Warlords: Strategic Conquest
You order your troops to stand down in case your enemy's retreat is strategic and leads to a trap. You allow Toleron's troops to run away.
Although your arrow bombs are gone, you still have 50 thousand infantry, 5 thousand archers, 40 thousand cavalry, and 5 ballistae. You march back to your base camp to heal your wounds and pick up reinforcements and supplies before going deeper into Toleron territory.
One week passes. Your soldiers are back to full health. You receive five thousand archers recruited from nearby villages as reinforcement. You launch another assault at Toleron.
This battle sets up much like last time, except now his 70 thousand infantry are unaccompanied by archers. However, they did not come alone. Behind his infantry you make out several wooden vehicles.
Ballistae. 15 of them.
Toleron must have returned to his castle after your first battle and retrieved his ballistae. You allowed him to regroup and come back with reinforcements.
Your five ballistae stand no chance against his fifteen. Toleron's ballistae roll toward your army and send a storm of bolts flying toward your ballistae. You watch in horror as Toleron's ballistae wreck yours and you are forced to charge at them with your army.
By the time your troops make their way across the battlefield, Toleron's battery of ballistae has decimated your ranks. His 70 thousand infantry now outnumber your troops. This time, with their morale greatly improved, Toleron's forces prevail.
Your campaign to conquer the world ends here. You are captured and what you often do to your enemies is done to you, as your head ends up on Toleron's flagpole as a warning to anyone who would attack him.
Although your arrow bombs are gone, you still have 50 thousand infantry, 5 thousand archers, 40 thousand cavalry, and 5 ballistae. You march back to your base camp to heal your wounds and pick up reinforcements and supplies before going deeper into Toleron territory.
One week passes. Your soldiers are back to full health. You receive five thousand archers recruited from nearby villages as reinforcement. You launch another assault at Toleron.
This battle sets up much like last time, except now his 70 thousand infantry are unaccompanied by archers. However, they did not come alone. Behind his infantry you make out several wooden vehicles.
Ballistae. 15 of them.
Toleron must have returned to his castle after your first battle and retrieved his ballistae. You allowed him to regroup and come back with reinforcements.
Your five ballistae stand no chance against his fifteen. Toleron's ballistae roll toward your army and send a storm of bolts flying toward your ballistae. You watch in horror as Toleron's ballistae wreck yours and you are forced to charge at them with your army.
By the time your troops make their way across the battlefield, Toleron's battery of ballistae has decimated your ranks. His 70 thousand infantry now outnumber your troops. This time, with their morale greatly improved, Toleron's forces prevail.
Your campaign to conquer the world ends here. You are captured and what you often do to your enemies is done to you, as your head ends up on Toleron's flagpole as a warning to anyone who would attack him.
