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Now, because they won, half of the losses are recoverable and heal-able. So after a week of healing, Alzar gets 40 back, Sandralane gets 150 back and the King 400 back.
Alzar tells the King to push forward now. We need to take them down now while they are reeling. The plan is to eave Sandralane behind to get her 150, the Kings 400, and Alzar’s 40 back to help with defending. Meanwhile, their forces, fresh from wins, will march towards the retreating TEF.
Day 4 – With the same speed, the only way to catch them would be to force march, but with good troops that would have a 1 in 6 chance of failure, a 2 in 6 chance of working and a 3 in 6 chance of working and tiring their people.
Alzar decides to try something else. Alzar memorizes a special set of spells for use against his foes en masse. He teleports in front of his enemies and drops some spells to slow them down, like Skulltrap and Blastbones on the flanks, then summons every creature, uses his Stones, Censor, Ring, Mask, Horn of Valhalla, and more, and then sends the force against them. Their surviving mages use some low level magic like Magic Missile to hit some creatures at range.
Meanwhile, Alzar begins to cast some nasty spells, like Mass Charm, Chaos, Mass Domination, and such. He is forcing the front lines to deal with his force, and he begins to take some damage from mages and others. He animates a bunch of corpses to keep the fight and pressure going and then drops Black Tentacles. Eventually he flies away, but he killed and slowed down their force considerably. Seeing the army getting closer and closer they stop fleeing, and accept the inevitable, and close ranks and set up.
The Thyatian split their force into 1000 and 3750
Alzar chooses the smaller, and King Ericall gest the larger:
New Numbers –
Alzar gets his 154 (-10 for fatigue) and then adds 20 for heroic actions on this day. 174 total
His foe gets 3-1 odds, and is the defender on a road. +10 for that. And it seriously fatigued, so -20. 105 total. Alzar gets 69 diff.
30 vs 49. Alzar wins by 50
0% loss to 30% for Thyatians they are fatigued, he is not further fatigued. He holds the field.
Meanwhile….King Ericall has 3200 vs 3750 for them . They get -20 for fatigue, he gets -10 for fatigue, they get +10 for defending. Ericall also gets +10 for having beaten these guys. 103 vs 75. Here we go…60 vs 38. 49 result. Ericall wins the same as Alzar did – 0 to 30%, no additional fatigue, hold ground.
Today, Thyatis lost another 30% of their forces and are down to 3,200
And they didn’t lose any other than a few wounded they immediately patch up.
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