Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160322224717/@comment-24696651-20160503161015

23rd of Sun's Dawn

Skuldar didn't have the best view of the battlefield from his watchtower, but he could see beyond the broken section of pallisade, and there seemed to be movement of some kind. He pulled out a spyglass, and could see that a part of the enemy force was moving away. He had been asked by Cynric to provide a distraction, but he'd be damned if he was giving up an oppurtunity like this. He had told his men to remain on standby to fight until he they'd wiped out most of the enemy with their bombardment - he'd only told the people manning the siege engines about the ruse. He quickly descended the watch tower, and ran over to the siege engines, telling them to switch to proper ammunition, which he'd stockpiled anyway. They only had a pallisade defending them, so half the siege engines started to fire at the enemy soldiers, who had presumably clustered around the breach.

Meanwhile, the bulk of Riften's force was preparing for an assault near the village. They had all been equipped with thick wooden shields to protect them from enemy archer fire. There were 150 archers in the army, who started firing at the enemy in a very loose formation, to avoid return fire. They were 250 metres away, so they would be unlikely to kill many well armoured opponents, but they would get a few lucky shots and force the enemy to take some kind of cover.

(Riften's archers are firing into the flank of the attacking warriors - the enemy archers' have nothing to do with it.)

Cynric fired a three more frenzy spells, bringing the total to six. That used most of his magicka, but he had enough left to spray flames on the docks just behind the attacking warriors. The fire would probably spread, hemming them in and reducing their effectiveness. With nothing else to do, he reconnoitered the area, trying to see if the enemy warhorn had attracted undue attention.