Rout of Rosshall

Background
As the Great Berskin Revolt entered it's second year in the summer of SA 299, the Imperial position was precarious. At Haleston and the Rottsee, Imperial armies had been mauled, and the Berskins continued to burn and pillage across the Empire.

Battle
Before his army had even fully redeployed from marching formation, Chartamaleus ordered an immediate attack on the Berskins, who were regarded by the Imperial commanders as an undisciplined rabble. The Imperial army, some 20,000-strong, was composed of four divisions; on the left flank was the elite Imperial men-at-arms, in the center were two parallel 'battles' of fyrd infantry, and on the right flank was a body of auxiliary Calamann horse. In order to make contact with the Berskins, the Imperials were forced to advance through a dense wood which largely broke-up their dense formations. Upon emerging from the Wood, the Imperial cavalry launched a rash attack against the Berskin right flank, but no sooner had they made contact then the Berskin cavalry, hidden in an adjacent Wood, fell on their rear and drove them from the field, bloodied and disordered. The flight of the Imperial cavalry, and the ensuing dispersal of riderless horses, further disrupted the formations of the Imperial fyrdmen, who were arraying along the edge of the wood and were taking a steady stream of casualties from Berskin missiles. The Imperial position deteriorated further when the Calamann auxiliaries on the right flank, demoralized by the knights defeat, fled the field as well, leaving the infantry isolated. Demoralized, their tight formations broken, and under heavy missile fire, the Imperial infantry had already begun to waver when Landen led his men in a general counterattack, breaking the fyrds in a brief battle along the tree line. Chartamaleus was able to escape to Rosshall with a body of knights, barricading himself in the town until it was stormed, and he was killed, the next day. The Berskin cavalry carried out a vigorous pursuit of the Imperials, leaving the countryside strewn with Imperial dead for many miles.

Aftermath
The battle was an enormous disaster for the Arkyne Empire; though the Berskins had won two battles previous, neither had been decisive and both were largely dismissed Emperor as the result of the Bearskins alleged treachery. Rosshall, on the other hand, was a pitched battle fought in the Empire's heartland. A larger, fresher, and better-equipped Imperial army had been not only defeated but destroyed in a field battle by an army of Northmen; neither Imperial prestige nor military strength would ever recover. When King Ran I Arloginian led the Empire's last stand, only a small contingent of his army comprised of the Westreachian fyrdmen that had formed the majority of the Empire's armies; the bulk were foreign mercenaries and Arloginian regulars.

Imperial casualties had been heavy; 3-4,000 were believed to have been killed in the battle and the resulting pursuit, and at least another 5,000 were captured. Though a large contingent of the Imperial army survived, they were scattered and could never again form a cohesive field army; the majority either wandered home or joined the bands of marauders which overran the countryside.