Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160531165159/@comment-24696651-20160619130244

(Goldy: If Maxi hasn't posted by tomorrow, we'll remove him from the GM structure, and Red will GM you. Also, Fishy has stated that he won't be able to reply on TTW for a few days, so for the time being, you will be GMing Sunny.

Red: Elite marksmen or not, they're not going to be able to achieve a grouping size of a few millimetres on horseback. And your heavy crossbows still exist within the boundaries of the ES universe. It's not a Dwemer piece of machinery, so it will still be subject to the same inaccuracies of other human or (non-Dwemer) elf-made equipment, so the weapon itself will have enough inconsitencies in its manufacturing to cause the bolt to go a few millimetres to the side each time. Which is obviously problematic when they're shooting through  an arrow slit which is only two or three milimetres thicker than an arrow head - deviating more than a millimetre from the center, or approaching from an angle a few arcminutes to the side, would cause the shot to miss. Your Dragoons will not be able to reliably put a bolt through Kvatch's arrow slits.

And I think it's reasonable to assume they'd store enough oil in the gatehouse to deal with someone trying to batter their gates down - they would store enough to deal with an assault, because the whole point of a gatehouse is to prevent an assault.)

9th of Midyear

Riften's infantry stood their ground. Those at the center, however, were pushed back slightly. Since there were more of Riften's infantry than Ivarstead's, their line was slightly longer and slightly thicker. This mean that Ivarstead's soldiers, in their haste to attack Riften, were slowly finding themselves enveloped as Riften's line was beginning to encircle Ivarstead's.

The lancers, meanwhile, couldn't believe that Ivarstead's troops at simply smashed into the infantry, leaving their flanks and rears vulnerable. Therefore, the lancers rode forward, wheeling around after making enough distance, and charged into the rear of Ivarstead's forces, completing the encirclement and causing chaos and confusion in the ranks of Ivarstead's troops.