The Adventure of Attack of the Pyramid

“There is a hovering vehicle scouting out the battleground. It is overhead so we don’t know what it really looks like. This must be the pyramid again. Hold steady everyone. Archers, on my command, ready your arrows! Target the ground troops.” I state. There are soldiers fast-walking towards us, but they look odd. Some are huge while the majority are just a bit bigger than our size. They pick up their pace. “Fire a volley,” I command. [We are right in the center of the attack. While there is some damage done, the larger creatures are unaffected.] “Fire at will! Charge!” [There is clanking of metal meeting metal and then a thunderclap. There are several lightning strikes hitting our men directly coming from the pyramid. The large creatures are ogres, snarling, and swinging clubs about. We can only harm them with arrows. And then, out of nowhere, appears the pyramid. It has circled around our position; this isn’t good at all. It begins to shoot lightning at us as well. We are being cut in half. The only thing saving us right now is the sun in their eyes. Unable to shoot accurately and the bright sun light gives us a chance to retreat and before the flanking army commits. The pyramid lets out a screech, almost bird-like, which sounds their retreat.] “And damn, we had them right where we wanted them,” says Amelia. “Yea right!? Did you want them to decimate us before we fight or after?” I reply. “What the hell is up with that screech, and those monsters?” Nancy asks. “And why were we the only ones hit by lightning? No monsters were hit, just our men” Amelia inquires. I state: “If you wanted to win, would you shoot your own men? Right now, we need to get organized once again; they may easily return. They did far more damage to us than we did to them.” “OK, I vote you call the shots since you have been on the ball so far. We may have got hit pretty bad but your organizing the first round saved us from much worse. All agree?” “Yea” in unison. “Mr. Ferguson?” “So far, I agree completely.” “Let’s start by setting up a perimeter with troops and cavalry support in a horseshoe shape. The light seems to have a worse effect than I anticipated so let’s keep using that – it’s free! Then I want 5 groups of 5 scouts each with a rider in each group to report back if they spot trouble. So front line troops, second line of archers and cavalry support. Agreed?” (I learned in management to state how to do something and then summarize it also repeating the message so they get it down.) I say