Recaps

Chris expanded his rule by organizing Bich Town, rewarding the militia, and bringing refugees to safety, while the Mountain Tiger warband captured Doro Town and stole military supplies. The warband’s sabotage drew Marlow’s forces into pursuit, and the stretch ended with players escaping after setting a powder wagon on fire.

• Chris met Count Dirac, encountered the Earth Mother Goddess through Aranka, and focused on strengthening his rule after the Restoration Army withdrew.
• Chris expanded Bich Town’s administration, opened civil service examinations, and appointed Diu Ni Leimu as mayor while Jacques earned a place despite cheating.
• Players brought starving refugees to Bolas Fortress, where Chris’s forces provided food, shelter, and medical care and imposed strict camp discipline.
• Little Knife led the Mountain Tiger warband across the Kaslo Mountains and captured Doro Town, then organized the occupation and investigation of its resources.
• Marlow discovered that rebels had stolen black powder and burned oats, so he secured weapons and supplies and led soldiers after them.
• Little Knife and Five Nukes infiltrated the castle as laborers while Little Ghost’s group ambushed a convoy and seized twenty barrels of powder.
• Marlow mistook the mounted players near East Birch Town for elite troops, but they ignited the powder wagon and escaped with more than eighty horses.

Chris prepared Bolas Fortress as the Republic of Bagnia advanced, while rebellions and player battles disrupted the enemy’s supply lines. Dalek launched a full assault, and Chris held back the fortress artillery as Republican troops pressed toward the defenses.

• Marlow’s forces pursued Home Alone’s band through the mountains while the players raided towns and villages, and Marlow learned that rebels had burned the Quartermaster’s Office castle and armory.
• Chris restricted religious activity after Alanka’s followers caused a violent dispute, then promoted workshops and railway construction in Bich Town as the Republic of Bagnia prepared to attack Bolas Fortress.
• Lake investigated Bolas Fortress and its supplies, while Dalek’s reports of Chris’s weapons, goods, and defenses heightened the Republican commander’s concern about the approaching campaign.
• Chris rejected the Restoration Army Council’s attempt to bind him with an oath as Republican forces advanced, and he sent players to fight a five-thousand-man vanguard near Doro Valley.
• Knife-in-the-Butt’s players routed Republican attacks in Doro Valley, while Wallace began a rebellion that disrupted Ankandela’s control and severed roads supplying the front.
• Dalek brought his army around Bolas Fortress and sent cavalry against the defenses, where Pierre and Bertrand led charges through the wire and captured a forward position.
• Black-and-White Bear rallied the surviving Han-Tang Warriors as players held their formation against cavalry, infantry, and artillery, but the fighting left fewer than two hundred survivors without powder.
• Dalek ordered a mass advance toward the fortress while Chris told the hilltop artillery to hold its fire, hoping the Republican army would move deeper into the defenses.

Chris’s forces broke the Republic Third Infantry Regiment, captured Bolas Fortress, and expanded their influence through nearby towns while feeding refugees and prisoners. Marlow surrendered Ankandela to Chris, who organized prisoner transport teams to deliver supplies as Wallace prepared another ambush.

• Pierre and the Republican Army suffered heavy losses at Bolas Fortress, where Chris’s forces sprang their trap and broke through the attackers.
• Chris’s army captured more than twelve thousand soldiers and seized the Republican camp, then distributed porridge and supplies while players advanced into nearby towns.
• Black-and-White Bear’s players defeated routed soldiers in Hilla Town, returned stolen goods to civilians, and drew Doran into helping them.
• Wallace’s rebels killed fleeing dignitaries in Ankandela, while Little Knife’s warband defeated Wallace’s fighters and Home Alone’s convoy survived a separate ambush.
• Marlow kept order in Ankandela, gathered evidence against the city’s wealthy families, and persuaded his officers to defect to Chris.
• Little Knife prepared to take Ankandela as Home Alone’s convoy delivered valuables, and Chris accepted Marlow’s surrender after reviewing the city’s records.
• Roderick recruited prisoners, including Joachim, into a paid transport corps, and Chris expanded the corps to ten teams to move supplies to refugees.
• Wallace spotted a guarded convoy carrying food and clothing and led fifty bandits to ambush it.

Little Knife consolidated control of Ankandela while Chris’s army advanced against the mutinous Republic and clashed with Minisia. After the players’ rocket attack and continued harassment forced General Dude toward Votradnoi, Chris rejected Minisia’s offer of recognition in exchange for withdrawal and sent Dude a reply.

• Roderick’s convoy repelled a bandit ambush, and Marlow decided to join the military after hearing about the fight.
• Little Knife hired Alex, countered the merchant guilds’ schemes, and used players and local recruits to crush the Beggars’ Guild, seize grain, and poach artisans for Ankandela.
• Prince Chris formed an army for Votradnoi as the Republic’s forces collapsed, while Captain Bock’s company was defeated and he and Captain Karl became prisoners.
• Minisian forces ambushed players at King’s Plain, and Chris’s troops secured a foothold as Jacques and the Extreme Warriors prepared to face Colonel Sackley’s Dragoons.
• Lin Ruoyu’s troops held off repeated Minisian attacks with Shield Wagons and cannon fire, then launched rockets that shattered the enemy formation, though an experimental rocket explosion engulfed an unnamed player.
• General Dude withdrew toward Votradnoi as players harassed his army, while Chris’s forces moved to pursue and confronted the challenge of a wildfire and the strong Minisian camp.
• Albert de Molson claimed Chris had a royal blood claim and offered a ceasefire, but Chris rejected the claim, demanded Dude’s real terms, and sent Albert back with a letter.