Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150207130230/@comment-24696651-20150208225215

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

Pacman the great wrote: (About 100 heavy infantry in the phalanx with two hundred archers. The remaining heavy infantry and archers are with Luciun.)

Luciun's meb were thrown into disarray, but they managed to kill several of the horsemen that had to force their way through Luciun's men. They quickly reformed their lines, to absorb the impact of the cavalry charge. They crouched, so they were too low to be hit by the weapons of the cavalry, and held their swords out to mutilate the horses legs, or stab their underbelly if they were trampled. The archers fired over the infantry's heads, at the charging horses. (So Luciun initially had 480, then lost 30 men in the first charge. Leaving them with 450.)

In this second charge the Great Cavalry lost another 30 men, but they killed plenty of Falkreath soldiers as well. This charge they killed another 25 enemies. However as their numbers were now bellow 50 the Housecarl had them head back to were the shieldwall was. (So Luciun now has 425 soldiers with him.)

Seeing as the enemy archers were attacking their own the Thane decided to have his men attack the phalanx. The 450-ish soldiers charged at Falkreath's 100 strong phalanx formation. While the formation made attacking them more difficult their superior numbers turned to tide of the battle in their favor. The warriors engaged the Heavy Infantry and the phalanx began to dwindle.

The dismounted cavalry and the archers continued to fight the infantry. While the Cavalry was down to 260 men, the archers to 120 due to fire from Falkreath's own archers, Falkreath's infantry was down to 150 men. They wouldn't last much longer against the attack from both sides.

(This phalanx occupies the width of the street. It's going to be very, very difficult to break that line.)

Luciun's infantry charged at the cavalry, with the archers following close behind. As the cavalry reached the shield wall, Luciun's archers fired in the rear of the enemy, whilst the infantry charged at the shield wall to encircle it.

The archers behind the phalanx looked for an alternate passage up the walls to aid the infantry. They were becoming desperate, and fighting to the death, but the narrow frontage on the wall made the killing slow.