A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words (Or, Exactly Fifty): Don't Count Grandpa's Army Out

Image by Hive account@wakeupkitty, used for the purpose of responding to this Freewriters Initiative

What I see: an old king and his old army, going forth to war in medieval times ... and, they probably aren't coming back because the ravens are already circling.

What I feel: It has to be an emergency, and the thing is, if these men know they have no chance of coming back, then there's also a chance that they will fight to the death harder than their opponents.

Old King Mark chose the day of his death, with his old guard.
A plague had killed his standing army, but there was still one chance.
“We shall soon die either way – but now, for our grandchildren!”
No surrender, no retreat, no defeat – to the death, they conquered!