The Stand at Marrow Fields

Battlefield: a foggy moor at dawn · 10 Oct 2026 · Ranked

Crusader Knights

Roster army: 🐎 Crusader Knights

150 heavily armoured knights in full plate on barded warhorses with lances and longswords, supported by 300 crossbowmen behind large pavise shields.

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Mongol Horde

Roster army: 🏹 Mongol Horde

600 Mongol horse archers with composite bows and spare horses, using feigned retreats and constant movement, backed by 100 lancers in lamellar armour for the final charge.

ROUND 1 OF 4

Crusader Knights loose a crossbow volley from behind the pavises. Across a foggy moor at dawn, Mongol Horde wheel across a foggy moor at dawn at a gallop, arrows already in the air.

ROUND 2 OF 4

Crusader Knights pin Mongol Horde with crossbow bolts, then the knights ride them down. Mongol Horde run low on arrows and have to risk closing in.

ROUND 3 OF 4

Crusader Knights pin Mongol Horde with crossbow bolts, then the knights ride them down. Mongol Horde lose riders as Crusader Knights finally catches them in close quarters.

ROUND 4 OF 4

Crusader Knights thunder into Mongol Horde with a full lance charge, smashing the line apart. Mongol Horde finally break off, the last riders scattering across a foggy moor at dawn.

» The knights reform and ride over what is left of Mongol Horde.

THE WAR ORACLE'S VERDICT

A genuinely close fight. Crusader Knights brings crushing lance charge, while Mongol Horde answers with constant horse archery. Terrain and nerve on a foggy moor at dawn could swing it either way.

Crushing lance charge
Arrows eventually run out
The battlefield: a foggy moor at dawn

MVP: The crossbow line

Crusader Knights holds a foggy moor at dawn, bloodied but victorious. Mongol Horde is finished as a fighting force.

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PromptBandit is a free browser game. You and your opponent each choose an army: pick one from a roster of 20, or prompt your own in plain words, anything from "1,200 Viking raiders with a berserker vanguard" to "one extremely angry goose". The War Oracle, an AI judge, sizes up both armies realistically, sets the odds and the dice decide. Then you watch the battle unfold round by round.

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