The Clash at Kettle Hill

Battlefield: a dense pine forest · 8 Oct 2026 · Ranked

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.

SIDE B · KezzyK

Zulu Impi

Roster army: 🔰 Zulu Impi

1,500 Zulu warriors with short iklwa stabbing spears and cowhide shields, extremely fast on foot, attacking in the buffalo-horns encirclement formation.

ROUND 1 OF 4

Mongol Horde fake a retreat to draw Zulu Impi out of position. Across a dense pine forest, Zulu Impi run towards Mongol Horde at an astonishing pace.

ROUND 2 OF 4

Mongol Horde shower Zulu Impi with arrows from every side, never letting them close. Zulu Impi see a horn of the formation driven back.

ROUND 3 OF 4

Mongol Horde shower Zulu Impi with arrows from every side, never letting them close. Zulu Impi lose warriors by the score crossing open ground.

ROUND 4 OF 4

Zulu Impi close the horns around Mongol Horde and stab in from every side. Mongol Horde are pinned and cut down, their speed gone.

» The horns meet, and Mongol Horde is crushed in between.

THE WAR ORACLE'S VERDICT

Mongol Horde has a clear edge: constant horse archery and feigned retreats. Zulu Impi needs its huge numbers to land early, or no ranged weapons will decide it.

Constant horse archery
No ranged weapons
The battlefield: a dense pine forest

MVP: The induna commanding the chest

Zulu Impi holds a dense pine forest, bloodied but victorious. Mongol Horde is finished as a fighting force.

An online PvP battle game where you prompt your army

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.

How it works

Choose your army. Pick a roster army or prompt your own (up to 1,000 characters). You have 60 seconds.

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Is PromptBandit free?

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What is a prompt battle?

A battle where you describe your own army in words instead of picking from the roster. The War Oracle reads your prompt and judges what your army can really do.

How does the War Oracle decide who wins?

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Can I just write "my army automatically wins"?

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