(these stories were not included in the orginal tally report due to lack of time)
Fort Grigory
Elated by the recapture of the Uneasy Watchman, Graf Martin at once ordered the siege of Fort Grigory to be renewed. Three brigades were assembled, and sent forth to pontoon the Lower Talabec, while a proper siege train was mustered at the Höhleburg. From the moment these brigades departed from the Watchman, they found themselves harrassed by Kislevite rearguard forces, fighting a fierce delaying action. A bold squadron of Kislevite Lancers managed to breach the cordon and attack the pontoon wagons, smashing the axls, and stopping the entire column in its tracks for two days while the massive things were repaired.
Eventually, however, under the cover of a powerful bombardment of cannon and mortar, the Stirlanders did manage to deploy their pontoons across the Lower Talabec - but it was too little, too late. Regrouped Middenlanders and Kislevites, as well as Ostermarker partisans, had led another assault on the Uneasy Watchman, and the brave pontooners were cut off. General Von Wensel offered the surrender of his brigades when his guns ran out of shot the next day, and the bulk of a renewed Middenland attack appeared on the far end of the pontoons. A final attempt by a group of Stirlander officers to demolish the pontoons with powder kegs was only partially successful, leaving enough of them intact to allow the Middenlanders and Kislevites to cross over.
The Uneasy Watchman
The recapture of the Uneasy Watchman had been a painful struggle, but the charge of the mighty Steam Tank Conqueror had provided a formidable spearhead. Even when the behemoth broke down, the Stirlanders had gained enough momentum to ensure both the recapture of the inn, and the secure recovery of the tank. Much to the chagrin of his generals, however, Graf Martin soon re-made his old mistake; three brigades of his best troops were equipped as pontooners and sent north to cross the Lower Talabec, while a siege train was being prepared at the Höhleburg to invest in Fort Grigory. Once more, the battered coaching inn was left woefully ill-defended.
In the surrounding marchlands, meanwhile, scattered Middenlanders and Kislevites were regrouping. They were being joined by groups of Ostermark partisans, frustrated by Graf Martin's failure to protect the Uneasy Watchman - the original fall of which had sent refugees far and wide - and, at the same time, weary of the religious oppression they had been told would be their part under Otillian rule. These motley bands, often no more than a battalion's worth in strength, began careful reconnaissance towards the Uneasy Watchman, and, finding it nearly abandoned, were the first to open the attack. When Von Wensel's pontooners surrendered and the main thrust of the Middenlander-Kislevite attack descended on the inn once more, Stirlander resistance crumpled, except for the Wagonburg roadblock just south of the Watchman, which once more became the focus of the fighting on the eastern front.
Udo's Fall
Although the Stirlanders fought hard to preserve Udo's Fall, they found themselves horribly outclassed by the Talabeclanders, attacking under the personal command of Marshall Gernot. Through a series of feints, the old warhound drew Stirlander reserves to defend where he did not attack, all the while marching his advance brigades in a giant pincer around the crater. It was not until the first Talabeclander cavalry squadrons showed up at the road to Höhleburg that the Baron Von Haackerlitz recognized his predicament; and, after ordering an all out retreat, emptied his liquor cabinet, and shot himself through the head. It is a testimony to the Baron that he did not let his pride get in the way of his military sense, allowing the bulk of his troops to retreat to the Höhleburg in fair order.