Full frontal !

“Eleanor . . . I’d like for you to set up on overwatch with your bow and arrows, pick off any that face away from you to deal with my outcasts. Lauran, I want your song to be of toughness, I want my outcasts to take a hit before they go down so they can get at least one hit in with their new clubs. Karla, as usual I want you on me to heal me up so I can fight without worry . . . you may have your work cut out for you” You say to your three companions who nod their agreement at your orders, even Karla seemed to be getting into a rhythm with her task.

“Always nice ta see tha classics in action eh?” says Lauran causing Eleanor to laugh as they move to their positions. You were surprised that none of them argued, especially since Eleanor can fight up close if she wanted too but you’d prefer having her as a supporting element than a direct combat element.

“Eleanor, if you see an opening that you can use to turn the tide, please do but be careful . . . your loss would be a blow” You say that as she moves off, you know she will come back, heroes never die, but the time it would take for her return would be a deciding factor and even though you know she won’t die, you still worry.

“I’ll do what I do best and barely even take a hit” she says in reply, giving you a grin before trudging off to a hill that would overlook the Village.

“What? No care for me ‘n’ Karla? I’m ‘urt” says Lauran with mock offense as she too gets onto a hill where her lute would be usable for most of the initial fight

“I don’t mind, I’m not going to be of much use anyway and I’m going to be sticking close to him anyway” Karla was still a little down, but she at least looked committed now.

When both Lauran and Eleanor had gotten into position, you turn to your outcasts. You were going to charge the fodder in first in an attempt to soften up the resistance but you knew this battle would be decided by you and your honour guard, not the regular outcasts. Moving forward into the small throng of about seventy outcasts you gather your breath before issuing one loud bellow;

“CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!!” you roar as your sixty regular outcasts charge forward. You wait a few seconds to make sure they get there first before you start charging in yourself after them.

The front row of guards had engaged your outcasts and had formed a crescent moon around your outcasts with the gate guards holding the centre and the flanking guards coming around the sides to box them in and stab them to **** from range. This manoeuvre had opened the right flank of the Guards to Eleanor’s bow and she made her presence known by launching an exploding arrow that dropped one guard and nearly killed two more. You use the confusion that was created by Eleanor and you, with your ten honour guardsmen, crash into centre of the crescent. You roar as you activate your rage and hit the enemy guardsman three times before he could even react, killing him. The other six guardsmen are similarly overwhelmed by your inferior yet still capable honour guard while you leave the rest of the guards on either side to the outcasts.

You take a hit as you move past the first line, two spears strike you straight into your chest and deal a solid ninety damage to you but you press forward, feeling a strange surge as Karla’s magic is noticeable for once. Moving into range, you swing your axe but only find shields with the axe head as the guardsmen retreat into another crescent on the other side of the gate. Damnation! I should have expected this! You think to yourself as you know find twelve spears holding you and your honour guard back, now only eight as two are claimed by the sharpened tips.

You were about to order a fall back so that you could send in your outcasts and absorb the spear blows when another explosion rocks the crescent in front of you and a dark shape appears from behind the guardsmen, killing two of the guards that were weakened by the attack. You below as you again activate your rage ability and crash into one guard, killing him in three blows, before turning to another. You, your honour guard and the shape who reveals herself as Eleanor, make short work of the guards and in seconds their formation is gone with your outcasts finishing off the ones on the outside as well.

“You said if I see an opportunity, take it . . . so I did, are you pleased with my efforts?” Eleanor greats you with a grin as you consolidate your outcasts in the area around the gate. Ahead you can see another two lines of guardsmen occupying the square of the village, led by a plate armoured figure wielding a spear with a curved short sword on the tip instead of a spear point. “That is a vanguard . . . one that is at least level twenty five in order to get that Naginata . . . it is only obtainable from a certain quest as a reward for beating a boss in an obscure corner of a dungeon etcetera” So this is an infamous ‘Vanguard’ you think as you study the figure ahead of you, from this distance you can see his blond hair falling around his armoured shoulders and it suddenly strikes you that it is a ‘she’ instead of a ‘he’ and that you mistook her for a man because her armour is thick enough to obscure most of her feminine physique.

“Your manoeuvre was excellently timed my dear, and I think I may have a prize that I might play with” you give a low, menacing chuckle at the thought of bending the vanguard woman over and pounding her into submission. The thought stirs your cock from its hiding place behind your loin cloth but you out your thoughts of what you will do with her out of your head on focus on how to beat her instead.

“Hey, if you want to be doing things to her . . . at least allow me to join in on the fun” you look at your elven lover and see her give off a menacing grin of her own at the prospect of a **** that could be used for pleasure as well.

“Now to deal with that . . . I fear they may be quite prepared for us this time and I wouldn’t put another trick like the gates past them” you say as you look at the group of guards in front of you

“Plus that vanguard ahead ain’t gonna be easy ta deal with I reckon” says Lauran behind you as she also studies the guards in front “So whatchya reckon boss? We take her down a notch first and deal with the guards second?” Lauran’s plan actually seemed to be sound

“Or maybe we should take out the guards? I heard somewhere that standard tactics is to take out the weakest enemies first and the harder ones last so that you have more options and less damage being dealt” Karla, weighing in for the first time, gives her plan. You think it over for a second and can see the merits of that plan as you think you will need everything you have to deal with a high level hero.

“I could hold the vanguard down and could even deal with her if I have a little support . . . you could leave the guards to your troops and help me fight the vanguard” Eleanor’s pitch in was also a decent strategy to consider.

With three good strategies of attack you think on which one would be best; do you attack the guards and hope the vanguard doesn’t do terrible damage before you can turn your attention to her? Do you attack her with everything you got and hope the guards aren’t good enough to do anything back? Or do you split your forces and fight the vanguard along with Eleanor?