Battle of Motodscave

The Battle of Motodscave was a battle in 5 YoThrin, and in the third year of the Aechalas War.

## Battle of Motodscave

### Defender Commanders

Senior Submiral GrathagSubmiral ThrastegSubmiral OyxudCommander AzzaxCommander Symibor

### Result

Dwarven victory, capitulation of the Hyr Emirate

## Introduction

Motodscave was a large cave system in the heart of Aechalas, with branches reaching all the way from the sea to Leonin Cliffs, from Cesh Wood to Gish Wood, running directly under Gish Lake. The battle began when Dwarven soldiers attempting to build a second major transportation system, similar to Grysow Road, but this time about three times longer and with several such passageways stacked on top of each other. Under Senior Submiral Grathag and Submirals Thrasteg and Oyxud, 360000 dwarves brought in a massive Majinhar digging machine, and began smoothing the tunnel floors, laying down railroad behind the machine via another machine, a large, irregularly-shaped machine in which a dispenser laid pre-constructed ten-foot chunks of railroad. Behind that machine, smaller carts riveted the pieces together as they went. Behind those carts were hundreds of troop transport trains, carrying the soldiers who would switch out the currently-operating crew.

Meanwhile, the Shabir men of Emir Thaahyr were marching through the tunnels, attempting to get to Grysow Road, whose entrance was only twenty miles from the nearest Motodscave exit. The Shabir did not bother to send forward scouts, expecting no one else in the caves, and so were surprised to find a massive machine smoothing the floor of the tunnel, followed by hundreds of train cars and torches and lamps.

## Battle

The Shabir decided to send a frontal charge, and began preparing behind a large group of stalagmites. Meanwhile, the Dwarven engineers accompanying the group ordered all men to quickly build a roundabout railroad around the boring machine, which they did within minutes. Quickly, the accompanying armored trains pulled forward to face the soon-to-charge Shabir, machine guns and loaded, with ammunition carts bringing all that the Dwarves had. A modified ADWAR, property of Grathag, was sent back through the flattened area to signal to the nearest megacarrier that they needed supplies. The nearest megacarrier was the *Equus*, property of Symibor, Lord of the Centaurs, and Azzax, Lord of the Noggles.

Within fifteen minutes after being signaled, the megacarriers dropped landing barges, carrying all available land troops, ammunition, and ADWARs. A rattling of the ground sent the message to Grathag that the reinforcements were arriving, but the Dwarves were already running out of ammunition - the tank had taken two hours to get out of the tunnel and signal the megacarrier. An additional two hours had gone while the force returned to join Grathag. Already, the Dwarves had begun to run out of ammunition, and had the convoy been ten minutes later, there would have been melee all throughout the tunnel.

Eventually, the Shabir retreated and constructed a barrier between the walls of the tunnel, establishing a sort of fort. The next four months were spent by the Dwarves pumping ammunition convoy after ammunition convoy into the tunnel, only to get small victories.

Finally, Azzax and Symibor sent two trains full of gliders to the fighters, who then flew over the Shabir and sprayed them with bullets. The Shabir fell to heavy casualties.

## Results

After this defeat, the Aechalas War was unsustainable for the Hyr Emirate and Thaahyr signed an armistice with Grathag on the spot.