Update 3C
2850-2825
Chinese Combat Communications
It took thousands of casualties, but the Xilaroi-Xiong alliance utterly destroyed Zhangat. The Nomads have conquered the Yellow River and are preparing to settle, while the Young Khan and the Silent Emperor wonder how far they will work together in the future as disease sprouts up throughout china.
On the Xiong Front, they burned their city to the ground and rounded up tens of thousands of Chinese, and then drowned them in the river to form a dam. This allowed them to place a bridge and swarm across the river.
On the Xilaroi Front, waves of soldiers poor into the Zhangat forts while Xiong Chariots swarmed their supply lines. The Zhangat Army tried to remain mobile, but was eventually pushed to the Walls of Qi’an itself.
It started when a sick Zhangat Soldier manning the walls of Qi’an fell to one of the few Xilaroi archers. He tumbled down outside and landed in a pile of bodies.
Later, Xilaroi engineers clearing the bodies at night to prepare for the next day’s ladder assault caught fleas from the sick man’s body.
A week later, all the Spearmen were dead and the Longspear Guards were incapitated. What they didn’t know is that the Zhangat fared badly as well, if worse. Unable to man the walls fully when the next assault of the few healthy soldiers arrived, they fought to the death, the sick brining themselves to form a spearwall as they died in formation, one by one as the invading Chinese themselves fell dead in the middle of combat. The Dead, military and civilion, littered the streets.
The macabre dam upriver broke, and it’s cargo, brining the sickness with it, floated down river.
Now the Zhangate is no more, but it has been replaced by the Sickness. The Xiong Horde, lead by it’s Young Khan, is preparing to settle down, but neither he or the Silent Emperor can plan for the future of the Yellow River.
The Yellow River turned black with death.
Xilaroi: -2 Xiong Warcarts, -6 Longspear Guards, -2 Separmen -1 Archer, -Confidence, No size increase -2 Economy from sickness, (Lost 2 Longspears, 1 Spearmen, and 1 Warcart from combat)
Xiong Horde: -2 Xiong War Carts, -2 Xiong Archers, -1 Xiong Warrior, -1 Confidence, -2 Economy from the sickness (Lost 1 Warcart, 1 Archer, conscripts from combat)
Your next orderset will join up with the normal update.
What happened was your Army was too large, unsuited for the combat, without logistics for siege, got bad rolls, and there was nothing done for the sickness, which started last turn. Ah well, you’ve got to rebuild.
I'm wondering, how can you join other NESes, put them in your sig, and somehow don't have enough time for my NES ?