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[Tiruin]

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.

Either our King isn't a diplomatic trait person, or he suffered a natural 1.

A

Still stick to orders, be efficient, be supportive; our aims aren't land grabbing in our name--that's a bonus, our orders are to aid against Eist.

PPE: Vastaghen too.

Although...

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.

...How is this certain? It looks more like we can use our siege engines to hit the attacking enemies (LIKE LUATHBAS FOR SOME REASON [that I may be forgetting the specifics of :/]) and if we pack up and attack, we'll be making a nice show of force. We're aimed at the Eist garrison, not the city itself.

[Prophet]

A

[Haspen]

You order the siege to be lifted and the Army marches to meet with the advancing Eist units.

By the morning next day, your Army is in the open field, and scouts report that the Eist is aadvancing upon you, stretching its ranks into a long line rather than keeping them in one 'block'.

A) Then we will do the same and crush their thin linen thread with our thick knotted rope!
B) Let's send our footsoldiers against one flank while cavalry attacks the other.
C) What fools they are. We will smash right through the center with all our numbers and then annihilate the flanks!
D) Let's fortify our position and see just how a two thousand enemies will attack an almost five thousand strong camping army!

[Weirdsound]

They are up to something. Lets not walk into a trap. D.

[NUKE9.13]

What kind of trap? They intend to surround us, sitting still just means they are guaranteed to succeed. And on the open field, we aren't going to get much of a defensive bonus.
No, let's make full use of our cavalry advantage to crush one flank, whilst overwhelming the other flank with our greater numbers.

B

[Tiruin]

I'm betting secret Eistian weapon just like Damdamian ZEALOTS ANTI NON HUMANS and...err.

B

[ZBridges]

B

[Haspen]

You send the horsemen against one flank and your main Army against the other!

9!*

You utterly crush the Eist force! The Kashite skirmishers and archers launch several volleys of arrows nad javelins at you but then they get shredded into fine meat paste.

Your soldiers don't need much prompting to follow the ranks of Eist, which soon break apart and their officers, soldiers and mercenaries flee! One of your commanders rides up to you, and you decide to order a...

A) Resumption of the siege of Eachos.
B) Pursuit and slaughter of the fleeing Eist forces and their Kashite mercenaries.

[ZBridges]

A

[NUKE9.13]

A truly crushing victory may intimidate the city into giving up sooner. It shouldn't take too long to wipe them out, anyway.

B

[Tiruin]

You send the horsemen against one flank and your main Army against the other!

9!*

dat +3

A truly crushing victory may intimidate the city into giving up sooner. It shouldn't take too long to wipe them out, anyway.

B

^
Still following orders. Our goal isn't sieging cities. Also they're zealots so it's a perfect match for our orders!

B

[Harry Baldman]

B, just completely ruin their shit before getting back to sieging.

[Haspen]

You order the Army to go catch up with and annihilate the fleeing enemies.

3

They do a rather bad job at it. Hundred or so gets killed while many more than that manage to escape. Oh well.

962 AD, Late Autumn

The siege of Eachos continues after the battle with reinforcements was resolved.

962 AD, Winter

And it continues.

As the first snow begins to fall upon the roofs of your Army's tents, you receive two bits of news from the capital:

Your wife gave birth to another boy that she named Atan.

Your wife has been poisoned during or after a banquet of foods imported from Calvendocia! The Calvendocian merchants were arrested until the Spymaster's agents determined that Queen Stela was poisoned not by foreign spices but rather by quicksilver sneakily applied into her dishes. You decide to...

A) Call off the siege and return home at once to your pained wife.
B) Leave the Army under control of the Marshal and fly to the palace with handful of bodyguards.
C) Send your dearest wife a letter of love and a prayer for her health.

[Swordstar]

B

[NUKE9.13]

Hmm. I think the situation here is pretty much under control. Just sitting around a city doesn't require our tactical genius. And by the sound of things we are needed back home.

B