Ravaging the Reach

[The Mad Skylord]

Initial Goals:
Red Keep
Redding

Coldmoat
Dosk
Standfast
Derring Downs

Raider Bands

Clegane's Band
1500 Light Cavalry

Damon + Tybolt Payne's Band
1000 Light Cavalry

Ryon Lefford's Band
1000 Light Cavalry

Main Army
1900 Light Infantry
809 Heavy Cavalry
3500 Light Cavalry
2000 eavy Infantry
3825 Archers
4832 Polearms i

[The Mad Skylord]

Orders

Main Army Upon arrival to Red Lake Keep, Crakehall will dispatch 1500 Light Cavalry to burn and loot the province. The remaining 2000 will be deployed as screens for the army as it lays siege to Red Lake Keep. Crakehall orders the construction of light ladders. Clegane's Band Arriving at Coldmoat, Clegane is tasked with torching the surrounding countryside, looting and killing everything he can find. Once this task is completed, he will lay siege to the castle. Construct light ladders once the province is looted. Paynes' Band Arriving at Redding, the Paynes are tasked with torching the surrounding countryside, looting and killing everything he can find. Once this task is completed, he will lay siege to the castle. Construct light ladders once the province is looted. Lefford's Band Arriving at Stabdfast, Lefford is tasked with torching the surrounding countryside, looting and killing everything he can find. Once this task is completed, he will lay siege to the castle. Construct light ladders once the province is looted. All units are to deploy several small bands of men. Should riders attempt to escape, these men will hunt then dowb and kill them. The 3 Bands of Raiders and the Light Cavalry are ordered to kill everyone they find, burn every crop field and destriy every house. The main task is causing enormous devastation - loot is a secondary objective.

[The Mad Skylord]

Standfast, Redding and Coldmoat Garrisons:
20 Heavy Infantry (40 points)
40 Light Infantry (40 points)
20 Polearm Infantry (30 points)
20 Archers (20 points)

Total: 100 men

Redwater Keep Garrison:
50 Heavy Infantry (100 points)
100 Light Infantry (100 points)
50 Polearm Infantry (75 points)
60 Archers (60 points)

Total: 260 men

[Pontifex Maximus]

Clegane raids Coldmoat, killing all in his path and stealing anything of worth. (need a raid roll for the province, to see if there's any resistance)

[General Brewster]

The Payne brothers raids Redding, stealing everything that's not bolted to the floor and impaling everyone they find.
I'll need the same roll as ponti I presume.

[Poach]

As ordered, Ryon takes his band of light cavalry and assaults the villages surrounding Coldmoat, seizing valuables and scattering resistance.

[Poach]

4 raids:

Sky: Peasants caught by total surprise, no casualties, 10% province loot (roll 4,+6 for raid size) (3,000).
Ponti: Peasants are well prepared, but there's no militia so no field battle, they recognise the Clegane banner, 7% casualties (105 dead), 9% loot (2,700).
Brew: Weak defence, fail to report the banners, 8% casualties (80 dead), 13% loot (2,600).
Poach: Peasants are well prepared, but there's no militia so no field battle, they recognise the Lefford banner, 7% casualties (70 dead), 8% loot (1,600).

Red Lake's keep successfully sends out a raven informing Highgarden of the siege.

[General Brewster]

The Payne's lay siege to Redding and send a raven towards Crakehall informing him of the siege.
-They build light ladders

The Payne's also demand the surrender of the castle. I'll need a role I guess.

[Poach]

Mods threw this together and put it into the rules, since we don't actually have anything. Surrendering is extremely unlikely, and really requires the defenders to be either badly demoralised and badly outnumbered, or for you to hold hostages.

Surrender Rolls for Castles

Castles are unlikely to surrender, as the defenders feel they can wait out a besieging force and inflict heavy casualties on them in any assault. A castle will begin with a 0/20 chance of surrender, with the following modifiers: Positive +1 for being outnumbered (points) by 2:1. +3 for being outnumbered (points) by 4:1. +5 for being outnumbered (points) by 8:1 or more. +5 if the besiegers have a family member of the defending House as a hostage. +5 if the besiegers are sure help will never be arriving (eg they already know their Lord's armies are defeated and scattered). Negative -2 if the garrison believes help may be coming (they got a raven out, for example). -2 if the holdfast is a "Castle". -5 if the holdfast is a "Major Fortress".

Castle surrender rolls:

Brew: 4. The castle refuses to surrender.
Poach: 4. The castle refuses to surrender.
Ponti: 1. The castle refuses to surrender.
Sky: 17. After lengthy consideration the castle opts to hold out, confident that Highgarden won't abandon them.

[General Brewster]

The Payne's order all the impaled people be put on their spikes in front of the enemy castle for demoralizing effects.

[Pontifex Maximus]

Clegane orders an immediate assault upon the walls. If successful, every man woman and child will be put to the sword and the keep made as much a ruin as possible before drumming a hasty retreat back to the main host.

[General Brewster]

(If this is possible I'd like to do that as well.)

[Poach]

Times GMT for my own working. Skylord posted at 1am the orders. 7 hours to march is 8am arrival. Raid 3 hours is 11am. Lay siege there and then, 12 hours to build siege ladders is 11pm, which was 54 minutes ago. So yes. Rolling siege assaults now.

Clegane: 1,148 men left alive. The castle falls. Daughters Serella, Rowena, Gesella, Tysane are found dead.

Payne: 756 men left alive. The castle falls. Ser Benedict Redding, Lord Redding's second son, is slain. His daughters Adianna and Rowena are middle-aged and have their own families, thus married off and elsewhere. Ser Benedict's family is slain.

Lefford: 771 men left alive. The castle falls. Ser Garisson Webber, Lord Webber's second son and captain of the defence, is captured. His daughters Delena, Bethany, are captured (young, not yet married). Daughter Emphyria married off, not in keep.

Crakehall: 777 Heavy Infantry and 1,825 Light Infantry left alive. The castle falls. Ser Tian Crane is captured, commanding the defence, as his elderly father Lord Crane and his third son Ser Myles. Both sons have families, also captured.

Total Light Cav alive and returning from the raiding bands: 2,675

6 hours stationary afterwards is 5am tomorrow. All Cav back by 0630 tomorrow, which is in 6h30m, on time to fight the arriving Reach army.

[General Brewster]

All the bodies are to be impaled and the castle set on fire after it's looted.
A raven send to the main forces that the castle has fallen and we're moving back to the main host.

Roll for capturing the nobles present please. (If I'm still allowed since I edit this message)

Edit: With the conclusion of the siege and the murder of the noble family the Paynes order the impalement of all the bodies. The noble bodies however are kept in the keep, the scene is faked to show they died fighting. While in reality they were killed by Damon II without resisting. The story he tells the men is that he killed them because they raised swords.

The Payne hosts retired back to the main forces and reported in with lord Crakehall.

[Pontifex Maximus]

With Coldmoat laid low, Clegane puts the small folk to the sword and returns to the main host.

(roll for noble hostages please)

Ser Gregor returns to Lord Crakehall's main host. His armor was still covered in blood and gore. He had no hostages with him, but perhaps that wasn't all too surprising. He had taken only a bit of gold besides, and it was soon all squandered on drink and whores. The sacking of Coldmoat had been a brutal and bloody affair. All the Osgrey daughters had been killed (and most likely ravaged) before Clegane's men left Coldmoat.

[Poach]

I went with you both ordering everyone inside put to the sword, above my results post. I posted who was slain.

[Poach]

The Raid

Ryon took his contingent of light horse into the vicinity of Standfast, a small but stout-looking keep in the Reach's northern countryside.

They set about their first task at sundown, launching attacks against the handful of villages that dotted the hills around Standfast itself, pillaging and torching the area. Many died, many fled, some resisted.

In one particular village an elderly knight had rallied what menfolk remained, a ragged collection of old men, young boys, and cripples. They had formed a rough square in the village centre, a dozen men armed with swords, spears and farm implements defending a handful of archers, who were warding off the marauding Westerlands cavalrymen and picking them off from their saddles, protected by the makeshift spear wall commanded by the aged knight.

Leading a dozen dismounted men in a charge, Ryon was able to break the shield wall up and allow the circling cavalry to storm in: weight of numbers did the rest.

As the sun rose the small fort of Standfast was surrounded, and ladders were built. An offer to surrender was made, and refused: there would be no surrender to the fiends who spent the previous night reaving.

The Assault

The assault was a bloody affair. Ryon had 930 men at the beginning, and 771 at the end: 132 good fighting men died taking a fort held by a hundred men left behind to keep the seats warm while the fighting strength of the Reach marched elsewhere.

The ladders were many and the defenders were stretched thin, but holding the walls gave them a definite advantage and Ryon's men were primarily lightly armed: chainmail shirts were about the best quality armour among the men. Standfast had a dozen or so knights who took their toll, cutting down far more than their own number even as the lesser members of Standfast's defenders attempted to throw down their arms and surrender once the attackers had breached the keep itself.

Under strict orders, and at the cost of 3 men dead, Ser Garisson Webber was captured alive, as were his sisters Delena and Bethany, both in their early twenties and doubtless already the subject of discussions for marriage matches. Luckily the men respected the orders that they be captured unharmed and unmolested at the cost of their heads...

Red Lake

Ryon lead his cavalry band, captives in tow, back to Lord Crakehall's main camp at Red Lake. Standfast had been set alight as they left, with the holdfast's firewood piled up in the main hall and set ablaze, joined by the rafters. By now the keep would be a burnt out stone shell.

Ryon entered the castle at Red Lake, which by now sported Crakehall banners, and sought Lord Crakehall himself to hand over the captives.

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[Trot]

The battle of Red Lake.

With the keeps of Red Lake falling into Westrener hands the men of the Reach under Lord Oakheart prepare to take back their new lands. The armies of the Reach were mostly made up of conscripted farmers and levies, while the Westreners had a core of battle hardened knights. These heavy troops would be what pushed the Westreners over the edge. Their ranks were to much for the half trained famers and militia men. However it would not be the end for the men of the Reach the reserve would charge forward allowing the Reach army to form an orderly retreat.

Survivors

The Reach
6331 Light inf
2926 Polearms
3720 Archers
1508 Heavy Cav
1818 Light Cav

Quentin Tyrell 11 captured
Lord Oakheart 6 wounded 3 head wound lord oakheart lost his left eye and is incapacitated for 2 real life days
Garse Flowers 3 wounded 11 leg room no duels for 1 real life day

The West
2652 Heavy Inf
1264 Light Inf
3333 Polearms
4825 Archers
5175 Light Cav
809 Heavy Cav

Rolland Crakehall 20 free
Gregor Clegane 15 free
Ryon Lefford 6 Wounded 10 arm wound -2 duels for 2 real life days
Damon Payne 19 free
Tybolt Payne 7 Wounded 14 leg wound Tybolt can not walk for 2 real life days

[Poach]

Preparing the Line

Ryon had been assigned command of the army's left flank, and a formation of some three thousand foot. A significant portion of the archers had been retained at Red Lake castle to their immediate rear, utilising the advantage in height given by the walls, while the remainder were out in front of the infantry, ready to deliver their volleys as the enemy approached.

Ryon had arrayed his footmen on his own right, protecting the connection with Danmon Payne's own formation in the centre, with a large body of pikemen on his left. Lord Crakehall's orders were simple: advance the foot to engage the enemy foot and use the pikemen to ward off enemy cavalry. If the flank were endangered, the army's own cavalry in reserve under Tybolt Payne would be deployed to shore it up.

As the two forces moved to engage, it became clear to Ryon that the bulk of his opposite number's troops were provincial levies, haphazardly armed and armoured, accompanied by a body of pikemen similar in size to his own. With no cavalry in sight, it became clear that this would be a fairly straightforward slogging match.

"Have your pike engage the enemy pike!" he shouted to the commander of his pikemen as he rode up to the man, who gave a solid nod and began barking his own orders.

Riding along to behind his own footmen, he pulled the light foot out of the ranks and formed them up on him, confident that his own heavy infantry would be more than a match for the disorderly mass of peasant levies that were approaching them.

The Battle

He deployed the light foot out on his extreme left just as the pike troops men and began skewering each other. With the enemy cavalry still nowhere to be seen he felt safe in unleashing his own poor-quality troops, and had them swarm up his own pike's flank in an effort to disrupt the enemy pike formation.

As the battle wore on, it became clear the Reachmen were attempting to envelop Ser Payne in the centre: their own centre was giving way in a fairly orderly fashion while the massed peasants Ryon's own heavy foot were grinding their way through were being pushed to Ryon's right by their own commanders, pressing into Ser Payne's men who were now considerably further forward than Ryon's.

Reacting rapidly, Ryon rushed up to the rear of his heavy foot and dismounted.

"Sergeants! Get me men! Peel them from the back!" he shouted above the din of battle, and before long a few score men had been rallied around him.

"Their light foot in front of us presses our centre, while the pike holds steady!" he shouted, "They mean to squeeze our centre from three sides, to lure them into a killing box! We will disrupt this by targeting the weak link between their pike and light foot in front of us! Too many of their men have been syphoned off to press Ser Payne, the weight of their line is pressing to our right, not against us!"

The men formed into a narrow wedge with Ryon near the front and began pushing through their own men, aiming at the corner of the enemy pikemen. As they pushed, and the men saw Ryon leading them, more would join. They breached their own front line and in a concerted effort, prised the pike and light foot of the Reachmen apart. With the enemy pike now assailed on three sides and the light foot being rolled up, the Reach line rapidly collapsed and was overrun.

During the chaos, however, one of the enemy pikemen was successful in driving his weapon through Ryon's shoulder: it would be some time before he was able to wield a sword again, and he was rushed from the front line and back towards Red Lake castle itself for treatment.

While being tended to my Maesters, word came through that the enemy had been pushed from the field, but a timely counter-attack from their horsemen had allowed the army to retreat in good order. So they did have cavalry after all…

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[The Mad Skylord]

Crakehall had come out unscathed. Being an old man, half crippled with old injuries, he commanded from the rear. He kept his face stoic - but secretly he was delighted with the excellent performance of his officers. Especially Lefford and Damon Payne.

Clegane was - as always - smeared impressively with gore. It made a man wonder how many he had actually killed.

Having summoned his commanders to his tent he cast his eye over them and cracked a smile. "Well done, gentlemen! An excellent victory. You have all served notably well in this little excursion."

Crakehall gestured widely at the map. "I have no idea where they have gone. I also have no idea if they sent for reinforcements or not. As it stands, the overall strategy will be changing. You'll take your bands out to murder and plunder again, except this time you won't try and break the smaller castles. Demand their surrender, if they give up - slaughter the garrison and torch the castle. If they don't, retreat and rejoin the main host. I will hold my position here for the mean time. I'm going to find these Reachmen - we can decide how to deal with them afterwords."