Episode: The Battle of Pridehall
Posted by Story on 02/13/17
The scout missions were successful, discovering a massive force of twenty thousand shavs approaching towards Pridehall, but it did not come without those grave losses. Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of the Compact skirmishers and scouts, the foraging parties of the far western shav forces were largely destroyed by the constant raiding, harrying the shavs relentlessly, and putting the remaining eighteen thousand shavs led by Bringers of Silence at risk of being starved out. This forced the shavs to increase the intensity of their march, and allowed Duke Gabriel Bisland to pick ground of his choosing- the Pridehall Ford, a crossing of the Gray River that would let the forty thousand Compact soldiers attack the shav forces from each side, with Thrax vessels sailing up the Gray River to take them in the rear. Now it was a matter of seeing if the gambit would work.