Aarach reels back from Bastian's attack and with a vicious roar swings his barbed weapon in a wild arc. At one with his mount, Bastian evades it easily, whilst Comoray moves up to help trooper Trey, now stable thanks to the blessings of Velshionne.
Under Gregg's command, Dack leads a veritable horde of Dulat troops to surround the last other skurg, and together they hack the monster down, but it goes down fighting and takes out trooper Dewey with a blow of its axe.
Arcata's magic sends one of the beastmen with crossbows plummeting from the ramparts, and a volley of arrows from the three Dulat archers on the wall take wound one and take out another. At Arcata's side, Janson returns fire on the crossbowmen but hits the parapet. Meanwhile, below the keep hiding in his pigsty Tye turns his crossbow on the approaching whos steps over the prone form of brave trooper Setto, to recieve a bolt in its left eye, killing it instantly.
Sh'aah and Zeebenson have little success in their part of the battle although Sh'aah manages to wound one of the beastmen and when Cassie rides up beside them the beastmen warily begin to retreat.
On the far side of the castle, two beastmen make a break for it, and the unusually skilled beastman appears at the door of the keep behind Aarach.
"Come on you fool," it says to Aarach. "We'll concede this one. There'll be other victories for the Maggot God."
Aarach merely spits a gobbet of blood-flecked phlegm in response and the slender rapier-armed beastmen shakes its goat-like head in annoyance.
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Arcata kills B31
Bastian causes 13 damage to Aarach but the monster is still standing.
Comoray stabilises D3
Shaah causes 3 damage to B13 but doesn't kill it.
Between them, P2 (Dack), D2, D5, D10, D12, D13, D14 and D15 take down Skurg 2, although D2 is hit and knocked out by an AoO as he approaches under the reach of the creature.
D18, D19 and D20 kill B36 and injure B35
P4 (Tye) kills B18 with a critical hit.
Aarach attacks Bastian - miss.
All other beastman attacks miss as well, and pretty much all but Aarach (and the crossbowmen in the keep) are in retreat.
Dead Dulat troops: 6
Injured Dulat troops: 1 (stable), 2, 3 (stable), 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 16
Injured Penal Legion: 1, 3
Injured Beastmen: 13, 35, 37 (odd one), Aarach
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