Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150131101228/@comment-24696651-20150203132748

Harold Burned-Mane wrote: (How many men did they lose fighting the Battlemages and Necromancers?)

Many of the engineers had died from arrow fire.

As part of the wall began to crumble warriors from Riverwood moved into position on the other side to hold off any invading troops. Those in the front formed a shieldwall while the others stayed behind them. They were 500 in total.

The archers atop the watchtowers and the parts of the wall that were fine continued to fire at will.

War Horns could be heard coming from the north. (Dunno, I reckon about fifty heavy inf. and fifty light inf.)

(Look, let me show the maths to explain why Whiterun's army isn't going to get here:

Let's assume that our standard movement speed is ten miles per day. That's extremely slow, to account for possible rough terrain. For the record, a person walking on their own would move at three miles per hour, and travel for eight hours, so that means that we've reduced the standard walking pace by more than a half.

So, assuming we have a one week journey at our standard walking pace, that's seventy miles. A raven travels at about fifty miles per hour, so the raven would have taken eighty minutes approx. Let's assume infantry on a forced march travel at five miles per hour, and for eight hours a day (eight hours is the usual length of a marching day in the military). So that gives us forty miles per day. That means the infantry could never reach the battle that day. The marching range of mongol cavalry is about sixty miles, and they were fast and in open steppe. You cannot get there in a day. Even if you could, it would take hours, and this battle has been going on for an hour at most.)

The mangonels continued to fire at the breach in the walls, killing many in the tightly packed shield wall. The low trajectory enabled the rocks to go through several ranks of men.

The infantry and archers reformed in the woods. The archers resumed their tactic of firing from cover. They fired high to go over the crenelations and hit Riverwood's archers on the walls.