Snow White Hills Blood Bowl Chronicles

Backertag, 3rd Pflugzeit 2399. They have made their first assault against the walls, on this second day. Presumably, they wished to check our resolve and test our defences. They will have found both to be ample. Shortly after first light, they came with grapples and ladders against our west wall, while their archers kept up a steady fire from close in. The sun was rising above the wall, which silhouetted our defenders against it, and made them targets for their arrows. They attacked the centre of the wall, but our towers are built close enough together that no point of the wall is beyond arrow range, and we kept steady fire against them. A few men were killed by arrows leaning over the battlements to sever the ropes of the orcs grapples, but I ordered them to cease this, and to burn the ropes through instead. The orc's ladders were useless and they lost their footing easily. By the end of the attack, perhaps fifteen of the enemy were dead, and more injured besides. We lost just five.: — Journal of Ilich Meinbach, p21