Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160531165159/@comment-24510587-20160624200222

~20th of Hearthfire

It wasn't as if the soldiers underneath the gatehouse had to move much. The ground might have become slippery, but it had no noticable effect whatsoever. How oil would ever be able to splash onto anyone through the shields of a turtle, was a mystery, however.

Not all 300 soldiers could fight on the stairs at once anyway. Thus, the negligible number of gatehouse guards were met with resistance larger and better suited for close quarter combat than them. They were dispatched fairly quickly.

With the wall on the right of the stairs, the soldiers were forced to swing from the left and slowly retract - attacks that were easily parried or blocked.