>>15640125
>I derped, it should be "evening" not "morning"

Again, you glance down at the list Captain Corinth has provided.

Ramon:

Knights 50/50
Chainmail, Spears, Javelins, Circleshields, Velociprey

Archer Mercenaries 200/200
Leathers, Shortswords, Longbows

Archer Mercenaries 200/200
Leathers, Combat Axes, Composite bows

Vistyek:

Ramon Vistyek's Personal Guard 50/50
Pegasi, Scalemail, Lances, Javelins, Greatswords

Knights 50/50
Surecoat over Breastplate & Chainmail, Bucklers, Sabres, Javelins, Velociprey, Elves

Knights 50/50
Scale-mail, Falchions, Heater Shileds, Composite Bows, Horses

Knights 50/50
Scale-mail, Falchions, Heater Shileds, Composite Bows, Horses

Knights 10/50
Surecoat over Breastplate & Chainmail, Bucklers, Sabres, Javelins, Velociprey, Elves

Knights 35/50
Chainmail, Greatswords, Javelins, Lances, Pegasi

Elven Riders 100/100
Velociprey, Leathers, Javelins, Falchions, Circle Shields, Spears

Elven Light Infantry 160/160
Leathers, Falchions, Circleshields

Elven Light Infantry 160/160
Leathers, Falchions, Circleshields


Zales:

Knights 20/50
Scalemail, Poleaxes, Sabres, Heater Shields, Griffons, Elves

Armored Sergants 200/200
Surecoats over Breastplate & Chainmail, Falchions, Circleshileds

Armored Sergants 200/200
Surecoats over Breastplate & Chainmail, Falchions, Circleshileds

Armored Sergants 200/200
Surecoats over Breastplate & Chainmail, Falchions, Circleshileds

Mercenaries 200/200
Chainmail, Crossbows, Pavises, Broadswords

Mercenaries 200/200
Chainmail, Crossbows, Pavises, Falchions

Are the flying units in close support formation, or are they ranging out as recon?

Also, what's the status of our own flying units?

If possible, I want to attack them over the course of two days: tonight, we get our artillery in range, set of a few salvos, then GTFO. Maybe have the Skywings do some night-time bombing runs.

Then we move ahead of the enemy during the night, and prepare to meet them during the day.

>>15640311
Actually, scratch that idea about doing harassing artillery strikes.

Instead, we have some of the autowagons just circle around the enemy camp, well beyond their engagement range but close enough that they can hear the sounds of the autowagons.
Our reputation will be enough to make the enemy commander's paranoia go into overdrive, as they try to figure out what we're doing in the darkness of night.
They'll put their camp on high alert, and so will not be rested when morning comes.

We have a reputation as being a Roman Viet Cong commander; let's use that to our advantage to mess with the enemy's head.

>>15640367
Oh, and just in case, we should probably move the entire maniple in the night.
We can move much faster than the enemy can march, so we can get so far ahead of the enemy that even though we marched through the night, we'll have gotten more sleep and rest overall.
If we're using Vohzd Lennis and his nomads as recon now, I'd like to task them with this psyop. Also, if it ends up riling the enemy so much that they send a force out to see what we're doing, Lennis can get to us, we can get a force of archers together, kill the pursuing force in the darkness, and then continue with the operation.

I'm gonna assume they have the same mystic they did last time we fought this group. Any ideas how to deal with him?

>>15640462
Make the battle a highly defensive one, so that he can't last?
The problem is how many life elementalists he has acting as batteries; if we can make the battle last long enough for him to use up all of the life elementalists, and then himself, we might be able to kill him with an artillery strike.
The problem is, preventing the enemy from retreating for that long. That part I haven't figured out yet.

>>15640488
Hmm...we COULD keep our air units back, until that time, and then have them attack from the flank.
They'd have to wait anyway, what with all of that massed ranged fire.
Maybe use the 'iron rain' idea on the archers from a safe altitude?

If they leave camp while it is still dark we might be able to hit them during the night. In which case the mystic will count for very little. Blackbird might be able to cook up something too.

If we just allow them to fight a normal pitched battle they will probably just do what they did last time.

>bump for a more solid idea, and its not Zales, like the diamond store, its more like gonzales, without the gon part.

>I just cant be assed to find the right unicode code to get the line above the a

What's the wind like, Pax?
Is there a strong, steady wind?

>The wind is almost nonexistent
>and since I haven't given you one yet, here's the current campaign map

>>15640754
If we packed up and rode out now, how far ahead of them could we get by morning?

What kind of moon will it be tonight?

Strangely important since it might make or break a night raid/attack

>A few hours march ahead of them

>Half-moon, no clouds

>>15640367
>>15640407

I like it!

Seconding unless NGoDs decides to make changes, in which case i second those changes

>>15640885
>Half-moon, no clouds
If we were fighting elven archers, I would scrap my psyop plan immediately.
But since we're dealing with human archers and crossbowmen, we might still be able to pull off this stunt.

Let's put the plan before our command staff, see what they think. And if we're going to be a few hours ahead of the enemy, we'll have time to build some defenses and rest up. Maybe even prepare a ring of fire for when the enemy arrives.
Two concentric rings of earth, one close in towards us, and the other far out. The earth rings will act as fire breaks, and since we'll be safe within the inner ring, we can let the Uurlanthi get into the killzone, then set the grass on fire.

>>15640927
It's either that, or we don't bother with a prepared position. We stay on the move, attacking them when they're on the march, or at camp trying to sleep.
We act like bandits doing drive-by artillery strikes.

You eventually take in a deep breath and begin "You can sleep while the maniple moves, my friends. We are going to mount up as quickly as possible, and depart to interpose ourselves between the Uurlanthi force and Degnar. We will prepare a defense in the time we have between our arrival and our foes arrival at our location."

Most of your staff is silent for a time, before Gaius speaks up "How prepared will this defense be, if it is to obvious it will just encourage them to try to circumvent us, which will lead to us chasing them down, and wasting effort."

Blackbird nods "I can prepare some traps, but it will not be of any quality compared to what I have done with more time."

Finian scratches at his beard "The enemy is mostly medium infantry from Port Placid, so it would be more taxing than the previous battles of this campaign, but simply fighting them traditionally may be a wise choice here. We cannot afford for these dogs to get too close to Degnar."

Sansa chuckles "Perhaps we can use our rather frightening reputation, and some extra autowagons to keep our foes from sleeping soundly while we set our own temporary camp." You nod in approval.

Captain Corinth grins "Combine that with the night raids we have been preparing..." Blackbird quickly glances over to Degrian, who releases his odd approximation of a chuckle and shakes his head.

>>15640927

what about a night of psyops/ambushes and IRON RAIN, then following up with a daytime/nighttime attack on their column/camp, depending on how our nighttime shenanigans go?

>>15641094
What if...we stayed out of engagement range?
We use psyops for two nights, evading the enemy and not engaging except for light skirmishes between recon units and trapped fields, forcing the enemy to detour.

Then as the sun begins to set on the third day, we attack them, so that the sun is behind us, and they're tired from a day of marching.

>>15641130

lets do it.

seconding.

... where the hell is everyone else?

>>15641148
>I have no idea. Hoping things will pick up soon (things will be getting alot more... lively after this campaign. If any lurkers feel like jumping out of the shadows, now would be the time)

You stop nodding in agreement, to frown, and look down at the map, before interjecting "Perhaps my plan was too... eager. We ride west until tomorrow night, then travel for another day to interpose ourselves between our homeland and this enemy force. We spend the time between our camp being set up, and our foes arriving harrasing their minds and bodies night and day. By the time they reach us..."

Cornelius grins wickedly, almost matching Blackbirds feral grin "It wont even be a contest, let alone a battle."

Jayne nods "We will need to inform the other Commanders, lest they think we are deserting."

>>15641259
Right. Let's get a runner to take a message with the outline of our plan to the other commanders.
Then I believe it's time we move out.
Inform Vohzd Lennis of his role in the psyop, and I think we're all set.

>>15641280

seconding

Oh, thank god. It's CQ.

>>15641280

That's the plan for us, it sounds like.

You nod "Jayne, Sansa, my loves, would one of you be so kind as to see that a runner goes to the other commanders, and the other start the maniple into motion?"

Both women nod and Sansa speaks up "I'll get the soldiers moving, Justinian."

At that, the command staff begins to disperse captain Corinth makes his way to you "With Vohzd Lennis working the spare autowagons, and Blackbird trapping and harassing on land, does that mean that the night attacks for my wing, and the other aerial wings be moving on our foes?"

Before you can reply, you notice Degrian laughing directly at Blackbird. the big orc is actually... embarrassed looking. The strangeness of the scene thoroughly shatters your chain of thought, causing Corinth to start trying to get your attention, looking rather worried.

>>15641538
Yes, I'd like him to do the bombing night-time raids.

Preferably if he can schedule things with Lennis so that sometimes, the raids will happen when the autowagons can be heard, other times when they can't, and every once in a while he just does a fly-by without dropping anything.

We want to keep the Uurlanthi guessing at what's going to happen next.

>>15641538
"That is correct. I want to leave nothing left of this particular force when we're through with them."

Once we've placated him, let's see about Degrian and Blackbird

You nod in agreement "Correct. You have command when you are in the sky, and I would like for you to cordinate with Vohzd Lennis if at all possible so that our foes both hear the clatter of autowagons, and are struck at from the sky at the same time, if only once."

The man nods, before glancing in the direction you are "I'm truly not certain what is more terrifying, that orc, or that orc trying so desperately to hide fear of something."

You sigh "The fact that he has fear makes him far and away the less frightening of the two." and at that, you set off to talk with the two.

"... assure you, my friend. I told Commander not possible a-" You hear Degrain explaining through gasped breaths.

"You were trying to make it possible" Blackbird rumbles out "And I will not throw myself from a living, healthy mount hundreds of yards from the ground, and trust parchment to-"

Degrian breaks out into another fit of laughter, cutting the orc off "Keep you from dying, yes yes. You say many times before." Blackbird opens his mouth, burt again Degrian laughs, and holds up a long hand "Especially when you can approach a foe with greater stealth on land, and have better chance of surviving."

You stifle a laugh as you realize what it was that had the old clan orc so worried, who turns to you, doing his best to collect himself "Order mye to ride a pegasus, valkerie, gryphon... Shintjas cavernus cunt I'd even wrangle and ride one of the flying things the Loukys ride through the sky if you command it. Provided I wont have to leap from the damned thing for some entirely to logical reason you would give me." Degrian breaks into another fit of laughter.

>>15641575

seconding

>>15641686
Laugh. A lot. "Blackbird, that's what's gotten you so worried? Ah, wow. We're probably a long way from being able to do that, but I figure you would test such a system with large fruits and livestock first. Until a goat could land safely with one, I wouldn't give it to a sapient being."

>>15641711
seconding
>for torke mccoy
We must fight in his name!

>>15641686
"Ha! Don't worry so much about that, Blackbird. It was mostly just an idea I had on trying to cut my losses when it comes to trained Valkyrie riders. We'll test it on dummies first, of course.
"Now, I'll leave you to your work. Hopefully sometime soon in the future, Kyria will have created a steambow that you can use to kill mages while they're preoccupied with us."

>>15641686
"Don't worry Blackbird. Even if it were ready, I wouldn't ask you to do it just yet. You wouldn't even be trained in using it. If Degrian can make the idea feasible, it opens up a lot of options for the future but right now I don't need you to do anything like that. I just need you to make these Uurlanth dogs fear the dark when you make your strikes."

"It was just an idea for getting infantry quickly across a large body of water, and into enemy territory. Don't worry about it."

I think it would be good to get our raiders to coordinate. Lennis's men and horses could just pull the auto-wagons around and scout. They probably shouldn't get anywhere near bow range of the enemy camp. Our valks will drop steel rain from the air. If the enemy sends out cavalry to investigate or attack our auto-wagons, Blackbird's men can spring up from the tall grass and ambush the riders. The auto-wagons can just outrun any enemy infantry patrols.

>>15641829
Yes.
The enemy has a lot of velociprey; Lennis must avoid getting into combat with them as much as possible.

Having Blackbird work with Lennis sounds like a good idea; ask his opinion on it, and have him do it if he thinks it can work.

Idea: I recall that "sacred" fire would disturb the arcane mists, which would in turn disturb mage vision. Would Laelith be able to "bottle" that, so that we can drop sacred fire bombs from the air, and start a fire inside the enemy camp that screws with mage vision?

That would give our valks a lot of cover against enemy mages.

You allow yourself to laugh, long and hard, before you reply "Dont worry my friend... I would test on livestock and foodstuffs before I even considered putting such a device to use. Even then , it would be mostly to save the lives of experienced Valkerie riders."

Blackbird noticeably relaxes "Those poor cows..." he eventually chuckles out. All three of you begin to laugh hysterically at the mental image of a cow falling from the sky, a torn sheet of parchment trailing behind it on its fatal journey to land.

-----CQ-----

Before the night is terribly old, the autowagons are rolling westward, most of your camp packed and on the wagons. Most of the soldiers are sleeping soundly, despite the terrible clamor the wagons are throwing up. That night, as you ride watch with Jayne, not too long after your aerial wings depart, gasps, and points to the northeast. You look to see a series of brilliant lights spring up on the plains. "That cant be a good thing." Jayne remarks, nervously.

You force a smile "But the arcana will be useful to capture." Jayne moves to reply, but a commotion near the back of the column draws your attention.

OH boy, What's going on behind us? Can we get eyes on target?

>>15641887
Ride back and see what's going on.

And I hope that it's just big searchlight arcana, and not actual AA arcana.

>>15641887
Urgh. Methinks our poor aerial cav wing is going to get mauled. Again. We never have any luck with air units it seems. Let's go see what's going on in the rear.

You sigh "Lets see what the commotion is, love." Jayne heaves her own sigh, and turns Stormcloud about to follow you and Spite. When you reach the commotion, you see a handful of men leaping from wagon to wagon, knives in hand. You see other men groggily trying to beat them back. From what you can see, these infiltrators had attached themselves to the kitchen tents. Jayne stretches out her polehammer to stove in the chest of one of the infiltrators as he attempts to leap to another wagon.

She shakes her head "What did these fools hope to accomplish with this ploy?" You draw your blade as you attempt to count the jumpy bastards. 7 you settle on. Then you change your count to six as one of Gaius men impales an infiltrator as he approaches the wagon that battalion had been riding on.

They might have poisoned our food supplies or cooking utensils. Have Crestus and the medics look everything over before the cooks make breakfast.

Are you waiting for a combat roll Pax?

rolled 77 = 77

>>15642083
Combat time then I guess. Let's try to take one alive if we can and see what exactly they were planning... This seems to silly for the enemy to do.

>>15642111
Sigh... Maybe see if this can be botched or something since I don't think we're hitting combat tonight.

>>15641920
If it's just search lights, we can make regular smoke bombs too.

rolled 11 = 11

>>15642083
Elementalism roll.
Stone arrows, catch the jumpers in mid-flight.

rolled 61 = 61

Botch? I guess?

>>15642115
I think we're getting more combat whether we like it or not. The battle was supposed to be last thread.

>>15642138
Then don't botch.

You shake your head "Their deaths, perhaps, making a report to their lordlings... I cant fathom the minds of fools this late." you eventually settle on. You slash out at a leaping infiltrator, and succeed in missing him entirely. Unfortunately for him, your stone arrows do not miss, as that infiltrator, and the one on the far side of the wagon, and just behind him are punctured in several places, then fall to the ground, then are swiftly crushed by the autowagon they had been trying to reach.

Jayne chuckles "So when you have bad ideas, not even you are able to understand yourself, love?"

You smirk, lashing out at, and missing, another infiltrator "When have I ever had bad ideas, love?"

rolled 98 = 98

>>15642182
Bah, more rolls?
Elementalism, Stone Arrows.

rolled 66 = 66

>>15642182
This is why I said we shouldn't use elementalism around the wagons! BOTCH! BOTCH!

rolled 70 = 70

Botch time?

rolled 97 = 97

Fuck it. Rolling for combat.

rolled 62 = 62

>>15642251
>>15642190
Fucking /tg dice.

rolled 70 = 70

GOD. FUCKING. DAMNIT.

rolled 52 = 52

Fuck. I think we should botch combat instead of elementalism.
We have the 'No Friendly Fire' trait, so with a 98 or lower, we won't harm our own men.
But we don't have a physical combat equivalent.

I do not think that we should botch because we might get into battle today which has a greater chance of fucking us over on a bad roll than this.

>>15642288
Maybe.
But such a critically bad roll also carries with it the chance of injuring us.

Ugh. Let's botch our combat roll. We can't hit our own dudes with elementalism unless we do really spectacularly bad, at least.

Nay on botch, you butterfingers. Battle will happen this thread.

Jayne shakes her head "My infallible husband..." she deadpans, catching another leaping assassin as he attempts to escape. another infiltrator falls to one of Gaius' soldiers spears, screaming in agony. Being behind the wagons now, you attempt to raise some stone spikes to impale the last infiltrator. Unfortuanately, light of foot, and level-headedly, the man sets a foot down on the tip, and leaps off of it. You attempt to raise more spikes to impale him, but the man continues to bound from point to point, nearly outpacing Spite. Nearly. However, as you run him down, he wheels about, and throws a dagger at you, and you can feel it bite into your shield-arms shoulder blade, feel the burn as the toxin seeps into your body. You curse silently, and immediately begin struggling to stay awake. You have no clue what it is, but the toxin is so...

-----CQ-----

You wake up in the medicae tent, Jayne fretting over you, Kyria, Sansa, Laelith, and Lena all inside the tent, looking worried. Outside, you can hear the rest of your command staff muttering nervously. You try to open your mouth, but your lips crack, and your throat and tongue refuse to form words. Sansa shakes her head, and hands you a glass phial of water "We are camped a few hours west of the uurlanthi force. The raids were successful, but with the lighting arcana they have, not nearly as effective as we had hoped."

"However, I am certain that their mystic is still passed out from the effort it took him to keep the arcana, and the lordling in command safe." Laelith adds, moving to rest a hand on your shoulder.

Doing your best to ignore the gesture, you push yourself up "When can I-" and you fall back to your cot.

Jayne shakes her head "Less than an hour, love... let me do my work."

Sansa chuckles "You would do well to think while you can, by the time you are up, we will likely be able to see the enemy force on the horizon."

If we're hitting combat, don't do a botch. We'll need it for battle I bet. Elementalism on their cavalry will be required...

"Lightning arcana? Describe it to me."

>>15642419
"Tell me more about their lightning arcana as well as how the raid went. Did they only use that arcana you mentioned or did they have anything else up their sleeve?"

... Was Justinian out for a whole day, then?

>>15642454
Second. We need more info.
It sounds like we were knocked out for 2 days.

>>15642419
Pax do you mean Lighting or Lightning?
>>15642448
Also seconding.

>>15642469
>Lighting as in, turn on the ____

You frown "How long was I unconscious?"

"Too long" Sansa replies.

"Two days" Lena mumbles out nervously.

You sigh deeply, and fight the urge to sit up "Describe the arcana to me."

Jayne nods her head towards teh door, and Kyria wanders out, returning briefly with Captain Corinth. the man takes a steadying breath, and rubs his eyes with the hand that had been covering them "Long staffs, perhaps four feet. they were studded with strange metallic protrusions, that, when the butt of the rod was struck on the ground, emitted a brilliant white light. Until it was lifted from the ground at least. I counted at least 6, but I cannot be certain of my count, as my vision failed to quickly from the paste and breightness, and the pain of it may have allowed the mystic into my mind. I cannot be certain. I am sorry commander."

>>15642527
"Unfortunate. Unless we can wipe out this force, they'll know the paste has a weakness to it. If they'll be here within the hour, get the men ready. Captain Corinth, can I presume the rest of our aerial units are in the same condition that you are in and not ready able to enter combat?"

>>15642527
"They may know what to look for, so we will have to begin putting the paste in a place they won't expect. Like with our foodstuffs. I've already spent too much time on my back. We need to wipe this force off the field. Prepare the Steel Rain to be ready for a night assault. The rest of us will attack at dawn."

>>15642541
Seconding. We also need to know whether the sun will be at our backs when the enemy force meets ours.
Are we located so that the enemy will HAVE to go through us? Or are they still able to avoid us?

>>15642563
wait... what time is it right now, anyway?

>>15642594
It's day.

We need one of those "nullify other arcana" arcanas.

Maybe we can buy one the next time we're in DragonsReach.

If the enemy can still bypass us, then we need to set more traps, and try to lure them into a narrow corridor, and then close the noose.

If the enemy has to confront us now, get the maniple ready for battle.

You sigh, and nod dismissal to the captain, who winces as he walks out into the early morning sun. "We will need to be more careful with the paste, and hide it better. Though I fear that much of what makes us terrifying will be gone if any of our foes escape."

Jayne shakes her head "That man wants so desperately to be one of us. He kept on raiding, even after he was nearly blinded."

Sansa shrugs "Hes a Degnarian, did you expect him to surrender to something so trivial as blindness?"

-----CQ-----

Just over an hour later, you and your command staff are standing at the eastern edge of the temporary camp, passing the few peering lenses you have between each other, observing the marching Uurlanthi forces. None speak, as all of you are thinking on deployment, and how to crush this force as effectively and quickly as possible.

-190th Centurian
Gaius Rex
175/200
Good
-454th Legionary
Cornelius Hoursch
170/200
good
-98th Warlords
Uurist Titius
140/150
good
-76th Deadeyes
Aurelius Caspius
100/100
excellent
-50th Dwarven Scouts
Finian Gaurush
100/100
excellent
-65th Dwarven Rangers
Kyria Esfelda
100/100
excellent
-Estren Infiltrators
140/150
Lacerta
Staros Nimulus
excellent
Javelins, Slings, combat axes
-House Garlian Uursan Cavalry
Lady Jayne Garlian
45/50
excellent
-Skyrus Thunderers
40/50
Dwarves
Doruth Mantes
excellent
Uursan, Plate Armor, Lances, Battleaxes
-Vohzd Lennis Riders
30/50
Vohzd Lennis
Excellent
Horses, straightswords, atlatl/javelins
-House Morlan Griffon Cavalry
Orin Trestus
40/50
excellent
-Daimus Skywings
Damian Corinth
Personal wing
Chainmail, polearms, repeaters, valkeries
40/50
excellent
-Windet Cloudscreamers
30/50
Tomas Grentar
excellent
Valkeries, leathers, breatswords
-Blacktusk Raiders
65/75
Blackbird
assorted gear
excellent

rolled 76 = 76

>>15642709
If we ever plan raids on people with the light arcana couldn't we get an earth elementalist to make fissures in the ground to knock them over?

Front row:
Warlords in center
Centurions to the north
Legionnaires to the south

Middle row:
Scouts in the center
Deadeyes to the north
Rangers to the south

Back row:
Siege engines and other heavy weapons

Skyrus Thunderers on northern flank

House Garlian on southern flank

Blacktusk Raiders and Estren Infiltrators take down one cavalry wing each on each flank. Focus on the velociprey.

>>15642686
Garlian and the Thunderers to the north.
Lennis to go the long way around the north to come back and start mixing it up with the archers from the rear, but stay the fuck away from any velociprey cav; we don't want a repeat of the last engagement.

Front line, from north to south: Cornelius, Uurist, Gaius.
Second line, north to south: Infiltrators behind Cornelius, ordered to prevent flanking by enemy light infantry.
Third line, north to south: Deadeyes, Scouts, Rangers.
Earth elementalism team, concentrate on earthen defense works on the southern flank, attempt to catch enemy cavalry in fissures if possible, but defenses are main issue.
Artillery crews to concentrate fire on enemy crossbowmen.

>>15642825
Actually, I wanted to smash the northern cavalry with a strong punch from both of our uursan units first, then have them go through the rear of the archer and crossbowmen companies, then deal with the southern cavalry.
And I wanted the Centurions at the south because we would be a little thin down there.

We both agree on the disposition of our ranged units, though.

Sansa with the Deadeyes, and direct all ranged fire.

Collin with the Warlords.

Laelith and other fire elementalists provide close range support for our infantry as needed.

Use the three earth-lightning-life elementalist teams we had before. Assign one to each infantry unit.

All other elementalists provide ranged support with the archers.

Deploy Lena if she's well rested. Is Bellatrix up yet?

See if Autronius can pull some shenanigans. Maybe put some imaginary griffons in the sky. The enemy's air cavalry are much fewer in number, and should require less energy to fool.

rolled 34 = 34

NGOMs' plan seems like it'll work. This looks like its gonna be one hell of a meat grinder though.

>>15642850
That would leave our southern flank dangerously exposed to three enemy cavalry wings.

Our legionnaires can hold out for a while if flanked by enemy light infantry. If we let the enemy cavalry in, they can seriously disrupt our infantry formations, or maybe just go straight for our archers and heavy weapons.

i still havent gotten my shirt pax...

Pax, are the Uurlanthi in range for us to tell how many elementalists they have?

>disposition of retinue.
I agree with Panda's deployment.

>disposition of elemental combat teams
Considering the high enemy numbers, probably better. However, the earth elementalists should still make some earthen bulwarks to give our southern flank a defense bonus before combat actually begins.

>>15642906
>aside from being able to tell that they have them, no, their still too far out

Also, what if one of those cavalry wings just kept going west and didn't stop? We might not be able to catch up to them after the battle.

>>15642899
But if we spread out our uursan cavalry, then it would let the Uurlanthi use their superior numbers to use attrition to whittle down our cavalry before breaking through.

We could keep the Infiltrators and the Raiders in the south to help deal with the cavalry.

>>15642923
The enemy cavalry is all velociprey; if they want to let a unit slip through, it'll get through unless we get one of the Valkyrie units to chase them down.

Okay, from looking at the map, my (horribly micro-managed) plan would be:

In the north:
The Estren Infiltrators disrupt the elven light cavalry.
The Skyrus Thunderers confront the horse cavalry (and hopefully rip and tear).

In the south:
Blacktusk Raiders disrupt the elven velociprey knights.
We ride with Jayne, tear up the horse cavalry with our elementalism, and then onto GROURIOUS BATTLE with Ramon Vistyek and his personal guard.

>>15642948
Our heavy repeaters can probably tear them up if they were distracted/disrupted by our bear cavalry.

If this comes down to a vote, can we have the vote next session? There's like three of us left.

pax its been a year... id like my shirt

>yea, as much as I'd like to do the battle this session, there arent enough of us left in here.
>I guess I'll call it here then, feel free to debate, but progress is gonna freeze.
>I'll be back Thursday at 9pm server time
>someone archive please
>If you have any setting/CQ questions jsut email me at paxcomquest@yahoo.com
>(or, you know, ask in the irc, I guess)
>heres a pic that got made for CQ, since I dont really wanna move much further ahead with so few of us still in here.

Do we have any traps or defenses set up at all?

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>yes, yes you do, Blackbird hasnt been idle

DAMN IT NATE!