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The second FR! battle we had was Corey (Dwarves) and I (Human Medieval) in
which the Dwarves got flattened.
Battle #2: The Duchess of Southfold's War on the Dwarves
750pt
Dwarves (Corey) vs. 750pt Medieval
Humans (Brian).
The Duchess of Southfold did declare war upon the Dwarves, declaring that
Dwarves were offensive, thieving, braggartly, and furthermore were foul to look
upon. Summoning a great host of knights (4 Knights), her personal knightly
retinue (2 Elite Knights) a lesser host of lowly footmen (4 Handweapons, 1 Mob
of peasants), and many of the great nobles of the land, including Sir Danel,
Master of Horse (Hero w/ Exeptional Weapon), Sir Vilheim, Master of Foot (Hero)
and the ignoble but skilled illusionist Sarnain (1st Level Illusionist Hedge
Mage), she did lead her troops against the offensive Dwarves. (the Duchess was
her own General.)
Greatly alarmed at this mighty host, the Thane of Greymount (General)
mustered a great host of axedwarves (6 Handweapon), his personal Guard (1 Elite
Handweapon), the crossbowdwarves (3 Xbow), a party of Bearriders (1 Hvy Cav,
causes fear), and his great battlewagon (Battlewagon w/ Hvy Arty). The great
heroes of the realm accompanied him (2 Heroes), as did a Cleric of the Wargod
(1st Lvl War Cleric).
The human army moved through great woods towards the River Flueve, which was
entirely fordable at this, the height of summer. The footmen did hang back, not
desiring to combat the superior Dwarven forces, whilst the great body of
Knights, lead by the Duchess and her Master of Horse and the illusionist
Sarnain, did crash through the forest in hope of outflanking the Dwarves.
The Dwarves had drawn up their great infantry battleline, with crossbows on
the flanks and a smaller party of axedwarves in reserve, and hoped to move
forward to contact the knights whilst they were still struggling to leave the
river. Sarnian, however, skillfully cast illusions, which had the appearance of
great walls of flames, and did prevent much of the movement the Dwarves had
hoped to make.
Thus the knights were able to cross the river and deploy unmolested, and form
up great ranks to thunder upon the Dwarves, spitting them with lances and
trampling them underfoot. The knightly ranks did wrap entirely around the
Dwarven line, and the further part of the Dwarven line fell before the knights,
yet the knights were greatly in disarray from their charge, and there were still
many Dwarves upon their flanks.
Furthermore, a party of Dwarven Bearriders had come over a great hill and
fallen upon the human footmen far behind. The great warrior Vilheim, who was
Master of Foot for the Duchess, slew the Dwarf Razan Bearrider in epic single
combat, but was lost when the vengeful Bearriders destroyed his men about him.
Despite their loss and the terror the bears stirred in men's guts., the footmen
continued to hold off the Bears.
All might still have been lost if it had not been for the skillfully cast
illusions of Sarnian, who made it seem as if great lines and walls of fire
blocked the Dwarven advance, thus allowing the knights to dress their lines and
fall upon the enemy again. Thus trapped between great lines of knights and the
river, their own lines in terrible dissarray, the Dwarves fled, or fell, or
surrendered, each according to his own fate.
More battle reports coming soon.
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