The Kingdom of Stoludi
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The Geitumo Forces
The Flag of Geitumo
Geitumo City is a small town that is nestled in a small bay on the long, thin island of Geitumo. It is a tightly clustered array of buildings that has accumulated around 8,200 people, surrounded by walls that are nothing more than log palisades about three logs thick. The volcanic origins of the island have made the soil extremely fertile and thick pine trees sprout in abundance. The strongest, largest, most ancient trees that were practical were felled to make the massive palisades that surround the city, and many laborers lost their lives erecting them. Now Geitumo is squared in by a patchwork of rectangles and squares of these palisades, standing around twenty-five feet high. It is backbreaking work that takes many years, but it is still more practical than loading a ship with stone and braving the waters between the mainland and the island. The defenses consist of a handful of mortars that drop powerful fragmenting bombs weighing up to fourty pounds, and culverins that send a 32 pound projectile singing through the air at intense velocity. Oil ports are carved into the wood, and even raw sewage can be collected and deposited through these ports as an alternate defense. The gates are mechanical and controlled through closed stone gatehouses, visible as squat structures straddling the tops of the thickly carved gates. Geitumo is made of squat low stone structures like this, since smaller buildings can be made of the stuff without much issue, although larger buildings above a storey need to have some wood parts.
Geitumo's garrison is a force of 550 militiamen and a handful of skilled riders that use the numerous draft horses of the city as their steeds. The militiamen are clad in simple cotton uniforms that bear the city's green and blue colors. Over their torsos they wear green coats that are tucked into their blue pants, with a belt to tighten the garments at the waist. The shirts are held together at the front with wooden buttons, crudely carved by hand in many cases. They tie sacks to their backs with twine and simply load their gear into that... they have basic shoes, and wear a sort of early skullcap helmet which looks to be hammered bronze. It covers the cranium and bridge of the nose, as well as the sides of the head, albeit with a chainmail veil that is mostly to protect against shrapnel. He or she (there are many females in the militia) also holds two bags at their hips, carrying powder and balls in them for their muskets, as well as a small spiky knife that can also be used as a bayonet. Their muskets are long and employ a dog-lock mechanism, with their furniture made of some kind of red colored wood. Their muskets are of a fairly high caliber, but make a lot of smoke and are somewhat heavy.
Despite being just a militia, the Geitumo infantry are well-trained, and fairly well disciplined. The cavalry, the few handfuls of them that there are, wear a simple leather and chainmail outfit that provides minimal protection and plenty of mobility. The horses have their vulnerable areas covered with chainmail dangling from leather belts and straps. These horses are draft horses taken from working stock, so they are not the fastest nor the strongest, but are bulky beasts that can take a battering and keep going. Some cavalrymen even employ oxen, sharpening their horns and goring their opponents with them. The cavalry units are equipped with bandoliers of pistols of all kinds, and shortswords.
The Naval force of Geitumo is really just a dozen or so gunboats armed with a single massive thirty-four-pound cannonade and propelled by oars or two lateen sails. These are of varying designs with numerous names. There are also three longboats with rows of rowers as their main propulsion, and are used primarily for transport. They do have about twelve twenty-four pound cannons of a light construction that primarily fire solid shot, and a bow and stern chaser consisting of a six pound swivel gun, that is mainly for antipersonnel use. They are all identical sisters, a triplet of sorts.
A couple of corvettes and a sloop of war are present in the harbor as well, present there after they concluded naval exercises off the coast. A brig also joined them after she lost her main mast and had to put into the nearest port for repairs. They are typically slight and slender ships, with lighter guns whose main strength lie in their rate of fire and accuracy. This motley array of ships is the only naval defense aside from any reinforcements sent from Frystobiang, which is a day or two away, or from the Capitol, which is many days away.
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