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Post by zurajai on Jan 30, 2016 19:01:42 GMT
The great host of the Orcish Wastelands had at last arrived upon the outskirts of New Arkhaer and in numbers rivaling those fielded during the Fifteen Years War. The veritable legion of orcish warriors hailing from nearly a dozen different clans throughout the wasteland had assembled behind the banners of the Firetooth with Kazan in their warpath. The host marched in an excellent formation, hedges of pikes protecting the rest of the force as they closed the distance to the capital of the Kazan, New Arkhaer. As the Orcish army pounded its way across the Kazan steppe the peasants of the city fled before it, rushing to the relative safety of the city even with its lack of walls. The question that was on everyone's mind was the choices that would be made in the earliest moments of the battle; would the Firetooth and their Wastelander brethren attempt to storm the city, a dangerous prospect even without walls if the enemy could assemble a proper defense, or would they instead hunker down and prepare for siege. Only time would tell.
-- Deployment Phase begins. See Warforms in Private Messages. -- Orcish army marches in column towards the city and is within an hour's hard march to the city limits. |
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Post by zurajai on Feb 2, 2016 20:53:57 GMT
It was a dark day for the Kazan Khanate as their great city of New Arkhaer had orcish feet set foot inside its borders. The beginning of the siege seemed to be severely one sided and quickly it became clear that these initial visions were certainly to remain so. The vast orcish host deployed skirmishers as their troops assembled in proper formation to storm the city, their skirmishing troops probing for weaknesses in the cities scant defenses and hunting for the most appropriate place to make their initial push. As if Aed was guiding their path, skirmishers of the Firetooth discovered an entire portion of the unwalled city open and unguarded; it was here that they would make their push.
Firetooth soldiers rushed into the gap, filling it with their most elite forces to claim the foothold for their own. One by one buildings were occupied and cleared, killing any resistance as women, children, and any elderly that could fled before the invading orcish host. Storming in at their side came the host of the Jaggedfists, ragged and ferocious in equal measure as they stood as the paragons of their wastelander kin. Blood flowed in rivers as the unbound Jaggedfist pitfighters were unleashed on the outskirts, butchering anything that moved and couldn't speak some form of orcish to beg for mercy.
The city had been breached and now it was up to the defenders to fight at every single street and every single building in an attempt to hold the city from the forty thousand orcish warriors that assailed it.
SUMMARY
-- Battle Phase begins! See warforms in private messages.
-- New Arkhaer is breached by the forces of the orcish host unmolested, leaving a massive gap of New Arkhaer immediately taken as an Orcish foothold.
-- The North East is breached by the Firetooth as the North North West is attacked by the Jaggedfist.
-- Massacres in the North North West by Jaggedfist troops savagely butchering the inhabitants can be heard throughout the city as news reaches Firetooth command.
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Post by zurajai on Feb 5, 2016 22:34:12 GMT
As the sun just began to set below the horizon to steal from the inhabitants of New Arkhaer its warming incandescence. With the moon now high in the sky and the stars twinkling pinholes in the dark abyss of the night the fires that raged in the city of New Arkhaer seemed even more chaotic and out of place. Streaming from the southern portion of the city were the masses of civilians attempting to escape the violence that had been unleashed on the city by the orcish host, guarded by the few horsemen that the garrison at New Arkhaer was capable of mustering. With a huge portion of space open to them they were able to flee, albeit at risk of being attacked as they went on the move, the steppe-folk borne atop their horses and with as many of their personal affects that they could bare with them as they turned their back on their one-time home.
Within the grounds of the Khan's palatial estate the battle had raged fiercely; Surv-Akur styled troops had set up barricades and deadends to catch the attackers in crossfires in their meager attempt at a defense. Despite the valor that they presented to the oncoming host of foes nothing could be done about the unending tide of orcish invaders that streamed into the city like locusts. One by one the barricades fell and the well-armed and well-armored troops of the Palace guard were brought down under the ferocious tide, those who surrendered that were lucky enough to find Firetooth captors spared while their comrades taken by the Jaggedfist were executed without remorse. The city had fallen to the brutal assault and in one fell swoop the city of the Khan had fallen into orcsh hands.
SUMMARY
-- New Arkhaer has fallen to the Orcish Horde with all troops routed or killed except for a handful of captives.
-- A large fire is raging in the Southern portion of New Arkhaer, burning brightly in the Artisan's District.
-- Jaggedfist and Wastelander troops pillage the city while Firetooth discipline remains steady.
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