Round 3
General Croses - Ross_Varn
The Falx swordsmen charge, killing one spear ashigaru.
One of them attacks the Hitokiri bowmen...
... and finds they're not such easy targets as most regular archers.
General Croses charges as well, knocking Zahru over. He manages a feat of concentration that gives him stats boosts similar to Zahru's berserk rage. The charge doesn't damage Zahru (enough), but it's a feat worthy of praise in itself.
The downside is he can't follow up with a sword attack, the positive side is Zahru is out of reach to strike back as well.
The death seekers plunge into the flintlock ashigaru's ranks, slaughtering two of them.
It puts one of them in range of the naginata-wielders however, and they show him no mercy.
With a mighty strike the giant deals another HP of damage to the Trogdor, getting very close to finishing it off.
The Trogdor latches onto the giant's other kneecap instead, doing a similar amount of damage and bringing the giant down to 2 HP.
Zahru - Zahru II
"So you want to fight me really bad huh?"
Croses braces himself, but at the last moment Zahru leaps up, vaulting over his head.
He bounces off the Trogdor and jumps, aiming for the giant's arm...
but the feat crit fails and he falls on his face
In the meantime, I still haven't figured out the connection between Zahru's avatar and my dice making shit rolls.Falx Marshal - Battlegrinder
The ballistae open up, trying to support their marshal. One misses and is lucky not to hit the marshal, the other hits but doesn't do enough damage.
Two crossbowmen combine to put the flamer down.
The others fire at Lorreaine, but only one hits, and that's not enough to put her down.
"Unnaceptable! Fight on, you fools!" the marshal bellows, boosting all Falx's skill with +1 (will continue into the next round)
Retreating from the three guys she's in combat with seems like a bad idea, so she attacks the elite, who parries all the damage.
Hitokiri - lawmaster
All units that have a higher rank than corporal, which is, well, just Lorreaine, saddle up and fall back.
"If you want me, come and claim me!"
Critically successful feat! The Falx belonging to the marshal's forces all rush towards Lorreaine, eager to kill her (she basically trolled them).
This is especially problematic to the marshal, who loses another HP leaving combat to attack Lorreaine.
It gets her close enough to sneak a blow past the princess' defenses, but not past her armour.
Lorreaine responds with a withering blow from her nodachi, which the marshal manages to parry.
The feat also forces the crossbowmen into an even more dangerous position.
Worst of all the javelineers abandon their positions and come sliding down the walls to attack, luckily for them surviving the falling damage.
Trogdor, firebombers, archers and horse archers all combine fire on the giant.
It's too much for him, and he falls down, crushing a firebomber, the Trogdor, two Ashigaru and two friendly swordsmen.
This Hitokiri falls to the halberdiers' counters as he tries to rid himself of them.
The Blazer point-blank fires at the crossbowmen. The blast knocks them over, but doesn't kill them.
When the swordsmen attack, a downed crossbowmen is still killed. The naginata-wielders also impale and pin two javelineers against the bastion.
Point blank shots from the flintlock ashigaru kill two more crossbowmen. Two remain.
The death seekers, at least, survive the javelineers' attacks.
I forgot about the halberdiers earlier during Battlegrinder's turn (which probably isn't such a bad thing, since retreating from the Hitokiri they were fighting to go after the firebombers wouldn't have done them much good), but here they are, killing the Blazer operator and hijacking the machine of war.
Overviews
Kills:
Croses - 11 (+2 friendly fire)
Marshal - 8
Zahru - 3
Hitokiri - 27
Active effects:
Zahru - Berserk +1 (1 round remaining)
All Falx - Skill boost +1 (1 round remaining)
Croses - Concentration +1 (2 rounds remaining)
