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You fortify the pit and send a messenger to Ankurvat. Hopefully he will get to them fast despite the winter conditions.


A messenger from the capital has arrived; Lametania once again got into financial troubles, this time not Damdamian-related, and sought some money from the your Treasury; the court has decided to send the money south.


One night, screams and shouts of alarm erupt about the camp. A pack of lizardmen exited the pit!

3*

You have the unfortunate distinction of getting a lizard tearing into your guard detail! The wild being with a crude hammer rushes you!

7*

But you easily slay the beast, despite smoke and darkness working against you. And then you lead a glorious charge that sees many lizards (and humans) die in a bloody carnage!

By the time moon begins its descent toward the horizon, the battle is over and you're surrounded by corpses of lizardmen. Your soldiers hail you as a 'Lizardslayer', in respect of your victories against the lizards thus far!

A week later, the messenger sent to Ankurvat arrives.

"My liege! The dwarves of Ankurvat said they have no time for you and your troubles this winter, but said that they might come in Summer time if you want."

A) Pfft, by then we will be overrun by lizards. Time to seal the pit ourselves and go home!
B) Time is of the essence and we need dwarves; let's send the envoy to Zasitost instead!
C) So be it, we will watch over the pit till Summer next year!

King Tinwulf II does not object your counter-proposal.

Soon the Tven and Dahnian soldiers pour between the two mountains, against the camp of lizards!

Only then you notice that due to the lack of space, your trops cannot attack in full but have to come in waves!

6*

The lizards come and fight like beasts they are; for each lizard there are three or more dead and wounded amongst your people! Six fiery lizards are felled, but their blasts of flame sear and scorch dozens of soldiers.

2*

But then the front of your Army collapses under the massive counter-attacks, and a path is open toward you; one of the largest, blue-scaled lizards flails his club as he attacks you!!

5*

The fight is fierce and you dodge the club several times, the huge impressions in the dirt giving you an idea what would happen to your body if the lizard would score just a single hit. But you don't give him any other opportunities; soon you stab him in the neck and he falls. With an angry yell to the heavens, you smash your spear right into its skull, the pitiful screech mixing with the sickening crunch of mauled skull.

The lizard overlord is slain by your hand!!

Unfortunately it doesn't look like the lizards are running away. Truly they know no fear!

4*

You rejoin the battle and direct the combined forces as your senior and his banner-holder are nowhere to be seen nearby; but with the loss of fiery drakes, the lizards of the depths do not fight like before; less humans die, and the scaled beastmen fall more easily.

As the sky turns orange from late afternoon hours, only a handful of lizardmen remain in the camp, the leftovers, the ones to pick up arms the last. Your men on other hand have numerical superiority; hopefully this will be the last stage of this bloody battle.

6*

The victory comes swiftly; none of the lizards surrender and they fight to their last, taking down with themselves as many brave Tven and Dahnian men they could.

As the wounded are taken to tents and the chaos of battle is worked out, you finally meet with your senior; turns out his group was engaged on the other side of the camp. Much like you, King Tinwulf II is soaked in the blood of the lizards.

"Damned beasts fight too well!" He says with a grin. "And I thought Trolls were troublesome." You two share a laugh.

A camp is set outside the ruined site of lizards, as your men are wary to approach the still-fuming pit in the earth. It has been measured; thirty feet tall, and a gentle slope is descending into its smoke-filled darkness. Definitely a man-carved (or, rather, lizard-carved) tunnel. 212 lizard corpses were accounted along with five of their orange beasts of fiery destruction, but over 750 humans perished to achieve this victory.

By the morning, the pit is still fuming, and some men of better hearing report they heard hissing coming from the pit. Council is held, and the decision is made to...

A) Fortify the area around the pit and call the dwarves to come seal it or something.
B) Pile up rocks and boulders into the hole to fill it up.
C) Retreat from this place lest a new army of lizards catches you by surprise.

You decide to prepare an all-out attack into the lizard's camp.

"Shall we attack from two directions?" Your senior asks.

A) "Nay, my King, we need all the numbers we can get."
B) "A sound idea, this will cause confusion amongst the lizards!"

Hunters roam the nearby areas in search for a camp; by the next day, they come back bearing news of their findings.

The combined armies of Tven and Dahnia, numbering almost four-and-half thousand now, march forward. It doesn't take long to reach the hidden camp; and it doesn't take long either for the lizards to get agitated and rush you!

"The mindless beasts are charging! We should meet them head on and slaughter them with our superior numbers!" Your senior brandishes his sword.

A) "Uh, no, we should make a half-crescent formation and then crush the lizards completely!"
B) "My liege, I think we should instead form thick defensive lines and let the lizards crash upon them."
C) "Indeed! To battle!!"

A

You call a tactical retreat southeast, half a day march from the current location.

The next evening, a new camp is ready for action, if action ever comes. You also receive a messenger; King Tinwulf II have personally embarked with almost two thousand foot and thousand cavalry to help you against the scaly menace from under the mountains, but the heavy weather conditions in Dahnia mean that it might take them a week if not more before they join you.

Four days later you get news about the lizards; another hunting party was spotted coming eastwards, picking through the remains of previous campsite and then going straight after you.

A) We won't get attacked in middle of night again! Time to send our troops against them and meet when conditions are more favorable to us.
B) Fortify the camp, post more sentries and get some more illumination going on, so even in middle of night we will be ready!

You muster your Army and leave the Palace, preparing for some war.

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Congratulations! Estwalf embarks on another military campaign!

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As your horsemen go to the mountains to act as scouts and to harass the lizards in hopes of learning their intentions and weaknesses (if any), a lone messenger is sent with haste to King Tinwulf II, requesting military aid to deal with the lizards.

Several days later, the scouts return, alarmed; a group of 40 lizards have been tracking them for a while now and is nearing your camp.

A) Time to strengthen the camp, then.
B) Let's use the same half-crescent, engulf-and-destroy battle formation like before!
C) Only forty? Let's march forward and crush them in show of pure numerical strength!