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Despite its sucesses and victories, as the Infrastructural Army pushed onward claiming new lands, they began to encounter fearcer resistance. While their rifles continued provide a major advantage at a range, their shock value quickly diminished. Warlords gradually got the hint and turned to loose formation and ambushes from forests. The advantage of ariel recon became. There were no really sugnifigant mages around Dalatyr, but as their forces pushed forward encounters with them became more common.

In the Seventh Year of the Infrastructural Age Seargent Ilya Voronin of the 2nd Cavalry Company was stationed at the newly annexed settlement of Telseg when he received word of a large raiding force comming over the boarder. He and his twenty three fellows loaded up and saddled up, as did the four squads of infantry (two of which were Varslob mercenary auxileries). The left to meet these marauders, marching quickly to make the best time. They were easy to find, they set alight a few houses. They came over a hill and saw them, a fair sized force of about sixty warriors waiting for them, only a couple of horsemen, with a fair number of dead bodies around them and some carts. A few of them were in black robes doing something behind a farmhouse.

The infantry advanced in two lines, auxileries in the front and Aamy soldiers behind them. At the same time the cavalry moved into position to flank them. It seemed like it would be another easy victory, but he soon saw the threat that they posed. As they made their advance the enemy warriors broke apart and waited. This struck Ilya as being odd, but ultimately it would be just lead to their victory. His force would. Their were several bursts of sickly green energy, sounds similar to thunder, arcs moving from corpse to corpse and the soldiers saw that the piles of corpses got to their feet and began to charge towards the line. The enemy force had just quadrupaled in size, and the new zombie undead pressed against them. The rest of the warriors followed suit after them, two forces barreling down. After the first salvo, some of them flinched and a two toppled down, but it was clear that these corpses could take a beating. The rest of the soldiers began

Ilya watched this and new that the game had changed. His squad moved in on the zombie force, pleased to see their number slowly diminish from the salvos of rifle fire. His mount galloped as quickly as its hooves could carry it into range. Once he got close, he and his squad began ran by, throwing a few Spirit Bombs into the mass of animated corpses. Several of the zombies caught fire, burning with a strange green fire and staggering about before collapsing inertly as the flames changed to a more normal colour, this led to a bit of a pile-up. A few zombies broke off and began following them as they pulled away. They ran away leading away some thirty zombies that trailed behind them, blasting at them with their pistols and dropping caltrops behind them. A few of them fell to the ground dead as they made their way away before looping back and turning around to get back to the horde, leaving the stragglers in the dust

The Zombies had been moving uphill, which had delayed them somewhat, but they were still pressing on despite their causalties. It took usually a few bullets or a headshot but their numbers were being reduced. Still they closed in. The enemy warriors had taken a few casualties from a few salvos sent their way and the efforts of the second cavalry squad. By the time they had closed, however about fifty zombies had managed to make their way into the Auxilery lines. Ilya knew there was only one option...

"CHARGE!"

His squad pressed forward letting off a blast from their shotguns to blow a hole in the mass of living dead and bringing their swords on them. They crashed into them, breaking rotting bodies beneith hooves and hacking at the mass of undead. They were unarmored and about half of them were armed (usually with a hatchet, a club or a crude mace) while the rest attacked with hand, foot and tooth. Taking off or destroying their head or breaking their mouldering forms would cause them to loose whatever magics compelled them to stay alive, but they kept at it until they were put down. The Auxileries had a few battleaxes and swords and had some experience in hand to hand combat. About half the auxileries were ripped apart by these flesh eating cadavers and to his horror, one of his men was eaten by these creatures, but in the end they managed to bring down the last of them. A few warriors managed to join the fray, but by the time they arrived, there were only a few of them left and they quickly broke. The remaining zombies that had been lead away pressed towards them, but were destroyed by gunfire befor reaching the lines.

It could have gone the other way, and there were causalties. Six cavalrymen and thirteen auxileries. The remaining warriors and the Necromancers were captured. He had heard rumours about what the committee did with the combat magic users they caught and he knew that they generally did not put them to work. Still, he had survived the raid and was glad of that. The warriors that launched this rade were traced to the town of Fellordelf, which, a month latter was conquered.

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Despite its sucesses and victories, as the Infrastructural Army pushed onward claiming new lands, they began to encounter fearcer resistance. While their rifles continued provide a major advantage at a range, their shock value quickly diminished. Warlords gradually got the hint and turned to loose formation and ambushes from forests. The advantage of ariel recon became. There were no really sugnifigant mages around Dalatyr, but as their forces pushed forward encounters with them became more common.

In the Seventh Year of the Infrastructural Age Seargent Ilya Voronin of the 2nd Cavalry Company was stationed at the newly annexed settlement of Telseg when he received word of a large raiding force comming over the boarder. He and his twenty three fellows loaded up and saddled up, as did the four squads of infantry (two of which were Varslob mercenary auxileries). The left to meet these marauders, marching quickly to make the best time. They were easy to find, they set alight a few houses. They came over a hill and saw them, a fair sized force of about sixty warriors waiting for them, only a couple of horsemen, with a fair number of dead bodies around them and some carts. A few of them were in black robes doing something behind a farmhouse.

The infantry advanced in two lines, auxileries in the front and Aamy soldiers behind them. At the same time the cavalry moved into position to flank them. It seemed like it would be another easy victory, but he soon saw the threat that they posed. As they made their advance the enemy warriors broke apart and waited. This struck Ilya as being odd, but ultimately it would be just lead to their victory. His force would. Their were several bursts of sickly green energy, sounds similar to thunder, arcs moving from corpse to corpse and the soldiers saw that the piles of corpses got to their feet and began to charge towards the line. The enemy force had just quadrupaled in size, and the new zombie undead pressed against them. The rest of the warriors followed suit after them, two forces barreling down. After the first salvo, some of them flinched and a two toppled down, but it was clear that these corpses could take a beating. The rest of the soldiers began

Ilya watched this and new that the game had changed. His squad moved in on the zombie force, pleased to see their number slowly diminish from the salvos of rifle fire. His mount galloped as quickly as its hooves could carry it into range. Once he got close, he and his squad began ran by, throwing a few Spirit Bombs into the mass of animated corpses. Several of the zombies caught fire, burning with a strange green fire and staggering about before collapsing inertly as the flames changed to a more normal colour, this led to a bit of a pile-up. A few zombies broke off and began following them as they pulled away. They ran away leading away some thirty zombies that trailed behind them, blasting at them with their pistols and dropping caltrops behind them. A few of them fell to the ground dead as they made their way away before looping back and turning around to get back to the horde, leaving the stragglers in the dust

The Zombies had been moving uphill, which had delayed them somewhat, but they were still pressing on despite their causalties. It took usually a few bullets or a headshot but their numbers were being reduced. Still they closed in. The enemy warriors had taken a few casualties from a few salvos sent their way and the efforts of the second cavalry squad. By the time they had closed, however about fifty zombies had managed to make their way into the Auxilery lines. Ilya knew there was only one option...

"CHARGE!"

His squad pressed forward letting off a blast from their shotguns to blow a hole in the mass of living dead and bringing their swords on them. They crashed into them, breaking rotting bodies beneith hooves and hacking at the mass of undead. They were unarmored and about half of them were armed (usually with a hatchet, a club or a crude mace) while the rest attacked with hand, foot and tooth. Taking off or destroying their head or breaking their mouldering forms would cause them to loose whatever magics compelled them to stay alive, but they kept at it until they were put down. The Auxileries had a few battleaxes and swords and had some experience in hand to hand combat. About half the auxileries were ripped apart by these flesh eating cadavers and to his horror, one of his men was eaten by these creatures, but in the end they managed to bring down the last of them. A few warriors managed to join the fray, but by the time they arrived, there were only a few of them left and they quickly broke. The remaining zombies that had been lead away pressed towards them, but were destroyed by gunfire befor reaching the lines.

It could have gone the other way, and there were causalties. Six cavalrymen and thirteen auxileries. The remaining warriors and the Necromancers were captured. He had heard rumours about what the committee did with the combat magic users they caught and he knew that they generally did not put them to work. Still, he had survived the raid and was glad of that. The warriors that launched this rade were traced to the town of Fellordelf, which, a month latter was conquered.

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