Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150127181142/@comment-217.114.60.210-20150128132542

Harold Burned-Mane wrote:

Pacman the great wrote: (No... Thirty metres in game, two miles in RP.)

(I think the arrows here might be able to hit the infantry, as they're firing directly.)

The shiltrom tenatively moved forward, until they were withing throwing distance of the enemy. Then, they started throwing rocks and suchlike at Sungrad's forces.

The skirmishers continued to fire, ready to run away if the infantry attempted to engage in mêlée. (The distance from the fork to the ambush site is not 30 meters. It would be at least a few kilometers in-game. Fort Sungard alone would be at least around a kilometer wide, which means that the distance from the fork to the ambush site is around 2-3 kilometers. We've already established that it takes days to walk from Sungard to Sunderstone, because it takes around a month to walk from the north of the Reach to the south.)

Sadly the hill became too steep and mountainous behind the skirmishers to be effective at running away, they'd have to run to the sides and that wouldn't accomplish anything. Before long the warriors were a few feet from the Skirmishers and they charged at them, ready to kill.

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Sundard's forces had left the fork to meet up with Whiterun's army, so they weren't anywhere near the line of fire of the shiltrom.

Once the two armies met about 50 yards or so from the fork. The two leaders met and exchanged pleasantries. With the force of 1700 (By now Whiterun probably suffered at least 100 casualties) soldiers now united Falkreath didn't stand a chance against them. (The reason it takes so long to get to the Reach from Falkreath is that we're using the time it takes in game time and multiplying it by one hundred. If we use the actual distance in game, or the length of the journey in real time, we get a very different number.)

(The skirmishers still have a few hundred feet before they get from the edge of the trees to the hill.)

The skirmishers continued firing at the infantry, managing to get in several shots at cloes range before the infanty closed in due to the rough ground. Due to the close range, the arrows could penetrate the armour and inflict several casualties.

(I should add that being out numbered doesn't necessarily mean defeat is certain for my army. Just look at Teutoburg Forest.)