There were MANY crit fails.
The bandits successfully dance away from combat and take defensive positions as close to the stairs as they can get.
Three archers take aim from the tower.
A Vennician crossbowman is slain.
The other takes very careful aim...
And he crit fails, dropping his crossbow into the sea.
The battle is rejoined. Steelaxe and Mathias duel for several rounds but they remain unharmed.
The spearman, however, draws blood.
A Vennician joins the breach...
And he crit fails, losing his axe on his backswing.
Akhilleus sprints through the vines easily, joined closely by one Myrmidon. The other tripped over a barricade in his haste.
With outstanding sprint rolls the heavy infantry are up at the line.
The other three, with little to offer and still far away, form a shield wall to try and stop the Shogunate from cleaning up their rear.
"Wagon Captain!" Wymer shouts, "Do you measure this field the way I do?"
"Aye!" the captain calls gleefully.
The wagon lumbers swiftly toward the palisade, building MOMs as it goes.
Crash! The spinning blades whirl and the entire wagon flies into the wall!
The men tumble forward as the wagon is stopped dead in its tracks by an obscenely high POP roll.
Two soldiers are disrupted on the inside of the wall.
A crossbowman regains composure and kills the last Vennician on the dock.
"Everything is up to me, I suppose," Wymer grumbles.
Using his trusty warg, Wymer vaults over the wall and enters the fray! He fails miserably to deal damage and now a 3-way melee ensues.
Athelard prepares to jump...
He lands safely on the parapet. (Success)
He ignores the demon, for now, and checks out the interior of the tower. He finds a dying cookfire and the creaking stairs to the top.
Meanwhile, the infantry slowly crawl across the rocks.
Elsewhere, these men try to engage Yoshiie.
Yoshiie, however, has other ideas. He quickly grabs his sword and pole-vaults off his mount...
... landing on top of the tower! (Success)
He yeets the crossbowman off the tower. He lands head first with a crunch.
The Shogunate officer positions his men to intercept the charging Liossans and form a line against the waiting Archohellenic shield wall.
Three crit fails occur at once.
And the Shogunate takes advantage. The archer's shot whizzes off target.
The crossbows score hits but deal little damage.
Overwatch.
Send orders for Turn 3!
