[Phase 3] The Siege of Blackbuckle [Act 2]

Rearguard action:
-Non-commanders may perform hero actions to prevent damage to the Blackwood forces.
-They must commit to five rounds of combat action at a time, they can only yield (and presumably be taken prisoner) or take defeat (which may result in worse fates) in order to quit until those five rounds are done.
-For every five rounds of combat between them that they spend to hold the enemy at bay, they improve the condition of one Bracken unit by one step.
-This combat is mounted, each hero faces 2 attacks of 5D+2b+1, 6 damage per DoS, each turn.
-Each time you defeat an enemy (CD 12, AR 10, Health 12) you add a round to the total tally for improving conditions.
-Every 10 rounds of combat, the number of attacks faced per round increases by one.
-Which units gets their condition improved is determined by random draw (but everyone gets 1 increase before anyone gets the second and so on).

Presently:
-1 Unit of Seasoned Men at Arms
-1 Unit of Seasoned Scouts
-2 Units of Seasoned Freeriders

All annihilated, every 20 rounds+kills will get all of them up a rating (every 5 gets one unit up a rating), 80 total rounds+kills needed to get them all unscathed.

How to (previous rolls can't be valid because that is knowledge that can be acted on):
Daeron should roll for his actions and enemy attacks for first 5 rounds, I'll look at it and run Aubrey's actions, then we continue until we're done.

There is a calmness over Ser Aubrey Ambrose that contrasts with Daeron's more aggressive style and temperament, a deft elegance as his sword dances to keep his enemies off guard and under control, and even though he seems to be drawing more attention to himself than the Great Bastard, he is more effective in pushing the enemy back and away.

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Aubrey:
CD 17 (14), AR 11, Health 12
Aubrey goes Maneuver (LBF II)+Cautios: 3#9d6k5+3 22 29 27 4#9d6k4+3 20 23 25
CyB round 2: 6d6k4 22
CyB round 4: 6d6k4 8

Maneuver succeeds in all cases, so +6 damage.
8-Dead-Dead

Mooks: CD 12, AR 10, Health 12
Mooks vs Aubrey: 10#7d6k5+1 23 29 23 25 25 24 21 21 21 26
Aubrey Health: 5/12

Daeron: 5+1=6
Aubrey: 5+2=7
Rounds of combat: 5
Effective rounds: 13

While Daeron has every reason to be proud, his very presence fades from the tales to be told of this day until everyone are lead to believe that Ser Aubrey Ambrose held off the pursuit singlehandedly, the gallant knight himself does not let this go to his head and personally compliments Ser Daeron for his valor, but Ser Aubrey is the weird sort of man who kindly brushes off the attentions of admiring women on account of it being poor conduct of a knight to ever act in such a way as might make a woman's reputation to be questioned and whose only vanity concerns his mustache, as meticulously groomed as his sword is kept sharp.

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Aubrey:
CD 17 (14), AR 11, Health 4/12 (4 injury)
Mooks: CD 12, AR 10, Health 12
6-10:
Mooks goes: 10#7d6k5+1 15 20 25 26 20 18 19 19 24 28
CyB round 1: 6d6k4 20
Aubrey goes Maneuver (LBF II)+Cautios: 4#9d6k5+3 31 21 31 28 4#9d6k4+3 19 25 27 23
Maneuver succeeds on 1, 3 and 4.
8-Dead-Dead-Dead.
11-15:
Mooks 11-13: 9#7d6k5+1 15 18 26 23 28 22 22 15 25
14-15: 6#7d6k5+1 24 20 27 18 20 23
5 rounds of cautious (-4b for LBF I): 5#5d6+2 26 27 16 21 22
Talented reroll on #1, 3, 4 and 5: 4#1d6 3 1 2 1
-1 due to injury on that last one.
8-dead-0-2-10
16-20:
16-18: 9#7d6k5+1 22 21 25 24 25 21 12 17 19
19-20: 6#7d6k5+1 23 23 17 24 23 22
5 rounds of cautious (-4b for LBF I): 5#5d6+1 20 23 19 18 14
Talented rerolls on all of them: 5#1d6 6 6 2 4 3
Dead-8-10-Dead-0
21-25:
21-22.5: 10#7d6k5+1 20 21 23 20 23 26 22 24 16 26
22.5-25: 10#7d6k5+1 18 26 19 25 26 29 25 25 23 23
3rd injury on round 24
5 rounds of cautious (-4b for LBF I): 4#5d6+1 22 21 20 20 5d6 18
Talented reroll on 2, 3 and 4: 3#1d6 4 4 6
8-10-dead-2-4
26-30:
26-27.5: 10#7d6k5+1 23 22 26 15 20 22 21 24 19 12
27.5-30: 10#7d6k5+1 27 19 23 26 19 15 23 21 24 15
Injury 4 on round 29
5 rounds of cautious (-4b for LBF I): 4#5d6 17 18 24 17 5d6-1 11
Talented reroll on 2, 3: 2#1d6 4 4
6-8-dead-2-2
Aubrey retreats after 30 rounds, going further would be pushing his luck.

Daeron: 10+2=12
Aubrey: 30+10=40
Rounds of combat: 30
Effective rounds: 62

*Daeron gives +1 Disposition to Robb Reyne, Aubrey Ambrose, and Balon Blackbriar to reflect the bonds forged in battle*

Blackwood Trained Militia 1 - 6: Annihilated
Blackwood Trained Militia 7 - 10: Routed


[Phase 3] Siege of Blackbuckle, Blackwood Casualties, Trained Militia 1 - 6, Annihilated: 6#16d6 69 52 55 56 57 62

M1: 31/100
M2: 48/100
M3: 45/100
M4: 44/100
M5: 43/100
M6: 38/100

[Phase 3] Siege of Blackbuckle, Blackwood Casualties, Trained Militia 7 - 10, Routed: 4#4d6 17 13 19 14

M7: 83/100
M8: 87/100
M9: 81/100
M10: 86/100

***Use the rolls if you want to save some time. If not NBD.***

[OOC: thanks for getting back. Escalation is a bit more work for you but I like the escalation idea for letting a range of character types contribute. Maybe a hybrid character contributes a bit via such a scene and a bit from his scheming/spying etc brining in allies, while a purer fighter type has to try to go deep in escalating challenges to make the same contribution to their side. Agree on calibrating being hard, so I'll try to be faster in playtesting and giving mechanical feedback!

Also, bravo Balon, Daeron and indeed Aubrey!]