>>5801292There were many bushes and high trees near the river and you clearly will have to let the horses somewhere before preparing your ambush. You ordered two men to guard them while you looked at the river. You posted Gardasil, who ran fast and was weak as the Guelph he was so not useful for manual labor, higher up in the Sideplot to see if any barge was coming. Clearly your first idea was to dam the river but even the trees near the river would not be tall enough to dam it, it was, even if a short river, a rather large one. You had to order the men to prepare the trap. According to a rapid analysis of the situation you had a simple choice :
>Dam the river by felling a tree from your side of the river it will force the barge to move to the other side and you could use the tree as a platform for a man to climb on it.>Dam the river by sending two of your best swimmers on the other side of the river, it they fall a tree it will force the barge to move to your side of the river and you could attack it easily in numbers, but the current is swift and there is a risk that your lumberjacks will drown.>Other (write in)Then there was the question of the strategy to adopt. Of course the most obvious choice for you would be to place your archer (Ancel) and crossbowmen high up in trees to kill everything on the barge but then you will need to know how to attack the barge. In armor ? With the risk of drowning if you fail to climb on it or without any armor knowing that it should be a bloodbath. Of course if a barge is near a side of the river you could directly jump on it but if not you will need to advance on the tree that you would have felled or to swim.
>We will fight in armour.>We will remove our armour and try to swim towards the barge.>Other (write in) 