OOC: Amirsan, a very funny typo I just noticed.
Anarchy, 24 hour warning, do not post or your nation becomes NPC.
LOL. And how the hell did all my archers (who were protected by the spearmen around them) get slaughtered?
IC:
Toporvrag returned. Returned with a weakened and damaged army, and told Daroslav of what happened after the cremation of the dead ones - among them, Lukoboi.
"Our warriors advanced through steppe and plain, through woods and swamps. The Scyphs and others such as them were never honest warriors. Led by their greatest warrior - Okrash, the bowman - they mounted their horrifying beasts, Loshadji*. On them, they moved as lightning and ambushed us everywhere we went. Our formation broke. Many of the archers died, and so did many spearmen. Only hope was in that that spearmen could pierce the enemy beasts, killing them and leaving their warriors weak and helpless - they are not trained in battle on their feet, indeed they can only fight when they are not threatened. We had to retreat. But we were surrounded by the enemy, who slaughtered nearly all of our archers. Okrash the One-Eyed approached us, and proposed a battle of few against few. The ten of our remaining archers, including Lukoboi, against him and ten of their archers, including Okrash. We had no other way out. They dismounted, and each side stood on one side of the flat steppe. All raised their bows, and fired. Lukoboi killed Okrash, who killed him too. No one won, all were slaughtered. Scyphs attacked us, but with rage over the dead of our comrades in arms filling us, we raised our spears and fought like we never fought before. They ran away, leaving us to retreat in peace. We took our dead and came here. I still grieve about Lukoboi - for even as we always competed for being first and then second under you, both of us always respected each other. We must avenge him."
And Daroslav agreed. But said - Perun must be asked for a blessing. And he and the Volhv Takov have went to the Dniepr, and offered rich sacrifice to Perun, asking for a blessing and a way to victory, and they stayed at the coast for seven days. The first three days, nothing came. On the fourth day, a bow and two arrows have surfaced, and Daroslav ordered for the new warriors to train with such weapons. Then, on the fifth day, a corpse of a Scythian was found in the river by the fishers. Daroslav thought it meant the Scythians will die soon, but Takov told him that it must show a way to victory - using the Scythian weapons and tactics. On the sixth day, several horses came to the river, and the warriors were told to tame these horses. On the seventh day - a silver spear has surfaced, pointing at the Scythian camp. It floated towards Daroslav, and he took it as Takov told him. The spear was cold. He returned to the camp with Takov. For another seven days, he waited. Then the spear was no longer cold, but strangely warm. And Daroslav led the army.
Orders:
- Invest 1 econ. point into military. Concentrate on training archers.
- Invest another econ. point into infrastructure.
- 422 spearmen and whatever archers we trained now are to attack Scythians again, using old tactics but being more careful - checking for ambushes and trying to avoid forests and other terrain where ambushers can easily hide.
- Try to domesticate horses and develop horse-back ridding.
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*Loshadji - Russian for Horses.
