Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160205120927/@comment-17114085-20160229114805

(@Red: No, villages don't have walls. Usually only a few guard towers, sometimes a pallisade. They don't have many defenses. Also you are on the 12th of Hearthfire, not Sun's Height.) ~9th of Sun's Height

After telling the Riften soldiers to fuck off, as they wouldn't be dying of thirst anytime soon. Because the fort was connected to a cave through the courtyard, they had a secret way in and out and the cave also had a deep water channel in it, so they were fine.

The mercenary captain ordered his men to refuel their water supply from the cave and to go out at night to collect berries and maybe even some prey to eat, if they could kill it. The cave was also littered with glowing mushrooms, which were edible.

They weren't expecting a caravan from Shor's Stone for a few days and he didn't suspect that Riften would try to intercept it. But it was of no importance to him, his men could survive on their own for quite some time.

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~16th of Last Seed

While Cyrus had the superior numbers, his foes had the homefield advantage. They knew how to use the layout of the village to their advantage, where to hide and ambush attacking soldiers, where they could trap them in an alley and rain arrows down on them. The initial attack was indeed bloody. But overtime, as the men of Lainlyn began to fall, they just didn't have enough men to effectively use their strategy.

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~10th of Hearthfire After he had been captured, the Chancellor was used by the mages for their numerous unethical experiments. So the general found the elf in quite bad shape. He was in a room in the lower level of the fort, half-naked and strapped to a table.

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~12th of Hearthfire

Since their numbers were too far off, Gweden decided to assault the camp. The army of 300 guards rode out to meet the Imperium in battle. With shield-wielding warriors in the front, archers in the middle and cavalry in the flanks. They were not going to make a siege of it, because they didn't want their village bombarded.

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~18th of Hearthfire

The battle had been won, with only around 30 of the bandits having managed to escape with their lives. Fort Mistwatch had been won, but because of its current condition Haki wondered if it was worth it.

They had come with 500 soldiers and after the battle they had only lost 90 of them. With 5 Berserkers having died and the rest being regular infantry. It was an acceptable number of losses, considering that they had more than twice the number of the bandits.

The housecarl ordered his men to rest for the rest of the day and the next.

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~20th of Hearthfire

Korst's housecarl left behind 100 soldiers, under the command of Commander Balyn. Balyn was a Dunmer from the Grey Quarter that had joined the military in order to make a living. He wasn't liked by many, including Haki, because he was a high-ranking elf, but he was a good commander nonetheless.

Haki and the other 310 soldiers, which included the 45 Bear Berserkers, began their march back north to Windhelm.

Commander Balyn sent a letter to King Korst informing him of the sucess of the mission, and of the condition of the fort.

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~22nd of Hearthfire

It was nearly half an hour before the marauder officer and his subordinate finished speaking, and the marauder left the officer's chambers.