Asgard Informer/Issue Four
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Main editors: Xaphanix Vanimedle’, Rognak Dakka |
 New Year, New region, New-ish Konungr
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| by Rognak Askari
Translated and Edited by the Royal Yeti Printing Company'' |
| January 2, 2008
Tha new year started tha same tha old year ended, with a victory for tha Northern Federation. Today tha largest rural region in Minas Ithil, Cheltenborne, was captured by Norland forces. This is a great blow ta Ithilian morale as Cheltenborne has long been a prime example o' loyalty ta tha Ithilian crown. This conquest is just another example o' how successful tha Northern Federation's strategy o' pillaging tha farms o' Minas ithil's heartland has been. Lyton's farms has been reduced ta burnt cinders after repeated battles an' looting from tha Barony an' Eston an' Dunstoke remains lordless an' tha Ithilians only have a tenuous hold on tha region. This weak grip will soon be broken as tba heroes o' Norland have been sent ta bring this increasingly lawless region inta Norland's control. In other news, Konungr Gorhero Capelo declined ta run fer re-election. Former Konungr Phillip Lacoste was able ta pull off a landslide victory in tha election an' is now once again tha leader o' Norland. His election was cause fer great celebration an' drinkin' throughout Norland an' many a viking is now nursing a hangover while preparing fer battle once again. |
| They came from tha Mountains!
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| by Rognak Askari
Translated and Edited by the Royal Yeti Printing Company'' |
| December 30, 2008
This afternoon tha army o' Eston managed ta successfully infiltrate more than a thousand soldiers inta Lyton from Elost in tha first successful assault from tha mountains since tha war began. Tha leaders o' Eston struck with suck speed that tha Ithilian counter attack was unable ta wipe out their vanguard. Though casualties were high on both sides, with Eston losing close ta 250 men, our confederates were able ta outnumber and outmaneuver tha Ithilians ta pull off a victory. This surprise attack has caused tha Ithilians ta panic and throw all remaining forces ta drive Eston out o' Lyton allowing Norland's armies ta march across tha river with minimal resistance and begin a TO o' Winwich. |
| Don't Call It a Comeback
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| 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. |
