Rim Ram Mountain, Battle of - WIP

The costliest battle of the Second Bog War, when Rich led the doomed charge of his 8th Trikeboy Division up the mountain’s north face into a hail of arrows and fire from the entrenched archers and musketeers fighting under the flag of the Hole King. The trikeboys were all but wiped out, with the steep gradient proving difficult to ascend on their trikes and many experiencing jams and other catastrophic failures of their Pennis-Bauls Rifles. Many trikeboys pleaded with Rich to continue on foot so they could be more mobile and conduct traditional small unit maneuvers against the enemy positions. Rich’s disastrous leadership decisions were documented by an embedded combat journalist, Dickey Marachek. Dickey wrote of the day,

''“Rich was mad with bloodlust and blinded by the fog of war, he lost sight of the objective and was walking up and down the battle lines chastising his men for grooming standard violations and dirty trikes, we knew he had lost it when he charged to the front of the line screaming, “Hold strong on those banana seats boys! I see any boy abandon his trike I’ll shoot em my dang self’ that day was a dark day for a captain to keep his promise…”''

Down to only six survivors and the combat correspondent from the Darkwood Chronicle, the mountain was a scene of abject carnage with hundreds of arrow-filled and dismembered boys rolling backwards down the mountain on their trikes. At dawn a last minute quick reaction force of the 3rd Bogboy volunteers led by Carthoud the Hound arrived and routed and wiped out the opposing force in a brutal hand to hand combat engagement that lasted for hours. However, Rich’s boys paid dearly with nearly 3,000 killed; Rich was one of only six survivors of the initial charge.