The raid on Vraszleszdar

4 Converted merchant ships (CMS),

10 Cogs,

395 Sailors and marines,

80 Guardsmen,

230 Sailors

2 Cogs damaged,

21 Sailors dead

9 Sailors injured

5 Ballistas destroyed,

37 Guardmen dead,

79 Sailors dead,

20 Guardsmen and Sailors Injured,

8 Civilians Dead,

12 Civilians injured

### The Leadup

With the conquest of Gaskatsarv about to start the Ashon board of Proniƿs decided that best action was to destroy the Vardite navy before it could be used to ferry soldiers from Vardhem major to the frontlines.

So the board send proniƿ Albert Hioþ with most of the Ashon navy to destroy the enemies naval capacity,

the Vardite navy was stationed in the port of Vraszleszdar which was the target of this raid, the Ashon proniƿ would be given the newly finished Ubanðxaereno first of its class named 'The Adined' as his flagship for the mission.

### The Raid

The Ashon fleet left the harbor of Myrkan two days before the raid.

When the fleet arrived unnoticed during sunset with their lanterns off on purpose, and the Adined at the front of the formation.

When the Adined reached firing range it started firing her weaponry on stationary longships, with 5 being destroyed, of the rest of the Ashon navy most were kept back, the rest using archer marines firing flaming arrows down on the buildings in range.

The first move the defenders made was as proniƿ Albert Hioþ stated in his report 'A suicidal attack made by desperate men' as four longships charged the Adined straight on, from the four three were dispatched with a single volley, the last slightly damaged however when they finally staggered too close to the Adined her archer marines dispatched the remaining sailors on it.

During this the defenders finally manned their coastal defenses which existed out of five ballistas, which started shooting flaming bolts at the ship, two impacted onto the hardened wooden side of the Adined the fires quickly doused by water poured from the deck.

The other three impacted onto the broadsides of other ships,though much damage they did not do they did make the sailors of said ships focus on pumping out the water and fixing the holes.

When the next volley was fired two ballistas were dispatched by the Adined, who focussed some of her cannons on the bigger threaths, one of the three remaining bolts in the volley got a lucky shot and penetrated straight through a weak spot in the hull of one of the Xaereno's hitting the powder used for the flaming arrows and igniting it, causing a large explosion that ripped apart the rear of the ship.

In rage of one of her ships being destroyed the Adineds gunners fired 3 shots straight into each of the ballistas, knocking them and their crews out for good, or atleast so it says in the proniƿs report.

The rest of the raid went as followed, the Adined dispatched the rest of the longships, or if they got too close they were fired upon by her, or from the other ships, archer marines.

When the harbor district of the was in flames and most of the Vardite navy sinking or on the bottom of the harbor the Ashon navy started to leave with the Adined at the rear.

Word goes that as they left one final shit rang out from the Adined which hit the top of the flagpole of the city causing the flag to be caught in the wind and slowly fluttering through the air before landing in the ocean.

### The aftermath

With the Vardite navy out of action the Ashon navy proved their naval prowess and gained naval supiority for the rest of the war.

The Ashons used the supiority to blockade Vardhem-Major (as the island is called in Ashos) which stopped any troops stationed there from moving to the front lines.

### Proniƿ Albert Hioþ's report

The Report translated from Nihican to Basic states the following :

*"I as ordered by the board of proniƿs moved out on the Adined to disable the naval capacity of the enemy.*

*Using the power bestowed upon me, I decided that the best action was to move out as close as I could without getting spotted, and attacking when the time was most advantageous for our attack. So, in an hour's distance from Vraszleszdar we waited until sunset.*

*With sunset approaching I ordered my fleet to move again, this last hour was noticeably the most tense. We didn´t know if they spotted my fleet and were expecting us or if we still had the moment of surprise as planned.*

*When we arrived everyone burst into action, we started sinking their ships using the Adined´s weaponry, during this they made the stupid and suicidal move to try and charge headlong into the broadside of my ship, they were all dispatched within seconds.*

*Here however i realised our first mistake, while they did not seem to expect us they had weapons installed on the coast which seem similar to the Serfi located upon Myrkans walls. While they could not do much to the Adinet, they were more effective on our other ships, one got a lucky shot igniting the powder stores on the Tifuy ripping the back of it apart, ordered ships to search for survivors.*

*I quickly ordered my remaining gunners to open fire on the Serfi look-alikes and then back to killing ships, luckily due to the speed of said action no ships managed to escape.*

*When I felt most of the enemy navy was destroyed, I ordered our navy to back away, with the Adined at the rear in case they tried to do a last attack.*

*Overall the attack was a decisive victory even with the loss of the Tifuy, i recommend intelligence agencies to review these new weapons they had and see if we can reverse engineer it."*