This is a combat report for a game known as Ikariam, my friends said im a good writer, i got happy and wanted to write about something, this was occuring at the time and there was a lot of tension. Alas I live to tell the tale.

Its seemingly a normal day the new recruits are finally getting the grips of knowing the advantages and disadvantages of their spears and their phalanx formation is taking shape.

Alas over 100 men burst out of the woods, ten rams smash their way though the gates, the defending army springs into action, they had training but they havent gone up against real enemies before and they have more units, the walls are the main defense and they have already been broken, luckily the archers are preventing any enemy

We have taken major casualties, the walls are nearly destroyed. They still out number us but we still have more confirmed kills. We cant push up however due to the wall of arrows. They have a better defence and offence, it doesnt seem good. We are ordering all citizens to cease their work and get to get homes, as a failsafe we are moving our valuable goods to the other colonies, we may die but we still have our resources, the other colonies may have to go on without us. We have requested for emergency support.

Word has however reached the colonies, the troops are being prepared, we will be able to help our allies if there are any left to defend.

It has gone to hell, civilians have taken up arms and tried to help with the defence, without proper training they walked into a hail of arrows and perished. To make matters worse we have no arrows left furthermore all of our swordmen have fallen in battle. Morale is dropping fast, word has been received that we will have reinforcements bu as to how long they will take, we have no idea. We just have to hold the line no matter what.

We are on the verge of defeat, the formation has fallen and the archers are being forced to don the armor of their fallen comrades and do what they can to protect the town, the rock clingers have no rocks left either. The arrows have however stopped, maybe the enemy has no arrows either, a few of the archers acted as decoys and gave their lives to give us a chance to incur damage to their forces, it may have taken many of them out but its not enough. Without support we are done for.

The thoughts of surrendering were present, a few of the men ran for their lives off into the distance, no one has the energy to chase them down. But it was then that we heard a roar from behind us, it was the reinforcements, they had come in support, fifty of them ran straight past us. It appeared that we werent the only people that were exhausted, they barely put up a fight before we routed their units. All of them, only their ram crews survived as they ran away.

So we were victorious but its not much of a victory as we lost so many people, the death toll is at 84, many families have been destroyed, we thanked those that fort from the other colonies but they just wanted to return home.

So now, we rebuild.