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Rolled 4, 17, 18, 10, 2, 17 - 10 = 58 (6d20 - 10)
In an eyeblink, you have dashed forwards, and are charging the Tegeans – with their backs to the watch-tower, they’ve confounded your <span class="mu-i">Inachian Honorguard</span>. Your troops are superior – they expected to crash through such a poorly-trained division like a prime steer through a wicker gate. The Tegeans, to their credit, have done something unexpected in the confusion of the ambush. By putting their backs against the watch-tower, they brace their cowardly feet from inadvertently propelling them out of formation. It’s perhaps the least bad option available to them, allowing them keep their positioning – you expect that this is pure luck on their part. Your men are frustrated by the lack of movement and with inferior numbers, they cannot menace the Tegeans properly.
You have no such concerns as you collide with the Tegean line – your spear pins an unfortunate against the watch-tower, and he proceeds to violently vomit blood down the front of his linothorax. You spin, unarmed, cutting with the side of your brazen shield, knocking aside the spear of his nearest companion before crushing his chest edge-on – he collapses in a heap. You turn back to your first victim, retrieving your spear, and tear open a fatal wound in the thigh of a third, portly Tegean – the fat glistens whitely, before the man tumbles to the ground.
This ambush is taking too long, you realize – the Tegeans are losing, but not fast enough.
<span class="mu-i">The horn must be addressed.</span> you think. You take a moment to catch your bearings – the horn-blower you slew at the beginning of the ambush had tumbled from the watch-tower, but he must have landed on the other side of the structure. You’ll need to forgo your assault against the Tegeans momentarily to ensure that they cannot notify their peers. You begin your left-handed sweep around the watch-tower – with your honorguard to your right and beyond them, the Tegeans against the watch-tower. You come across a wounded guardsman – he is attempting to crawl surreptitiously away from the fighting. Such cowardice offends you – you exterminate him with a spear-thrust through his neck without a second thought.
A sudden lull in the sounds of fighting draws your attention – amazingly, the Tegeans are obviously collecting themselves for a counter push against your men. The effort is certainly doomed to failure, but you are beginning to admire their resolve – a shame that you must murder Hellenes this night.
>The Inachian Honorguard are rolling for combat - I need THREE rolls of dice+2d20 for this!
>I'm rolling for the Tegeans again - they just narrowly avoided a morale check last round, but this is almost certainly the last round of combat anyways.