The Fall of the Flaming Fist

The Conflict

Prelude

The village of Valia had hired a Hobgoblin mercenary band to eliminate a clan of kobolds. When The Capitol missed a payment to the band, they started taking their payment from the village. The Imperial Guard stationed in the village were too understaffed to quell the threat, and so they pulled all forces into the village and waited for word from The Capital.
When a group of adventurers showed up looking for work, the captain of the guard force took advantage of the situation and sent them to work. They were sent to investigate the kobold infestation, and formed an alliance between them and the village.
The adventurers returned to the village with a war band of kobolds. The war band consisted of mostly kobold warriors, but augmented with archers, about a dozen sorcerers, and a handful of rare winged kobolds.

Deployment

25 guardsmen, 150 kobold warriors, and 8 adventurers against over 250 hobgoblin mercenaries.

Battlefield

The guardsmen and their allies tracked the hobgoblins to their camp, a shallow valley with rigid craggy sides and a small river running down the center. A rough quickly constructed palisade wall ran across the opening of the valley with an opening acting as a gate in the center.

The Engagement

The guardsmen and their allies struck hard and fast, spearing through the palisade wall and surprising the hobgoblins. In a surprise of their own, the hobgoblins had archers positioned on tops of the valley on either side.
The small group of winged kobolds, carrying archers of their own, flew after the hobgoblin archers and harried them from the skies.
With the archer threat dealt with, the Imperial Guardsmen and their allies in melee combat pushed the hobgoblins back and quickly caused their surrender. A treaty was penned up and signed on the spot, the mercenary band disbanded, and sent back to the north eastern wastes.

Start Date

20

Ending Date

20