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Voting closed: August 15, 2019, 01:31:48 pm

[King Zultan]

Keep the atgeir wielders ready in case they charge again, and have the archers fire on the cataphracts.

[CABL]

Sorry for the delay in the updates, but my chest got bruised a day ago, and so I'll delay it until I fully recover.

[CABL]

((Uh-oh, yet another schedule slip! Better late than never, I guess.))

"The atgeir wielders keep their weapons protruded, but it seems that the cataphracts are retreating for good, even if they probably will be back once the infantry arrives. Your navigator/advisor, Sigurd, suggests going back to the boats and away from Byzantine Empire's de-jure territory, camping somewhere in The Steppes."

The reinforcements will arrive in 3 turns.

Spoiler: Current assets (click to show/hide)

Amount of ships: 13 (Every ship can take 80 people aboard, not counting the prisoners.)
Amount of food: 138 (Each 80 men consume 12.075 units of food per day/turn. In the current case, you have 948 troops, meaning that they should consume 12 units of food. However, I'll round the numbers down in the case of food consumption, with no exceptions to the rules.)
Unit types: 136 atgeir wielders, 267 heavy axemen, 48 housecarls, 30 elite infantry, 258 axe throwers/skirmishers, and 191 archers.
Ducats/Money: 2393.55 (Atgeir wielders/Pikemen-type troops cost 0.5 each, Heavy infantry cost - 0.3, Housecarls/Bodyguards/Elite Infantry - 1.3, Light Infantry/Skirmishers cost - 0.2, and Archers cost 0.15 each. In total, you currently have to pay 345.55 weekly.)
0 Prisoners (Each ship can take 25 prisoners on board. Prisoners can be either ransomed or donated to a local Norse temple for troops, officers, unique items, and even ships.)

[Weirdsound]

Will it be Day or Night in three turns?

[King Zultan]

I say we fall back to the boats and go to the steppes.

[MonkeyMarkMario]

I say we fall back to the boats and go to the steppes.

+1

[Funk]

I say we fall back to the boats and go to the steppes.

+1

+1

[CABL]

Will it be Day or Night in three turns?

It'll be Sunset for two next turns, then finally Evening and Night.

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"Listening to the advice, Tod and his warband abandon the little wooden fort they've made in hurry and begin to load themselves onto the longships of theirs. They sail up north and there, in the Steppes, they've immediately began to make an outpost. (5) Luckily, there seems to be no Khazar scouts or other steppe dwellers around."

You're currently in the process of establishing an outpost, and it's currently night.

Spoiler: Current assets (click to show/hide)

Amount of ships: 13 (Every ship can take 80 people aboard, not counting the prisoners.)
Amount of food: 138 (Each 80 men consume 12.075 units of food per day/turn. In the current case, you have 948 troops, meaning that they should consume 12 units of food. However, I'll round the numbers down in the case of food consumption, with no exceptions to the rules.)
Unit types: 136 atgeir wielders, 267 heavy axemen, 48 housecarls, 30 elite infantry, 258 axe throwers/skirmishers, and 191 archers.
Ducats/Money: 2393.55 (Atgeir wielders/Pikemen-type troops cost 0.5 each, Heavy infantry cost - 0.3, Housecarls/Bodyguards/Elite Infantry - 1.3, Light Infantry/Skirmishers cost - 0.2, and Archers cost 0.15 each. In total, you currently have to pay 345.55 weekly.)
0 Prisoners (Each ship can take 25 prisoners on board. Prisoners can be either ransomed or donated to a local Norse temple for troops, officers, unique items, and even ships.)

[King Zultan]

Lets build a small wall around our camp, set up some guards then go to sleep for the night.

[CABL]

"(6) The Norsemen have decided to create one single big fire pit instead of multiple but smaller ones. It doesn't go well, and the fire pit burns a little bit too bright and big, (3) burning a few unlucky ones who stood near it. (2) A distant horse neigh's heard, then it sounds like it has ran away. Perhaps the steppe brigands will have a good prey today."

-1 heavy axemen, -1 skirmisher. The sleep has been cancelled till the threat of the steppe bandits is dealt with.

Spoiler: Current assets (click to show/hide)

Amount of ships: 13 (Every ship can take 80 people aboard, not counting the prisoners.)
Amount of food: 138 (Each 80 men consume 12.075 units of food per day/turn. In the current case, you have 948 troops, meaning that they should consume 12 units of food. However, I'll round the numbers down in the case of food consumption, with no exceptions to the rules.)
Unit types: 136 atgeir wielders, 261 heavy axemen, 48 housecarls, 30 elite infantry, 257 axe throwers/skirmishers, and 191 archers.
Ducats/Money: 2393.55 (Atgeir wielders/Pikemen-type troops cost 0.5 each, Heavy infantry cost - 0.3, Housecarls/Bodyguards/Elite Infantry - 1.3, Light Infantry/Skirmishers cost - 0.2, and Archers cost 0.15 each. In total, you currently have to pay 345.05 weekly.)
0 Prisoners (Each ship can take 25 prisoners on board. Prisoners can be either ransomed or donated to a local Norse temple for troops, officers, unique items, and even ships.)

[Funk]

Form squares and shoot at any that attack us.

[King Zultan]

Form squares and shoot at any that attack us.

+1

[CABL]

"As the Norsemen form a square, a group of steppe marauders appear from the northeast. (1 VS 6) Norse archers have no luck shooting at the constantly moving horse archers, (5 VS 5) and the enemy retaliates with a bow fire of its own, but the shieldwall of heavy axemen negated the arrows. The steppe raiders keep making circles around the Vikings."

It's still night, no casualties.

Spoiler: Current assets (click to show/hide)

Amount of ships: 13 (Every ship can take 80 people aboard, not counting the prisoners.)
Amount of food: 138 (Each 80 men consume 12.075 units of food per day/turn. In the current case, you have 948 troops, meaning that they should consume 12 units of food. However, I'll round the numbers down in the case of food consumption, with no exceptions to the rules.)
Unit types: 136 atgeir wielders, 261 heavy axemen, 48 housecarls, 30 elite infantry, 257 axe throwers/skirmishers, and 191 archers.
Ducats/Money: 2393.55 (Atgeir wielders/Pikemen-type troops cost 0.5 each, Heavy infantry cost - 0.3, Housecarls/Bodyguards/Elite Infantry - 1.3, Light Infantry/Skirmishers cost - 0.2, and Archers cost 0.15 each. In total, you currently have to pay 345.05 weekly.)
0 Prisoners (Each ship can take 25 prisoners on board. Prisoners can be either ransomed or donated to a local Norse temple for troops, officers, unique items, and even ships.)

[Weirdsound]

Inquire as to if anybody in our posse can speak the local language. Vikings tend to be pretty well traveled, so we could get lucky. Diplomacy is the right play here. Nomadic Horsemen likely have little of value for us to take. Perhaps we can talk them into a joint raid against the Byzantine borderlands.

Otherwise, stay in formation and retreat back to the boats, only engaging if they charge us. Can we sail through to the Mediterranean? If so, Sardinia might be a good target.

[King Zultan]

Inquire as to if anybody in our posse can speak the local language. Vikings tend to be pretty well traveled, so we could get lucky. Diplomacy is the right play here. Nomadic Horsemen likely have little of value for us to take. Perhaps we can talk them into a joint raid against the Byzantine borderlands.

Otherwise, stay in formation and retreat back to the boats, only engaging if they charge us. Can we sail through to the Mediterranean? If so, Sardinia might be a good target.

+1