Rule Bretagnia: A Breton AAR

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Put my Austrian in for 1492 - 1585. Yup that's right, he's a pretty long-winded fellow. I guess he died of boredom for his Mexican war.

I have an idea for Grahamule and Cow Pie. They could be the "gods" fighting it out between themselves....

 

[Morpheus506]

Nah, no gods here . I have my own plans for this, [censoring].



I actually was going to have your Austrian fello, Hans Bocaj (I might make it Jakob Bocaj just for some irony though ), to live an extremely long time, even longer than you suggested. Since he's supposedly born in 1462, he's living until [a censor tries to jump in but Morpheus stabs him and keeps typing] 1632, a grand total of 170 years. Must be the mountain air, eh?

 

[Morpheus506]

Graham Clark walked into the elaborate tent of Marshal Foix. After an exchange of greetings, Foix held up a sheet of parchment. "This is from General Morpheus. It reads:

As of today, January 15th, 1493, the Duchy of Brittany has broken all alliances with the Kingdom of France. In doing this, the Duchy of Lorraine and the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania have joined us in a new Grand Alliance. This rift has moved Pope Alexander VI to declare neutrality in the imminent war and withdraw from the French Alliance as well. All that remains stading by France is the Duchy of Savoy.

War is to be declared upon February 1st. Upon receiving news of this occurrance, the armies will be split as thus:

Marshal Foix is to take 4,250 pikemen and 200 cavalry.
Brigadier Clark is to take 5,500 infantrymen and 2000 cavalry.
The 17,250 infantry and 1400 cavalry in Saint-Malo are to be commanded jointly by Lt. General Bayard, Brigadier d'Orleans, and I.

We will all move into the province of Maine immediately upon the declaration, all moving together as one army. This is because although the Armies of Brittany are strong, if attacked separately by the armies of France we will be destroyed. Fortunately, the two armies of France are stationed along the Franco-Savoyard border, and it will take them months to reach our lines. However, when La Palice and his Armée du Roi arrive they will be a force to be reckoned with. Le Armée d'Italie, though smaller than La Palice's force and operating without his leadership, is also a threat. We must do all in our power to take Maine and Orleanais before they arrive.

Allowing Clark to read the letter for himself, Foix went on. "As you can see, we have to get these troops up to speed as soon as possible. If we aren't ready come February, we might not have gotten enough progress by the time La Palice arrives. I served with him, he's a very crafty bastard... I fear that if we fight him we will not come out on top. But, we cannot help it. Whether we like it or not, we're going to war."

Clark nodded quietly. "You know what this means, don't you, Marshal? This war, these battles, will forever decide the fate of Brittany. If we do not succeed, we will never again have a chance to."

 

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What? I'm in this? coolness

 

[Morpheus506]

Of course you're in this! You posted something about being in this earlier in the thread! *shakes head* Some people...... .

 

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Just replying to your earlier post Morpheus: My character can be in the time period of, maybe around 1550-1600 if that's allright. Otherwise I don't really mind what time period.




LB

 

[Morpheus506]

Ok, I've got everyone's info but Azale. AZALE! WHERE ARE YA!?!?!

 

[Morpheus506]

"You see, men! They CAN BE BEATEN!!!"

Pellaeon's words brought an eruption of cheers from his sailors.Standing on the bridge of the French Bay of Biscay fleet, the Gallia, was just another reinforcement of his point.

After the defeat of Morpheus's forces at Orléans in early May, the French had put on an air of invincibility. But, after the destruction of all but two warships of the French Biscay fleet, and the death of the enemy leader, Commodore Laval, in the second battle, the legend died. But, when news reached his men of the annihilation of the entire army of Savoy outside Orléans, they began to feel invincible themselves.

Leaving his men to celebrate their nation's victories, Piett at his back. He had some captured French maps to study.....

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Paris. One of the largest cities in Europe. Ancient center of the French government. Now, it was the headquarters of the Breton Army in France. As he surveyed his maps, Morpheus felt a great pride of his nation and his army. After the fall of Orléans, the army that had once beat him, the Armée d'Italie, had been crushed near Paris. The great city had fallen in the middle of October, followed quickly by the Lorraine Defender's capture of the province of Nivernais. Already the Allied governments had begun pressuring King Louis XIII to give up the three provinces.

"Milord, the newest intelligence rep--eech!" Michel d'Orléans walked into the General's war room and found a sword at his throat.

Lowering his sword, Morpheus utterred just two words: "Knock first."

The Brigadier was visibly shaken, but attempted to continue. "Err... ah... the in-in-telligence r-reports are in, s-sir." He gulped, handed the parchments to his commander, and fled the tent as fast as his legs could carry him.

Morpheus shook his head, a smile on his face, and opened the reports. "Hmm... Armée d'Italie in Ghampagne... knew it. La Palice sitting tight in Auvergne.... knew it. He's protecting King Louis? Ah...Now I remember why we have these spies. We'll have to pay a visit to them. But first... we have some unfinished business with the Armée d'Italie to attend to........"

 

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the plot thickens >_>

 

[Lord E]

Nice update Morpehus. I wonder what will happen next, a huge battle where all of France's armies are destroyed?

 

[Cow Pie]

I'm wondering what the stats for your generals are Morph.

Great update.

 

[Lord E]

Originally posted by Cow Pie
I'm wondering what the stats for your generals are Morph.

Great update.

Hmm let me think, something tells me 6/6/6/6

 

[Morpheus506]

The Four have normal stats right now. Morpheus has unusually good siege though.

I won't go fiddling with stats until [censored].

 

[Lord E]

Oh so you tell me that you havn't thouch the stats, ok maybe not for the rest of the gang, but I am sure Morpehus got 6/6/6/6

 

[Morpheus506]

"Look there, your Majesty. Orléans lies waiting before us."

Lieutenant General La Palice lowered his hand from his eyes and glanced at his King. Charles XIII had been suffering, not being accustomed to the meager rations of soldiers. Already a thin man, he'd become nearly gaunt from his difficult escape from Paris to Auxerre. Now he would have the chance to get back to full size.

La Palice chuckled at Morpheus's folly. Rushing to attack Paris, he had neglected to even garrison the walls of the great city of Orléans. Then, even when he'd had the chance to come back and protect it, he went chasing after the Armée d'Italie. La Palice's last intelligence reports indicated that he was still doing it. They were almost a week old, though. It was likely that Morpheus had realized what was happening and started back towards Orléans to head the Lt. General off.

But, La Palice thought, He will be greeted by an army from within the walls of Orléans! He smiled at the irony of the King actually riding with the "Armée du Roi." Turning towards the eighth King Charles, he noticed that he was grinning too, rubbing his hands--and his belly--in anticipation of the riches inside Orléans.

La Palice waved his sword in the air, signaling to his troops, and spurred his horse on a little faster. The rest of the cavalry contingent of the Armée du Roi sped up to match, and the infantry did too. He hoped they wouldn't wear out from the pace; they had been marching for 2 days straight with no rest. But the city was only about 200 yards away! They were so close! That was probably enough incentive for the footmen to keep it up.

La Palice bent down to fiddle with his saddle. As he was fixing a loose strap, he heard a shrill whistle, followed by a soft thup! He sat bolt upright and whirled backwards to see King Charles XIII clutching at the shaft of an arrow protruding from his chest.

"Oh, my, G---" La Palice was cut of by an arrow flashing by his face. He looked up and saw a great mass of them descending on his troops. "AMBUSH! IT'S A TRAP! TAKE COVER!"

Those who heard him and hadn't been already hit tried to get protection to the Breton archers who had stood up from their concealed positions in front of the fortifications around Orléans. La Palice probably would've commented on their masterful camoflage if he had not just been hit just below the shoulder by an arrow. He snapped off the shaft then returned his attention to the stricken King. Blood was coming out of his nose and mouth as well as the wound in his chest. La Palice crossed himself and pulled his monarch onto his horse. If he stays on that horse much longer, he's gonna fall off.... And nobody can tell what'd happen then.

An arrow whizzing past his nose tore him from his thoughts. The French archers had finally pulled it together and started to fight back, but just as the first Breton bowmen started falling, gray-coated horsemen appeared in the flanks of the French army. The swords- and pikemen soon followed, also sweeping around the rear.

Out of the nearly 25,000 Frenchmen that did battle with Morpheus's army on January 5th, 1494, only 1,427 infantry and 5,686 cavalry were able to follow La Palice to safety.

King Charles XIII died 6 hours later.

 

[Lord E]

King muder That was so evil

Nah, but it was a great post

 

[Eu_proof]

Okey, i don´t usally read aar:s, but this one i really like..

 

[Morpheus506]

Ahhh, I feel very embarrassed. I put the completely wrong King in the last update. Fixing now....o

EDIT: Agh, I'm really starting to hate the first post... I think I made Anne out to be too much of a ditz.... Well she was only 16, but still...

Hey, now she won't have to marry Charlie XIII, as IRL!

EDIT AGAIN: Aaagh, how could I have made that mistake! Duchess, not Queen! AAaaaagh! o

 

[Morpheus506]

Originally posted by Lord E
King muder That was so evil

Nah, but it was a great post

Well he's gonna die in 4 years anyway. Might as well make it interesting.

 

[Morpheus506]

"They did what????"

Lord Admiral Pellaeon looked incredulously at the messenger who had been sent to brief him on the events that had happened since he had last set to sea.

After Morpheus ambushed La Palice at Orléans, Pellaeon had withdrawn to Lorient harbor in hopes of drawing the French Escadre Rouge out of hiding in port. It had succeeded, and his ships had chased them all the way out to the middle of the Bay of Biscay and then back to Quiberon Bay, finally leaving them with only 2 ships when Pellaeon chased them back into port. When they had returned to Lorient in mid-April for repairs and supplies, the Lord Admiral was confronted with surprising news.

"Th-that's right, sir, the Turks annexed Lebanon and Judea..."

This was very overwhelming for Pellaeon. When he heard that the slave empire of the Mamelukes had been attacked by the Turks, he knew that they would add a little land to their empire, but he had expected something along the lines of Aleppo and not territory so close to the Holy City of Jerusalem. This would have to be rectified sometime in the future...

"I've got a mostly complete list of major events since you've last been on land, milord. Would you like to see it?"

"Yes, yes, give it here." He snatched the report out of the messenger's hand and started reading. "Revolts in Dublin..... Pope joins the Teutonic Order, Prussia, the Hanseatic League, and Georgia in alliance..... royal marriages arranged with Burgundy, Poland-Lithuania, and Papal States..... blah blah blah! Where's the military news!? I want to know the progress in France!"

"Er, second page, sir."

Flipping the page, Pellaeon waved towards the door of his cabin and said, "Thank you, Lieutenant. That will be all." The man left quickly, and Pellaeon began reading page two enthusiastically. "Haha! He's got La Palice on the run, he does! Beaten in Caux, causing the surrender of the cities there, now beaten in Normandy, Cherbourg about to fall, what luck! Well done, Morpheus." He read on. "Another French defeat in Orléans, eh? Hmmm, 12,000 Bretons against 18,000 French? Must've been the cavalry that won it, don't know how we'd've pulled that off with straight infantry. Ah, they were green troops, too, that probably tipped it in our favor too. Now they're being sent to Champagne to help out the 0000000000... Don't know how smart that is, the French'll probably just come back. Oh well, that's why I'm an Admiral and not a General, I suppose. I wonder when the French will finally surrender......."

"Ah, but why am I still wondering about that? I've got shore leave while we're being resupplied. I seem to remember there being quite a nice little pub around here somewhere...."