Riders of the holy mountain: A Haystan AAR second try

[Basileus Seleukeia]

Looks really nice, perhaps if you correct some typos it will be perfect

[Karo]

Chapter I

It’s now the autumn of 259. The forces of the mighty Arkah enter the of Edessa but the minor forces that wonder around the city are getting attack and defeated without much difficulty.



A few months have passed since the last battle and now Samus is confined to his bed he’s very sick the medics where not certain if he would survive. And the priests taught it was a punishment send to him by the gods. But when the king was sick he had many dreams, he also taught that his father who already was dead for 11 years was talking to him but on the last day of the winter the king had a very strange dream. His dream was about the day that he told the council about his son becoming the new avagh sepuh.

Dream of the Arkah
Samus telling: I stood there before the council and my brother to my left side and my son, Aram , to my right . And all the nobility stood in front of me they didn’t knew why I called them here . Nor do my brother or son know why. And I start my speech “ Welcome my brothers mighty ,nakharars and aspet ner , I know you’re dying to know why. Bu I ask you for a little more patience . First I want to tell you that the Selcuecids have been defeated and have left our lands and it is time now to go and attack the city of Karkathiokerta. Let’s bring the war to their doorstep and see how they can handle the mighty horse archers .” Everybody started to scream of joy that they would get their revenge. Many of them have lost a son or someone else they have loved because of the war . I started to speak again and now it was quiet at the field . We didn’t use a building but we came together at the valley of Ararat so that the gods could see us and know that our decisions where just. “The second part of my announcement, you all know that my brother is the avagh sepuh but I want to change that , my eldest son is now mature like you all know, so I want you to meet your next king and lord Aram.” At that moment many stood up in anger and said that “How he can become our next king if he hasn’t proven him in battle yet what has he done that your brother hasn’t done?” Aram who has a very bad tamper stood and said I’ll go to the province of Aghvan and conquer it for my father and the kingdom and prove that I’m worthy to be your king.” At that moment I looked to my left and saw that my brother was gone and in the distant I could see a horse riding towards Armavir that was also the last time I spoke to my brother. There were only two reasons why he didn’t start a civil war at first he loved me too much to start a war but he now hates Aram and the second one was that no army would follow him in war he may have the loyalty of many nobles but the soldiers follow their Arkah to war.

After that moment the king was well and his disease was gone nobody knew how it came. After the dream spring , garun begun and the birds started to sing and the army marched towards Edessa. A month later they arrived there and laid siege to the city. Samus was expecting reinforcement from Antioch but it never came in the begin of the summer the mighty army attacked the city and took the city with one or two deaths.



Description of the battle :
It was middle of the night when the rams moved towards the walls



After a while our troops broke the gate and moved in the city



The slaughter that followed I’ll not describe but there was no Seleucid warrior alive after the battle even those who surrendered where killed.

End chapter one

I'll post part two Wednesday that will include the seige of Phraaspa and hopefully many more

[Chirurgeon]

Looks interesting..keep it up

[Basileus Seleukeia]

You could add some screenies of the campaign map, to see your and the others progress. Looks nice so far, although nearly nothing ahs happened.

[Karo]

Chapter 2

Rule of Samus year 12

After the conquering of Edessa, Samus send out his best scouts to see what was going on in the province and if there were any large enemy armies. A week later a scouting party returned and but the half of their men were dead. Samus was spending some time with his wife on the moment that the two members of the scouting party returned . His most trusted advisor and oldest friend Yerevand rushed the room.
Yerevand “Forgive me, my lord. But I have news that you need to hear”
Samus “What is this news that cannot wait till I’m done spending some time with my wife “
Yerevand “Forgive me, my lord it was not my intension to make you angry…”
Samus “Speak up old friend. I don’t have all day.”
Yerevand “Of course my lord. One of your scouting parties is back and they have terrible news with them. A week o the north from here there is a large Seleucid Army they are hiding in the mountains and preparing to attack the city when Ashun begins. “
Samus “May Hayk have mercy with us all. Collect the horse archers, the archers the cavalry and the slingers leave the infantry inside the city to protect it. We leave at down .
The army that Samus was going to fight



A few weeks later the forces of Samus reached the Seleucids army. The captains of the different divisions were preparing to attack the next day . But before Samus went to bed we was watching the enemy camp fires in the distant field and was sensing that the enemy was not ready for a fight at this time he returned to his camp and called all his man together .
Samus “Men you know why we are here in the mountains? We are here to protect the lands that we have conquered from the enemy. But that’s not all we are here because we want to protect our home lands and our families living there . how many of you have loving wives that are waiting till you return home or have children waiting there. But there are also soldiers here who have lost everything they have even their loved ones. If we attack tomorrow they can escape but if we attack tonight we will have total victory”
Inspired by this speech his soldiers started to march towards the enemy camp.

The battle that followed not many hay soldiers died but almost no men was left alive of the enemy soldiers.



The enemy was not expecting arrows flying through the air.



Every soldier for himself they were running every directions



The soldiers were standing in the wrong directions when the arrows kept flying



On the critical moment of the battlefield the most elite force of the empire came . But even their appearance could not stop the killing of the soldiers and the battle was won by the Hay army .



On the same time like the time that the battle was going on Aram was getting closer to the city of Phraaspa and was marching all day net to his soldiers like a real general needs to do.

Fall 258

Samus returned with his forces to Edessa where the people of the city were rioting an fighting to the soldiers inside the city left there for garrison duty. But when Samus entered the city the people could not fight against all his soldiers so they stop fighting and where waiting till Samus would leave the city to go and fight the enemy but on that time Aram reached the city of Phraaspa .

And surrounded immediately the city .



The fall or ashun past and the winter came and it was in the end of the ashun when the Seleucids troops moved towards Karkathiokerta . In the begin of the winter the news that the settlement was besieged by the Selseudics was had reached Edessa .



Samus was working on his plan to attack Antioch and divide the empire in two.



Samus “ When our forces take Antioch my son Aram will lead the second Army to Asia minor to conquer the Seleucid settlements there and in the mean time we will move with our armies to the heartlands of the empire and take Seleukia…”
Ashot the messenger runs inside at that moment
Ashot “Arkah forgive me for disturbing you but I have bad news from Karkathiokerta”
Samus “What bad news do you have has something happened to my son or to my grandchildren? Speak up messanger!”
Ashot “No my lord there is nothing wrong with your family, but there is a Seleucid army besieging the city…”
Samus “What are they doing!” he screamed out . he turned to his generals and said “Collect my army leave the infantry behind to protect the city , the rest of them will march to Karkathiokerta.”
Yerevand “Who will lead the troops, Arkah?”
Samus “I’ll lead the forces into war “
So said and so done Samus and his Army started to move towards Karkathiokerta .

On the mean time Aram was preparing to attack the city of Phraaspa .



The Enemy force that was inside the City was not so large but they were all veterans. The Seleucid empire had tried to take the city a few times before but failed every time.




The enemy army


Hay army led by Aram.

The battle started and the hay ram’s moved towards the gate and pats of the wall, and the archer that were accompanying the army started to fire their deadly arrows.





Hay soldiers pushing the ram towards a part of the wall that already was damaged by the Seleucids.


The soldiers destroy a part of the wall and start to enter the city .

Fighting for the city.









Aram and his uncle fighting for control of the streets and the plaza.



At the end victory was ours but to many of our soldier have died in the battle. We have lost to many good man .

End of Chapter 2…

chapter 3 will be for tomorow or sunday
please give me some feedbacks

[Basileus Seleukeia]

Really good, but as i said, some screenshots of your whole empire wouldn't hurt

[Karo]

I've edited the intro so you can see my kingdom in 259 and next time I'll post how big my empire is at that moment ok ?