Battle of Blood Ford
| Date | approx 500 IC |
| Location | Blood Ford, Tilea |
| Outcome | Victory for Remas |
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| Remas | Zelucco and Orcs & Goblins |
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| Rienzi | Black Count of Zelucco |
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The Battle of Blood Ford was fought between the forces of Rienzi of Remas and the Black Count of Zelucco. [1a]
Before the Battle
In 475 IC, Tilea was invaded by a vast horde of Orcs and Goblins from the east, torching farms, and making off with the merchant caravans to the shock of the ill-prepared merchant leaders. The situation was not helped when various Princes started hiring the greenskins to fight each other, one of these was the Count of Zelucco who crushed the milita army of Remas, only prevented from marching on the city by the rainy season. [1a]
When word came of the defeat, Rienzi saw the opportunity to honour the goddess but also make a profit. He offered to create an invincible army if cities rulers signed a binding contract and paid his fee and over the winter Rienzi recruited and trained an army, drilling them over and over and preparing them to enact Myrmidian precepts of strategy and tactics. In the spring, the army now named the Eagles of Remas met the forces of the Black Count’s army at Blood Ford]]. [1a]
Battle
The enemy heavy cavalry charged Rienzi’s pikemen again and again, but couldn’t break through and all the time the Eagles crossbowmen loosed volley after volley into the Goblins. The greenskins broke and ran when Rienzi’s cavalry slammed into their flanks and the army of the Count fell apart. [1a]
Sources
- 1: Up in Arms
- 1a: Land of Mercenaries, pg. 41-42
