"So Jaina, your judgement has proven true so far, plus you are the one in charge of this mission. What do you think is the best way for us to deal with the villagers?" Arthas asked Jaina.
"First no matter what we are not sending them off alone, they are all but guaranteed to die if we do that. Next as much as I would prefer to train and equip them before bringing them into what is almost certainly enemy territory it is very likely that other villages are being attacked and more undead are being created even as we speak, so in my eyes time is of the essence here. Which truly leaves us with only one option, we will take them with us and keep them as far back from the fighting as possible with a couple of footmen on guard and equip the few who have any idea of how to fight with what we can spare." Jaina replied deciding the best path forward.
"I agree, its probably the only real choice going forward as much as i dislike taking civilians into combat right now its needed." Arthas agreed nodding.
After making the decision they move to inform the villagers. "Well we can't be sending you off on your own in times like these, nor can we take the time to train you. So we decided that we will take you with us on our mission here for the time being, if all of you are ok with that." Jaina said speaking to the gathered villagers of her decision going forward.
"Thank you milady, Prince Arthas we will happily go with you, and if you need any help from us to complete your mission we will be happy to do so." The village leader stated. "however before that, as thanks for saving us and because none of us can truly make use of it like you may be able to here is our villages greatest heirloom. Hopefully it will aid you on this mission of yours."
The village leader then moves forward unwrapping an item from its cloth coverings revealing it to Jaina. "My thanks, we will be certain to use it well." Jaina said taking the item. "Now then since you villagers are all packed, lets move out."
Gained +1 tome of knowledge, Arthas and Jaina gain +.25 moral, Gained a current population boost of 43 gained a future population boost of 23 lose the use of 2 footmen for combat to guard villagers.
Vote time, Who gets the Tome
[] Arthas
[] Jaina
Small Timeskip
As the Group crosses the bridge and moves through the former town on the other side they see all the destruction throughout it. Whole building razed to the ground, small craters through the streets, most standing buildings damaged with holes in the walls or roofs.
"Damnitall, the people here didn't even stand a chance... blasted monsters doing this to innocent civilians." Arthas growled out as they continued moving through.
The group finds several individual skeleton warriors and archers as they continue onwards but all of them fall very swiftly to their wrath. Until finally they reach the outskirts of the town and see some kind of blighted land.
"What the..... Its as if the land around the granary is dying" Jaina exclaims in shock. "Could the Grain itself be plagued?' Arthas thinks out loud. "Lets hope not these crates bear the regional seal of Andorhal, the distribution centre for the northern boroughs. If this grain
can spread the plague, then there's no telling
how many villages may be affected." The group swiftly destroys the Granary and the crates around it before continuing to move on.
As they move towards the next village, they see it is as damaged as the first with fires still going on here and there in it. Dispirited they continue forward until they reach the outskirts of it and they hear the sounds of combat. "There must still be survivors! Quickly everyone we must move to save them!" Arthas shouts out running towards the sound of combat.
Once they reach it after rushing through the remains of the village they come upon the battle. Defending a decent sized group of villagers are 6 footmen, 4 human riflemen, 3 priests and 2 mortar teams. Attacking them are a multitude of ghouls, necromancers, skeleton warriors, and a few different vile new enemies.
"What the hell? Those.... things look like they are sewn together from different corpses!" Jaina exclaimed in a weird combination of shock and curiosity.
"Let's study them
AFTER we kill them and save those people shall we?" Arthas states in exasperation.
VOTE TIME!!!
What do you do in this battle. The undead have not seen you yet and between the two of you, your forces include 15 footmen, 4 riflemen, 8 priests, 13 sorcerers, the three captains, Jaina, and Arthas.
[] Have the melee units charge in with Arthas while everyone else throws every spell they have to kill as many of the undead as swiftly as possible with a focus on spellcasters and the big targets first. Riflemen will just focus fire on priority targets as well.
[] Take a defensive stance where you are and attract the enemies attention trying to get as many of them to come after you instead of the beleaguered troops defending the villagers.
[] Write in your tactics.
Chapter ends here
well there ya go out as fast as possible, not as in depth as I would have liked but i'm pushing this through to get you guys to the first base ASAP like you wanted
EDIT: oh also the tome of knowledge ups HP by 1, DPT by 1, Mana by 1, and armor by .5 in your war stats and will give you +1 to one of your hero stats (a roll will determine it.) So ya it's a fairly powerful upgrade, though it can only be used once and it is a permanent boost. Also very useful for heros that rely on DPT for damage.
