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We can see what's about to happen as the regulars get off an ineffectual volley. They need time. Time to regroup, time to form up and time to reload.
The party know what must be done, as do the armoured dwarves.
The bard squeezes his pipes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjtvGAGvYA
The dwarves know what must be done, and when the party charge, they follow our example. Gun and axe ready to buy time in blood.
It works. The Skeletons advance slows as they close ranks to meet the charge. Roman tactics not quite taking account of flamethrower, shotgun and dwarvish grenade and shot.
After the close range volley their ranks are in some dissarray. Bits of bone, shield and loricae segmenate zip through the air.
The infantry behind us get off another volley, then another, the cannons whip grapeshot into the flanks of the skeletons.
Our countercharge just might carry this.
Our focus shifts from what we can see of the overall battlefield to the enemy before us, the Navvie breaking shields, the wizard dashing iron bars into skeletons behind them.
There sure are a lot of skeletons. They pull down dwarves every moment, gladii lashing from behind the shieldwall.
From else where in the closing ranks of skeletons, a larger, horned figure can be seen. Clad now head to foot in armour. Only his antlers and the bone sticking from his chest indicating who he is, he leads a charge past us and the engaged dwarves on toward the rifleman.
Baz.
It takes us some time to fight our way out of our current predicament, leaving the dwarves still engaged. We can see Baz sweeping great clawed hands into the lines of the regulars, stoving in ribcages, ripping off heads, every rise and fall of his arms bringing death after death.
The lines of the regulars are already faltering as Blackadder leads his small cavalry unit into a charge against them.
It's time to put and end to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxKpe2c6fU