Battle of Castle Ryke

Military: Battle

Last major stronghold of Bayfolk resistance states and demonic pirates falls in a year long siege that exacts a heavy toll upon the Legion.

Between the Second Jeriec Empire's Legion of the Red Sun assaulting a fortified island fortress, crafting new siege weaponry such as the Dragon Galleons, portable siege tower platforms and troop carriers that could spit alchemical flame up to five hundred feet.   This flame was nearly impossible to put out.   The Battle for Castle Ryke was a turning point in the Campaigns, as it was the first point that the small island faring states of raiders, pirates, tribes, barbarians, and heretics had the idea to entrench themselves together against the Empire in an old fortress of the First Jeriec Empire. The battle was unexpectedly long and bloody due to this, and more than two thousand legionnaires died in the struggle before the Empire could call the enemy defeated.