[HQ Ignorance] Scene 53: The Longest Night, The Battle of Seguarane Forest
Lev Lafayette
lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au
Wed Feb 13 21:45:27 EST 2008
Firstly, the battle will be in the evening and early
morning; secondly what you are suggesting is that the
Seshneleans leave their walled city. I would need
confirmation from Anzhur on this proposal!
--- Nic Hughes <nicolas.h at virgin.net> wrote:
> 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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