The Aftermath

It is the 7th of March in the year of 1473. During the past day two armed forces collided on the soft plains a few kilometers East of a small and unnamed village. Both forces were composed of the levies of the two Dukes facing off and their vassals, bolstered with respectable numbers of professional men-at-arms and mercenaries. The armies met during the early afternoon after the smaller force surrendered its superior defensive position across the river, luring their enemies to attack. The river now covered one flank and their rear, but would also turn a mass rout into a pure slaughter, a risk that could turn a single defeat into the end of the war, something Duke Amand knew all too well. As the larger force of Duke Godwin advanced and skirmishing forces of lighter cavalry, archers and crossbowmen tried the lines of the defenders and attackers alike, the attacking force found a weak spot in the right and exposed flank of the defenders. A general advance was ordered as the Duke Godwin personally led a charge of heavy cavalry into the undefended flank, routing the defenders' crack crossbowmen in a blink. Once the charge had watered down into a slaughter, a company of veteran pikemen charged the immobilized heavy cavalry, forcing them to withdraw. Once back behind their own lines however, the Duke of the attacking army had gone missing, and his host fell into dissarray as the general advance failed to break through the enemy lines, the heavy cavalry charge not yielding the expected succes. The attacking army fell into a mass rout as the battered but brave defending army counter-charged the wavering attack.

After the battle was fought the defenders quickly regrouped with the same good discipline they had shown during the fight, and retreated over the river to march back and relieve their besieged homes. The night after the battle the bravest and most loyal of the attacking Duke's army dared venture North again to inspect the battlefield, left unlooted by the disciplined victors, to find their leader propped up against his horse, the signature of a warhammer deeply embedded into his skull.


Duke Godwin is seen wearing a rare combination of a sallet and an armet in the English style with a high and pointed top. The bodies strewn around him are unlucky crossbowmen caught in their thunderous charge and the occasional mercenary pikemen that fell during the counterattack. In the distance more fallen knights are being identified by the men in order to give proper burials and to recover their bodies for their houses, and to note down for which nobles a letter of ransom would be unrequired.