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[Kashyyk]

A - Indeed. Shame we can't buy some mercenaries as well

[Elephant Parade]

inb4 we're wounded and Sickly kills us

[Haspen]

inb4 we're wounded and Sickly kills us

He he he.


You loudly declare your readiness to lead your men into battle - it's been way too long!

The councilmen yell in excitement and soon the news of your departure spread.


Congratulations! Cyrus has embarked on a military campaign!

Queen Dugda, the Advisor and rest of the court will try their best to keep the kingdom running well during his absence.

505 AD, One Week Later

You're thankful to the Creator that the winter this year is quite mild. The snow cover is only ankle-deep, making travel on foot or by horse quite easy.

Along with you is the two thousand troop of best fighters and most agile scouts, the rest left at the capital to respond to any sneak attacks or other threats.

Within a week, you reach the northernmost reaches of your kingdom, and witness the carnage yourself; burnt-down homesteads and sheds, and unburied corpses of livestock and men. Scouts arrive few hours after you leave one of such ruined villages; a marauding troop of Wildmen is skulking in northwest.

"How many?"

"At least five score, my liege." Says the scout from the top of his horse.

"Burdened?"

"Nay, we saw neither luggage nor captives amongst them. Me and my fellows wager it be a fresh raiding party en route to destroy another settlement."

A) "Pass this message to the soldiers left behind, we move on."
B) "They won't get the chance! After them!"

[Elephant Parade]

B

[ZBridges]

B

[King Zultan]

B

[Haspen]

"They won't get the chance! After them!"

Your forces are led by the scouts towards the raiding party, and you manage to catch them in a hilly terrain!

8!*

It is a short and brutal fight because Wildmen do not have any rules for combat. Arrows, axes, stones and fists are used by them against your axemen and spearmen.

But it obvious that they die as easily as any other man. Later that day, 138 corpses of Wildmen, older and younger, women and men, are counted, whilst 25 of your soldiers won't be returning home.

139th Wildman was wounded, captured and interrogated by some of your nothernly soldiers who know a few Wildmen words.

"Camp by brook in forest, camp by sunrise mountains, camp by meadow in shade of forest, my lord." They explain what they've learned, and your scouts are dispatched to find these camps as the last Wildman is put to axe.

505 AD, Three Days Later

As your army moves into forested terrain, leaving meadows and roads behind, the scouts return with full report.

"We've scouted the areas described by the Wildman. There is indeed a camp of Wildmen up north, deeper in the forest, on the side of a brook. And another, to the east of it, at the base of the eastern mountains."

"And the meadow one?"

"We found remnants of a large encampment, old firepits and leftover bones and skins, but whatever group of Wildmen was there moved days ago. By the size of disturbed ground and amount of firepits there must've been at least two hundred of them there."

"How about the other camps?"

"They're much smaller, perhaps as little as few dozen each in both camps."

A) "I shall lead one half of the army to the brook, the other strikes east!"
B) "I shall lead one half of the army to the mountains, the other strikes north!"
C) "We need to find the biggest group and eradicate it first!"
D) "Let's return south for the time being and see when and where the Wildmen move next."

[Elephant Parade]

C

[ZBridges]

C

[King Zultan]

C

[Prophet]

C

[Ixarys]

as the last Wildman is put to axe.

Damn we're here for total extermination uh.
C.

[Haspen]

"We need to find the biggest group and eradicate it first!" Your officers nod along, seeing this as a wisest of choices possible, and scouts are dispatched again.

505 AD, Three Days Afterwards

The scouts return as your army is preparing camp.

"My lord, dire news! It seems that the smaller camps were abandoned and we spotted a great host of Wildmen marching in uniform southwards, almost directly for you and your forces!"

"What's the sudden change?"

"It seems they've got some smart brute shouting at them." Says another scout. "A warleader or some other champion with some actual grease in his skull."

"How large is the host?"

"It seems to be all three camps combined, about three and half to four hundred, my liege."

A) "They're marching to battle, so we shall meet them in battle! Onwards!"
B) "Let us set camp and prepare for the coming battle!"
C) "We shall retreat south to make them tired and annoyed first!"

[Elephant Parade]

A

[Ixarys]

Let’s not underestimate the shrewdness barbarians can have. B!