The summer in Gillockium opened with a fair harvest for the landholders and a decent levy of new troops. Dux Ray cautiously repositioned his field army for impending raids as Warlord Charles, disgusted with the spring raids, sent scouts into Youngstown. His scouts reported that there seemed to be no troops in the village and that the pens were full of livestock.

Charles and Duane quickly planned their attack and assembled their allies, Lord Feller the Byzantine and Hoppy the mercenary. It was an exceptionally hot summer in the land and so, all of the heavy armored troops suffered greatly under mail coats and steel brain buckets. As the day broke Stacy and his legionaries raced into the village from the North and attempted to organize the villagers and move any loot into protected areas. Charles and his warband sailed up the river and disembarked. Duane’s two warbands now full of recruits headed through the woods only to stumble on a huge, angry, brown bear. Soon enough though, one of his warriors was dragging the corpse of the beast onto the longship. At the same time Lord Feller’s men, broiling in their heavy armor, were slowly working their way around the village. Hoppy and his band of Pict mercenaries came splashing through the river and toward the village. Unfortunately for the raiders the Landholder’s army seemed to be arriving very quickly.

Too soon, Dux Ray had his legionaries arrayed into a shieldwall and Chris II had ridden up to support his flank. Dieter the Goth slowly maneuvered his troops into the village and much to Stacy’s dismay began to "secure" anything that had not already been moved to safety.

As the battle unfolded, Dieter and his warband moved to support Dux Ray, while archers from the Gothic warband delivered a volley into one of Duane’s mobs but were quickly overrun and put to the sword. Upon witnessing his bowmen being massacred, even after they surrendered, Dieter swore vengeance and began to withdraw into the village, leaving the Dux flank undefended.

Warlord Charles and his heavily armored Huscarls slammed into Dux Ray’s shield wall and went about the bloody business of slaughter, supported closely by a handful of Duane’s bloodthirsty Northmen that had slipped around Ray’s now undefended left flank. While Hoppy and his Pict’s rushed into the midst of Chris II’s cavalry, pulled the young leader from the saddle, and slit his throat.

It wasn’t long before the once solid battleline of the brave Landholders was disintegrating. Chris II’s remaining horsemen quickly road away not to return. Dux Ray cut some sort of deal with Hoppy and there was rumor of money changing hands in exchange for Ray’s life, while Stacy and his men dropped their shields and began hauling goods away from the village. Dieter, who could be seen swilling some of the fine Youngstown beer, and his band of peasants quickly retreated.

As the Landholders retreated into the countryside, the Raiders loaded all that they could onto their longship and set fire to the village. They sang Nordic Sagas as they sailed away and Warlord Charles could be seen dangling his toes in the water in the back of the Longboat.

Things did not go quite as well for the Landholders, who began talk of civil war at the mention of taxes for the Dux, who was busily training the young men of his town for the impending raids of the fall.