Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150131101228/@comment-24696651-20150205160820

Harold Burned-Mane wrote: (I said that, but the archers would automatically lose. They still know how to fight, so they can hold their own for a time. Archers would use light armor like leather and likely have a swords or daggers to wield in melee.)

The archers were still holding, but they wouldn't last much more. They started to suffer casualties, but they still number more than 150.

Seeing that the enemy had retreated outside the walls the cavalry had no choice but to stop their charge.

The Thane said this and ordered his men to stay as well. "Damn it." he muttered.

The Housecarl examined the situation, it was then that he saw that the archers were under attack. He ordered the regular cavalry (300 men) to dismount and aid them on the wall. The regular cavalry, despite not being as skilled as the Great Cavalry, were still knights and thus very good in combat. As they headed up the wall to aid the archers the Great Cavalry and the Housecarl move to rendezvous with Riverwood's forces.

The two forces had little time to chat but the Housecarl told the Thane to move his men away from the breach, so they would no longer be in the line of sight of the enemy archers and magonels. They held up in the town for now, protected by the buildings and the wall. (Any cavalry which has galloped for hours would be knackered. There is no way in hell they could climb walls and suchlike.)