You decide to order a partial retreat toward the city walls, so that your men could be assisted by archers and javelineers standing above.
6
The retreat is masterfully pulled off, so that by the time Oro's men engage yours in melee, a hail of arrows and javelins is already falling upon their heads!
5*
It seems that Duke Oro is leading the fighting himself, because despite the support, your men still have a hard day trying to fend the enemy off! They do succeed, and soon forces loyal to the traitor begin to rout! You order your men after them, not so much as to mow them down (well, okay, that too), but to prevent Duke Oro's escape
6
There's no escape for them! Your soldiers fervently pursue anyone who isn't fast enough to escape. More than two thousand bodies clad in colors of Oro family add their blood to the fields north of the capital. Its a slaughter, and complete failure of the rebellion as a whole.
What's better is that a mangled body of the elderly Duke Oro is presented to you by a pair of young soldiers! You bestow upon them pensions and nobility titles for their mighty deed.
Besides Duke Oro, his youngest son, Arrat, was the one killed by you. One of Oro's grandsons also perished, during the rout. The three remaining men of the family, Oro's first son Xon, and his grandsons Arrat and Mikel (the last one being the one whose capture you've witnessed) have been captured as well.
Not only you've crushed the rebellion in single battle, but also within your hands lies the future of the powerful noble family. After a three-day celebration within the capital, the court gathers for a meeting. The beaten and tied up sons and grandsons of Oro are presented to the gathered noblemen, wearing naught but rags and shackles. They say nothing, but various degrees of fear show within their eyes.
Everyone's stares are on you now. It's time to decide the captives' fate.
A) Down with the House of Oro! Execute these three, and then, their immediate families!
B) The eldest shall bear the punishment of execution, the rest shall be exiled!
C) Exile these three, but let their wives and children remain in Kastoria.
D) They will be let go. Their scheming, disloyal father has already paid the price, after all.
