Dynasties Online

The battlefield is no place for the faint of heart.

Each scream threatens to hurt it.

Each cry for help threatens to gain sympathy from it.

Each severed limb threatens to scar it.

All while the smell of blood threatens to make you vomit it.

Lyndon Gladorus, Vice General in the Chavarian army at the battle of Brunag.

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A tide of red blood-eyed iron-clad orcs charged towards the neatly formed Chavarians, roaring defiantly, waving their crude iron weapons in the air as they ran as wave after wave of arrows rained down on them, the cavalry on the left side entered into a Mexican standoff, neither moving as the orcish pikes move to the left side of the allied army to act as a bulwark against the cavalry if they tried to interfere into the infantry battle by charging in while some of them hold off the allied armies cavalry.

The orcs, who initially were just a rabble being cut down by the arrow rain coming from the top of the hill like wheat waiting to be harvested, quickly began to create shield walls forming formations similar to roman tortoises as they worked together to move forward while massively reducing the casualties that they were taking the arrows now hitting their shields instead of their armoured flesh which required multiple arrows to bring down one orc.

As the orcish heavy infantry were creating tight tortoises and slowly moving forward under the Chavarian’s arrow rain, 10,000 orcish skirmishers split into two, each with 5000 men each began to move towards both the left and right flank of the Chavarian shield wall, trying to shield themselves with their small round shields as they moved to outflank the Chavarian position and use their javelins to attack them from behind and deal a large amount of damage.

"Archers focus on their skirmishers, for they are lightly armoured and don’t have the armour or the large shields to defend themselves properly!"

Lyndon ordered in a loud commanding voice to the archers under his command as half fired on the skirmishers charging up the hill on the left and the other half focused on the skirmishers attacking from the right. At the same time, the orcish pikes and remaining spear-armed heavy infantry moved to protect the skirmishers attacking from the left side of the Chavarian formation from any potential cavalry attacks from the Chavarians.