Update 12.5: These Are Not the Spoilers You Are Looking For
Note: I will be using real numbers, with the actual numbers of units in parenthesis.
GREAT WAR OF LEVEAN SUPREMACY
-BATTLE FOR ETASS-
Hyakkid Forces: 1000 Qarabu Kalbanatu (2), 2500 Spearmen (3), 1500 (3)
Archers, 20 Curraghs, 5 Ox Chariots, 3000 Hurrian Auxilaries (3)
Etassian Forces: 60 Ox Chariots (3), 1500 Spearmen (2), 1000 Archers (2), 500 Highlanders (1), 8 Curraghs, 5000 Hurrian (5)Auxilaries
With the rejection of the treaty Edguar demanded Sarrukan to draft up, siege preparations continued unabated. He begun trying to work the few magnates of Etass and Hurria to abandon Edguar, and although he has scattered success, inevitably such plots ended with the mysterious murders of the plotters.
In addition, scattered reports are coming in about Viria and Parsha redirecting their forces to assault the kingdoms of Ortun and Merion. Added to the difficulties in convincing the Etassian Hurrian Chiefs to risk assassination to join him, he has few additional reinforcements available for the assault.
Nonetheless, the current business must be completed. Takarzi’s Hand will strike a harsh blow upon Etass and their pretensions, and win the day.
Meanwhile, in Etass itself and across Hurria, Envisionaries command that all should be trained in the arts of war. Production goes into overdrive as thousands of spears with tiny bronze points are made to arm the people. Due to their high confidence and culture, the people rally, most disturbingly behind Hyakkite lines and in Etass itself.
13 Months have passed since the setting of the siege. Sarrukan-Sar nods. Thousands of soldiers climb out of the siegeworks with trenches, rams, and a rudimentary siege tower and headed towards the walls of Etass. The city, weakened by hunger and infighting, or so they hoped, would be ripe for the picking.
This charge was met by a screening force of Ox Chariots, who quickly swept his left flank of the loose formations before being repelled by his veteran spearmen. On the right the ladders rose onto the walls, headed by brave Qurabu blessed by Takarzi, and those who survived the hail of arrows begun immediately to clear the walls with their massive, unstoppable axes.
In the center the great Siege Tower rumbled. Built like a giant chariot, its bottom is adorned with three rams and shields covered its internal scaffolding. Flaming arrows are met with wet sand as it rumbles towards the gates.
The gates are rammed open even as Qurabu from the tower swarm the gatehouse. With the dispersing of a Hurrian counter attack with their own Hurrians, stiffened with a battalion of spearmen, the walls are broken.
The armies of Etass quickly marched away from the city, leaving a few choice defenders to carry on the fight. The Etassian Militia fought the good fight, but folded against the stoic soldiers of Hyak causing the rest to flee to fight another day. Etass has fallen.
Hyak: -1 Qurabu -1 Spearmen -3 Hurrians: Total Losses: 4500 men
Etass: -1 Archer -1 Spearmen -2 Hurrians: Total Losses: 3500 men
-CAMPAIGNS OF HURRIA-
With Etass conquered, Sarrukan-Sar moved south to pacify Hurria from the north. With his Murat army striking southward as the King Durmas of Alamhadt led reinforcements northward, the remaining Hurrians were defeated in detail, often by their Takarzi-Hurrian neighbors. The envisionaries continued to rouse the rabble, but one by one they were slain and their heads tossed into the river to be cleansed. Hurria has been conquered.
Hyak: -2 Spearmen -1 Ox Chariot
-ETASSIAN RESISTANCE-
However, back at Etass things went less smoothly.
The common people summarily rejected the Hyaks, rallying around King Edguar and his men to rule instead of the “barbarians”. Edguar’s men still manned forts, placed traps in the Murat river to prevent passage, gathered more men and taxes and harassed Hyakkite soldiers with the support of the people. Interstingly though, Edguar begun to take an almost divine loyalty from the Etassians. One day, Edguar is seen both clearing a fort of Hyakkite Loyalists and hunting down a Hyakkite-Hurrian patrol. Another, he is seen at the opposite sides of the country making speeches and rallying the villagers. Yet they all are Edguar, his long hair, his regal expression, and his melodious, almost Levantine, voice are repeated again and again.
The mountainous countryside is extremely hostile, and however accustomed the Hyaks are to fighting in hilly ground, nothing compares to the mountains of Hyak, or the mountain men there. Eventually, to reduce casualties, they stopped chasing stories of Edguar leading this attack or making that speech, simply defending the necessary routes to bring food to their Etassian garrison and waiting until a more conciliatory monarch could reign.
Even now, they wait for the death of Edguar, who by all rights should be over a hundred years old.
While Etass loss its position as the center of trade, decentralized Edguarite villages grew in its place, still trading the ores of Etass for exotic items to the north, east and west such as amber, pitch, and a few rare swords made with strange silvery metal as strong as bronze, which is said to come from a mystical place called Khand…
NOW I WILL REVERT TO THE STYLE I SHOULD BE USING, BUT I FORGOT TO!
With heavy fighting, Parusha and Viria limited the Kingdom of Ortun to Ortun itself. The ancient Ortunite walls have stood yet again, this time against the Aramyans.
Hyak: -2 Archers
The combined armies of Viria and Danae managed to force the Medean horsemen in close combat. There, it was found that two horsemen form a team, with one guiding two horses and wielding a spear, the other a bow. After destroying their main horde and ignoring the small bands to be taken care of by garrisons, they hurried to stop the pass. There, Danae and Viria was to sortie against an attacking Horde, but Danae refused and the Axumite mercenaries attacked the Virians from behind, slaughtering the Virian army.
Axum-2 Spearmen +Experience
Using their funds and the lack of a mobile army in Viria, they avoided breaking the Exalted Pact by simply bribing the lands to join Danae. Viria is now extremely vulnerable.
To the north, Armorica took initiative and scared several islands into submission off the coast of Brittania, and then discovered a larger island further to the west.
In the Wesfrenkish lands, all the contenders of the Pro-Armorican King Davinsa died mysteriously over several years. Now that he has regained control over his country, he is preparing to launch a final offensive against the wild Frenks.
In Vascony, a small but potent chiefdom was established with Armoican aid. It begun denouncing those who converted to the Faith almost immediately and built a small but stong army of archers, invaluable in the mountainous terrain of their homeland.
At Vahshallah, goaded by the ruthless Chariots of the south and the new Prophet of the Iron Lances, Omar the bloody, they begun a ruthless expansionistic attack on all their neighbors, using Faithful members within the tribes to make them vulnerable to their demands, and erasing those who resisted from existence. It was successful, perhaps, but also forced many tribes in the south to choose-and some choose the invaders.
In addition to losses from resistance, they also lost nearly two thousand men in battle with the charioteers south of Spire.
Vahshallah=-4 Spearmen +2 XP
OTHER EVENTS TO BE DETAILED LATER
Ctesiphod falls apart into the City of Ctesiphod, Republic of Apulia, and Republic of Mencura.
Republic of Mencura is attacked by Illyrians fleeing the Charioteers.
A Faithful horde appears on the Rhine, fleeing from the Charioteers.
Makedonia is annexed into Katan.
Dorians receive their northern friends under attack from the Charioteers. They are preparing to form a horde and enter Makeodnia.
DAMN, I lost progress on my map.
Anyway, I won't bother with NPC spending; I will just assume they will replace losses and do it like that. You can still fight wars outside of the miniupdate, but they won't happen until 25 years in. Unless you are going Alexander, however, it won't change that much.
