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You declare a meeting with the poor of the capital city where you will dispense the trinkets as gifts to the peasantry!

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During the ceremony many a peasant gets a coin, an old jewel or piece of cheap jewellery. Thousands receive the items and thousand praise your name.

Few days later, the last of Dahnian troops leave the Duchy and return home.


Your wife gives birth to another boy! She names him 'Ulan'.


Profits from the copper mines arrive to your Treasury.

A delegation of dwarves arrives at the gates of your Palace as well.

A) Let them in.
B) Dismiss them.

You order your soldiers to create a fortified camp around the entrance; sentries will be posted all time, and the passageway into the dark deep narrowed slightly to make future lizardmen escapades hard to get past you. And as extra emergency, messengers at ready to deliver you news of lizards and to warn nearby settlements.

Yes, this should do it for now. You have your Army stay for another couple days near the entrance just to make sure.

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No lizardmen were spotted.

You hold a brief council with your officers and decide to conclude the campaign.

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Congratulations! Estwalf has successfully completed his campaign to Repel the Lizardman Invasion from the Depths!

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Your return to the capital is triumphant one but the peoples of the capital have only small praise for you; after all, no riches were obtained, no lands conquered and only a couple settlements were affected by this war.

But surely, there will be greater military endeavors to reap rewards from in the future.


A bit late, but malachite and copper from the mines once again arrive at the Treasury, making the Treasurer a bit happier man.

Few days later you receive a report that Eist Kingdom hath expanded its borders; the zealots now control what was once north-east Luathbas, having captured three city-states and several smaller settlements.


The Advisor shows up in your study one afternoon, carrying the Scrolls of Kingdom Status in his hands.

Happiness: 3
Population: 4
Economy: 4
Army: 1(+1)

"As you can see, my liege, our Army is doing rather badly in terms of numbers. We should press some peasants into the service, even if they will dislike it. We can also ask our senior, King Tinwulf, to extend the time his soldiers spend in our Duchy."

"Also, consider a perhaps underhanded but mayhaps a much needed course of actions; release and draft of criminals of lesser note, who are always found in large numbers in the dungeons of the Duchy..."

As for peasants and extended time for Dahnians...

A) "Indeed, we should press the peasants into the service, but we shouldn't keep Dahnian soldiers for too long."
B) "Nay to both - our Duchy shall prevail on sheer willpower of our people and myself!
C) "The peasants will have it easy this year, but let's send a query whether our good King will be willing to station his soldiers in Tven for a year longer."
D) "Let's do both - these hard times require it!"

As for draft of petty criminals...

A) "It's sad but we do need soldiers - let's offer the small fish an exchange of bars for chainmail."
B) "We might be in dire straits but we will never fall as low as to hire criminals to protect our lands!"

//No split votes per usual please.

Khamsin seems AWOL, Culise you wanna become Ottomans? v;

PTW and a sprinkle of blessing ;v

You move your Army few hours west from the mountains as the scouts move even further there to ask nearby villages and garrisons for volunteers and supplies.

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Alas! Few peopel are willing or able to provide you with anything; a handful of men with some food arrive.

The scouts report that the activity in that other camp of lizardmen hardly changed. Along with your officers you decide to...

A) March forward and just crush another horde of the stinky lizards!
B) Make a fortified camp and prepare for inevitable moment the lizards move out from under the mountain.

You order a quick encircling tactic!

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The tactic pays off. The rush of the thick and brutish lizards is quickly met with flanking from both sides. Your soldiers and archers suffer many losses but the amount of the lizardmen goes down steadily as well.

Unlike many battles, the lizardmen don't seem to be inclined to run away as their situation goes worse!

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Finally however, the lizardmen are all dead. Their scaled, muscular corpses make your soldiers go silent with awe. Only now you notice that all they had were stones on sticks, leather on wooden frames and such primitive equipment. Truly, it's their monstrous strength and agility what makes them such hard foes, rather than equipment or numbers!

Your officers convene with you as another encampment is spotted; of the same number, at the base of the mountains.

A) Clearly we should march forward and just crush another horde of the stinky lizards!
B) We should ask nearby settlements to provide some numbers and supplies.
C) Let's make a fortified camp and prepare for inevitable moment the lizards move out from under the mountain.

And then Suzanne gutted a foo'.

Hit: 110+15+10-18 = 117, autohit! Crit roll: 16!
Damage: 16+1-2-8 = 7x3 = 21dmg

Axeman B retaliates!
Hit: 102-15-10-39 = 38
Hit roll: 50, miss!

Suzanne strikes once more!
Hit: 110+15+10-18 = 117, autohit! Crit roll: 7!
Damage: 16+1-2-8 = 7x3 = 21dmg

(30+[{8-17}x5]+6)-(2x4) = 30-45+6-8 = -17
Flora automisses!

Hit: 102+10-17 = 95
Hit roll: 25, hit!
Damage: 16-4 = 12dmg

Heavy Javelineer A counterattacks!
Hit: 80-10-31 = 39
Hit roll: 20, hit!
Damage: 22-2 = 20dmg

Shaelynn strikes again!
Hit: 102+10-17 = 95
Hit roll: 74, hit!
Damage: 16-4 = 12dmg