The Battle For The Hounding Continues H 50
The siege of the Northern Bogavainian castle originally built for The Hound over one hundred years ago, continues.
The troops for the second battle are indicated below:
BEERSTEIN Prince Sigel
UNITS MEN SURVIVORS (Including Recovered)
Musketeers (yellow) 24 24
Musketeers (red) 24 13
Musketeers (red) 24 16
Pike (red) 24 14 (fled)
Pike (white) 24 20
Longbow 24 20
Mounted Plate Knights 8 0
Lobsters 12 0
Light Cavalry (mercs) 12 0
Great Sword mercs 24 22
Cannon 1 4 crew & cannon
Cannon 1 4 crew & cannon
Cannon 1 2 crew & cannon
Priest (not present)
Supply wagons 3 but empty (other wagons and supply wagons in H49
Total deaths 91 Lost units: 3
BOGAVANIA Bishop Rembert
Hero Agneto
Wizard Erhard (unconscious)
Crossbow
UNITS
Crossbows 19 12
Crossbows 24 21
Plate Knights 14 0
Plate Knights 24 24
Heavy Infantry 24 0
Heavy Infantry 14 0
Hillmen mercs 24 0
Hillman mercs 14 11
Cannon 1 cannon intact crew of 4 dead
Total deaths: 93 Lost units: 5
With his superior battlefield intelligence Bishop Rembert second guessed my Beersteiners. Beerstein, due to the forced re-rolls, had to set up forces first and did not get the first move. Mat exploited this by avoiding most of my missile fire, at first. He assembled a force of heavy infantry, plate knights and Hillmen before his castle North gate and charged!
I moved a musketeer unit into firing position but the brunt of the attack was met by my plate cavalry and pikemen, later joined by my Great Swords that mopped up. Before that happened there was a time when the battle was in the balance.
Meanwhile my Lobsters and light cavalry crossed the bridge over the Eastern river and advanced on the enemy force form behind. The light cavalry charged the already heavily depleted Hillmen from behind. The Bogavanian knights then charged the Light cavalry before themselves being charged by the Lobsters. When the dust cleared all the Beersteiner cavalry were dead but here were few Bogavanians left before the Great swords charged in and finished off the remnants. The Beersteiner pike crushed the remnant heavy infantry who surrendered. The pikemen then used the prisoners as a shield from the crossbow fire from the castle's North wall!
These crossbows had caused some damage. What's more, the cannon in the North/Eastern tower had fired on and killed two of the crew on the Bogavanian cannon, which itself had caused some casualties among the crossbowmen.
The Beersteiner longbows then were directed at the Bogavanian cannon crew and killed them all! The crossbows on the Eastern wall had killed a number of musket men but their own numbers were being depleted.
The other two Beersteiner cannons blasted away at the Western wall. No Bogavanian troops were placed on that wall as the Bogavanians felt safe behind their moat but, pieces of the wall were slowly chipped away.
Inside the castle a full unit of plate knights and a Hillman unit waited on either side of the courtyard, awaiting the Beersteiners to charge through the gate as the drawbridge was deliberately left down. The Beersteiners did not take the bait.
But then there was a deafening crash as the Western wall collapsed! Some of the Hillmen were crushed but the remainder stayed true to their masters and did not try to flee or change sides.
The battle was much bloodier than the previous day with both sides suffering similar casualties. The Beersteiners now had free movement around the entire area outside the castle. Will those in the castle survive. In their favor, their wizard will be recovered for the next battle. Also, the Bogavanians witnessed the Beersteiners execute their heavy infantry captives and are thus inclined not to surrender.
BELOW
The view from the West. Prince Sigel's carrot top is plainly visible in the middle ground. The battering ram was abandoned as the strategy was instead to weaken the Bogavanians with missile fire and to batter at the Western wall with artillery. Besides which there were limited places the ram could have been used.
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