hmm...this could be the time to set out cavalry down on them. Small squads will be able to traverse the rough terrain and hunt down the archers. The rest of the army will continue ahead and meet the enemy's shieldwall." The Jarl said.

The cavalry split up and headed to take out the skirmishers. The fast speed of the horses would make sure that very few of them could be killed by the Skirmishers before they reached their targets.

Whiterun's archers fired on the shieldwall, aiming high to try to hit them from above.