Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24696651-20150414223503/@comment-24696651-20150419175051

The ballista fired at the catapults, disabling them and limiting the damage they could do. Five of the scorpios sniped at the battlemages, whilst the remaing ten fired at the mass of beserkerers. They had a range of about 500m, and could fire about four a minute, so by the time the beserkers had reached the settlement, the scorpions had let off about 80 darts, all of them hitting owing to the incredible accuracy of the weapon. The ballista, after taking out the catapults, managed to loose off two shots, killing ten more, bringing the total death count to ninety.

Due to the inaccuracy of catapults, only thirty villagers died. That left 170 fighting the Beserkers. They still had a reasonable height advantage, and they were fighting in a four deep formation, enabling them to withstand the Beserkers first charge. They suffered twenty casualties to the Beserkers' ten

(How many beserkers stayed with the catapults? I'm assuming twenty, so that leaves 232 beserkers in the fight versus 150 heavy infantry. The beserkers have a large advantage in the melee, but the scorpios could even the odds.)