Due to a family emergency I'm sadly going to have to drop this for a while.

Ah, I'm sorry to hear that friend. I hope everything goes well for you and yours.

Okay, what about the "no-one is mounted" thing is hard to get? This is a bit... ridiculous, honestly.

It's harsh terrain and they can't move the horses very quickly until they are in more open land. Horses can ride through dense forest and undergrowth, but they move slowly because they need to find the right footing. Eadwig was not there when Fanilly told them to dismount, and as a character he sees being mounted as more advantageous than being unmounted. He is a stubborn old man.

@Raineh Daze

KNIGHT CHARGE IN

MUCH SHINY

VERY HORSE

SO CAVALRY

It's harsh terrain and they can't move the horses very quickly until they are in more open land. Horses can ride through dense forest and undergrowth, but they move slowly because they need to find the right footing. Eadwig was not there when Fanilly told them to dismount, and as a character he sees being mounted as more advantageous than being unmounted. He is a stubborn old man.

Everyone else in front of him was blatantly dismounted, it's a really thick forest, and it's sunset. Including characters he put in charge of cavalry...

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Everyone else in front of him was blatantly dismounted, it's a really thick forest, and it's sunset. Including characters he put in charge of cavalry...

Do you want me to erase my post?

Not necessarily. Just... I'm hoping that IC Eadwig is somewhat aware of how contrary to their situation it is to use horses xD

Not necessarily. Just... I'm hoping that IC Eadwig is somewhat aware of how contrary to their situation it is to use horses xD

I plan to accommodate the difficulty of the terrain in my next post. I did detail that they are moving slowly through the forest in my post, and that they don't have much maneuverability because the horses need to find their footing. I have been off trail in a forest with a horse before, it is slow but not impossible to move. I think issues have arisen because there have been different descriptions of the forest so far and I have been fitting to those descriptions. Such as the camp being less wooded than the surrounding forest.

Eadwig knows it is difficult terrain, and as a character he believes the advantage of being on a horse outweighs the negatives, but that does not mean he won't change his mind if new information is presented. At present all he knows about the camp is from a scout who could only kinda see the camp. Perhaps the camp is harder to negotiate then he was led to believe, then he will dismount.

I want to point out that this is a character of habit. He is doing things he is used to doing, and what he is trained to do along with what he has trained others to do. If it turns out that these things have a negative effect in roleplay, then so be it. I expect if things go awry or don't work out or if he fucks up, then it will be handled in RP. I don't know if I appreciate being called out out of character for a decision my character has made.

@Zebanamana

Has he accounted for the bandits potentially having bills to unseat him? Many a knight found out that being pulled from his horse and having a rondel shoved through his visor was a pretty sucky way to go.

@Zebanamana

Has he accounted for the bandits potentially having bills to unseat him? Many a knight found out that being pulled from his horse and having a rondel shoved through his visor was a pretty sucky way to go.

Those would be remarkably prescient bandits...

@Zebanamana

Has he accounted for the bandits potentially having bills to unseat him? Many a knight found out that being pulled from his horse and having a rondel shoved through his visor was a pretty sucky way to go.

He may have. I know he is one of the type who will wrestle during a melee and put a dagger into the armpit of an enemy. But regardless, I didn't plan to go through a battle post without there being casualties, and a billhook bandit would be a good way for one of the soldiers to go. I hope that despite the fact I am writing Eadwig as a planner doesn't come across as me writing him as some invincible Caesar who will go into battle with evenly stacked odds and not lose any men.

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Those would be remarkably prescient bandits...

It may not be. It might not necessarily be a billhook, it could also be a scythe or a war scythe. When I was doing research on pole arms I saw that when farmers were levied they would sometimes have their scythes reforged so the point went forward like a spear but it is still sometimes curved. So it can hook cavalry men off their horses.

@Raineh Daze

The bill is hardly a specialized weapon, and the rondel dagger was in widespread use in the later era when knights in plate armor were commonplace. Since everyone here except my merc lady seems to have plate armor that corresponds to the 15th century or thereabouts, it's not a stretch of the imagination for such armor and/or cavalry defeating weaponry to exist as well. Plus, they might well know the knights are after them and would prepare as such, probably expecting a cavalry force.

@Zebanamana

No worries, never came off to me that way. Just figured I'd point out the downside of fighting on horseback as well :P

@Monochromatic Rainbow _{*Cough*Cuir Bouilli and Maille here.*Cough*}

I mean that they would be remarkably prescient to have polearms on hand with no advance warning. In the middle of a forest. At dinner.

With an ambush/lookout prepared.

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Meanwhile, Tyaethe's armour corresponds to no century. Too overkill. Fantasy!

@Monochromatic Rainbow _{*Cough*Cuir Bouilli and Maille here.*Cough*}

Is that what it is called? Boiled leather and mail? Coolio.

Eadwig has the classic brigandine look.

Meanwhile, Tyaethe's armour corresponds to no century. Too overkill. Fantasy!

If it is going off of the Dark Souls armor in your bio. I think the helmet is a great helm, and the cuirass could be from the 15-1600s because it has the folded plates. I know there are some German examples of that. As for the sword it comes from a long history of legendary great swords that totally are not fantasy :P

Fanilly has... light, ornate plate armor. Proooobably something similar for every previous captain... and a fair number of knights in the Iron Roses, really. Just less flashy for the non-captains, of course.

Her weapons are just a really nice longsword and a parrying dagger, really.

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If it is going off of the Dark Souls armor in your bio. I think the helmet is a great helm, and the cuirass could be from the 15-1600s because it has the folded plates. I know there are some German examples of that. As for the sword it comes from a long history of legendary great swords that totally are not fantasy :P

The helmet would be a stechhelm, but DSIII doesn't have anything patterned off of that, whilst DSII doesn't have the rest of the set. Though on top of that, I'm pretty certain the bio points out that it's made thicker than it has any need to ever be. :p

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The helmet would be a stechhelm, but DSIII doesn't have anything patterned off of that, whilst DSII doesn't have the rest of the set. Though on top of that, I'm pretty certain the bio points out that it's made thicker than it has any need to ever be. :p

Eh, if you can carry it without issue it's never too much armor. Keep going until Tyaethe can handle tank shell fire.

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Eh, if you can carry it without issue it's never too much armor. Keep going until Tyaethe can handle tank shell fire.

Given that she's a damn undead, she would probably be better served without armour or shield.

Pour all that strength into offensive destruction.

Really, the only armor a sapient undead technically needs not to die is something on their neck and head.

You can cut one in half and they'll be able to get put back together.