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With the next city so close by, you see no reason to bother with foraging for the moment - not when the threat of the forces of Largo attacking you yet still continue to loom over your head.
Your troops tasked with scouting instead, you continue along the path south. To your luck, there is no rain in the week that follows, and the roads, though not exactly dry, are far less of a bother for your forces to march on. Despite this, the effort you had put on your way to Largo makes you worry for how you shall travel during the downpours of summer that Straccia is known to be afflicted by.
Still, your army carries on, and to your surprise, there is no sign of the army. Some of the villagers you men run by in their scouting seem to confirm that they had marched towards Sonero, but nothing of their return. Had they managed to take the town? Were they still yet in siege, utterly ignorant of the fate of their home?
Your answer arrives only in the last day of the month.
The scouts spot them first, as they usually do: large columns of black smoke, rising into the sky, far thicker than a campfire could be, and with a much fouler smell. They are grave fires, meant to burn bodies of the deceased. It is sign of a battle that has already ended.
Your horsemen, which had happened upon the sight near the outskirts of Sonero itself, approached it, seeking to find out more - but quickly beat a retreat when a large force of footmen that had been seemingly patrolling the area began to move towards them. As they were unable to identify any flags or seals or colors that might have betrayed their allegiance, the men were most likely mercenaries hired: but on whose side?
Nevertheless, they know you are here, friendly or foe, and if it be the latter, they shall certainly prepare for a siege. With the losses you had sustained in the previous one, you certainly do not wish to have to undergo another.
There is, as always, the possibility of bypassing the city, as you so had done before in Largo. If theirs was a force capable of great mobility, or if they had known about your greater regiment, they would have surely moved against you by now, and attacked using the territory they without a doubt know much better than you or your men. You can conclude that they are either friendly, or of a size smaller than yours, and lacking in mounted men as well. You have no need to fear an attack from your rear, should you choose to bypass them.
If they are friendly, however, avoiding them would rob you of the opportunity to gather allies or resupply...
CHOOSE YOUR OPTION
>Advance towards the city, friend or foe!
>Bypass them, better not risk it
>Write-in
Your troops tasked with scouting instead, you continue along the path south. To your luck, there is no rain in the week that follows, and the roads, though not exactly dry, are far less of a bother for your forces to march on. Despite this, the effort you had put on your way to Largo makes you worry for how you shall travel during the downpours of summer that Straccia is known to be afflicted by.
Still, your army carries on, and to your surprise, there is no sign of the army. Some of the villagers you men run by in their scouting seem to confirm that they had marched towards Sonero, but nothing of their return. Had they managed to take the town? Were they still yet in siege, utterly ignorant of the fate of their home?
Your answer arrives only in the last day of the month.
The scouts spot them first, as they usually do: large columns of black smoke, rising into the sky, far thicker than a campfire could be, and with a much fouler smell. They are grave fires, meant to burn bodies of the deceased. It is sign of a battle that has already ended.
Your horsemen, which had happened upon the sight near the outskirts of Sonero itself, approached it, seeking to find out more - but quickly beat a retreat when a large force of footmen that had been seemingly patrolling the area began to move towards them. As they were unable to identify any flags or seals or colors that might have betrayed their allegiance, the men were most likely mercenaries hired: but on whose side?
Nevertheless, they know you are here, friendly or foe, and if it be the latter, they shall certainly prepare for a siege. With the losses you had sustained in the previous one, you certainly do not wish to have to undergo another.
There is, as always, the possibility of bypassing the city, as you so had done before in Largo. If theirs was a force capable of great mobility, or if they had known about your greater regiment, they would have surely moved against you by now, and attacked using the territory they without a doubt know much better than you or your men. You can conclude that they are either friendly, or of a size smaller than yours, and lacking in mounted men as well. You have no need to fear an attack from your rear, should you choose to bypass them.
If they are friendly, however, avoiding them would rob you of the opportunity to gather allies or resupply...
CHOOSE YOUR OPTION
>Advance towards the city, friend or foe!
>Bypass them, better not risk it
>Write-in
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