Battles of Vengeance and Justice

by Psykic Ninja

Here I shall be posting brief overviews of each of the battles that take place in the main story of A Game of Vengeance and Justice. There will be conflicting details about numbers of losses etc between this and the main story. This represents false reports etc. If you come across one of these discrepancies, assume this is the fact and the main story has what the characters hear.

11. The Battle of Raventree Hall

The Battle of Raventree Hall

Conflict: The War of the Four Kings
Date: 300 AL
Place: The Riverlands
Outcome: Stark Victory

The Battle of Raventree Hall was fought in the latter stages of the War of the Four Kings, as King in the North, Robb Stark, fought to defend his lands against invasion from all sides, Deciding that two hosts of twenty thousand men belonging to the Reach were the greatest threat, he marched with his main host to confront one of them at two fords leading to Raventree Hall, where the overall commander of the Reach's forces, Ser Axell Florent, had taken up residence.

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-Combatants-

House Stark … House Tyrell
House Tully … House Florent

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-Commanders-

King Robb Stark… Ser Axell Florent
Ser Brynden Tully…
Helmann Tallhart
Robbet Glover
Lord GreatJon Umber

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-Strength-

30,000… 20,000

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-Casualties-

3,500…more than 10,000

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Prelude

Following the Battle of King's Landing, Robb Stark had marched with his host to the Crownlands, hoping to be able to attack a weakened city. However, rumours of Jasper Baratheon's imminent return with his host, and the death of his grandfather, caused Robb to turn and return to the Riverlands to plan his next move. When there, he discovered that the Reach's hosts had pushed into the southern Riverlands, and so he linked up with Ser Brynden and half of the Riverlands hosts and marched against the Reacher hosts which blocked the way to Raventree Hall, where the commander of the Reacher hosts had taken up his seat.

The Battle

Robb split host, he took command of the Northmen whilst Ser Brynden commanded the Rivermen hosts. They advanced on the two fords that the Reachmen were guarding. However he sent two forces to the flanks. A force of seven hundred sellswords under the command of Helmann Tallhart went to the left flank and created a distraction by rafting across the river, whilst they were doing this, two thousand heavy horse crossed the river further down to the right flank, under the command of Robbet Glover.

However the forces crossing the river were struggling against the Reach's levies, so Robb, instead of waiting to lead a charge of horsemen to break a weakened line, instead dismounted and struck out with the foot, hacking his way across the river. They slowly made progress until Robbet Glover's horse launched a devastating flank charge that scattered the reachmen at the ford of the Rivermen, who poured across the river and flanked those blocking the northmen. This broke them and the Reachmen fled the battlefield.

Aftermath

Robb was, with this victory able to march on Raventree Hall, however when there he learned that Randyll Tarly, the finest soldier the Reach could boast, had taken up command and was rallying the scattered soldiers of the host that Robb had broken.

He also received a message from the new King, Jasper Baratheon, inviting him to a peace summit. Knowing that he would either have to attack the capital or submit at the summit, Robb prepared to march on Duskendale.