Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150125010554/@comment-24696651-20150125170008

(They're still horribly outnumbered. If they don't submit, they'll be executed. I don't think they be two keen to get killed.)

(As for the rapid expansion... I've taken two crumby forts and a tiny village. Not really much to be scared of. Also, most people are too busy consolidating their borders to fight back.)

As the villagers charged at Sigmund's forces, the archers released another volley. Forty arrows struck the village mob, killing thirty. Before the archers could fire again, the villagers smashed into the lines of infantry. About half of the front rank (ten guards) was killed by the charged. The guards behind moved forward, fighting the villagers hand to hand, where there superior equipment and discipline gave them an advantage. The archers fired into the flanks of the villagers, being careful not to hit the guards. Due to the close range, twenty more peasants were struck down, and the heavy infantry took out ten. There were now only twenty peasants left.

"Alright!" they screamed. "We surrender!"

"Of course," Sigmund said. His army stopped fighting, The other twenty village men, who weren't in the fight, walked over, quivering.

"You, come with us," Sigmund ordered the twenty villagers. "You'll serve as sappers. Now, you guards. Twenty of you, occupy the village. Get the villagers to build barracks for you. Don't overdo it."

"The rest, follow me."

With that, the army marched, to Bilegulch mine.

(@Mhazard: You realise Ilinalta's Deep is probably still a sunken fort occupied by necromancers, right?)

The forces of Hadgeir had marched upon the bandit camp of Knifepoint Ridge. There were about a hundred bandits inside the palisade, and probably some more in the mine. Hadgeir didn't have time to ask for surrenders. The bandits had already started shooting at his men, killing ten.

"FIRE!" he roared, and the hundred or so archers fired at those on the wall. Twenty of them were killed, as well as around ten not on the walls. The remaining ten bandits on the walls took cover, so his men were no longer harrassed by archers.

"Break down the gate," he told his infantry, who started slashing at it with their axe. The archers continued firing into the courtyard, pinning the bandits and killing a few unlucky ones.