Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150207130230/@comment-24696651-20150216110327

Harold Burned-Mane wrote: (Ouch, hope you feel better soon. I know full well that sickness tends to make you not want to reply. I was sick with pneumonia a few months back and stayed away from the Wiki for 4 days.)

The Thane was with the force in the west fighting the phalanx. Seeing that the soldiers were retreating and a few of his men had gone chasing after them he called them back to reinforce the soldiers in the east of the skirmish.

The archers on the wall continued to fire down on the retreating soldiers while they were in their line of sight. They were only able to kill about half a dozen soldiers before they were stopped firing. (449 vs. 420, but 164 men are currently retreating from the battle.)

The dismounted cavalry leader wasn't going to repeat himself a third time. He ordered his men to continued attacking the infantry and they resumed fighting on the wall. The archers, as soon as they stopped firing (180 vs. 80)

(I assume by knights that you mean heavy infantry.)

The cavalry and the shield wall lost another 20 men, but with the full 400 men now fighting Luciun's 285 soldiers in the east the numbers were now in their favor. The Thane's men reinforced the warriors attacking Luciun's men from the west and started to push them back due to superior numbers and were able to deal 14 casualties to the Jarl's men. Of the great cavalry 30 still remained and another 90 regular cavalry still remained. (435 vs. 400, in total but 164 out of those 435 are currently retreating in the west. So in truth it is 271 vs. 400.) (Back. Not sure if I'll be able to stay, but I'll try to.)

(The knights are dismounted nobles. Naturally, they have better equipment than other soldiers.)

The archers, having disengaged with the shield wall, fired virtually point blank into their rear. Because the shield wall had turned to direct all its men at Luciun, they suffered apalling casualties.

The phalanx looked around for somewhere to climb the walls. Although they were few in number (thirty, is it?), because the wall was very narrow their numbers wouldn't count against them.

"Fine!" the infantry leader shouted. "We surrender!"

Luciun diverted more men to killing the cavalry. Now all the skirmishers, all the knights, and all but eighty of the heavy infantry were fighting them (can I have a breakdown of Luciun's forces?). Though not meny were fighting the shield wall, because they themselves were in a shield wall, the street was narrow (shall we say fifteen men wide?), and shield walls aren't a good offensive formation, they could hold their own for plenty of time.