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Herald of Steel

Waking up inside the ruins of an orphanage, Alexander finds himself chained and sold to slavery. A modern metallurgist, trapped in ancient times, watch as he tries to play with the cards fate dealt him. He will make plate armor, invent paper, build roads, teach governance and many more, as he tries to carve a place for himself. But how can such things not attract jealous eyes? The naval superpower- Cantagena, The unstoppable army of- Exolas, The superpower of the east- Adhania, The mercantile confederation- Sybarsis, The religious fanatics- Iyizarid, And the ever-present- Barbarians of the Barren Forrest, All want something from each other. In this ocean of sharks, follow a small carp as it struggles to leap through the dragon gate and establish a dynasty to outlast them all. The cover is not mine. If you are the owner of this cover, comment and I will remove it.

FerriticMatrix · War
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The Siege of Thesalie (Part-5)

As the construction of the wall finished, and the second phase of Alexander's siege began, he transferred all his soldiers and artillery onto the wall to give them a better advantage.

This helped the crossbowmen and the ones manning the scorpions as now their shots did not need to fight gravity to reach their target.

Meaning many of the bolts that previously would have lost all kinetic energy by the time they had reached their target and simply fell from the sky, pinging off the defender's armor could now have enough force in them to penetrate and wound or kill them.

Along with these, Alexander also employed his catapults, which he actually saw to be the main star of the show, for he had invented quite the nefarious ammo to be used with this missile delivery mechanism.