Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160322224717/@comment-24510587-20160512190614

~24th of First Seed

After two days of sieging the keep, which was sure to severely lower the trapped bandits' morale, the Imperium prepared for the final strike. Going in through the main entrance would mean walking straight into a bottleneck thus sustaining heavy losses, so a different strategy was decided: while regular infantry distracted the bandits at the front door, soldiers with light equipment, only amounting to a shortsword and a dagger, would use grappling hooks to get to the top of the keep. These grappling hooks were fashioned by the siege engineers by attaching a long rope to a hook made of metal cut from the shields of those soldiers who would be scaling the keep.

The plan worked perfectly. The bandits never expected a strategy as unconventional as this, and thus focused their attention on the front door, where the Imperial forces were also entering, even though those soldiers were only there for show. At the same time, some fifty of the light troops scaled the wall, but because of the makeshift fashion of the hooks, two of them didn't stick, and the soldiers on those ropes fell to their death. The other 48, however, made it to the top with no trouble, where they easily infiltrated the keep from the roof entrance. The top two floors were lacking any bandits on them, as they were all downstairs fighting the regular infantry. When they did indeed encounter enemies, the bandits were taken completely off-guard, and the throats of ten of them were slit before anyone even knew what was going on.

From here on, the battle essentially became a massacre. The bandits, who were already weary and ever more starving, now were forced to divide their attention and foght on two fronts, against soldiers who had a massive numerical superiority. They had killed quite a few soldiers at the front gate, but now that they couldn't fully focus on that anymore, they were cut down with ease. When there were twenty or so of them left, they gave up and surrendered.