Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24696651-20160718222126/@comment-24696651-20160723204422

7th of Sun's Dawn

The Black Hoods spotted incoming groups of reinforcements and those in range cast two frenzy spells each at the group. They woud see them coming, but they had a fifteen foot blast radius, which would catch several of the guards.

Cynric, as well as several other Black Hoods, realized that their bolts were having little impact. He ran around the roofs, trying to gather up what men he could, and after a minute he and four Black Hoods were at the roof of a house next to the Guards of the Gate. They each cast two frenzy spells at the group, covering a wide area which would catch most of the guards even if they saw it coming and attempted to dodge.

(Haz, your artillery are out of range of the barracks and pretty much anything important in the village at this point.)

5th of Midyear

The infantry were not being pushed back - the only way to gain ground was to kill enough of them to break through their line.

16th of Sun's Dawn

The bridge had many guards and a barricade across it's length, which prevented people from crossing without the guards' permission. The general vicinity had many guard patrols, more to spot citizens out after curfew than to stop criminals.

(Goldy, assaulting walls is always hard - if you were using archers, it would have been much worse.

And the ambush wouldn't need to have been set up very far in advance, only twenty minutes or so. The actual planning would take longer, but that could happen in secret.)

16th of Last Seed

The lack of space meant that the rest of the column of march couldn't help out their comrades, and being outflanked, more cramped than their attackers, and having a shieldwall which was disorganized at best, they were suffering far more casaulties than their ambushers - one hundred to thirty.