Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150131101228/@comment-17114085-20150204155322

Pacman the great wrote: (I also said that as soon as the nobles got near, they [the mangonels and archers] would stop firing.)

(Well, it would seem I'm going to have to begrudgingly agree to disagree, but the riders themselves would be knackered, and not much use in a fight.)

The light infantry scaled the wallls from the inside, their heavier weapons and greater numbers giving them an advantage.

The heavy infantry and knights had formed their shield wall properly, and would be ready for a counter attack by Riverwood's infantry. The archers had formed up behind, ready to fire upon attackers to weaken them.

The engineers were limbering the mangonels so the draft horses could take them to the gates. Although they had a low trajectory, their height would let them fire over the shield wall. (That is the thing, you wrote that the nobles charged then you wrote that the archers and artillery fired, so they wouldn't get to fire much before they'd have to stop so they wouldn't hit friendlies. But oh well, that doesn't really matter.

How many soldiers do you have of each type? Because in total you only have about 1080.)

The archers focused fire on the infantry that were climbing, as they wouldn't have a way to defend themselves. However the archers on the sections of the wall that already had Falkreath infantry on it had to switch to melee to fend off the infantry.

The 450 (50 had died, forgot about that in the last post.) strong Riverwood warriors maintained their position, they wouldn't attack first. The ones in the front row kept their shieldwall up while those behind them raised their shields above their heads to thwart any incoming arrows.

The cavalry headed deeper into the town, heading east to circle around the buildings and head to the wall from there, avoiding the area were both the warriors and the enemy infantry were at.