Macro-Tactics, Monday

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

"Now, this is a class on macro-tactics. Top down. That's the theory." Kerrigan was grinning like a shark today. The walls of their usual Danger Shop hideout weren't metal this time, either. They were solid brick, old brick, cracked brick. "But sometimes, you need to know a little bit about what goes on on the floor to make it work."

Her eyes slid across the students, looking for Blackagar if he was there. "Some of you wanted to know how to combat the tactics we talked about last week," she said. "I'm graciously giving you a chance to figure it out for yourself. Let's do this the classic way."

She kicked open a door in the corner of the room. "Medieval castle," she said, smoothly. "You're surrounded right now, and your enemy's going to be trying all kinds of tactics to get in here. You can command whatever moddable NPC soldiers, archers and knights you run into. I have five kinds of battle stations. Pick yours, swap it around if you're through with it. You do learn by doing..."

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The Castle - The Gates

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

The enemy's pelting your gates with supreme force; a battering ram seems to be the prime tool, though there could be other machines of war gearing up.

Stay with the doors to fight them off, or figure out another way of stopping them from ramming their way in. (Feel free to head elsewhere than the castle gates to do it.)

Re: The Castle - The Gates

[eyesofahero.livejournal.com]

On the gates, Cloud started to direct the soldiers there to both reinforce them, and to prepare to fend the enemies off. And to think in a way to stop them before they broke in.

Re: The Castle - The Gates

[thinkbetterofme.livejournal.com]

As Cloud was reinforcing the gate, Faramir pulled an officer aside and gave him orders to create barricades to block off the roads so they could make a stand if the gates did fail.

Then he grabbed whichever archers he could find and moved up to the battlements to attempt to take out the ram.

Re: The Castle - The Gates

[glacial_queen]

Karla met Faramir up on the battlements. "What if we doused the ram with oil?" she asked him. "It would make it hard to hold...and be flammable should they start to make headway on the barricades."