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The Company Banner is unfurled and raised as the Vanguard Breachers fix their helmets, slide down their visors and slide on their heavy gauntlets. Vision isn't much, but as far as protection goes, its second to none. And as Rion snaps for them to get stuck in, they start tramping down the road. A few desultory arrows ping off of the armor, but they lack the capability to penetrate. Simply light rain falling. Looks like this part of the field is completely handled.
Which is about when Rion spots the trap and things get a bit frantic, because though he shouts loudly, the Ironwrought lack the vision to see the problem and hear him over the din before they've advanced a little further than perhaps they ought to.
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Markhan and Wicklighter rally the troopers around the banner, and as a surging flood, they perform a series of deft and quick counter-charges. Easiest way out of an ambush? It's simply to get the other side to realise they've made a mistake. The Resolute Crows brace their pikes and push two steps ahead, causing an entire section of windsworn skirmishers to flee heedlessly away. And then they form up their ranks (begrudgingly) and hold steady for further orders.
Wicklighter cuts down his opponent, scoring the first kill of the encounter. And then the Blue Rats follow up, disinclined to be shown off by another.
Over the engagement, Wicklighter scans - and Markhan sees them too; heavies. Windsworn marauders in . . . clanking formation. That's unusual - their whole creedo is speed and mobility. At first it seems a rough block of pikes are marching closer and we've suffered a flash Reikan invasion, but no, there is a logic to the madness.
Their armor is heavy around the gauntlets and they wear chainmail, which will stop projectiles, but they can still break off and move with fluidity if they're out of formation. Unlike the Resolute Crows, their uniforms aren't quite resilient enough for a stand out match. And those longspears must allow them to cliff-jump readily. Clever artifice, actually. Though it seems they've made up for lack of equipment resilience by simply bringing more manpower.
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