Battle of Brookhollow

The Battle of Brookhollow was a battle in the War of Alliance in the Sanlow Campaign.

## Battle of Brookhollow

### Part of

The War of Alliance

Battle of Brookhollow (phase 1)

## Units

### Attacking Units

1,200 Fishton Footmen, 200 Fishton Conscripts, 60 Fishton Cavalry, 300 Dibmy Footmen, 40 Dibmy Cavalry

### Defending Units

2,000 Stone Dragon Troglodyte Footmen, 100 Goblin footmen

## Results

### Victor

Rupmon Army

The village of Brookhollow had been overrun by an army of Troglodytes of the Stone Dragon Tribe after it had taken the village of Redwyne. However, unlike in Redwyne, the army did not move on, searching for something in Brookhollow. They also enlisted a small tribe of local goblins to their cause, adding them to their ranks.

After the Battle of the Bridge the Red Wizard, now in command of the Rupmon army gathered there, ordered Dame Vicca Gilaron to take a detachment of soldiers to Brookhollow after receiving intelligence from the Phoenix Hounds that the Troglodytes were searching for something of great power in the village.

## Pre-Battle

The commander of the Troglodyte forces, Kroxxvomek, had not yet received intelligence of the results of the Battle of the Bridge and thus did not know that the Rupmon Armies were no longer tied up with Vossk’s forces. Despite that, however, he had defensive drills in place in case his forces came under attack.

Dame Vicca, meanwhile, did not have ample time to scout the town, but had encountered members of the Phoenix Hounds outside the town who were able to provide her with intelligence about the Troglodyte forces and the likely location of their goal, under the ruins of an ancient castle.

## The Battle

Dame Vicca opted to strike immediately before the troglodyte army realized her force was in the area. Sending the Phoenix Hounds into the town to investigate the ruins of the castle, she marched her troops into the village, splitting her forces. Sir Bryal Gilaron and a force of cavalry and footmen from Dibmy were sent east down one of the main roads of the town while Dame Aille Gerial was sent with her own cavalry and a force of Fishton footmen commanded by Vicca herself to the west.

This resulted in a pincer move that slew many of the goblins and troglodytes in the town and forced most of the others to withdraw. However, Kroxxvomek drilling worked to his advantage and once the alarms were sounded his forces swiftly gathered near Cutter’s Inn (his headquarters) and they took a defensive position on the south side of the primary bridge in town.

Using the bridge to bottleneck the Rupmon forces, Kroxxvomek’s goblins and troglodytes were able to stymie their attack. Vicca ordered her footmen to slug it out on the bridge, but commanded Dame Aille and Marshal Joane Andez to take the Fishton and Dibmy cavalry around the town to cross the only other bridge and engage their flank to break their line.

Although casualties were notable on the bridge, once the cavalry got into place they harried and swiftly broke the Troglodyte lines, ending the battle quickly. Many of the surviving troglodytes fled and Kroxxvomek was captured by Dame Vicca’s force.

## Aftermath

The battle proved to be a victory for the Rupmon forces, however a troglodyte cleric in league with a demon was able to open a portal to the infernal plane in the mausoleum under Brookhollow. The portal began to spawn hellish monsters, requiring Dame Vicca to evacuate the surviving townspeople and withdraw from the town as neither she nor the Phoenix Hounds had the means to close the portal.