The Coronal's army

*the Harvestmistress wispers a prayer*

May all the Blessings of the Heavens be with you old friend.

Corb can be seen marching with the army to the forest.

As news come about the first confronts with drow, Nadin passes instructions to the officers with him, to pass in the chain of command up to each platoon leader

- This is the warfare they want to do, ambushes and fast kills, and this is why we are to give the wrong impression they have an upper hand, so they can feel tempted to strike. We have to antecipate their moves and ambush the ambushers; check if the scouts are going in pairs, they are not to attack but to advice those platoons walking to the ambush. Be certain the communications aren't interrupted amongst the platoons, otherwise they will divide us to conquer. All platoons with injuried or slained soldiers that are lacking numbers to be effective are to join the nearest platoons to the direction of the center of the formation, and those more far are to rearrange; we will lose reach but will not be divided. And of course, look for all those hurt, we're not leaving anyone behind.

Nadin himself in the center of the formation does not make much effort to hide himself, and stand in the frontier along with other officers.

- Go ahead Faern Corb. I gave them only few and very specific instructions, but you can give more.

Corb could approach to Nadin when he is free or not is giving orders and talk about the three groups of mages.

It seems you have this in hand. We only need keep in mind some officers don't require buffs as they already have them in wands, rods or other magical devices. While I agree the scouts need buffs to see invisibility, I do say the other wards have to be optional in case the caster have ways to share these without compromise their own necessary spells, but you already clarified this when said they shall not forget their own wards. Our akh'faern resource is more limited, and we better not risk them unecessarily. I say we need too those with fireball wands and able to summon earth elementals well distributed in case we bump in a drow subterran hideout. Keep up the good work Faern.

Xeneize wrote:

My'manir would be along with such journey, moving on as indicated.

Greetings My'manir, Mind if I join you?

Iwean will reply, "I'm certain he will not object, I was asking to travel me you?"

"He can join your platoon as long as he does exactly as ordered and does not endanger the men."

The Army of Myth Drannor spread in Platoons over a large area get constantly attacked by skirmishing Drow raiding parties. The Drow try to hit and run and avoid to engage in melee at all.
Some platoon are very succesful in suprising the Drow in turn by luring them into traps and using other platoons as baits. Some are less fortunate and are wiped out entirely.

My'manirs tactic prove succesful as she is lucky to have one of the Platoons under her command that has a Druid assigned to it.
The Platoon manages to capture two Drow alive who become trapped in the pitfalls and dont manage to retreat with their bethren.

He sends him back with a response.

"Keep them alive, if you can. We might be able to learn where they have a camp or base of operations set up."