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[helmacon]

A

Onwards! to glory!

[Haspen]

Also I made another thing because clearly I do not know when to stop.

[Haspen]

You set up camp around the next city over the yonder, which is Eachos.

962 AD, Autumn

After almost two months, the city is still resisting and is doing quite fine.

On the evening of the first day of Autumn, you receive an envoy from King Tinwulf II. He has successfully defeated Eist in battle twice and even took control of few villages, forcing King of Eist to the negotiations table.

A) And that's fine, let's continue the siege.
B) This means we will soon lose the opportunity! Mount an attack against the city of Eachos!

[Tiruin]

Technically under orders--we're not the greedy type, and we're probably 'okay' on both sides. There's just a giant wall in the way.

A

[ZBridges]

A

[Harry Baldman]

A! If the negotiations collapse for whatever reason we'd best conserve our forces

[birdy51]

Indeed. A.

No reason rush. We may as well conserve our military. Dead husbands leave unhappy wives. Unhappy wives lead rebellions.

[NUKE9.13]

Yup, sit tight. Whatever happens, we have one new vassal city-state, at very little cost, so not getting a second city to go with it is no great hardship.
Besides, we need to conserve our army.

A

[Prophet]

A If we get it before they figure out what they are going to do cool if we don't well we already got one so good enough.

[S34N1C]

A

[helmacon]

A

we gon get it one way or another, but for now let's just keep it slow and steady.

[Haspen]

You continue with the siege.

Less than a week later you receive news that the negotiations collapsed and King Tinwulf is fighting the Eist in the northwest of their little kingdom.

962 AD, Mid-Autumn

You don't receive any news from the north; you do get some from the south.

An army of Eist zealots, backed by Kashite mercenaries (about two thousand men total, almost entirely foot) is marching from southeast to attacking your sieging Army! During the council with your officers, many options are debated, until you decide to...

A) Raise the siege and go smash the advancing army.
B) Fortify the camps and await the arrival of the enemy.
C) Leave about half your men to continue the siege and send the rest to engage the incoming army.
D) Mount a quick attack to capture the city before the reinforcements arrive.

[NUKE9.13]

Hmm. 2000, versus our... ~4500 (I think?)
If we stay put we risk being surrounded by enemies. If we leave we lose all siege progress.
Splitting our forces sounds like a bad idea, but it may be the way to go. Half our army should still equal theirs, which combined with the fact that we have cavalry and our martial skill should bring us victory.

C

[Weirdsound]

Eh. Our goal is to keep them busy, and we already won one city, which is a bonus. No point taking a stupid risk like splitting our forces now. I'd rather crush these dweebs with overwhelming numbers, and then just come back to lay siege from square one again. A

[vastaghen12]

Eh. Our goal is to keep them busy, and we already won one city, which is a bonus. No point taking a stupid risk like splitting our forces now. I'd rather crush these dweebs with overwhelming numbers, and then just come back to lay siege from square one again. A

Yeah I like these odds better

A