Year One: Season 3 AutumnAutumn shows a large decline in peasants attending your training, as they are all harvesting their crops. The harvest ends up being about average this year, and as most farmers participated in your training earlier, they pay the lower amount of taxes, which while limits income, allows for your farmers to prosper. The recruitment also slows as most of the lower class looks for places to live during the winter. However you send out an order to the nobles to send one of their sons to you for military service, both comply. You use what ore you mine to be put into equipping the new commanders with breastplates over their gambesons, and quality swords, they do however bring their own horses.
Troops
1st Company > Fort Dalmor
2 Trained (Some skill engineering), Disciplined, Untested, Gambeson Steel Helmet Armor, Spear/shield makeshift javelins.
22 Trained
5 Trained (Poor Archers), Roughly, Disciplined, Untested, Clothes Armor, Bow and spear
2nd Company > High bastion
20 Trained (Some skill engineering), Disciplined, Little Experience, Gambeson Steel Helmet Armor, Spear/shield makeshift javelins. Causalities: 1 Wounded Kills:8 Peasants
3 Trained (Poor archers) (Some skill engineering), Disciplined, Little Experience, Gambeson Steel Helmet Armor, Bow and spear. Kills: 1 Peasant
1 Mounted Commander, Nobility Training, Disciplined, Little Experience, Gambeson Steel Breastplate Helmet Armor, Sword and Shield. Average Horse Kills: 1 Peasant
> Trait: Aggressive
Spoils: 1 food caravan (3 Ox Carts)
3rd Company > Sacked fishing village
20 Trained (Some skill engineering), Disciplined, Little Experience, Gambeson Steel Helmet Armor, Spear/shield makeshift javelins. Kills: 5 Peasants
3 Trained (Poor archers) (Some skill engineering), Disciplined, Experience, Gambeson Steel Helmet Armor, Bow and spear. Kills: 7 Peasants Sacked: Multiple houses
1 Mounted Commander, Nobility Training, Disciplined, Little Experience, Gambeson Steel Breastplate Helmet Armor, Sword and Shield. Average Horse
> Trait: Clever
Spoils:Stock of fish, very little gold
Retinue > High Bastion
20 Well Trained, Disciplined, Very Experienced, Mail over Gambeson Steel Helmet Armor, Shield and assorted one handed weapons.
With the noble sons given command of your newly organized regiments they begin on working on boats to cross the river. Your men launch their campaign crossing about halfway through the season during the night. Second company goes south of the forest, while the third goes north.
First Company: The recruits are trained the same as the others, although not as disciplined. 5 Men show some aptitude with the bow.
The only exchange with the enemy is some shouts, although the commander notes a large increase in the enemy garrison. No work is done on the fort or fledgling castle. The stone stockpile in turn grows.
Second Company:
Your forces march across the plains over the course of a few days, managing to remain unnoticed, although this is simple due to the lack of any serious patrols. After about a week of marching they arrive near the town, but the commander sees the population and decides an attack would be suicide. Instead he marches north and waits along side the road, and moves and attacks a caravan that moved slowly to the north. The archers fire a few volleys, killing the man driving the ox carts forward. Seeing this the commander spurs his horse forward and orders his men to charge. He rides into the fray, scattering the poorly armed men and riding one of them down, he rides away before he is swarmed by the rest of the peasants. His men rush in behind him spearing what serfs stand against them, and only taking some hits themselves, hits from tools that the gambesons take on the chin, this along with the shields sees only one man wounded during the disorganized charge. Seeing the battle go against them what peasants remain after the initial exchange quickly rout. Instead of running them down the commander takes the time to secure the caravan of supplies, while obviously not nearly the entirety of the harvest, this is most likely a decent chunk of the taxes of the southern village. He quickly marches his men back to his boats and takes the supplies back to the bastion before the enemy can react with an actual force.
Third Company: Landing in the north between the hills and the swamp the company commander makes his way north, however he soon realizes that he wont make in around the mountains, raid the supplies, and make it back across before winter, and deems the pass to be to risky. He soon returns to his boats but doesn't want to go home empty handed. He scouts along the river in his boats and spots what looks like an autonomous fishing village, while to large to attack directly without casualties as it holds about thirty or so men, he devises a plan of attack.
The next night the sky lights up as a few flaming arrows land in the town, and catch a few of the houses on fire. While the fishers scramble to douse the flames, his boats slide onto the shore. Disembarking with a great war cry the soldiers fall upon the fishers, killing only a few before the rest flee. More men were burnt by the flames than speared by the troops. Your men soon put out the fires, and loot the town, they find a little gold and a stock pile of fish for the winter. However, not all went well, in the quickness of the attack, some of your boats failed to either be tied down, or weren't moored properly, and floated away, and the flames damaged the docks. Leaving the company with too few boats to transport his men across as one, and the winds of winter soon send a chill down their spines, and as such he decides to hole up in the town for the winter, and orders his men to begin fortification.
Holdings
Castles: Their ancestral seat of power High Bastion.
Wealth: Some wealth, wood stock pile
Towns: The castle town at the foot of their hold.
Villages: Two farming Villages
Mines: One high quality stone mine, produces some ore in addition to the stone.
Logging camp: High quality logging camp.
Fort: Wooden Palisade fort between the mountains. Garrisoned +Watch Towers +Barracks + Moat +Stakes + Foundation of a castle. Stone stock pile
Other: Tiny Sacked Fishing village.
Map
Two new command positions are now open.
Year One Season Four: Winter
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