The Rolling Green Hills of Celtia

[Sonereal]

Once upon time, the three tribes of a people met in a village on the Bibracte River. The meeting was doomed to fail until outsiders arrived from the far west, scaring the tribes, who wished to be left alone. Some wonder how much of an impact this meeting of cultures had on the next six thousand years of violence and war that gripped the continent. Some wish the outsiders arrived one week later. By then, the meeting would be over and the Celts may have never united.

Sadly, this story isn't about the what-if possibility of a better world. This story is about the history of the Celtic people which is marked with a drive for technological progress and hatred of beliefs that contrast their own to a large degree. This is a story where men in red robes bust down the doors of heretics and heathens at night, drag the occupants of the building out by their hair, and throw them in the back of a wagon or a truck, never to been again. This is a story about rivalry and destruction, alliance and prosperity.


Prologue
Part I

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Six thousand years ago, on the banks of the eponymous Bibracte River, the Celtic Tribes met. Their dialects clashed, sometimes to the point of nearly being distinct languages. Their way of dress clashed. The Eastern Celts of the Jungles, the Western Celts of the Mountains, and Southern Celts of the Forests bickered and feuded over essentials such as lumber, pork, and gems. The meeting of the three tribes in Bibracte would've ended the same way it begun if not for the arrival of a strange people.

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They came from a land beyond even the western fringes of the Mountain Celts, dressed differently, and their language were foreign. The meeting of the tribes meant to last a week stretched to three. Food was served and for the first time, the Three Celtic Tribes sat on the same side of the low wooden table in talks with a representative of a people beyond their geographic awareness. Once these scouts returned to their homeland, what will they tell their people? That there is a divided people to the east?

A people that has been found but has yet to found them? The foreigners made their farewells and headed out with their backs to the rising sun at the end of the second week. Throughout the third week, the Three Tribes of Celtia reached agreement after agreement. In the name of the common defense of course. One of the agreements became the Thousand Year Truce. The Three Tribes acquired and share the secrets of masonry and soon, the three were all rich from the flow of gems from quarries. The Three Tribes became so rich and influential that they agreed to build something to keep out the outside riffraff.

The Great Wall of Bibracte was completed in 2920 BCE. Five hundred years later, the Celts completed Stonehenge as a place of ritual healing and burial and ancestor worship. By 1670 BCE, the Celts had developed a religious system known as Buddhism. The Teachings of Buddha, by 2003 CE, would be followed by 80% of the world's population.

Between 1670 BCE and 690 BCE, the Thee Tribes integrated and expanded as demand for new resources like iron rose to prominence. Outside the borders of Celtia, the Dutch slowly disappeared as the Babylonians to the north of the Netherlands unified and conquered their neighbors to the south. The Chinese unified to the south. The Celts, thriving on isolationism, built duns to protect their cities. The Chinese, in many ways, were like the Celts at first. Cautious of the world around them and wishing to be left alone.

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The Babylonians, on the other hand, had no qualms taking what they want with both hands and immediately eyed the iron mine, the gem quarries, the pasture of horses, and sheer wealth and prosperity of the Celtic Tribe.

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[hoplitejoe]

Some interesting city placements, but this should be a good story none the less

 

[NinjaCow64]

Subbed.

Vote: Hoplitejoe for posting above me. How could you do that (monster).

 

[christos200]

Subbed.

 

[Sonereal]

Prologue
Part II

The Dutch delegate didn't want to get on his knees and beg the Celtic King for aid, but he would if he need to.

680 BCE. Amsterdam has fallen. The Dutch Tribes are without their capital and without a city to call their own. The Babylonians have enslaved a great many Dutch, resulting in mass death as the only people exempt from the enslavement on the political elites who jumped ship just before the short siege followed by battle. The irony is that his people practiced slavery as well, and the Celts practice debt slavery. However, and the delegate argued his point vehemently, this is the first time that a people enslaved another people. Such things can't be allowed, can they?

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The King didn't see a security hazard. All he saw was Hindus begging them for help against Jews. The Dutch and Celts aren't enemies, but they're not friends and the idea that Celtic sons would die for Hindu acquaintances was amusing at best to the King who came all the way to Tolosa for this meeting, the westernmost city of the Celtic Kingdom of Bibracte. The King refused the delegate's request. The delegate requested asylum and citizenship in the Celtic Kingdom of Bibracte. When the King asked why, the Dutchman answered, "I no longer have a homeland anyway."

Over the next four hundred years, the last holdouts of Dutch resistance faded while the Celts continued to grow in economic power and trade. The Celtic Alphabet formed in 630 BCE and helped foster trade and education across the Kingdom. Then, one day in 280 BCE, a messenger and escorts arrived in Bibracte from the Babylonian Empire.

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The Celtic King wasn't there when the Dutch delegate arrived five hundred years ago. If he had been, he would have noticed a stark contrast between the Dutch delegate and the Babylonian messenger. Whereas the Dutch delegate seemed correct in his posture and dignified and most importantly, respectful, the Babylonians swaggered in their step. Worst yet, the messenger arrived with armed escorts because they were demanding students.

"What do you want with our scholars?" The King asked after a long pause.

"We just want to learn your writing system."

The King laughed, "The Jews can't learn to make their own system so they try to hijack ours. Is that what you're saying?"

The messenger glowered, "Listen. We would really appreciate the writing system. There is no reason to escalate this to being an...international problems, is there?"

The King stopped laughing in leaned forward in his chair, "You can't threaten me. You're in my realm. A city of Celtia has never fallen and never could so what could an Emperor who hasn't mastered writing do against a King who knows his alphabet fluently?"

Spoiler :

The messenger returned to Babylon empty handed. No action came from the Babylonian Emperor, nor the next, nor the next.

It would be Emperor Hammurabi V who set everything to come into motion.

A decade into the war, in 180 BCE, a Chinese envoy informed the King of the severing of trade. The recently converted Jews no doubt were both threatened by the religious and political establishment of Babylon. Despite the fact neither side has made real gains yet, the Babylonians are the only people to have conquered another. After all, it took decades to subjugate the Dutch completely. It'll probably take longer than that to do with the Celts but it would happen. That was Chinese thinking.

By now, a small raiding force of Babylonians that had been hiding in the wild territories to the extreme south of the Celtic Kingdom were marching northwest, stealing from the rice harvest, cattle, and gems from the mine. The raiding force moved quickly, not stopping to pillage for they had orders to distract forces moving east to west while the main operation went down.

The Siege of Tolosa by the Army of Babylon contained three regiments of axemen, two regiments of swordsmen, and two regiments of the famed bowmen. The Army of Babylon marched across the unpopulated desert and ransacked the iron mine, depriving the Celts early on of the important strategic resource. From there, it became a waiting game. The Babylonians lacked the ability to pierce the Celtic dun (wall) and defenses of Tolosa, a mere outpost city and the Army of Bibracte lacked manpower, troops, and equipment right away to defeat the Army of Babylon.

Until 130 BCE.

 

[Sonereal]

Since I just finished up playing the save, I shall celebrate with a double update.

Prologue
Part III

The force patrolling the dun of Bibracte knew that there was a regiment of Babylonian swordsmen to the south. Fortified on a hill, dislodging the Babylonians would be tough. If the Babylonians remained there any longer, supplies of gems, sugar, and rice would have to be shipped west to Vienne instead of directly to Bibracte. Since the destruction of trade on the continent (the Chinese weren't allowed to move merchants through Celtic territory, cutting the Chinese off from the Babylonians), internal trade had become vastly important to the running of the state.

At some point, King Brennus II of Celtia was told of a secret weapon the Celts could utilize. The weapon was expensive and risky to use but it would make up for the lack of iron greatly. The "inventor" sung nothing but praises for his idea and the way it would decide the war. King Brennus II, lacking alternatives, allowed the project to proceed and it would be tested on the Babylonian regiment to the south.

On a clear Spring morning, a regiment left from Bibracte heading south to the hill held by the Babylonian regiment. The Babylonians heard them coming....and terror erupted among the ranks. Some tried charging, but were stamped into the ground under the heavy bulk of the war elephants. From a basket on top of a war elephant, three Celtic archers rained arrows onto the fleeing swordsmen. Arrows pierced the leather armor of the swordsmen and the elephants broke up any formation or, occasionally, just stamped through a small mass of dead bodies to crush everything inside. The Babylonian regiment dissolved.

Spoiler :

In 129 BCE, the Babylonians noted their were willing to negotiate a treaty that signed away Tolosa and the iron mine of the city. The Celts refused and the war continued unabated. The Army of Babylon have yet to encounter war elephants and have been laying siege to Tolosa for fifty years now. Trade has never been completely cut off from the city and a long, costly supply route had to support the army since Tolosa was built in a desert. The new general shifted gears and started to march on Bibracte. The Tolosa garrisoned sent a small attacking force of war elephants and horse archers to dog the Army of Babylon with little success.

When the Army of Babylon reached he outer city limits of Vienne, things changed. A war elephant charge from the north surprised the army and a Bowmen Regiment was destroyed and another regiment. This loss shocked the general and the Babylonians, who have never lost on that scale before. The Army of Babylon was chased west and north out of Celtia. The war entered an intermission.

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[Tambien]

Great job so far. Will be watching.

 

[Sonereal]

Mini-update for today.

Prologue
Part IV

Narayana Guru, a Great Prophet, settled in Bibracte in 20 CE. By now, the war has been raging for two centuries in small border skirmishes for a 150 years. The iron mine at Tolosa has been repaired and Gallic Warriors along with horse archers and war elephants for the day the Babylonians returned. Twenty years later, the Babylonians started using chariots as border raiders. It is here that geography started to play against Babylon.

Chariots and mounted troops work best operating on flat, open terrain like the land around Tolosa. However, the land around Tolosa is mostly worthless desert and the iron mine is unstrikable now that there are horse archers and war elephants based in the city. The only other alternative is to strike at the valuable territory, like the ivory camp, in northern Celtia. The problem with that is that the terrain is rougher and prowling with war elephants as well. The valley is also very narrow meaning it's easily guarded. That didn't stop the Babylonians from trying a few times, only to have most of the chariots destroyed. The same year, Belisarius, a veteran war elephant regiment commander, settled in Bibracte to instruct the troops there or not only war elephant handling, by training in general.

As the war stretched into the decades, the Celts developed a weapon capable of leveling their own walls called the catapult in Vienne just as the Army of Babylon is spotted north of the border. The year 120 AD and the Army of Bibracte is marching onto the Army of Babylon across open desert and plains. The Army of Babylon consists of two regiments of swordsmen and three axemen regiments and is led by an experienced general. The Army of Bibracte consists of five regiments of war elephants, four regiments of Gallic Warriors, two regiments of axemen, and two chariot regiments. Five thousand Babylonians versus thirteen thousand Celts.

The battle didn't happen. The Army of Babylon fled north out of sight last seen moving east. The Army of Babylon was going to do something chariot raids failed to do, push through the valley.

 

[Double A]

You guys know you can subscribe without posting using the thread tools, right?

 

[Sonereal]

You guys know you can subscribe without posting using the thread tools, right?

But the author likes the attention. :3

 

[Sonereal]

The Celtic-Babylonian War
At the Valley of Destiny

Death stood in a basket with two other archers. Shooting from a moving elephant was difficult for the other two but for Death? Why, it was almost second nature. She dressed like the two Celtic archers but didn't much like it. Death also didn't like transforming into a man but the Celts aren't very progressive. The conversation among the three archers covered the coming battle, the recently converted to Buddhism Chinese, and the hatred of the Jewish Babylonians. The Army of Bibracte idled in hills and forests south of the valley entrance, exit for the Babylonians. The farmland looked excellent but it would soon be ruined by the hooves of chariots and massive bulk of elephants. No one, however, will say the land was not fertilized.

The Army of Babylon emerged from the valley. Good, they think they're about to march on Bibracte or at least pillage the valuable countryside. Compared to the deserts and plains Death seen out west, the rolling green hills of Northeastern Celtia seemed like heaven. The Army of Bibracte restrained itself as the Army of Babylon burned the crops below. There are plenty of more farms out east. The archers in her basket didn't know what the commanders were waiting for but when she saw the last soldier exit the valley, she knew the battle was on.

Chariots belted out of the forest, down the hill, and raced across the open green fields. She watched as the pillaging army tried to form up. The chariots ripped through a group of heavily armed, but lightly armored, axemen. An archer in her basket grabbed the reins and whipped the elephant into action and soon, the many hundreds of war elephants of the Bibracte Army were a'marching. As the elephants grew closer to the formation, she grew envious. These soldiers were keeping formation and that was adorable. No doubt their famed general is patting himself on the back for what his displine has instilled.

The basket archers fired massed volleys of arrows onto the Jewish soldiers. The Babylonians lacked mounted troops and the Celts lacked archers who weren't in baskets. The Babylonians also lacked anything to form a spear wall with and so....

Babylonian soldiers fell as arrows ripped through their thin leather armor. Babylonian soldiers died as they kept formation and were stomped into the ground by elephants. The enemy scored kills of their own, Death saw. She fired an arrow on some swordsmen who, instead of keeping formation up to the very point of death, dropped to the ground and stabbed at the underside of the elephants. Such insanity worked and elephants went down and the archers inside the baskets were hacked to bits by irate men with swords.

Chariots raced around for a second run on the collapsing Babylonian army and that was when she saw him.

Zhuge Liang.

An Immortal.

The enemy general surrounded himself with swordsmen who fought skillfully in the sense that they were somehow taking out chariots by throwing their swords through the wheels. The same swordsmen were the ones who had laid down earlier to stab at the underside of a rampaging beast. She lobbed arrows at the general but they either fell short, went long, or a gust of wind blew them of course, impacting an unlucky soldier in the arm and another in the neck.

Zhuge Liang himself knew how to take out chariots and how to climb up elephants and hack archers to death with his dual axes. Death knew how things worked. As a chariot raced passed her elephant, she whistled. The chariot driver slowed and stopped. "What?"

"The enemy general over there," Death yelled from the basket.

"We know that! We're tryi-"

She climbed down from the stopped elephant and pushed one of the chariot archers out of the chariot. Death looked the driver in the eye and commanded, "Take me to him."

The chariot moved faster than the elephant. She lobbed arrow after arrow. All the more missing. Damn! The chariot was rushing directly at Zhuge Liang. He stood in it's way, axes at the ready. She's seen him down enough chariots to know he would jump out of the way and strike the driver with a heavy blow, killing him and possibly crashing the chariot. Or maybe he would decapitate a horse or-

But he jumps right.

And that's when she fired. The arrow struck home. He fell to his knees as the chariot passed by. She saw the surprised look in his eye as the chariot spearmen impaled the Immortal through the chest.

Once the general died, the Army of Babylon collapsed.

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[NinjaCow64]

You guys know you can subscribe without posting using the thread tools, right?

Yeah, except it doesn't look right without the little dot there.

unvote; Vote: Double A for criticising an old Civ4 S&T Tradition.

 

[Double A]

OMGUS!

vote: NinjaCow

 

[Sonereal]

I'm finishing up on the last parts of the AAR and am probably going to clock in at a solid 15k words scavenged from the memory and 1128 (or 48) screenshots. So expect something soonish.

 

[Double A]

Now that he's said it, the computer gods will probably wipe his HD.

 

[Sonereal]

The Continental War
Dur-Kurigalzu

The Army of Bibracte, bolstered with even more troops including three batteries of catapults, marched unopposed across the deserts and plains separating eastern Babylon with western Celtia. Death wasn't promoted for killing the general and she's happy for that. Sniping at fleeing troops with bow and arrow from atop a rampaging elephant is more fun than she have had in a long time. Dur-Kurigalzu was a town of only a couple thousand people. Lacking even walls, the town would no doubt be write off if the Army of Babylon hadn't decided, in a spark of stupidity, to make a last stand in the hills making up the town.

Spoiler :

Catapults are woefully inaccurate things but the three batteries of them did manage to tear down any defenses the town could have possibility built. The heavy projectiles often were too short or smashed through the roof of a building, no doubt scaring or killing the occupants. Once the bombardment finished, the elephants moved forward, up the hills. Death fought in battles in built-up territory before but that was Amsterdam. This...this was different. It lacked the importance of Amsterdam.

Death and her fellow basket archers let rip with arrow after arrow. Unlike her fellow basket archers, she nearly always struck home. The Babylonians didn't lack spears but they lacked trained troops and really, their spears were farming implements made to work like spears. The one "spear" wall she saw spanned a street but the elephant charge and arrow volleys fixed that problem.

No. The major hang-up starting from the very beginning has been the Bowmen. Compared to the basket archers, these were terrifying. Their arrows had more punching power and enough of them fired from top of buildings or windows often did hurt basket archers in droves. Many buildings made out of shoddy construction material, however, became graves for Bowmen firing from atop of them as elephants simply charged the structures.

Gallic Warriors, while not as useful as the enemy Bowmen, still made their presence known in battle. They hacked their way through the dazed enemy and the heaviest fighting took places in the parts of the town the war elephants simply couldn't enter. Too bad the experience gained from the intense city-fighting the Gallic Warriors gained would be lost in a few days, Death mused. The battle that started when the sun began to rise ended by noon when the governor of the city surrendered, ushering in a second phase of bloody slaughter that worked differently from the battle earlier.

Now the war elephants were destroying the shoddy buildings of the slums on purpose. When the occupants raced out, basket archer arrows took care of them. Many more, however, were captured as slaves. Death, from atop the war elephant, could see farther than the mere mortals below her could. Two fires had been started in separate parts of the city. Refugees were pouring west and, luckily for them, they won't be pursued. The soldiers started gathering men, women, and children to be sold in the streets of Tolosa, Vienne, and Bibracte as slaves in the gem mines or house slaves.

The Celts, however, took special care of the children. They would either be adopted by Celtic families, sent to one of the institutions that have sprung up in Bibracte recently that took care of children without parents, or sold like the adults into slavery. A lot of the times, the children would kick or punch at a Celtic soldier, who would shrug it off with a smile. The soldier would think pick up the brat and hand him off to whoever job it is to ship the little bastard out along with the rest of the town's portable wealth. Sometimes, the brat came at a soldier with a knife.

One simply does not come at a Gallic Warrior or Axemen still on full alert with a knife.

In a few areas, pockets of resistance formed. Usually these were soldiers who realized that surrender meant death still. Often, the pockets were bolstered by peasants with farming implements or looted gear from dead countrymen or enemy soldiers. When these pockets form, the Celts came down hard on everyone in the area and the blood would flow greatly. The Celts suffered heavily compared to the small hostile losses (for they are a small force) and the Celts would make up for this with retribution executions. By twilight, the fires had spread and destroyed great parts of the town so the Army of Bibracte withdrew to the south.

The Celtic Army of Bibracte made contact with the Babylonian Second Army during that night. The Babylonian Second Army surprised Death's fellow soldiers and by the end of the battle, the Babylonian Second Army was destroyed but so were all the Gallic Warrior regiments. Because of this, the Army of Bibracte marched back to Tolosa to resupply.

A month later, the AoB marched north across the same desert and plains to burn down the military town being built on top of the ashes of Dur-Kurigalzu. The battle was short, fifteen minutes at most and this time, there was nothing to loot. Everyone was put to the sword and the whole place burned.

Again.

 

[Double A]

AoB isn't very meaningful when you refer to your own forces as the Army of Bibracte and you're fighting Babylon.

 

[Sonereal]

The Continental War
On the Way to Amsterdam

War never thought his namesake could be so fun. For thousands of year, war moved slow based on the propulsion of man's own two feet. He became chariot man thousands of years ago when the Babylonians were still rampaging across half the continent but the Babylonian stock of horses dwindled to being incapable of expanding the force and years of attrition lead to so few horses being available, that the chariot men like him went out of business.

The Celts, however, understood something. Their chariots were numerous but the newer beasts of war were magnificent. Elephants, though slow, could be worked up into a rampage that cuts through enemy formations like the sickle does at harvest. Something about the experience though left him wanting and then he found what he wanted.

He joined the Celtic Horse Archers. These horses were far more powerful and well-bred than the horses that pulled the Babylonian chariots centuries ago. Shooting down enemies from horseback moving Buddha knows how fast is exquisite. The axemen forces sent by Babylon to defend the eastern border fell one by one as the horse archers galloped circles around the, taking them out one by one.

The Army of Bibracte has swelled in size since the string of victories evicted the Babylonian invaders and razed one of their cities. Numbering 21,000 soldiers, including several catapult batteries, the Army of Bibracte marched on Amsterdam from the east across the desert. A horse archer rode up next to War as he dismounted, "I heard that tomorrow, we lay siege against the Jewish Dutch-Babylonians. You should spread the word."

War nodded absently. As the messenger prepared to ride off, spreading the word to more units, War noticed something peculiar, "Where are the other Horse Archers? Are they busy pillaging the roads between Amsterdam and Babylon?"

The messenger shook his head, "I'm afraid not. Despite our great victory on the border, we lost two units of Horse Archers our unit took heavy losses itself. We had to consolidate the three into this unit."

War sighed, "Very well."
***

Spoiler :

Amsterdam was both a Jewish city and the holy city of Hinduism. Since the Celts had little contact with the Hindu Dutch before the Babylonian Conquest, the culture of Amsterdam stood in stark contrast to the culture of Dur-Kurigalzu. However, these somewhat divergent differences all fell under the Babylonian umbrella and for the past few centuries, Babylonians have been trying and failing to conquer Celts and when that failed, kill them as they extracted their share of revenge from Babylonia.

The city was much larger, much older, than Dur-Kurigalzu as well. The King of Babylon commissioned a new army following the final destruction of the Army of Babylon at Dur-Kurigalzu in 270 CE and christened it the "Army of Amsterdam". Babylonia, seeing the effects of catapults against fortifications in 270 started their own catapult program and two catapult batteries defended Amsterdam, a city lacking walls. The Army of Bibracte had only three batteries.

Spoiler :

War, on horseback, prowled the city limits of Amsterdam with fellow horse archers. The assault had already begun with catapults lobbing boulders at the enemy. The Army of Bibracte had a better time at it, given a missed boulder probably will crash through the roof of a barracks or the roof of a house. The Babylonians, lacking experience in using siege equipment, especially on the defensive, simply couldn't deal the same amount of damage the Celts dished out.

War waved for one of his underlings. "Yes, sir?" The horse archer asked.

"The War Elephants have already climbed the hill and entered the city over there," War pointed northwest where the elephants had made a climb to take out survivors of the first fortification of the city built on hills surrounded by vast green fields. "Is our unit ready to charge?"

The underling nodded but the real answer as they both knew was really "no". The Horse Archers took heavy losses and hadn't recovered before this battle to full strength. Horse Archer units, unlike normal infantry units, weren't used at fighting below full strength but they would have to get used to it today. The Horse Archer unit galloped up the hills. Scattered Bowmen fired on the Horse Archers but the Bowman unit must have already been through the grinder, for they were few.

War fired from horseback and struck down a bowman. Two more later and he was up the hill into the city. He looked back down the hill and saw the rest of the unit was halfway up, quickly gaining. After brief thought, he readied another arrow. The arrow tip caught fire. No one noticed the act of magic but noticed the effects when the arrow went through a window of a library. Flames broke out immediately.

Horse turned his horse to go down a street when he saw it.

What is that?

It was a man but much larger than a man. No....that isn't a man! War chuckled. That's impressive. A huge, bronze statue of a man stood where War guessed would be the harbor area. That is a trophy worthy of the masters of death known as the Celts. By now, War realized he and his men were encountering little resistance. On better days, this would mean little killing until a horse archer fired on a few Hindus leaving...whatever Hindus call their religious gathering areas.

Now the Horse Archer was surrounded by a very hostile population and the man whose arrows killed the first Hindus found an answer quickly. The first casualty was a Dutch woman who charged at the Horse Archers with a knife. She went down with three arrows in her gut and another in her leg. Soon, the archers were under attack from all directions. Rocks rained onto the archers.

A rock struck War in the head, knocking him off his horse. Damn, he thought. That really wasn't expected. Two Babylonians rushed at him but his fellow archers covered him at least until he got to his feet and got his weapon.

"Sir. Sir!" A Celtic Horse Archer yelled. "We need to send a messenger to ger the army to clean this mess up!"

War yelled back his response (yes) and a horse archer peeled off from the group and galloped toward the sounds of even heavier fighting. The unit hoped the Babylonians cracked under their mounting losses before they overwhelmed the Horse Archers. Already, a few men knocked off horses were dead, beaten into the ground and soon surrounded by dead Babylonians turned into human pincushions.

How long did it take the Axeman unit to arrive? Two minutes? Four? War didn't know but when they did arrive, it was with a sense of urgency. The armored veterans crashed into the mob with axes swinging. The mob's spirit broke and it scattered. Many ran into the Hindu temple.

The Axemen followed.

 

[Double A]

I thought War was a girl.

 

[Sonereal]

I thought War was a girl.

Death is the only girl of the family.