Battle of Ashemont

Battle of Ashemont 	
Battle of Ashemont 	
Battle of Ashemont
Date: October 9, 445
Location: Ashemont, Dural
Result: Decisive Allied Victory	Date: October 9, 445
Location: Ashemont, Dural
Result: Decisive Allied Victory 	Date: October 9, 445
Location: Ashemont, Dural
Result: Decisive Allied Victory
Belligerents 	
Belligerents 	
Belligerents
Royalists
* Kingdom of Dural
* Kingdom of Brun
* Renegade Citadel
* Ezra Warriors	Loamers
* Peasant Rebellion of Dural
* Green Hand
* Forces of Coruxhur 	Zombies (Late Battle)
Commanders and Leaders 	Commanders and Leaders 	Commanders and Leaders
# King Bard Gilead
# Lord Savrek Brownback
# General Denislovich (wounded) 
# Lord Mawin Rogenheim (wounded) 
# Soraka, the Firebrand
# Selivan Tarquin
# Tarka
# Canto Cedric
# Valstagg Hector
# Valstagg Ezekiel †	Russel
Braum, the Dread Lord
Jebediah (Defected)
Maltri Delkona
Pagis, the Destroyer 	N/A
Strength 	Strength 	Strength
18,000 (14,000 Dural, 4,000 Brun, 150 Citadel, 32 Ezra)
OG: 25k, losses 8375
34%	66,000 (49,000 Peasants, 9,000 Zombies, 2,000 Devils, 6,000 Mercenaries, 50 Necromancers)
OG 124k, losses 69523
56%	9,000
67%
Casualties 	Casualties 	Casualties
6,124 (1,347 wounded, 4,777 killed)	37,253 (24,959 killed (35,809 Peasants, 2,013 Devils, 6,030 Zombies), 4,433 captured, 7,861 missing)	6,030 killed
Soldiers!... They call you royalists because you fight for
the king. They think of you as milk-drinking simpletons without the capacity of
independent thought; slaves to the chains of monarchy. So tell me, if you are
indeed fighting for the royal family, where are they? There? Or over there? No?
I don’t see them anywhere. So then why in the hell would you fight for someone
that didn’t even bother showing up? 
You’re not fighting for some fancy pale faced bastards,
warming their asses on some nice fat cushions. They have nothing to do with
this fight. No, you’re not fighting for them. Those men over there? Those are
good people. Those are your countrymen. Your neighbors. Your brothers. It is a
terrible thing to fight one’s brother. But it is necessary. Right now, they are
not your countrymen. They are not your brothers. They have just one goal in
mind: to kill. They don’t care that you’re not some nobleman. Have no qualms in
killing, for they will do the same. These are men who seek to solve their
problems by allying with demons and the dead; clearly, they hold no regard for
life. Reconciliation will come later. What matters here is why we fight. We do
not fight because we enjoy killing; no, this fight is a fight for survival.  
Remember your wives back at home! Remember the soft hands on
your face, the warm eyes, the ones that made your house a home. Remember your
children! They look to you for protection. Soft and weak, unable to protect
themselves. They all are with you today! If we do not fight here, if we do not
hold here, they will be slaughtered. Those countrymen of your’s will not have
mercy when they tear down the castles that the nobles cower in. Your wives and
children will not be shown mercy. All will be killed without mercy. That is
what the future entails if we do not hold
this line. You fight and die here so that your children have a life ahead
of them, so that they can live without fear! 
This is the line! This is the line! This is the moment! You
will hold! Look to your right; to your life. Look at the man standing behind
you, the men that crowd around you. That is who you fight for! Do not disappoint
your comrades! You fight for them! You fight to live! You will hold this line! 
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! HAAAAAAAAAAH! THIS IS THE LINE!