Descent of the Ghost God! A True Overlord!
The Huns were exceptionally brutal.
When they plundered Gaul, they often massacred entire villages and towns. Attila's troops had pillaged so wantonly that the various powers had been forced to unite against them.
The enemies Duncan encountered were mainly Gepids, East Germanic Barbarians conquered by the Hunnic Empire. They had some ties to the Ostrogothic Kingdom and were considered a fairly valiant barbarian force. Their name originated from the fact that they had been the slowest during their migration.
These enemies had apparently raided other places as well, because more than a dozen large carts followed behind their troops, along with cattle, sheep, and other livestock they had seized.
"Spread out!"
Outside the town lay a relatively open stretch of plains. Gaul had been ravaged by war for years, and its cultivated fields had mostly fallen into ruin, making the terrain ideal for cavalry combat. The Huns' tactics were simple: the Gepids formed up in a defensive formation while the Hunnic Eagle Archers led the mounted archers in harassing Duncan's troops. Relying on their superior horsemanship and mounted archery, they used the open terrain to kite their enemies and wear them down, ideally crushing their morale before finding an opportunity to charge in and rout them.
This was an old Hunnic tactic. When encountering cavalry in the field, they rarely charged head-on. The Visigoth Kingdom's cavalry rode large warhorses and wore sturdy armor, and their frontal assaults had inflicted considerable losses on the Huns.
Throughout the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, the decisive factor had been the Visigoth heavy cavalry. They had already reached a level close to that of knightly orders in the Middle Ages.
Even after their king had died in battle, they had remained at High Morale and continued