Talk:Death to the Empress/@comment-30671277-20170105195147/@comment-8944282-20170105235858

Well citizen you are indeed right, the Abbey are way more diciplined than the city watch but you must look at the bigger picture.

Eventhough my brothers at the abbey should have won that battle, there were many key factors on why they lost. These inculde; the one you mentioned with that black hearted witch Delilah turning many into stone. But they also had blood briars, gravehounds which at this time the Abbey probably did not know how to get rid of. Also, the music boxes have not really been used in a very long time and have not been properly tuned so that could explain why the whiches still had there magic.

Now in addition lets talk about the clock work soldiers. Sure, the Abbey should have been able wipe all of them out but rememebr they had all of those others on their asses while in addition trying to fight the Witches.

Now finaly from a psychological morale point of view as Overseer Ogburn puts the high overseer fell which probably decimated their morale.

In short it just was not my brothers lucky day.