Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160205120927/@comment-17114085-20160211212608

(@Maxi: Why would Hegathe send an amount of men that could lose? They want their fort and they can afford to overkill. As you can see from the map on the main post, Hegathe had an army of 1700 men before they took Chasetown. The army that is attacking Fort Bayside is composed of 500 men from Hegathe, 210 from Dragon Grove and 490 from Sunkeep. Hegathe doesn't care about Sentinel, they only want what is theirs.

The same question as before: How did they know to abandon Fort Bayside. Ra Gada doesn't currently have any recon on Hegathe. They'd only see the army coming when it was in their line of sight in the 30th of Second Seed. I mean they can abandon the fort right then and there before the ships reached the shore but they wouldn't be able to take anything with them, as they would be hightailing it out of there.

It also takes some time for messages to arrive even on a bird, especially if they are supposed to travel a distance that takes armies 2 weeks to march across. On average, a bird can travel around 10 times faster than an army can march. So it would take at least a day and a half for that bird from Fort Bayside to reach Hegathe and another day and a half for a new bird to reach Fort Ennah.

@Pacman: Downstairs? You mean underwater? xD

They are not in the Riften canals, they are attacking the docks to the west. The ones outside the Riften walls. There is no downstairs there. Or I am mistaken? I know that there are some stairs that lead into the water along the docks, but I don't recall the warehouses nor the docks having a downstairs.

@Red: True enough. )

~25th of Second Seed

650 of the men still remained and when a watchtower fell on the wall and let the enemy in, they met the warriors that marched in through the hole in battle.

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~8th of Midyear

The army approached the fort from the east. Since the fort was on a hill, they had to climb it, which took some time. During that time, the Cultists caught onto their presence and readied for their attack.

When the army got within range, Dathman ordered the archers to fire at will. The Cultists, which were mostly mages and warriors, hid behind cover. As the archers distracted the cultists, the Bear Berserkers were ordered to move in and destroy the gate. Morvunskar's gate was wooden with iron reinforcements, and Windhelm knew this because they previously owned the fort. Thus the Bear Berserkers only needed to break through the wood, which would take some time.