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((Orders: Attack the city at the same time as Drake's men.))

I think Jetsquirrel's making a new record for insanity here. -11/6? That's rather impressing. I'm retroactively making it achievement-worthy.

"My lord! We are under attack!"

The messenger had broken the peaceful atmosphere of Alexis's meal. He rose angrily from his roasted chicken and apple halves, and walked briskly to his sword, which hung in it's sheath on one of the tent walls.

"What's going on?"
"Saracan bandits, sir! It's an ambush!"
"Well let's take care of it, then."

Alexis unsheathed his sword and hurried to the tent door, only to be knocked back by another intruder. The guards immediately surrounded the mystery assailant, who turned out to be another of the Duke's soldiers.

"My lord," he stammered, "we- the attack is over, sir."
"What? Already?"
"Your lieutenants were am- amazingly successful, sir."

Alexis sheathed his sword and walked outside. Around the camp the ground was spotted with corpses.

"How many did we lose, Private?"
"I don't know, sir. But probably a lot: we got ambushed pretty bad."

In the end it turned out not a single Occidental man had died. The Saracan bandits, grossly misjudging the size of the Ducal party, had been completely obliterated. While the victory meant little in strategic terms, as bandits of all nationalities filled the landscape like a festering blight, it did much to raise the morale and self-confidence.

I change the <New Players Are Dropped Off At Earth Base> setting.

In Which Direction do you change the setting?

((Alexis, in a surprise move, continues his journey east.))

((I continue my actions.))

I move another tile eastwards back to the city. That's about it.

Alexis kicked a broken dagger into one of the corners of his new mess hall. His troops - peasant recruits - were still too occupied with training to have time to finish up cleaning the mess the Duke had created when retaking the city. As he mulled over his new orders, Alexis felt growingly uneasy. While he was happy about the powerful Occidental presence in the north, he feared the new and ambitious generals might soon resort to in-fighting. It was also impossible to know how organized these saracens were: they could reunite at any moment. While the recent victories were very inspiring, the Duke felt the war against the saracens would only begin getting more difficult from now on.

But that would be later. Today they would march.

[A unit is raised, and Alexis moves with his army east, to (-4, -6).]

Alexis sighed. This was going to take a long, long time...