The Battle of Rolly’s Hill

[Beamon4 1646]

The Battle of Rolly’s Hill

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Battered, bruised, but never broken, the people of Adria took to the fields of the Lower Petra awaiting the long-promised battle. Victory would come on their terms now, just as it had over a year ago as the king of Aaun’s army stormed their fair Velec, but were driven out by the defenders atop the barricades. Having hidden for the following months since that defeat, the armies of Aaun fearfully awaited the day when they would be told to march out.

 

That day finally came. Despite their boasts of a great army, only five-thousand took the field of battle for Aaun. An even number flocked to the banner of the Duke of Adria, who gallantly walked out with the infantry, ready to win the day or die trying. His trusty Greycloaks and militiamen of Velec, led by Sir Joseph Vasile, stood proudly at his side as they advanced north. Leonid Vilac and Valentin van Aert made up the left and right flank, respectively, where they and their heavy infantry promised to hold the line and never bend nor break.

 

As the Aaunic army emerged from Minitz, they positioned themselves against the River Reden, catching their backs against its banks. A fatal flaw, for they would now have nowhere to flee to. As Darius of Myrine, leading the Duke’s vanguard, screamed for the archers to assume their positions, a great duel of arrows began. Back and forth, the two armies fired. However, the Adrian ranks were spread out, while the Aaunic host was bunched together. Beset by projectiles and losing men by the minute, the order was given to charge into the weakest part of the extended Adrian line.

 

It was a trap.

 

Within moments, hundreds of soldiers dropped their bows and drew their swords, surging forth to meet the Aaunic charge. Believing a thin section of the Adrian line to be breakable, the Aaunic army tried to charge through and run them down, but what they failed to see was that it was held by the men of Blackvale, who held firm and gave enough time for the rest of the Adrian host to arrive and surrounded the mass of the Aaunics.

 

The battle lasted mere minutes. Surrounded and cut off from Minitz and Vienne, the Aaunic soldiers were quickly cut down by the more experienced, determined troops of Adria. The king of Aaun and his principal lords were able to make a breakout and flee back to Minitz across the bridge, which was then destroyed, but that was the only mercy that God showed them that day. The Adrian host, tired from battle and blocked from pursuing, returned home victorious. The spark of liberation had grown into a great bonfire and the tyrants had been swept up in its fervor.

 

AVE ADRIA

 

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Spoiler

WARCLAIM #2

Wargoal: Revolution

 

Attackers:

Duchy of Adria & Internal Allies

 

Defenders:

Kingdom of Aaun & Internal Allies

 

Location:

 

Red = Adria starting point

Yellow = Aaun starting point

Time: 4/1 2pm EST

 

[zacrox 12]

"bomboclaat" 

 

Edited March 26, 2023 by zacrox

[ItemVendor 693]

Reinolt cheers and raises his blade after the successful battle. "They did not stand a chance! Most of their people didnt even come to the battle, did the King forget to rally his people?!"

[Nectorist 7347]

As news of Adria's victory in history's second great battle at the Lower Petra spreads like wildfire across the world, the disappearance of Viktor Sarkozic, the eldest son of Duke Heinrik, is overlooked in the following days. Forgotten in the chaotic aftermath of the battle, it will be several days until the boy's disappearance is noted. However, with hundreds of bodies of young boys and men strewn across the battlefield, finding him will be an impossible task. With little available manpower to conduct an official search, the corpse of Viktor Sarkozic will likely be left to rot on the battlefield along with so many others. 

[kazoo 586]

Cyrano waits to fight more battles as his leg was broken in a duel. He'd watch the victorious troops come back from battle as he lays down in his room.

[marikandaperc 1149]

One of the few fallen soldiers awoke in the plaza of Adria. Her legs were sore, her head aching like it never had. She looked around and noticed some of her comrades; it didn't take long to assume they had fallen in battle. Unaware of the outcome, she sat tightly and awaited their return.

 

Once the victorious forces of Adria stormed the plaza, she joined the many in cheering for one of many victories.

Edited March 26, 2023 by marikandaperc

[Witchring 359]

"AAUN IS AUVER!" Cheered another warrior of Adria

[Nord 313]

"Our die is cast! First Aaun then the Coalition!" Ser Darius yelled on piles of Aaunite bodies.

Edited March 26, 2023 by Nord

[Laeonathan 3928]

"Ave Adria." a no-longer-priest spoke, cleaning his blade from the blood of two enemies. The now named Erik Euler then sighed. "They chose this path, so be it..."

[subatomic 1095]

Lucien Ashford de Rouen would sit in the Princes Anchor. He'd down a bottle of Ghastly Gecko's Absinthe after the war.

[Tide1 1592]

"There's plenty more to come." A Landsknecht comments as he wipes his Aurelian pendant of craven blood.

[GoodGuyMatt 7060]

Chased out of lower Petra, one Ludrik Katzak huffs, his sides bleeding, his Reinmaren garb, the only armor he had donned during the war, was soaked in blood. As he returned to Minitz, the man chuckled somewhat, and took his Lud, the Reinmaren lute of two strings, beginning to play it.

[Asutto 1947]

"We simply win." So spoke the O'Rourke softly as the last Aaunish body clashed against the fields. "Adria will not burn. Not now, not ever."

[Fie 2519]

"AVE ADRIA!" cheered the youngest of Valentin's siblings as she marched back home following the massive victory they had made on that day.

[Ryanark 1924]

An offering was made before Hannibal donned the armor of his old order— Hoping he shall not don it for the last time.
The battle was won, the old man was holding strong, three Aaunite heads under his belt. Blessed by the Titan.