Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160322224717/@comment-17114085-20160531115355

(With most artillery accuracy is a problem, that is why it takes a while for their intended target to actually get destroyed. Similar to using a shotgun for medium-long range. There are exceptions to this of course, but I am talking in general terms.

@Fishy: How many soldiers were left back in Chorrol?)

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~5th of Last Seed

With the catapults constructed, the Old Holds army finally left the capital. 1500 soldiers departed, leaving 104 to keep order in the city. The captain of the guard was left in charge of Windhelm's defense, with Chancellor Fryssa taking up the regency.

Dreekius, the Court Spy, came with the army.

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~10th of Last Seed

The Old Holds army reached the border with Winterhold. King Korst sent Commander Arnor with a force of 100 men to deal with the enemy watchtowers. Arnor's force was mostly cavalry, so they could move fast against the enemy's border defenses.

As Dreekius had mentioned, each watchtower only had at most half-dozen men protecting it so they were no match for Arnor's unit. However before the first watchtower was captuted, the men there had been able to light a smoke signal, alerting the rest of the watchtowers to the enemy's presence.

At each subsequent watchtower, Arnor's unit saw the same smoke signal. When the handfull of watchtowers were dealt with, Arnor's unit returned to the army as it continued its march on Kastav.

King Korst was not happy that the town would be aware of their presence before they arrived, but they were only two days away at that point. The only problem is that the Jarl of Winterhold would soon know of their presence as well.

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~12th of Last Seed

The Old Holds army arrived at Kastav. The town was already on lockdown. They had taken the last two days to prepare for the siege, reinforcing their gates and setting up their defenses.

The army began its siege, with the catapults being set up and after an hour they began to fire on the wall. Korst didn't spread his army out much, but he left lookouts along the perimeter of the walled town to see if the defending garrison didn't try to sully out and attack them headon. He also had the lookouts shoot down any bird that flew out of the city. While Winterhold would already know that Kastav was besieged from the earlier warning from the watchtowers, they wouldn't know the exact number of soldiers with Korst.

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~13th of Last Seed

Jarl Cristus' army of 2000 men marched into Winterhold. Like they had planned, the army was split into two seperate armies of 1000. One was still heading to Fort Driftshade while the other had arrived at Fort Fellhammer. The army at Fort Fellhammer besieged the fort, surrounding it and began to bombard it.

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~18th of Last Seed

Chorrol's spy in the last 3 months had been able to rile up the population, causing several revolts in the town. However, since Hackdirt had their full strength of 700 in the town they were able to repress the revolt from escalating too much. It would take a month to finally get the revolts to stop, so in the meantime a larger number of guards had to be allocated to suppressing the populace.

The effect was that Hackdirt's guards were not fully focused on defending the town anymore, making the wall's garrison significantly weaker.

(A revolt would be worse against a large nation than an indepedent settlement, as the nation would have to sent troops and their Marshal to suppress the revolt. So their other settlements would thus have less soldiers protecting them. An independent settlement already has all their soldiers present, so the effects of the revolt are rather minor.)