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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6775682" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Zone B (West - the gate)Arsalan Khosa takes a large contingent of his infantry to protect the gate.  He believes that the primary assaulting force will be coming to siege this area.  A sensible assumption.The rest of his brigade he leaves under the command of his most trusted captain and assigns them to the northwest section of the wall to supplement the barbarians.  There, the well-honed fighting force should easily repel the stragglers that aren't trampled underfoot of the primary defenders.The spearmen form up ranks into a sheltron; an impenetrable hedge of multiple ranks.  The stand their quietly , basking in the light of the moon...waiting.  When the first sound of the aberrant horde, the tip of the spear, Arsalan, breaks the silence among them.  With quite poise and confidence he simply says "protect the warrior next to you and skewer the enemy in front of you...we will not be moved from this spot."  No cries erupt around him.  There is simply a steely determination among the defenders who have survived so long in the harsh, unforgiving wilderness of this world.The horde of mutates spills out in an incomprehensible mass of of bones and sinew carrying them forward awkwardly, lifeblood pumping through the alien architecture of their bodies.  Arrows take down several before battle is joined by the foot soldiers on either side.  When it does, it is initially decisive in favor of the defenders but settles into a slow quagmire of gory fates and stacking bodies.Indeed the defenders of Giliad's Rest do not move.  They continuously repel the siege as the archers above on the ramparts rain down an endless deluge of death.  Space and time are manipulated by the supernatural among the horde causing the defenders to reel...to bend but never break.  Corrosive waves of acid claim lives, but the ranks immediately shore up as the men and women tasked with protecting the citizenry of Giliad's Rest do their job.Several broken bodies and urgent minutes later, the sound of the horn from the arches on the wall to the NW rings out.  Arsalan's sensible assumption turned out wrong...the defenders are being routed by a force beyond their reckoning...[HR][/HR]Mechanical Stuff[sblock]27 Aberrant Flingers7 Unstable Masses2 Advanced FoulspawnThose come in a few waves at the good guys.The Large units of the Giliad's Rest Man-At-Arms blocks a large amount of terrain on the battlefield; a 24 square impenetrable wall.  Their great defenses (augmented by their Squad Defense trait), their lack of ability to be force moved as a swarm, and their melee control is extremely stout (as predicted).  A wall of Soldier (Swarms) augmented by the Solo Artillery that they protect proves more than sufficient to the task of defending the walls for a long, long time against an innumerable horde.  The recharge AoE attacks of the Unstable Masses and the Advanced Foulspawn does a wee bit of work, but it isn't sufficient to the task of uprooting the defenders.The walls of Giliad's Rest will likely melt away from the collateral blast-acid attacks of the Caustic Waves (recharge) before the Soldiers do!Now the bottom group facing all of the mutated Stone Giants, the Solo Infernal Basilisks Mutate and the Advanced Foulspawn leader?  Yeah...they aren't quite up to the challenge...I'll update that later.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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