Since sometimes your army is small
(Really barely an army at all),
Let’s amend rule “Battles”
To protect the cattle
Well all pets, be they short or tall:

If an attacked captain favours eir army,
To save their poor bottoms from harm, e
May replace dice results
With a swordfight of insults,
And resolve the battle with charm, see?

Since this is a one-on-one fight,
Rather than a battle of might,
No army’s reduc-ed
(No pet loses its head)
Still, the loser is a “Bitter” sight.

I am giving up on trying to force complete rules into limericks, so the above is just for flavour. Text to be added to “Battles” follows:

Within 24 hours of the blogpost stating the Attack, the Attacked Captain may challenge the Attacking Captain to an Insult Swordfight as in the rule “Insult Swordfighting” (so long as such a Swordfight is legal by the terms of the rule). If the challenge is accepted, the Swordfight shall determine the outcome of the battle (no DICE are rolled). If the Attacking Captain wins the Insult Swordfight, e takes the gold from the Swordfight as well as the gold from a succesful Attack. If the Attacked Captain wins the Insult Swordfight, e takes the gold from the Swordfight, but the Attacking Captain’s Army is not reduced.

If the majority of the comments for this proposal that have active FOR votes contain the words “Subrules are more better”, make the text in the blockquote a subrule of “Battles” called “Captain’s Challenge”.