Leader: King Bearskin, the High Druid
Hail, your Majesty. Long live the King. Whilst your were recovering, your orders were carried out by a close advisor, focusing the entirety of your mobile troops in Alestrom South and beginning a massive campaign of shipbuilding in the port of Mitre as well. Under your auspicious, vast sums have been collected from your allies and vassals to put the project into motion; a fleet capable of destroying the Dread Pirate Roberts once and for all.
The Dread Pirate however has his own designs. Anticipating the construction of new vessels, he leaves a single galleon behind to conduct raids on Gasket and the capital (which it does) and sails with the full force of his fleet straight to where Captain Simo's fleet awaits their new comrades-in-arms.
The galleon advanced at ramming speed, black sails taut with the wind. Brentish arrows clattered off its sides as the pirate knelt behind cover. Commodore Simo raised his cavalry sabre to rally the men for the ensuing melee.
"For the New Empire!" he cried, dusklight glinting from the gilt buttons on his uniform. "For the King! For Justice!"
The galleon connected with a heavy crunch, the ramming spike driving into the side of the ship. A scream from below decks testified to the fate of those crewmen in its path. On the prow of the Queen Mary a figure stood, cutlass raised in dark mimicry of the Commodore's cry.
"For Gold!" roared the dread pirate. "For Glory! For Me!"
The two commanders fought their way towards each other through the thick press of bodies, hacking down anyone that stood between them. Simo in his white Commodore's uniform, Roberts in a black greatcoat with an emblazoned red rose.
"Simo!" Roberts called across the battle. "We meet again! It's been too long, old adversary!"
"Not long enough!" Simo cried back in between barking orders to his subordinates. He leapt through a momentary gap in the bodies and slashed at Roberts with his sabre. The dread pirate parried expertly but Simo recovered in time to dodge the riposte.
"Rest assured, Roberts, it will be the last time we meet!"
"Don't be so pessimistic, old chap!" Roberts feinted with the cutlass, his true stroke missing Simo by a hair's breadth. "You might live through this one yet!"
The battle shifted and a handful of fighting sailors and archers interposed themselves between the two captains. Roberts found himself pressed into a defense by archers with short blades, Simo retreating towards the Queen Mary. The dread pirate issued some commands and fought his way through to the Commodore once again.
"After all," Roberts said, punctuating his speech with a thrust from the cutlass (again parried by Simo), "who would I gloat to? These fellows make stout fighters, but they haven't the first appreciation for a soliloquy!"
"Gods above, not the gloating again!" Simo launched into a series of quick slashes with the sabre. "I am sick! and! tired! of all the gods-damned! gloating!"
Roberts, pressed up against the mast, kicked out sharply with his boot. Simo doubled over reflexively, just long enough for Roberts' cutlass hilt to strike him hard across the temple. He blacked out.
"Get used to it, Simo. You might be my guest for a very long time."
Dread Pirate and Brentish forces engage.
Dread Pirate Forces
Galleon: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
Mariners: 6 Intact, 0 Damaged
Pirates: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
Roberts the Dread Pirate
Brentish Forces
Trireme: 6 Intact, 0 Damaged
Archers: 3 Intact, 0 Damaged
Cpt Simo the Cavalier
Roberts the Dread Pirate and Cpt Simo the Cavalier engage in single combat!
Both heroes exchange blows but emerge intact.
A Brentish Trireme [Cpt Simo] has defeated a Dread Pirate Galleon [Roberts], but sustained heavy damage. [72 vs 72]
Roberts the Dread Pirate and Cpt Simo the Cavalier engage in single combat!
Roberts the Dread Pirate remains standing whilst Cpt Simo the Cavalier is crippled by wounds.
A Dread Pirate Galleon [Roberts] has defeated a Brentish Trireme, but sustained heavy damage. [79 vs 77]
A Dread Pirate Galleon [Roberts] has defeated a Brentish Archers, but sustained heavy damage. [99 vs 87]
A Dread Pirate Mariners [Roberts] has utterly destroyed a Brentish Archers! [72 vs 56]
A Dread Pirate Mariners [Roberts] has utterly destroyed a Brentish Archers! [86 vs 68]
A Dread Pirate Pirates [Roberts] has utterly destroyed a Brentish Trireme! [86 vs 39]
A Dread Pirate Pirates [Roberts] has defeated a Brentish Trireme, but sustained heavy damage. [66 vs 62]
A Dread Pirate Pirates [Roberts] has utterly destroyed a Brentish Trireme! [121 vs 75]
A Brentish Trireme has defeated a Dread Pirate Pirates [Roberts], but sustained heavy damage. [71 vs 71]
Roberts the Dread Pirate has been wounded in combat.
Dread Pirate Forces
Galleon: 0 Intact, 3 Damaged
Mariners: 6 Intact, 0 Damaged
Pirates: 1 Intact, 2 Damaged
Roberts the Dread Pirate [Wounded]
Brentish Forces
Trireme: 0 Intact, 4 Damaged
Archers: 0 Intact, 1 Damaged
Cpt Simo the Cavalier [Wounded]
The attackers have crushed all resistance.
1 Trireme has escaped to the South Alestrom channel.
1 Trireme has been captured.
The battle was a near-pyhrric victory for the pirates, as although they were successful in destroying all but a single Free Tempests vessel which retreated to the waters south of South Alestrom, the main force of their galleons was damaged beyond their ability to travel with them. Reports from the survivors suggests that the majority of the sea dogs fled by longboat, probably aiming for one of the nearby shores. Captain Simo has been captured by the Dread Pirate, but reports also suggest that Roberts was wounded in the conflict himself.
State Religion: EmpirismTerritoriesBrent L (£500/turn): Palace, Fishery. Fish. [Empirism]
(+£25/turn from fish)
(+£100: Fishery)
Empirism Holy Site: £40 in tithes.
Brent S (£234/turn): Market.
(+£37/turn from Market)
(upk: -£61)
Brent U (£287/turn): Walls, Deep Mine, Forge. Coal.
(+£14/turn from coal)
(+£400: Deep Mine)
(+£92/turn from Forge)
(upk: -£10)
Brent N (£137/turn):
Sutter E (£252/turn): Market.
(+£40/turn from Market)
(upk: -£50)
Alestrom S (£275/turn): 1 light axemen, 1 light cavalry, 3 galleon, 9 mariners, 1 war bears. Bearskin the Druid. Market.
(+£44/turn from Market)
(upk: -£1519)
Lester S (£256/turn): Mine, Forge, Fortifications. Marble.
(+£13/turn from marble)
(+£200: Mine)
(+£82/turn from Forge)
(upk: -£20)
Maver S (£177/turn): 1 spearmen. Lumber.
(+£9/turn from lumber)
(upk: -£20)
Finances:Cash Reserves: £117
Revenue: +£3214
Trade Pact(Vremya): +£6
Trade Pact(Taikeni): +£14 [Access copper, game, iron, wine]
Trade Pact(Free Tempest): +£15 [Access grain, fish, wine, ivory]
Trade Pact(Foul): +£12 [Access iron, stone, cattle]
Trade Pact(United): +£21 [Access copper, pottery, cloth]
Trade Pact(Greenblood): +£11 [Access marble, silver, spices]
Raids: -£896
Upkeep: -£1680 [1 light axemen, 1 light cavalry, 3 galleon, 9 mariners, 1 war bears, 1 spearmen. Bearskin the Druid. 3 market, 1 walls, 1 fortifications.]
Total: £834
TechnologiesWeaponsmithy I
Nature Magic [Foundation]
Summon War Bears
Marketplaces
Glazing I
Mariners
Fermentation I
Diplomacy I
Mechanics I
Sea Travel Ii
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Topic: Fiefdoms @ War: Turn 15 (Read 127570 times)