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9 (56.3%)

Sindhu

2 (12.5%)

Total Members Voted: 16

Voting closed: November 05, 2016, 04:00:47 pm

[Haspen]

B, mercs are always helpful but we have no idea if this scepter is actualy useful.

Clean your glasses, mang ;p

[TempAcc]

I's fixed it boss.

[Haspen]

You declare that peasants are to be drafted into the new corps and you will personally lead that to Augas province.


Congratulations! Houlandin II is now on a military campaign! During the campaign, the range of events will be very limited (in this case, related to Parsia and/or war with it), you won't be making choices about the Kingdom and the End of the Year reports (and possible choices) won't be available to you.

The advisor and Queen Mother Ciri shall deal (for better or worse) with any potential events that might happen during your stay in Augas province.

Onwards!

817 AD, Mid-Spring

You arrive at the Fortress of Abur, located just north of the largest city of Augas Province.

The forested lands and grassy meadows of your homeland are gone; replaced with more rugged, rocky shrublands of West Parsia.

The Luathbas soldiers stationed in the garrison cheer, seeing their young King arrive!

817 AD, Late Spring

Less than a month later a messenger arrives from the easternmost keeps; the Parsians are on the move, and their smaller forces are besieging few smaller outposts. The main body of their army is marching westwards toward Abur.

The scouts report that most of it is spearmen and short bowmen, with a strong core of the fearsome Parsian Cataphracts, used as shock cavalry to devastating effect.

Spies have found out that the Parsians also are bringing lots of supplies and ample amount of timber from their northern forest, definitely to construct lots of siege equipment (as most of Parsian locales are low on forested areas).

The Marshal and commanders convene with you, and you decide to...

A) Prepare Abur for a lengthy siege; after all, we didn't let that old engineer to improve the fortifications for them to not be used nowadays!
B) We shall march out with most of our glorious, numerous Army and meet the Parsians head-on.
C) Leave half the forces at Abur; the rest will be sent eastwards and tasked with harassing the Parsian horde and/or trying to break the sieges on the less important outposts.

[Taricus]

C

[TempAcc]

:U

We can't take their armored horsies head on, but being horsies they need to charge things to be effective. We should use guerrila tactics to harass them in places and maybe bait them into a lenghty siege while the rest of our forces give them crap elsewhere.

C

[NRDL]

C

[Tiruin]

Well ._. I'm in the hopes that our charismatic person shall be able to lead a charismatic impact and charismatically contain both Parsia and unify the probably-seemingly-silk-road-similarity here.
Or y'know, make peace with them or something that makes them less grumpy.
Do note: Parsia is our Eastern thing. (West is Kiwi and all the tiny areas that hate that kingdom and probably a sea in between), so 'Abur' can be assumed to be a main point closer to home.
Also, oh goodness: Cataphracts, splinter tactics, and reliance on spears and bows .__. So familiar. (although considering the multiple subtleties of references to many international cultures and such within this nice SG, hooray for this!) [European similarities I'm guessing?]
_{Totally pinning the blame on Kiwi for our assassin. :v OOC bet advisor-scroll-values on me here, Ciri!}

If we pick C, which do we go with?
Also we'll not be having good fortifications if they DO get siege engines. :I

B sounds good since it brings the fight on terrain...that maybe we can favor? I'm unsure, but this looks scary if we pick B without further details. C tries to save both but divides our troops--with some to save our lesser outposts which I assume can work out, while 'half' stays behind which technically means "A but with half troops and probably a flanking maneuver from our other half, with Abur probably being prepared too?" o_O

[Haspen]

You decide to split your forces; half will remain at Abur, the rest will ride forth to harass the sides and rear of the advancing Parsian horde to the best of their ability, and if they can try and relieve the sieges of the minor outposts, so much the better.

817 AD, Summer

6 _{how do you guys have all this luck in this game, honestly}

You receive reports that your raiding parties were extremely effective; one for example managed to set fire to their supply of timber, destroying most of it. Others caused approximately a thousand of casaulties against the rear guard, Parsian scouts and some heavy damage to the supply wagons during 'Battle of Gokart'.

There are also reports of attempted relieving of the sieges, alas, you will have to read these reports later - the golden banner of Parsian Kings flutters in the hills east of Abur!

The siege begins!

5*

The initial attack against Abur fails and the Parsian army loses hundreds if not thousands soldiers who ineffectively try to scale the walls with mere ladders and only two siege towers (which get set on fire by your archers anyways), accompanied by seldom-firing catapults.

817 AD, Midsummer

2

The Fortress however soon suffers from problems as the Parsians successfully poisoned the underground stream that provides fresh water to the fort. Your men have to rely on thinned alcohol, and You know how that goes in the long run.

The Marshal believes that, while Parsians are dragging the timber from the east, this is a prime opportunity to strike at the besieging forces! After brief consideration, you...

A) Agree, and have Luathbas cavalry storm the main encampment of the Parsia.
B) Agree, and have Luathbas forces break through western - the weakest - part of Parsians encirclement.
C) Thank the Marshal for his proposal, but reject it, and say that for now, it's better to wait and see how the situation develops.

[Taricus]

A. We take their main encampment and we'll break the back of the parsian army.

[TempAcc]

They may be weakened, but our forces are split apart for now. We shouldn't face them head on until the other part of our forces gets to us or until they're further weakened.

B

[Chevaleresse]

B

[crazyabe]

B.

[Haspen]

You therefore order part of the forces to march out and break through the western, perceived weakest, part of the enemy encirclement!

1

This attempt went, to be honest, terribly. Not only the weakest point wasn't broken through, there were also heavy casaulties amongst those attempting it.

Not more than few days later, the Parsians attempt another attempt to storm the walls!

6*

Just as your forces bled themselves trying to break through the encirclement, so did the Parsians bleed themselves on the heavily fortified walls of Abur Fortress! Thousands of their soldiers lose their lives for nothing.

817 AD, Late Summer

Your forces managed to recover a bit from the earlier attempt, and the Parsians seem to be content with waiting you out.

"MY YOUNG LIEGE!" The Marshal booms. "We should try again, otherwise the Parsians will soon recover the losses to their siege equipment and will thus have great chances at conquering the fortress!"

A) Verily! The Luathbas cavalry shall storm the main encampment of the Parsia.
B) Verily! Let's try again with breaking through western part of Parsians encirclement.
C) Nay! Sitting and waiting is what we ought to do this time!

[Taricus]

A, because shit we aren't going to break their lines. Better to just start rampantly murdering them.

[crazyabe]

A.