Dynasties Online

"Many people in the early stages of DO thought that, like many other VRMMORPGs, personal power and how powerful your character was individuality was the most important, even in a war."

"While master and grandmaster fighters can change the outcomes of smaller battles and wars, in battles that involve hundreds of thousands of men being able to lead 5,000 to break through 10,000 or being able to kill 500-1000 men alone is just a small contribution or a drop in the bucket."

"So, leadership strategy and morale are what wins the day more often than not in these cases."

"And for those who do not understand this."

"I will teach it to them by letting them experience the despair of defeat."

"Right before I cut off their stupid presumptive heads for not listening to the many warnings to treat DO like a second real-life world."

Reginald Coulan, creator and head of House Aurellion in dynasties online.

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While Leon and Bardornus were duelling, the rest of the cavalry battles were just as brutal as the battle in the centre between the Orc and Chavarian infantry, lasting for many hours, with both sides taking a large number of casualties.

In the battle between the Chavarian horse archers and light cavalry, despite the Chavarian horse archers having a good start using their 8000 horse archers to quickly eliminate the Plurian ones taking only 500 casualties and using their moveability to run around the Plurian light cavalry shooting them down. The Plurian light cavalry was still faster than them slightly and slowly made their way into combat and javelin range of the Chavarian horse archers, who took massive casualties from the javelins, which easily broke through their armour and suffered from the light cavalry’s superior close combat skills.

Captain Horatius himself was forced to join the melee using his expert sword and archery skill to barely hold the line and help to rally the Chavarian horse archers having half of them engage in combat while the other half shoot the exposed lightly armoured backs of the Plurian light cavalry the steel arrows ripping through the leather armour worn by the Plurians like paper.

With a skilful strike, Horatius successfully killed the Plurian captain. However, to achieve this killing blow, the Chavarian captain suffered a great bleeding gash that diagonally cut across his body from his shoulder right shoulder to his waist. After the Plurian soldiers saw their captain fall from his horse dead, leaderless, they quickly broke and fled from the battlefield allowing the horse archers, who only had half their numbers left to sweep into the centre and help the struggling Chavarian knights fighting in the centre with the Plurian knight their morale only holding due to Leon still standing tall like a statue on top of his horse.