Lord Angel
"Lord Angel? What the hell is he doing here?" Lord Lasky mused out loud. If memory served, Lord Angel had been one of the less active participants in the Cookie Wars. And how did he get an entire army on top of the mountain without his forces noticing?
Lord Angel's makeshift peasant army dumped rocks and burning oil upon the fort... but it was physically impossible for it to land anywhere near the actual soldiers. Some oil might splash on some buildings off to the side, but the roofs were made out of either stone or clay tiles and would not catch fire. The rocks would, however, succeed in chipping away at them.
As for the ballistas... the projectiles came soaring through the air, and scored a direct hit on the gate!
But alas, gunpowder had not been invented yet. The black powder was actually pepper. Desperate commanders would fire this at the enemy's cookie supply in a last minute attempt to completely ruin the cookies' taste. It could also be used to send enemy forces into sneezing fits. Both were extremely dishonorable tactics the other forces were no doubt looking on with disgust.
"How dare he use such dishonorable weaponry!?" CaptLasky shouted in anger.
So, the pepper bomb exploded, scattering the stuff everywhere. But since there were neither men nor cookies on the side of impact, it was mostly ineffective. Maybe if he fired on the ramparts, or over the wall?
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Lord Lasky
Turning his attention away from Lord Angel's less than effective stratagems, Lord Lasky once again set his attention on Westenev's unresponsive forces. Though he was aware of the hulking cookie-addicts and the additional reinforcements from Lord Angel, it was the protesters who concerned him.
Beneath the gold, the Bitter Steel.
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