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You must admit, you are no mastermind of the field. You are no Sellenicus, no Garabiel, no Daregal. You are no genius warlord, and given your paltry experience, you are certainly no veteran. Though the thought of springing a great ambush, of hitting the Fortelli at their sides and shattering their army wholesale...<span class="mu-i">you cannot be sure you've the capability or skills for such a strike.</span> You've some cavalry, for certain, but what chance do they stand against the Famiglia?
You'd better not risk it - when you wake in the morrow, you shall see it torn down. With that, you retire to your tent, and fall to sleep as quickly as you are able, thinking not of the trials that await you the next day...
You awake early, in the next day, earlier even than the usual for your warring routine. You eat a filling yet simple breakfast - salted ham, some slices of cheese, bread, and a few cups of watered down wine. You attend the sermon by the regiment chaplain, as you always do, though this time, he offers a blessing for those who may soon depart in battle. You send off two of your regiments to tear down the southerly bridge, ensuring your flanks are hopefully safe.
Yet the enemy is not here yet.
"From those smokestacks yesterday," begins Hugues, your second in command, "I'd reckon they'll by arriving later today. If they've no Vanguard marching a day's distance ahead, then I'd reckon they've kept their cavalry close to their infantry, and we've not seen any sign of those. We've some hours left until they arrive."
"And how shall we pass them, Hugues?" you reply.
"We could continue entrenching, of course, meu seymor. <span class="mu-i">Perhaps to make some trenches alongside that bank?</span>"
He's got a point. More fortifications in any way would help your men. Perhaps you could add some for your pikemen, below the barricades? <span class="mu-i">You don't reckon you've time to waste on cutting down wood for fortificating anymore,</span> not when the enemy is less than a day away. Certainly, you wish you had something better than...dirt, to protect your men, but what else could you use?
There are, of course, other matters to spend your time on. You could send out the rest of your horsemen to stand watch along the length of the river, guarding the fords upon which the bridges had been built to ensure that they are not crossed (Though doing so would deprive you of their presence in this central field) or perhaps to have some of your infantry do such a job instead. Finally, you could simply...do nothing - let the men rest and raise their spirits. It shall be a frightful battle they will face, outnumbered and outgunned, and a rout would mean utter defeat in such a crucial clash.
The time of battle grows ever closer, and you must spend what you have wisely...
