Kaven takes a knee and lowers his head in acquiescence "His Highness shows me too great an honour. I shall strive to serve him proudly at the behest of my Liege Lord.
After recieving permission to rise again, Kaven lays out a couple of suggestions, switching to a more militaristic matter-of-fact tone.
"Your Highness, I believe my Liege already suggested such, but we might be better protected from flanking reinforcements from Brosengae, if we remove any and all bridges crossing the river seperating Brosengae and Taeghas as well as remove ferries we encounter. I believe there to be only one major bridge, the crossing between Hontier and Carrida. If we could take and remove that bridge, Brosen reinforcements would probably have to use extra time and resources to cross the river, and do so at a more amicable location. I thought about detaching a small group, to make certain this happens, or act to prevent flanking moves from that direction. That is, of course, unless His Highness disagrees with this line of planning?
I have taken the liberty of ordering field fortifications erected on this very hill, giving the units most roughed up a place to rest, a camp for supplies to be move to thus shortening our supplyline, and in the worst case, somewhere to redeploy if we encounter too heavy resistance on the road ahead. I'm thinking the Ilineese balistas will stay, as they have proven themselves too unreliable to count on during actual skirmishes or battles, and can cover more ground from a stationary position here.
As a last thing, I have been looking into the possibility of attempting to sway those lords of Brosen who hold to honourable beliefs and are ired by Her Grace's side-switching. If some respond, I would hope we could take the time to meet with these people on neutral ground and facilitate their return to the honourable side and our cause.
Other than that, I intend to send forth what light and medium cavalry we have to act as a vanguard and scout for enemy troop movement, while our troops march. There where ogres spotted during the last battle, and I'd like for us to know their whereabouts and intentions at all times."
He pauses.
"Does His Highness have any amendments to such a plan? Might I ask, which province we aim at?"
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War move 3:
- Start the construction of a field fortification on the hill with the aid of Endier Artillerist. Mainly by entrenching the top of the hill.
- Position Ballistas on the hill to cover northern ridge (where Ogres where last spotted) and the road into Taeghas
War move 4:
- Light/Medium cavalry to act as vanguard/outriders. Ordered not to engage unless sure of victory or forced.
- Troops not to battered to participate in battle to march into Carrida and liberate it. (preferably weary or better, but bring along exhausted if His Highness dictates it). If the enemy is encountered, try to engage in favourable terrain (ie. force a battle where we have the advantage for once.)
- Detachment of 3-4 units (Archers and mounted armsmen with move 3+ if we have them, regulars and crossbow we don't), to head for the Bridge crossing the river and take/destroy it (send along a commander to heighten the chance of success).
