[HQ Ignorance] Scene 53: The Longest Night, The Battle of Seguarane Forest

Wed Feb 13 05:15:04 EST 2008

We can do this IC later but the general idea is that the Aldryami and 
the Seshnelans join up to the West of the enemy and join battle in the 
late afternoon. That force should be big enough to get Theoblanc to 
commit most of his forces and just hold back the elites as a reserve 
(and because he'd rather commit the vampires after dark). With the main 
body of his force facing more or less West the Telmori coming in from 
the North-East would be coming in from a rear flank.

Of course that's just a plan, plans never survive contact with the enemy :-)

If it works it
a) gets the Telmori where they can do most damage
b) puts a large army between the berserk Telmori and anyone we would 
rather see alive afterwards - which seems like a good idea to me.

If the timings are as I think then about an hour after the Telmori hit 
the sun will go down and the moon will change phase.

Nic

Lev Lafayette wrote:
> The Telmori are more likely to be able to attack on
> the east flank as the Aldryami attack on the West. Of
> course, the Telmori will be enraged at this point so
> it could get messy ;-)
>
> I'll get a map together later today, but a general lay
> of the land would look like this.
>
>
> Now:
>
>                                   Telmori
>          
>              Segurane City
>
>
> Aldraymi
>
>           
>
>             Skirmishers
>
> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ (forest line) ^ ^ ^ ^
>
>
>            Undead Army
>
>          
>
>
>
>
> Combat:
>
>
>               Segurane City
> Skirmishers
>              
> Aldyrami        Undead Army        Telmori
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Kevin Johnston <runemaster93711 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> How are theTelmori to get to the rear of the enemy?
>>   Knarl
>>
>> Nic Hughes <nicolas.h at virgin.net> wrote:
>>   The calm before the storm. The small group sat
>> around and for a time 
>> said little for what was there to say when death
>> stared them in the face.
>>
>> Aalmon had lived through this silence before and
>> through the battle that 
>> followed it, so when he had let the enormity of the
>> threat sink in he spoke.
>>
>> "We cannot stand in ranks and face them down for
>> they are too numerous" 
>> Aalmon shuddered at the memory "far too numerous. We
>> must avoid their 
>> greatest strength and use our own strengths to fight
>> on terms that we 
>> dictate."
>>
>> He paused as he took out his crystal chess set and
>> once more set out the 
>> pieces, in a pattern he remembered so well it could
>> almost have been 
>> drawn on the insides of his eyelids "The king holds
>> the army together 
>> and in this case the black king is Theoblanc. What
>> we have to do is draw 
>> his army off and then concentrate our most lethal
>> attacks on the king 
>> itself. In doing so we have to avoid a decisive
>> battle at all costs for 
>> we would be overwhelmed and defeated.
>>
>> Let us look to our advantages, firstly we know his
>> dispositions and 
>> strength. He does not know ours and can only suspect
>> it. If the Telmori 
>> do not descend upon him during the night he must
>> think them far from the 
>> battle for the wolf-men have never before held back
>> on the full moon and 
>> Theoblanc cannot know that we have the means to
>> alter that unchanging 
>> fact of their nature. If he believes they cannot
>> hold back then when 
>> they do not attack he will in his mind no longer
>> need to defend against 
>> them, so we can have surprise if we can survive so
>> long. He will suspect 
>> the men of the city are with us and will be ready
>> for them, very well 
>> they can be the anvil upon which the hammer of the
>> wolf-men can fall. We 
>> also have means to communicate and coordinate our
>> forces, I am trained 
>> as a courier so I know how critical that is to any
>> army - especially one 
>> in dense forest terrain where even to see your enemy
>> is hard. If Anzhur 
>> stays with the knights then they can know what each
>> of the rest of us is 
>> doing through the banner. If my brother goes with
>> the main elf force and 
>> I with the skirmishers then they can coordinate
>> attacks and withdraw in 
>> formation to avoid defeat, in the woods we should be
>> able to stay ahead 
>> of his main forces." As he speaks he indicates
>> pieces on the board 
>> representing each of these forces
>>
>> "And we may need to make sacrifices. Icthya you have
>> prepared water 
>> which will sweep away both enemies and trees, if
>> Baros is with you we 
>> can try to lure the enemy into this trap and avoid
>> losing either of our 
>> own forces but I fear this is uncertain. What is
>> certain is that we can 
>> use this to buy time for if they fear to pursue us
>> then we can skirmish 
>> all the better, yet if they pursue it is into a
>> trap. I have seen the 
>> torches the army carries and I expect them to use
>> fire, Icthya you must 
>> be ready for this and the Aldryami must not panic
>> for there are ways to 
>> turn this against them. If when the fires light the
>> forest is willing I 
>> can call on magics to use those fires to burn away
>> the foul enchantments 
>> that brought up this army and force them to waste
>> time and men dousing 
>> their own fires. To pose a great threat the trees
>> would need to be 
>> willing to burn and aid my attempt by sending the
>> raging fires back upon 
>> them.
>>
>> With all this we must buy time for the Telmori to
>> awake and we must turn 
>> the army of the enemy away from them so the leaders
>> - standing at the 
>> rear - are exposed to their attack. In the end Azhur
>> and Jareena you 
>> will need to stand with the main force at the point
>> of best defence and 
>> pin the enemy in place for this last desperate
>> attack. The skirmishers 
>> can hold your flanks for a time but not forever so
>> the men and wizards 
>> might have a hard time of it if we have not held
>> them up well and 
>> stretched them out with our harrassing. Then then
>> main attack must come, 
>> Kerala and Knarl our lives will be in your hands,
>> for if the Telmori 
>> come too late then I doubt any of us will still be
>> there to see them." 
>> He moves his hands across the board and the white
>> queen makes a diagonal 
>> move to defeat the isolated black king far behind
>> the massed lines of 
>> his pieces.
>>
>> "Of course if anyone has a safer or better plan I'd
>> love to hear it. 
>> This one puts me in the fighting from the moment
>> they enter the forest 
>> and leaves my arse hanging out for a long long time.
>> That's not a good 
>> feeling."
>>
>> OOC: Once we agree on a rough plan then we can move
>> onto detailed 
>> preparations, or does everybody else want to dive
>> straight in?
>>
>> Nic
>>
>>
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