The Icatian army easily repelled early surprise attacks by the Orcs on border towns like Montford.

Fallen Empires

Icatian Infantry

o1: Bands until end of turn
o1: First strike until end of turn

{1}: Icatian Infantry gains first strike until end of turn.
{1}: Icatian Infantry gains banding until end of turn. (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Although they had long been concerned about the Order of the Ebon Hand, the Icatians faced an even greater threat from Goblin and Orcish raiders.

"Valiant Icatia was the last of the Sarpadian empires to fall. Its faithful soldiers defended their cities to the very end."
—*Sarpadian Empires, vol. VI*

"Never Surrender"
—Motto carved into a fragment of an Icatian wall