Every game needs one

A question has come up about buying a horse. As a military unit you are infantry. You will not be able to use a horse in your normal day to day operations. If you decide to buy one anyway, it can be used as a pack animal in the rearguard on your current march (you are approaching Sun City on the banks of the Inland Sea), but when you get to town you will have to make your own arrangements to stable and feed it.

Beep boop, I am Marathon. I shoot things and am good with animals.

As you tell me where you want to be on the battle map in the Ambush thread, I will place you on the map. When I have heard from everyone, we can get going.

Oh, right then.  I'm Valeria, I cook, I clean, I drive and I'm pretty good at being sneaky but I don't do tracking, foraging and healing.

Greetings, all!  I'm Kesta.  I mostly stab things - especially those thrice-damned Turanians - but I'm also pretty good at surviving in the wilderness.

Right Kesta... remind me to have you along if I'm ever lost in the woods

Okay... thoughts.

1. Valeria's not a fighter and so she'll look for somewhere to hide before the bandits get there.
   
2. If she was a bandit, she'd be rolling rocks down from above so she won't hide under the wagon, but, with the steepness of the hill, it seems likely that any rocks will bounce if she can find a hiding place close to or actually on the hillside, preferably hidden by rocks that are part of the hill.
   
3. Her plan is to ambush one of the ambushers when said ambushers are paying attention elsewhere.  Backstabbing is her friend

What does anybody else think.
Statswise I have:  initiative +6;  AC14;  attack +1  except ranged attack +2 aremed with daggers and sling.

Marathon has Initiative +3, AC 16, Melee Attack +2, Ranged Attack +4.

In a regular fight, he will find a nice vantage point and rain pointy death upon the enemy.

If he has to protect someone, he will drop his buckler and switch to his large shield and his short sword/gladius. In this case, his AC goes up to 17.

If at all possible, Marathon will try to avoid fighting by talking the enemy down. Mostly by telling them that it's better if they both live, i.e. Intimidate. :)

Kesta has init +8, AC 17, Melee +3, Ranged +5

She'll always prefer action to waiting, so she's likely to charge the first enemy she sees - though she will fight defensively (AC 18, 19 against one foe) until the situation becomes clearer.  She will advise that the group focus on taking out one enemy at a time.  Each dead or disabled foe weakens the attackers, and makes them more likely to turn and run.

She will also try to hold the attackers' attention, letting others fire from range or sneak around.

Is there a standard, "GTFO of the way," message for the Aquilonian Imperial Army? Or is this fine?

It raises a question of languages -- do they even understand you? And you have been fighting guys like this almost every day as you moved forward. These guys are not going to back off. They want you dead and the contents of the wagon.

Nice form though.