It takes only a few minutes to confirm your suspicions: in a stroke of what could be seen as unbelievable luck or grave misfortune, a great powder magazine hidden in one of the corner towers of the southernmost fortress was hit, sparking its contents and blowing the entire thing sky high. Indeed, so great is the cloud of dirt and smoke thrown from the explosion that smatterings of dirt, ash and pulverized stone rain upon the field like winter snow for several minutes - even now, the smoke has not dissipated.

Yet despite the utter destruction of the corner tower, of the gigantic breach delivered upon the walls of Montechia, there is no movement in your own part. No orders arrive for your forces to move out and assault the opening. You send for a messenger to ask your liege for orders, yet the answer is all the more puzzling: We are not to attack.

You cannot understand it: new as you may be to the art of warfare, you have read enough, seen enough to know that a breach of such scale would be of immeasurable value. So why does he not charge?

CHOOSE YOUR OPTION
>Attempt to convince your liege into launching an assault before the breach is patched up
>Have your culverin sent south to continue bombarding the area
>Trust Don Carles' planning
>Write-in