Asgard Informer/Issue Four

Asgard Informer
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News from the North

Don't Call It a Comeback

by Rognak Askari Translated and Edited by the Royal Yeti Printing Company''

December 19, 2008 The past week has seen the Northern Federation make its greatest gains so far in the war. This weeks campaign began Monday evening with an allied force of 15,800Cs barely losing to an Ithilian force of 15,600Cs. Although the week began with a defeat, the NF forces managed to take prisoner or wound most of the Ithilian marshals and the Ithilian King Raoul De La Fere. With so much of their military leaders lost, the Ithilians were easily defeated in the second battle of Winwich where reinforcements from Eston helped to route the Ithilian forces own reinforcements in a battle of 16,000 Cs of NF troops against 9,000Cs of Ithilian forces. Learning from their past mistakes, the NF army pursued the Ithilians into Cheltenborne and crushed the retreating army while the Norland rearguard started a TO of Winwich. Eston and Barony forces pursued the Ithilian stragglers into Crahandan and Lyton while the Armies of Norland finished their takeover of Winwich and started a brutal TO of Cheltenborne that has seen the deaths of more than 20% of the region's population. By week's end more than a third of Minas Ithil's nobility had been imprisoned or wounded by NF forces. This success was tempered by the revolt of Melmoor but the region has joined Norland's good ally the Barony so it is not a serious loss.