Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24696651-20160625002154/@comment-24696651-20160716200128

(Sunny, you're about six months before Fishy right now.)

21st of Morning Star

Cynric arrived at Helgen with a personal guard of ten Blackhoods. He told the town's thane that he was due to meet a representative of Falkreath her in a few weeks, and had arrived early to avoid the worst of the winter snow. He had his agents quietly scope out the town's defences to see what defences there were, and how they might be sabotaged. Any artillery mounted on the walls and the gate's release mechanism were of particular interest.

(Haz, I'm not quite sure you understand what a wooden pallisade is. It's someting like this, and light infantry would have trouble breaking it down.)

5th of Second Seed

The archers on the scaffolding ducked beneath the pallisade and returned fire from cover, taking significantly lower casualties as a result. The light infantry, not equipped to break down wooden pallisades, were subject to a hail of rocks, arrows, and boiling oil, and were dropping like flies. They would be wiped out before they made a dent in the pallisade.

(Sorry, will edit my post

btw, Tate, you don't seem to understand how cramped a testudo is. The Romans, who had shields pretty large by medieval and TES standards, had to crouch down and bunch up so that each man stood literally shoulder to shoulder - there's no way archers are fitting in there.)

23rd of Second Seed

The testudo had trouble moving quickly, and even more trouble breaking off into smaller pieces whilst maintaining formation. The process was rather slow and sloppy, and the archers had trouble firing whilst surrounded by the marching testudo, inflicting few casualties.

As the testudo lumbered into it's new formation, it took several casualties, further compromising it as gaps appeared. Around fifty men were killed, evenly distributed throughout the new, smaller groups.

As the first testudo entered the village, it was greeted by the village guard force, of about 150 men. However, the guards were equipped for supressing the populace, not large scale battles. As a result, they didn't have shields, and their weapons were shortswords, designed for speed rather than power. They also didn't get much sword practice, or drilling for fighting in formation. This meant the guards were fought to a standstill despite outnumbering the soldiers and surrounding them.

7th of Sun's Height

Archon surrendered, being outnumbered by 1067%.

8th of Sun's Height

Skingrad's scout was a well trained fellow, and realized he was being followed after about ten minutes. As he approached a large rocky outcrop, he stopped for a second, pulled out a sheet paper (which was presumably some sort of map), and turned right, away from the general direction of Skingrad's army. He tried to lose Chorrol's men in the rock hills and light forest of County Anvil.