The Rout of Ashford

Battlefield: a scorching desert plain at noon · 10 Oct 2026 · Ranked

War Elephants

Roster army: 🐘 War Elephants

12 armoured war elephants, each carrying a howdah with 3 archers, escorted by 100 skirmishers with javelins.

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Young Dragon

Roster army: 🐉 Young Dragon

A young dragon the size of a large horse with armoured scales, sharp claws and fire breath that it can use in short bursts before needing to recover.

ROUND 1 OF 4

Young Dragon takes to the sky above a scorching desert plain at noon with a shriek. Across a scorching desert plain at noon, War Elephants advance with ground-shaking footsteps, archers drawing in the howdahs.

ROUND 2 OF 4

Young Dragon swoops low and tears into War Elephants with its claws. War Elephants have their skirmishers cut down.

ROUND 3 OF 4

Young Dragon swoops low and tears into War Elephants with its claws. War Elephants lose an elephant that panics and tramples its own side.

ROUND 4 OF 4

Young Dragon swoops low and tears into War Elephants with its claws. War Elephants break and stampede off the field.

» The dragon roars over the smoking remains of War Elephants.

THE WAR ORACLE'S VERDICT

A genuinely close fight. Young Dragon brings flight, while War Elephants answers with massive armoured elephants. Terrain and nerve on a scorching desert plain at noon could swing it either way.

Flight
Elephants can panic
The battlefield: a scorching desert plain at noon

MVP: The dragon's fire breath

Young Dragon holds a scorching desert plain at noon, bloodied but victorious. War Elephants is finished as a fighting force.

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