Recaps

Chris defeated Dude’s Minisian army after a prolonged artillery battle, then exposed corruption in his own ranks. As his forces continued toward Votradnoi, Connie led players in a chaotic assault that ended with clashes against both the city’s defenders and armed civilians.

• Chris’s army captured the Northern Ridge Heights and battered the Minisian defenses with artillery, while Dude ordered his troops to break out east as a wildfire approached.
• Chris’s forces defeated Dude’s army in battle, and Little Knife killed Dude before Chris awarded him the Whale Hunter Medal.
• A storm halted the pursuit, and Chris punished officers who had stolen prisoners’ rations or extorted soldiers, ordering an audit and severe penalties for those involved.
• Connie led players into Votradnoi, where bribed locals opened a gate and infiltrators helped her secure part of the city before she planned a night assault.
• Connie brought twelve hundred troops to Votradnoi and hid them in a shantytown, where a boy offered a sewer entrance that she suspected was a trap.
• When the western gate proved blocked, Connie ordered the players to scale the walls, and they used explosives to turn a neighboring house into a rubble slope.
• Ye Ao Nai He and other players helped defeat the Garrison Regiment, but armed civilians killed the surrendered soldiers and then attacked the players, who fought back.

Chris’s forces captured Votradnoi, where Alanka’s attempt to end the holy war ended in his defeat and death. Chris used the players to purge the city, then sent Knife-in-the-Butt’s warband toward Hegrande, where they clashed with the Bohemian vanguard.

• Connie discovered that a disciplined third force from Minicia was fighting alongside the Garrison Regiment and the Earth Mother Goddess Fanatics in Votradnoi.
• Kan Jie and the players raided grain stores, fed starving residents, and helped riots spread as Alanka failed to control the holy war and its violence.
• Alanka led the Holy War Army against the western wall, but the players and Prince Chris’s soldiers defeated his forces, and a beam of light carried Alanka away after his stone body shattered.
• Chris’s army entered Votradnoi, and Chris ordered searches for Church leaders, the investigation of officials who had cut off his support, and swift expansion of the city administration.
• As gangs and local power brokers resisted Chris’s baojia system, Street-Sweeper recruited players as inquisitors and launched Operation Judgment across Votradnoi.
• Chris sealed the city overnight while players attacked gangs and suspected enemies, killing more than three thousand people, including twelve civilians.
• Chris sent Knife-in-the-Butt and five hundred players toward Hegrande, where they ambushed the Bohemian vanguard before retreating from its main force.

Little Knife’s depleted warband helped break the Bohemian column, while Prince Chris’s Expeditionary Army fought off a cavalry attack and joined Count Siso’s forces outside Hegrande. The Bohemians then counterattacked, trapping players in their camp as Aku’s group struggled to hold off the light cavalry.

• Colonel Carlos led his column back down the mountain as the players circled around its rear guard, and Old Cat disguised himself as a Bohemian soldier before using grenades to kill two patrolmen.
• Little Knife’s players attacked Carlos’s troops in the forest, lured them into explosive traps, and forced Carlos to order an emergency retreat after realizing his forces had been divided.
• Little Knife’s wounded survivors regrouped and attacked the Bohemian camp with Iron Hammer’s company, while Carlos escaped the collapsing camp by jumping into a river.
• Lin Ruoyu received word that the Mountain Tiger Warband had routed over two thousand enemies and sent supplies to its depleted survivors.
• Prince Chris’s Expeditionary Army defeated the Bohemian attempt to intercept its supply convoy, with Black-and-White Bear’s players helping rout the attackers and secure the route into Hegrande.
• After a Bohemian envoy was turned away, Count Siso led Hegrande’s soldiers out to join Chris’s army, and the combined forces attacked the Bohemian positions.
• The players broke into the Bohemian camp but were trapped by pike squares and matchlock troops, while Lin Ruoyu’s skirmishers fell back toward the wagons under cavalry pursuit.
• Aku formed the surviving players into hollow squares against repeated Bohemian Light Cavalry charges, but the cavalry broke through as the Sword-and-Shield Fighters returned and more riders approached the wagon camp.

Chris consolidated control of Bagnia while preparing for the former king’s return, and Valentin led players into Minisia to uncover the plot. The players gained a chance to perform at a banquet where they could get closer to Minisia’s leaders.

• Lin Ruoyu’s rockets devastated the Bohemian camp, but a player shot him in the back as the Bohemians’ powder magazine exploded and Otto ordered a retreat.
• Chris allowed Street-Sweeper to continue his purge, expanded relief and farming efforts, and arranged for the Goddess of Agriculture Church to help restore the King's Plain.
• Alia told Chris that the former king planned to return with Minisia’s support, while Dirac offered to defend Bagnia and Chris refused to make him kill his king.
• Chris brought most of the King's Plain under his control, distributed military farmland, and prepared ten defensive corps as Minicia and Bohemia made moves around Bagnia.
• Valentin offered Chris information about the former king’s allies in exchange for help rescuing his son, and Street-Sweeper found Young Valentin in the besieged castle.
• Valentin led Ye Ao Nai He and the other players into Tavitsky, where they posed as a troupe of bards after losing their castle-guard jobs.
• Fergus caught Edmund tampering with a travel permit, heard the players perform in Lapis Lazuli Hall, and invited them to the banquet while warning them to avoid Rose Hall.