Battle of Kuis

The Battle of Kuis was a battle between Thesia and Kostaenea, as well as being the first battle of The Adrypnii War. During the battle, Thesian troops under Colonel Vesin Kamar successfully stormed the Kuis Redoubt in the dead of night, overtaking it rapidly. It marked the first of a long string of Thesian victories against the Kostaenean army.

The Approach
Under command of Colonel Vesin Kamar, a 1,500-man column of Thesian infantry, backed by 4 guns, crossed the Kostaenean border in the dead of night, using the woods to hide their approach to the Kuis Redoubt. Wanting to avoid blowing his cover at all costs, Kamar gave his men strict orders that they were not to fire until practically on top of their enemy:"'You are not to discharge your weapons from a distance. You are not to discharge them as you advance. I shall only allow you to fire once you are well within bayonet-range of the poor sod you're targeting. You shall also decline to walk in strict formation. Instead, you will crouch and step like foxes until I stand. I will not allow my force to start this conflict off on poor footing.'"Indeed, the approach to the redoubt was achieved with utmost silence, and the token picket forces stationed on watch duty had little idea of the force approaching them until the Thesian column was within 100 metres, at which Kamar stood up, raised his sabre, and led the charge.

Storming Kuis Redoubt
Kamar led the assault onto the redoubt itself on foot alongside his men, storming the walls with ladders, and was reportedly the first to slay a Kostaenean picket, the first casualty of the war. Having come up on the defences in silence, the fighting almost instantly devolved into sporadic hand-to-hand combat in which the surprised Kostaenean garrison was completely overwhelmed and almost entirely wiped out one by one. The fighting was reported to have lasted a mere twelve minutes, with negligible losses on the Thesian side.

Aftermath
The fall of the Kuis Redoubt was the first major attack on one of the ten large-scale Kostaenean fortifications along the front, as well as being the first battle of the Adrypnii War. While mostly being manned by green troops and militia, the loss of the defensive position acted as a shock wave to morale, and caught Kostaenean command, who didn't expect a war for at least another month, entirely off guard. Kamar's seizure of the Kuis Redoubt gave the 2nd Thesian Army of 24,500 men the foothold it needed to rapidly advance into Kostaenea itself.