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Post by Teres on Mar 11, 2008 19:52:38 GMT -5
As of then the King is now surprised that the Kasmir Ary has came now relief he is now sending 10.000 Light Infantry with another 10.000 Heavy Infantry of his soldiers to aid Kasmir to defeat Eadfarth Army and end this battle.
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Post by Eadfearth on Mar 11, 2008 21:00:55 GMT -5
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Post by Kasimir on Mar 12, 2008 15:12:59 GMT -5
OOC: I have to support good old observant Eadfearth on this one... Oh, and Kasimir has had scouts sent to observe Eadfearth and his army since he discovered that he had started a war.
IC: Kasimir gave an amused smile at Eadfearth's words before speaking himself, "I'm not going to give you a chance to surrender, you don't deserve one and you're too arrogant to do so anyway. But I will tell you one thing; I outnumber and I do not doubt that I also outclass you, so I would advise you to retreat at the first oppertunity you get." Before waiting for a reply, Kasimir turned around and rode in the opposite direction, closely followed by his ten most loyal men. The moment he arrived back at his army, he gave orders to make ready for battle, and to move to engage Eadfearth's troops.
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Post by Eadfearth on Mar 12, 2008 19:21:19 GMT -5
"Ahhh you may have numbers in soldiers, But not strength, a ratio of two to one will not help you. Believe me, before this battle is over. You will regret attacking me." He retorted. With a yank of his reins, Nightshade quickly turned around snorting. " I have never heard of a classy traitor. The day I back stab my allies, maybe then we can argue about class." The Slavs were nomads, in no way were they warriors. Eadfearth had already begun to prepare. Large wooden logs, carved to have an extremely sharp end, hidden and visible had been placed. Their calvary would have to charge, around. Which would disrupt their charge, and perhaps cause some horses to run into each other. Or they could attempt to jump over them. It would end with the horse's bellies being torn open. The captains of his army had reacted quickly, changing the direction in which the catapults faced. Into the freakishly large, calvary army. Some of the archers, had tactically moved into the siege towers, to shoot from above. Nightshade made her way to the Germanic army. "Infantry prepare, You know your places." They had ran drills for this situation, These Celtics men would know what to do. Eadfearth's captains and generals quickly moved about ordering them properly. The Calvary rode by Eadfearth, he made his way to the Gael General. Locating him, Eadfearth shouted. "Prepare your men, Expect an attack from Thrace, their numbers are few!"
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Post by Kasimir on Mar 13, 2008 8:57:53 GMT -5
As the Germanic army prepared, Kasimir rode at the head of the Slavic one. The entire army appeared to charge as a mass of cavalry, but in reality they were perfectly organised. They had been spread so that they were wider than the stakes had been set. The Germanians would be ready for an assault from in front, where they had placed the stakes, but in reality their own stakes would hinder them. As the Slavic army approached the stakes, the men charging at the stakes halted their horses, raising their bows and firing a huge volley of 400,000 arrows into the midst of Eadfearth's army. The remaining men had their swords drawn and were grouped on either side of the stakes. They moved past the stakes they did not turn to flank, but instead they continued to gallop at full pace until they had nearly passed the army. Then they wheeled around before charging at the rear of Eadfearth's army, a few heading to take out the catapults while the rest continued a charge at the unprotected backs of the Germanic army.
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Post by Queen Alessia on Mar 13, 2008 22:10:51 GMT -5
As the battle below began to start, there were the sounds of horns. On top of the hill, Scythian horsemen began to appear. Word had gotten to Scythia that Thrace was in the middle of a war. It was about three days ago, when a Scythian messenger returned from Thrace, after being turned around by the Germanians. When word had gotten to Apollonia, Alessia had mustered the army and began to march to Thrace. Now, 600,000 horsemen were standing at the top of the hill, overlooking the battle below. Alessia rode her own horse ahead of her soldiers, to get a view of what was going on. She could see that the Slavs had already engaged with the Germanians and things were looking grim for the Germanians.
Alessia turned her horse back to face her men. The alliance between the nations of the Slavs and Scythia has been, well, bad. Alessia, seeing that the Slavs had already charged, found the advantage she wanted. She turned her head to look at the soldier in front of her. "This fight will be a terrible one! But how much more terrible will it be for our enemy? So I say to you, sons of Scythia, to be the ones who will be victorious this day!" Alessia yelled as she raised her sword into the air, the soldiers doing the same. She let out a scream and soon the rest of the army joined in.
Alessia turned her horse around to face the Slavs. She yelled something in the Scythian language and the horns sounded again. Once they did, she pointed her sword at the Slavic army. The 600,000 horsemen began to charge down the hill and towards them. As she and her army charged down the hill, she could not help but think to herself. You brought this onto yourself, Kasimir. She smirked as her horsemen got closer, getting ready to have a full out charge into the Slavic flank.
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Post by Teres on Mar 14, 2008 16:21:53 GMT -5
As then the 20.000 of his infantry has came by to aid Kasmir, as then an army of 600.000 Horsemen came as the Teres notice its the Sythian Army arriving Teres is surpise of the amount of Cavalry that Sythia have.
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Post by Eadfearth on Mar 14, 2008 23:30:53 GMT -5
(No, the stakes aren't organized, they do start at the wall though. Most of them are hidden and are placed randomly about.)
The catapults fired, as they charged. The large boulders not only on impact dealt damage, but afterwords as they also hindered their charge. The infantry acted accordingly to the arrow volley, they brought up their shields to deflect the arrows. After all there was not much more they could do. Above in the siege towers, the archers shot from a save distance, at the Calvary as they galloped by, it was fatal to have your back to an archer. Every now and then the randomly placed stakes, would take its toll on the enemy. It happened to be by chance, they had thought they were only.The catapults were abandon, as the Slavs wasted their time with them, the men who manned them simply ran to join the infantry whom prepared. About half turned to face the Slavic charge, with spears ready. Everybody knew a calvary charge was dangerous, but against a large mob there is only so much a single charge can do. The second and third row of infantry tossed their javelins at the approaching calvary, as the fourth and fifth, and so on when they were in range.
Eadfearth rode with his calvary, along side of the Gael army. "Alright, apparently they have forgotten of us." Eadfearth spoke to one of his generals. At that moment, the army of Scythia appeared. They had wasted no moment to charge. "Ah, so all goes as planned?" His general replied at the site of the new army. Eadfearth simply nodded his head. He turned to look at the Gael leader. "Follow our charge." He requested. Eadfearth rode forward in front of his men, he looked back at them drew his sword and pointed it in the direction of the enemy. No words were needed, they charged at the surrounded Slav Calvary.
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Post by Pharaoh Sabé on Mar 20, 2008 5:47:02 GMT -5
OOC: I'll post later (as Kasimir) but I dont have enough time atm, sorry!
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Post by Kasimir on Mar 21, 2008 10:14:49 GMT -5
OOC: Would one of you mind drawing up a map using Paint or something - I have an Apple Mac so I have no program for artistic work. IC: Kasimir could see an easy victory here, many of the horses had gone down from the stakes, but as nomads, the Slavs were no ordinary men. They had lived in freezing conditions throughout all their lives, both they and their horses were surely much tougher than the men of the green Germanian plains and forests. They had lived almost their whole lives on horseback firing a bow and arrow and thus were much more at home in this situation than the Germanians and what's more, they were determined - if they won here, Kasimir might lead them on to take Germania itself, he certainly seemed angry enough to do it, but Kasimir was often unpredictable. Still, there was a decent chance that the green fertile Germanian lands would soon be theirs and they were determined to take it. The Slavic horsemen did not waste their time killing the men manning the catapults, they let them flee to the safety of the infantry ranks. Instead they hacked the ropes to pieces and, using their flaming arrows, set light to the structures. Despite the training their horses had gone through, they had not been trained to charge into a straight line of spears, and thus, as they got close to the spearmen the horses turned away, some even stopping in their tracks briefly before quickly retreating from the horses. The Slavs easily brought their horses back under control but they could not charge them into the spears. "Cavalry, split!" Kasimir yelled out, seconds before horns sounded upon the hill to the side. Kasimir turned to face the Scythian army, he smiled at first - they were his Allies, not the treacherous and barbaric Germanian's - but then they chraged, at the Slavic cavalry. Kasimir's eyes widened in surprise and anger, and his voice contained so much anger and hatred that it could have scared the life out of even the most fearless enemy warrior as he bellowed across the battlefield, "Cavalry, with me!" Kasimir turned his horse towards the opposite side of the battlefield from the Scythians, the Slavic cavalry thundering towards the Germanian cavalry, but keeping away from the infantry. There were 400,000 Salvic cavalry charging at the Germanian cavalry, which numbered only 50,000, an eight-to-one ratio was good odds in any situation, but the Slavs had spent their whole lives on horseback, and these Germanians had not. If they engaged, it would be a one-sided conflict and it would be short. On the other side of the Germanian infantry, the Slavic missile cavalry also turned, so that all the Slavs were seemingly fleeing from the Scythians despite having greater numbers. Whilst moving, however, the missile cavalry fired hundreds of thousands of arrows into the Germanian infantry.
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Post by Queen Alessia on Apr 1, 2008 19:59:54 GMT -5
Alessia watched as the Slavic army turned and seemed to be running away from them and into the Germanian army. Way to pick a fair fight. Alessia thought as they continued to charge at them. As they charged she noticed an opportunity that she could use to her advantage. When she noticed that the Slavic cavalry split up and part of them charged at the Germanic calvary and the missile cavalry that were terrorizing the foot-soldiers, who even if they tried, would not be able to catch them.
"Split up! Half go for the missile calvary, the rest follow me!" Alessia yelled, as another, low pitched horn sounded. As they charged at them, the lines from down the center split off, on half going around the Germanic line and charging at the missile calvary. Hopefully, their armor would protect them enough from the arrows, but she knew that their were going to be casualties. The calvary that was charging at the Slavic missile calvary sheathed their swords and pulled out their bows. They knew that if they just chased the missile calvary without doing anything, there would be no point. The 300,000 horsemen pulled out an arrow and fired a volley at the Slavic calvary, trying to draw their attention away from the Germanic army.
Meanwhile, Alessia lead the charge into the group that Kasimir was leading against the outnumbered Germanic calvary. A horn sounded from her group as they prepared to attack the Slavic flank. She only hoped that Eadfearth and his horsemen would survive long enough for her calvary to reach them.
((Same here, I don't even know how to work paint, lol! That way we can know how the battle is going! Thank you!))
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