The archers of War Party Asp engage the bulk of the enemy (something that while brave, will almost assuredly end with their deaths; the archers know this, and are prepared to die for the Amber Tribe.) The succeed in injuring one with an arrow to the leg, and one to the chest and arm while two dwarves who sought to poach horses and cattle are instead beat into submission by War Chief Emung, who declares he will have revenge for the slain War Leader.
The Archers fight bravely and desperately, but ultimately fall to the bearded tide, First Furi, then Enasm, and finally Ibon. However, all is not lost. As the enemy slays livestock, their forces are split. Chief Emung hatches a plan of divide and conquer, using the animals' distraction to their advantage. In short order, two more dwarves are brutalized and left in blood-stained heaps. Another dwarf attempts to duel with Warrior Rilstud, who claims his fifth notable kill in the clash, becoming known to all as The Crowded Shadow of Candles.
Now the dwarves have only half their number, while the War Parties have lost only a single melee warrior.
EDIT: The War Chief's tactic works, and with the livestock splitting the enemy, soon Emung, Rilstud, and an integrated member named Dether soon overpower the dwarves in ones and twos. War Party Ram is considered dissolved, and its warriors integrated into War Party Horse.
Victory comes to the tribe, but at steep cost.
Four tribesmen lie dead beneath the fruit-bearing apple and peach trees; one, the archer Furi, leaves behind a grieving widow and a baby girl. only two dwarves escaped the battle, narrowly avoiding the wrath of the tribe's other warriors. It is unknown how they will choose to honor their slain heroes.
EDIT II: The battle is a windfall to the warrior Gel, once of the Rams. He takes up the obsidian axes of the slain foe and pledges to wield them for The Amber Tribe with honor. War Leader On is viewed with scorn by the Tribe, the coward fleeing the field in front of his fellow warriors.
It is mandated: Armor for the Horses. War will come again, and the tribe awaits them, that they may take revenge upon the hated mudbeards for the warriors and cattle slain.