The Ghost Ship Message Board: Face off

The Khan's southern guard - the army placed along the border of Stym and her cousin Boaam, is swiftly deployed to hault the advance of the Duke. Vin Kilvenu directs the army himself, after riding to the Fortress of Yin'ashi, where the strategy is devised. In the mean time, while a sizeable force is mustered and the Khan travels from the City of the Black Forest to the Fortress of Yin'ashi, light cavalry units are sent methodically in very dispersed and small numbers through out the vicinity of the battle, gathering reconaissance on the prospective opponent, before retreating back across the border into Stym.

Now the Khan and his followers have arrived at Yin'ashi, and it is decided that the most sound strategy is to deal with the Duke's army first, from the Eastern shores of the river, while the Sunjians held everything from the Western end to their own border, thus far.

The Khan's personal army, consisting of the Black Host - his elite Naginata personal guard, and the Arrows of Death, the "handpicked" force reputed to be Stym's deadliest archers, number a huge force in and of itself. But it would take more than this to stop the dread legions of Sunji. However, the young Khan was afamed for meeting any challenge to himself or his ally with grave dignity and swift, graceful lethality.

The bulk of the Boaamese Watch turned outright Boaamese Defenders is consisted of an evenly-dispersed army of light cavalry, archers, and Ashigaru, with a small host of swordsmen - and a force of mages with their own Naginata body guards (numbering 10 Naginata per wizard).

The defense perimeter of the now Stymese-occupied Boaam territory is soon marked with 6 rows of long, sharpened wooden spikes, protruding from the Earth where they have been hammered in by the Khan's soldiers in a discreet formation - a Northern line, a Southern line, a Western line (facing the visible riverbank), and an elongated Eastern line that leaves a wide opening towards the Northeast (towards the closeby Stymese border). This natural "cavalry killer" is designed as a cheap, easily-constructed fortification against the dread cavalry and chariots which may decimate Stym's deadly bowmen.

Underneath a banner of truce, a light cavalryman is sent from Fort Yin'ashi, with a message for the Duke. Sunji could leave Boaamese soil, or face full retaliation from Stym. Signed - Vin Kilvenu, the Khan of the Stymese.

Another messenger is sent to the capitol city from Yin'Ashi, bearing news of Stym's temporary "occupation" of the Northwestern corner of their country, due to lack of an sizeable Boamese force to defend its Sunjian border.