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WARNING: Bad English, read at your own risk.
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CASTLE AGE III
The valley was littered with bodies of Dothraki and English soldiers.
It was counted that there were 317 Dothraki riders that fought Katie's forces. Half of them fell to Longbow arrows, a hundred to swords, wooden spikes and spears, and the rest to lances from knights.
What astonished Katie as she witnessed the every Longbowmen didn't miss a shot during the battle. Sure not every arrows fired were fatal but all of them still hit their target.
It seems her units have a hundred percent chance hitting their target, without breaking a sweat, methodically sending projectile after projectile from their endless quill.
Factor in their lack of self-preservation, armor, endless stamina and health stats. The Dothraki never stood a chance. Her army was just a bad match for their style of combat. Their swords just weren't designed to go against armored opponents.
Say what you will about peasants but Lannister levies were armored like knights and that should've never been discounted in the TV-series, they had a chance to hold and possibly win the battle of the Goldroad because despite how thin the line was, a pike phalanx was dangerous to cavalry, but then again Dragons, rule of cool and media misconception are strong weapons against medieval armors.
The few casualties she suffered were mostly Longbowmen whose throats were slit or heads sliced as they weren't armored as the man at arms. The few men at arms that fell had their face mutilated or their helmets forcefully removed. Multiple Dothraki were needed to take one down or if one was sufficiently fast and skilled enough to swing multiple fatal strikes on the man at arms unprotected face.
The knights suffered no casualties when they intercepted the retreating riders. Protected with their quality armor from Drothraki great warbows and their lances having a longer reach, the knights killed their enemy before the Dothraki can even be in range to swing their weapons.
It was a mesmerizing sight witnessing a man pierced and brutally thrown from his horse as the knight's lance made contact.
Still, she learned many things about her units in this battle.
They are tireless, proven by the fact they just marched miles and fought a battle without breaking a sweat.
They had numbered amount of health which can only be reduced fatally wounded or bleeding, effectively making them physically immune to gradual molecular damage, basically immortal.
They feel no pain and sense of self-preservation, as she has seen a man with a missing limb or eye fight even after the adrenaline and looks for more Dothraki.
She basically has essentially the greatest medieval army known to man. No logistics, no worries about morale and always on the march and ready to fight.
A great army against corpses.
Speaking of corpses, she had ordered some of her units to start gathering the corpses and dig communal graves with markings on them. The Dothraki she just decided to burn, along with their horses.
In the game, corpses usually despawn at the end of a clash but the system seems to not have that feature in real life. The corpses of her units were very much real and still had their gear on. In the she decided to bury them with their armor and weapons as the systems doesn't have any form recycling.
However, the items on the Dothraki were looted and stored, later to be transported to the main base for checking. From what Katie can observe through her units eyes that were searching through the various leather bags the Dothraki carried, most were assortment of different gold coins, silvers and jewelry, some she had recognized from wiki pictures as essos currencies.
Probably useful later on when she decides to venture out.
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With the valley walled off and the Dothraki raiding party annihilated and burnt, Katie instructed the villagers to start building a second settlement behind the wall.
A Town center, a keep, a few military buildings, farms and houses to house the units that will garrison the wall. A self-sustaining base, capable of training an army should the wall or the other entries to the peninsula are breached.
She has also decided for the army to stay to man the wall, except for the king who was already on his way back to her main base. The knights were ordered split and guard the western and eastern approaches until she can wall it off too from the coasts.
During the course of the battle, her reserves were filled back up to wealthy levels, enough to advance and buy all the technologies available in the Imperial Age. Damascus steel, Gunpowder artillery and Enclosures being the most important of them.
Damascaus steel only adds a +1 damage to her melee units in game. But in real life, I'll have an army fully kitted with this near-mythical steel process that was lost in modern times.
Cannons and Gunpowders weaponry, my one of only few trump cards in this world of magic. Hopefully it can contend against shadow apparitions and lovecraftian horrors of Planetos.
Farm Enclosures, her source to infinite gold being the most important of all.
Once that was all built and researched, then she'll start multiplying by first walling off the entire peninsula and spamming Carracks to guard every mile of beach.
Then when ensured safe from Faceless Men and Rhollor magic, will she finally start exploring the rest of the world.
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AN: Hi, had the flu for a week so writing was a bit hard. Short chapter this one too so please accept my apology. Still, thank you so much for reading, I really didn't expect to have this much followers and I hope I can continue updating this story.
Please leave a review if you like.
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Responses to reviews.
Orchim123123 - Sorry, this story will have no scheduled or consistent updates. Current RL circumstances make it difficult for me to update like I use to do years ago. At best, I can post a chapter weekly, at worst I won't update for a month.
ANSNA - at first I wanted to add a romance element in the story but decided no, Planetos can be made better without having to be married to dynastic feuds. While the system is limited, Katie isn't, she just needs to learn the fundamentals. She's a modern girl, the printing press and dirigibles are the last things she needed to learn in life. Thankfully, the University has a library, she'll just need to draw and do the math if she wants to.
LionLordEscanor - That's what happens when a Stone wall appears out of nowhere. Imagine going to your bedroom, only to turn back to see a brick wall in your door.
Imperial Stormtrooper - A bit of spoiler, Katie will have her own machinations with Westeros. Except for a select number of people, she really hates the highborn of Westeros, most especially the Archmaesters. She understands it's the just the way of life in Planetos because of the Winter cycles and the Feudal system does instill a bit orderly peace and stability but that doesn't justify the fact that the world had been socially stagnant for thousands of years and she blames this solely to the Citadel and the Highborns who wishes to maintain the status quo.
Professor Zooms - I used to use Grammarly, maybe I will again.
CRUDEN - Sorry about that, tried to fix some of them.
Onix121 - the Language part is going to be explained eventually.
Spectre - Yeah, Kate thinks so to. Having the chance to romance Robb or Jon is just not worth the lifetime of bloody family feuds.
