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"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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Defensively!

You've got some five minutes afterwards to talk shop with your classmates, too. Then Kerrigan expects you to get in there. Grab a sword or a stick, and get to it.

Edited 2010-09-27 11:04 (UTC)

There are plenty of soldiers milling around here, which is a good thing: the enemy's thrown ladders at the walls, and the bad guys could be coming up any minute.

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.)

There's a bunch of men with shovels around here, working. Somewhere underground, the enemy is trying to tunnel their way under the castle, in hopes of setting off a bomb. You should probably do something about that...

...or you can be boring but functional, and take a tally of the remaining food and water and determine a good ration. There's a couple hundred people in the castle, and storage is half-full. There's also a well in the courtyard.

If you can find them!

Who's going to be minding her own business in the 'classroom' during the exercise.

Everyone can be armed with staff, sword, or bow and arrow. NPCs are programmed to die nothing worse than a Disney death, or a simple wipe of their 3D model, depending on character needs.

Leia Organa

Leia grabbed a sword for herself and swung it experimentally. She couldn't help but wonder what it would be like to wield a lightsaber instead.

Shane Gooseman

Leia went up on the walls to command the soldiers, directing them to push back the ladders, or better yet destroy them, and to pour or throw whatever they had on hand down on the invaders below, from boiling water to hot oil to rocks.

Emma Frost

Prince Alexander of Daventry

Cloud Strife

Sword in hand -because there was no way he would go with a bow-, Cloud decided this was the best way to start the week.

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.

Faramir

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.

Karla

Karla found a sword that wasn't too different from her cinquedea and a pair of sticks that could almost pass as Eyrien, and then glanced around at her classmates.

"Since we have a bit of time, we might want to come up with a few tactics now?" she suggested. Based on what we're all good at?"

Emma looked at the swords with a horrified expression. "Someone tell me she's kidding."

She knew Kerrigan wasn't kidding, but Emma was a fencer, not an actual fighter. Her powers weren't going to work against holograms, however, so she grabbed a bow and cast about for a working plan. Pressing some knights into service would be a good way to start, at least.

Alexander did feel that, perhaps, armed with a sword for defense, he should have taken a more active approach with battle, but, on the other hand, reasonably speaking, if he were in a situation like this (and he very likely could be one day), he would not be on the front lines, even if he wanted to. He would be king, or if not king, then on the way to becoming one, and, as such, he would have tasks more like this one, safer from harm and in charge of caring for his people.

That, and, well, interestingly, it was similar to what he did as a slave, as well.

Besides, knowing too well about old castles and their secrets, he wanted to check the storage room for any secret entrances or tunnels that might be used as a way for the enemy to sneak in if they had the right intelligence about such things.

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