General left the forums... so. When I get Ankara, my army will be like a hundred thousand stronger. Yay.
He has 22 provinces. I will raise an Auxiliary army there. Or are you asking about him leaving the forums? Was a status update.
Next up... I will be posting about the Libyan Civil War. If you want guys, it can be a proxy war like the Korean or Arab-Israeli Wars.
Ok, the Battle for Iceland went... pretty much as expected. SOMEONE needs to train ranged units. And EVERYONE needs to say more than "infantry" or "soldiers" . Because you know what standard infantry are to me? Swordsmen. So SOMEONE got a ton of swordsmen. Venicain troops: 5,000 archers 10,000 Roman soldiers (assumed swordsmen) 10,000 Venice soldiers (assumed swordsmen) SPQR troops: 2,000 spearmen 13,000 swordsmen *The troops following this message are assumed levee status as they were just raised today. 13,000 icelandic spearmen 2,000 icelandic archers v. LordZell's Troops: 5,000 infantry trained 2 years 10,000 infantry trained 1 year. *Please note that these infantry were not specified in type and thus are assumed to be swordsmen. *Please note that all sides have testified that they will adhere to the wintery conditions of Iceland and accept the presence of its effects, regardless of the fact that such a mechanic does not actually exist in the required rulebook for this RP. *Please also note that Venice soldiers and SPQR soldiers will be jointly called Iceland-Venice (IV) soldiers for documentation purposes. LordZell's soldiers will be called ROI soldiers. The Battle: The sounds of the approaching IV soldiers were heard before they reached the ROI camp. What fires there were were quickly doused and the men rushed into their block formations quickly. 2,000 of the elite soldiers sped from the camp eastward to try and circle around the enemy position while the rest of the ROI soldiers grimly marched out onto the battlefield. The IV soldiers quickly came into view as the ROI troops mounted a small hill. Cold gasps mingled with the frosted breath of the soldiers as they beheld their foes. The IV soldiers had gathered on a small plain below them in great number. The IV pike preceeded swordsmen who surrounded a contingent of archers. Immediately as the ROI soldiers came into view, the order to fire a volley was passed to the archers. They front half of the archers struggled to light their arrows with fire as the second half, under a seperate commander, loosed a volley of arrows over the heads of the cursing spear and swordsmen. The fires continued to refuse to light as the second volley followed the first and preceeded a third. Finally, the IV soldiers managed weak fires and the fourth volley was fired in full. But by then, the enemy had already reached the front lines. Not all those who fell from arrows were enemies. The ROI commanders knew that they had caught their enemy in a weak position when they first saw them. However, this was little consolation as the superiorly ranged enemy began to fire volleys of arrows into the ROI soldiers who struggled to hide behind poorly made shields. The ROI commanders knew that once the fire arrows came, the wooden shields would be of little use. With no ranged units, the ROI commanders knew that they had only one choice: charge. And charge they did, the order passing down the line as the second volley dissapated. The ROI soldiers yelled their battle cries, closing on the enemy. The third volley of arrows cut down many more troops than its predecessors, but the troops charged onward. First contact came as the dreaded fire arrows came. The ROI swordsmen met the enemy spears with all the force that they could manage. The 11,000 soldiers that made it through the arrows battered into the spear lines. For a moment, the spears held them back, but then the line failed. The 2,000 center spearmen were trained soldiers, artists at their crafts and capible of rivaling the fabled Spartans in their work, but the 13,000 that made up the rest of the line were little more than levees with pitchforks. The momentum of the ROI charge broke through the line with such a roar that the distant sound of ROI soldiers marching behind the enemy formation went unnoticed. As the battle at the front raged on, the IV archers struggled to find their marks, some hitting ally as well as enemy while others had simply ceased firing for fear of mistakening an ally in the close-quarter frenzy. The fire archers had long since given up trying to light their arrows in the wintery conditions. The seventh volley entered a fray so hectic that the commanders could no longer see what they were hitting and called a halt to the volleys. The archers stood at rest, some nursing their sore arms and feeling that the battle was likely over for them. Suddenly, ROI soldiers crashed into the rear guard of swordsmen that protected the archers. The archer commanders ordered them to draw their daggars and prepare for battle. The front was proceeding poorly for the ROI. Though the IV right and left spear wings had failed to their onslaught and the swordsmen behind them largely proved far more afflicted by the cold than they, the ROI troops were hopelessly outnumbered. The forces of SPQR were proving especially difficult as they were fortified against the cold climate, though the Venician swordsmen who had stood in formation in front of them were not. The ROI soldiers fought as bitter as a wind in the heart of winter, but they were losing men quickly. The flanking manuver by the ROI had a surprising amount of success against the rear guard of the IV. The line, too thin by many, was smashed almost on contact and the archers quickly found themselves engaged in a most unnatural manner. Their years of ranged training were tossed aside as one does a dirty rag and just as useless in the brutal close quarters combat they found themselves in. The ROI soldiers cleaved deep into the archer formation... too deep. The ROI flankers soon found themselves where the front of the archer line used to be - surrounded on all sides by the foe. The battle went quickly from there. The ROI flanking force was surrounded and destroyed, though they fought to the last. The forward elements of the ROI never knew of their brothers' bravery as they too perished soon afterwards as the full extent of the IV forces enveloped and destroyed them. ROI casualties: total. IV casualties: SPQR: Icelandic archers: 1,766 Icelandic spearmen: 11,254 spearmen: 417 swordsmen: 127 Venician troops: Archers: 873 Roman soldiers: 3,298 Venice soldiers: 2,393 Total: 20,128 What do I get?
I was thinking Anwrise made Libya and left it there. Darn it, I wanted to do something while not updating maps!!!
I see a pattern in who likes my post when I post Option A battles... @darthdj31 Who is that upstart north of Moscow?
The battle was well fought. But i have 15,000 troop who have been training while the other were fighting
YAY! Venice goes on to march on the small deserted towns waiting for North Icelands surrender of they're entire armed forces and expected retreat.
Chernivtsi will colonize the five adjacent provinces to the North-West. Also, Chernivtsi will be training 10,000 Cavalry. They will be armed with spears and a sword. And their mounts are of the finest breed in the East.
