Awkward though it is your gunfire takes the men you can see on the right apart with no chance of retaliation. They're dead. The entire barricade falls to the dvergr onslaught, as do the ones further east of your positions that other companies tackled. For the first time in what feels like hours, nobody is trying to shoot you.

Then, as unwelcome as it is inevitable, you hear the rumble of artillery.

"Take cover, lads! Back to the trench! Get in and keep down!" shouts Klakkr, leftenants picking up the order and repeating it. "Come on! Back, back, into the trench now, c'mon!" they shout and there's a great hurry as everyone else moves to abandon the barricade and fall back.

Jinks is on the ground groaning. He's alive just not healthy, he can't walk. You see two others within a few yards of you as you start to move similarly stricken but you're less certain if they're alive. Helping these guys has no roll... it just takes time, and the artillery barrage is seconds away.