Playing the Floris mod for Mount & Blade:Warband. Running my own faction, only have Dhirim and Ergellon castle, so all holdings are crucial. Bitter war with the Swadians is raging, it's all I can do to ride back and forth along the front, regularly charging into battle with 2-1 odds or worse, only winning because every last soldier I have is a war hardened bastard. The news comes: Dhirim is under siege. Race back, recruiting at every location on the way, dumping items and slower units for just a few points of travel speed - the best soldier can't help if he doesn't arrive to the fight. There are roughly 1100 Swadian soldiers on hand, maybe 500 of them are low tier levees that don't matter, the rest are good enough to go man to man against my forces, a good 100 are very high tier units that I will personally need to engage. My garrison plus my force numbers 350. I fully expect to lose every last one of my men, see my capitol looted, and my nation dissolved. But I fight anyways, and the battle goes surprisingly well. Over the span of four hours, the first wave comes and is repulsed, the enemy losing some 200 of their fodder, my forces taking no deaths but suffering some 30 men too wounded to fight. A reprieve of a half day. Another wave. 150 of theirs for 40 of ours. Their better units are coming in now, and we have already reached the tipping point. Another reprieve. Third wave. Reprieve. Fourth wave. They still number nearly 400, and we number 100, but their men are fresh while ours are battered and in low spirits. And then, during what I thought would be the final reprieve, the last gasp of a dying dream, in rides 2200 Sarranid soldiers, hell bent on wrecking Swadian shit and willing to attack the siege camps for what I assume to be "the lulz". I rode out and joined them in their attack, and managed to capture the Swadian king for it. I don't know how to end this story. I guess now I regroup, build numbers, and pre-empt any more sieges.
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