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IC:"Scouts are reporting orcs preparing to besiege osgiliath. This may be the time for the corsairs to join the forces of mordor?" " Yes... prepare twenty battle ships find the normal crew. Arm 5000 infantery units. They shall also be on the ship. If anybody deserts cut his head of and throw him to the fishes! Head for osgiliath in the morning."

OOC: A bit longer post to show how my troops are distributed.. And Kelmdrop 10 000 is just fine with me.

IC:

---------Edoras, Commander's office--------------

"Your Highness. Scouts report that the Rohirrim are closing in fast, theyll be here after morning propably."

"Damn... hows the progress with the stuff we are building?"

"Great your highness. In edoras our engineers have managed to construct 10 primitive catapults and 5 ballistas. We just don't have materials for more, but that should be enough."

"Great.. how is it going with the stockade?"

"Complete. Touhg it isn't anything too great only little over tree meter's high, but it blocks the whole Harrowdale. We even built a nice little gate in the middle of it. And also a smaller "gate" for snowbourne to flow through."

"Good.. this is as good as it can get. Also get me a list of our troops and theyre locations."

"Here your highness.":

IN Edoras:


Army Headquarters:

Commander : Prince Taras of Rhun

Suppy Officer: Colonel Mindas
Operation Officer: Colonel Dahas
Command officer: General Mausir

HQ Company (200 light infantry)
1st Batallion Rhunion Guard's (600 elite heavy infantry)
1st Company Rhunion Horse Guard's (200 elite heavy cavalry)

1st Division of Rhun (Commanded by general Alcyon) (5400 men)

1st Batallion Royal Foot Guard's (600 crack heavy infantry)
1st Infantry Brigade (1200 veteran heavy infantry)
2nd Infantry Brigade (1200 veteran heavy infantry)
1st Brigade of Rhunion (1200 green heavy infantry)
2nd Brigade of Rhunion (1200 green heavy infantry)


3rd Division of Rhun (Commanded by general Farik) (4200 men)

1st Border Batallion (600 crack light infantry)
1st Volunteer Brigade (1200 elite mixed)
2nd Volunteer Brigade (1200 veteran mixed)
1st Light Brigade (1200 veteran light infantry)

IN Harrowdale:


2nd Division of Rhun (commanded by General Ausir) (5400 men)

2nd Batallion Royal Foot Guard's (600 elite heavy infantry)
3rd Infantry Brigade (1200 heavy infantry)
4th Infantry Brigade (1200 Heavy infantry)
2nd Light Brigade (1200 light infantry)
3rd Light Brigade (1200 green light infantry)

1st Division of Variags (Commanded by King Wadaran) (4200 men)

Khand Guard Batallion (600 veteran heavy infantry)
1st Brigade of Khand (1200 veteran light infantry)
2nd Brigade of Khand (1200 green light infantry)
3rd Brigade of Khand (800 light infantry) (In Dunharg)


1st Cavalry Division (Commanded by general Sharik) (6600 men)

1st Company of Royal Knight's (200 crack heavy cavalry)
1st Royal Horse Guard's (600 elite heavy cavalry)
1st Variag Cavalry (1200 elite light cavalry)
2nd Variag Cavalry (1200 green light cavalry)
1st Cavalry Brigade (1200 veteran heavy cavalry)
2nd Cavalry Brigade (1200 heavy cavalry)
1st Light Cavalry (1000 veteran light cavalry )


"Well thanks for this. Makes me glad to see we have this many troops left."

"Your highness, messenger from Mordor has arrived. Theyre finally beginning this war. Tehyre sending somewhat 10 000 orcs to help us. They will arrive within a couple of days."

"Good.. so we have to hold out until they get here, and then beat the dwarves and rohirrim..."

ooc. don't really know how to do this, but in this post the Chief Nazgûl is having a conversasion with Sauron.

Sauron:"The corsairs are ready and send 5000 men and 20 ships to Osgilliath. Attack now to prepare for the assault on Minas Tirith. Cross the river quick and once you've established a beachhead over the river, send the Olog-Hai over the river. (for the ones who don't know, Olog-Hai are very large troll-like creatures who can stand the sunlight :eek: I think the trolls who storm through Minas Tirith gate in the movie are Olog-Hai)"
Chief Nazgûl:"Yes my lord."
Sauron:"Move now quickly to Osgilliath to lead the attack. And let the other 8 join you."
Chief Nazgûl:"Yes, my lord."

As quick as possible the Chief Nazgûl mounts his fell beast and moves towards Osgilliath. Soon his companions join him and with a high pitched scream, they swoop down on Osgilliath. The Orks over prepared bridges and boats. The attack has begun........

The Company of Elves rode in their group.

They were all expert riders, nearly on par with the horsemen of Rohan, as there had been no horses in the sacred wood for many years some had not ridden for decades.

However for the immortal Elves skills were not lost easily, and they rode practising fighting with bow and sword from horseback, their fair banners stretched in the wind as they rode.



OOC: Ready and waiting for the fight. We might have to build some rudimetry siege equipment, eg battering ram no??

OOC: yeah seage weapons would be good. i dont know to much about the corsairs when they have taken out 5k units how many more would they be capabel off mustering?

OOC: Umm well if youre playing only the corsairs, i would think its not too much. Maybe 10 000? And that be the total force, as i believe you wouldn't send out all your troops. However Haradrim has way more troops, im not sure if youre just playing Umbar or both Umbar and Haradrim?

I dont think easterlings have cavalry as Rhun is a desert land (or haradrim i cant remember..)

The Army of Rhun is never really described by Tolkien. I think he mentions some axemen, but it's not unreasonably for them to have cavalry, especially in a desert environment, which would be conducive to nomadic behavior.

Rhûn wasn't a desert, but it was a plain. I can imagine they were a sort of Mongol like tribal society. The axemen were from Khand, thats sure.

OOC: Well its true that tolkien never really described Rhun, or it's army too precicely. But in my Rhun, there is "more civilized" settlement's on east shores of lake Rhun. However they are only small part of Rhun, and the rest are nomad's living in rather small tribes on the plains. These nomad tribes have been united by the King of Rhun. Mainly you could divide it so, that most of my army's heavy infantry and some heavy cavalry are recruited from the "civilised" areas, and light infantry and most of cavalry are from the nomadic tribes. Anyways in my imagination Rhun has always been strong on cavalry.

OOC: Right, I always kind of imagined Rhun as the Russian steppes, Occasional cities that grew up around trading posts, but mainly plains.

OOC: well i think im just umbar
IC: The black sails were raised and the ligth infantery entered the front ships the bowmen and heavy infantery holded the back ships. A deep voice:"Get moving you filthy sea rats we have to be at Osgilath by nigthfall!" "Why do we have to figth for those mordor orcs? Theyd never help us!" "Yeah!" Another guy yells. Captain Fallar drew his sword. It was a gondorian longsword it matched the rest of his gondorian armor. He used to be a gondorian Captain but he betraied them and took with him a bataljon of fine gondorian citadel guards. He slashed himself throug the mens throats. He stood there in rage before he screamed "Is there anyone else!?" The crew was as silent as the grave." Then we head for osgiliath!"

OOC: Just remember that South Gondors fleet is holding the mouth of Anduin and area around Tol Falas.

Osgilliath, Ancalagon is driving the orcs over the river.

"Move you little scum! Move and taste men flesh!!!!"

He walks to the chief Nazgûl, who has landed in an open space in Eastern Osgilliath.

"We have western Osgilliath, my lord. Some 24000 men are on the other side."
"Another 16000 will come tonight. Now prepare some defences in case they counterattack"
"Yes my lord."

The Nazgûl takes of again to join the others. Five will go to Minas Tirith to terror the population, four will go to the mouths of the anduin to support the corsairs.

"captain our scouts have reported that the gondorians holds the mouth of Anduin." "Wait till nogthfall then we will sail silently to their boats and do a raid." "Yes sir ill prepare the men!"

Captain Hallas Ecthelion stared into the dark. Lanters had been hung out over the blockade of 15 war galleys. Suddenly he froze. What was that? Was he just hearing things? He strained his eyes. There was a great black hole in the night nearby.
"Battle Stations!" he shouted. More lanterns were uncovered, revealing the Corsair ships trying to slip between the Swan prowed ships. The marines went into action straight away. Balistas were swung round to open fire with flaming bolts. Archers fired flaming arrows and ships swung round to ram the enemy.

OOC:Who was Gondor?? And they would have to fight for the Western bank and Western osgilieth wouldnt they???????

Slap me if ive missed a post :P.

IC:The black ships were getting close when Captain Hallas opened fire on them. The soldiers quickly put out the fire when another one started. The men had lost their hopes. But then the rain started and exstingquish . Captain Fallar took controll "Fire!" the Captain screamed. A cloud of arrows was fired against the blockade. That cloud was quickly returned. "Fire on the flagship!" Every man with a bow, crossbow eny thing that could fire an arrow fired on teh flagship. As the dark clud of arrows hit the flagship. Fallar: "Set speed! we cant win if we dont bord their ships quickly." Many men died dfrom arrows when the ship were sailing straigth towards the blockade. "Fire at will!" was captain Fallars last order before he and his citadel guards borded the blockade. The battle had begun

OOC: Sorry for the rain thing but i just thougt it would be stupid if we just burned eachother ships down adn lost all our men

ooc. I got no idea who's Gondor, but even so, their practicly outnumbered, but if a Gondor shows up, and he makes a fuzz about it, I'll rewrite the post.

OOC: Rain? You can't control the weather!

OOC: Its me kelmdorp, the forums are being a weeeeeee bit lame right now and i cant log in as Kelmdorp. So, im my buddys file. Yeah.


Ic : As the host reached the top of small hill dawn began to break out over Rohan. Eomer rode up to the front, Celebran and the Swan knights next to him. "Edoras. I never knew she could be so beautiful. Puting his hand on Celebran's shoulder he said " I am honored to fight along side you. When this is over, maybe you can vist rohan in better days." Eomer reached for a Horn at his side and blew a note. Answering notes roared in the darkness. The host of Rohan rode up to eomer and jutted their spears towards the oncoming battle. "Soon, very soon i shall have my vengance." Eomer turned back towards the host, and rode to where he could hit the spears of the front with his sword. Bashing his sword on their weapons he shouted the war speech of the king. "Arise! Arise riders of Theoden! Fell deeds await: fire and shaughter! Spears shall be shaken, sheild shall be splintered! A sword day! A Red day, ere the sun rise's! Ride now! Ride Now! Ride for ruin and worlds ending! Turning again to face the host he shouted "Death!" the rohirrim shouted in turn "Death!" "Forth, Eorlingas!" and with that, the horns of host sounded again, and they charged towards edoras.

yeah isnt weather control on your behalf God moding? And saying that you dont want ships being burned down is pretty rediculous. Greek war galleys used a early form of naplam, and in naval battles before the discovery of gunpowder it was easier to burn a ship down then blow it apart with catapults or whatnot. Fire attacks and marine on ship action was the way to do it back then Eckhlon.

OOC: A couple of points. Gondor did say that he was still watching it out on the bacground and waiting for actiion a couple of pages ago, just cant remember his nick..

About naval battles: Everything Kelmdrop just said is true, and you really can't control weather. Other point is that your navy(if you are using youre whole navy) should outnumber that blockade very easily, since it's only a part of South Gondors fleet wich should be outnumbered by Corsairs fleet.

OOC: I said I had a 15 ship blockade. He sent 20 against me. Still waiting for a post not involving rain. Gondor is Tomzilla. Someone TG him.

IC: With the blowing of the horns, they sprang forth, formed, quickened to a gallop and charged with a great shout. Formost, with Eomer and his knights went the Swan Knights of Dol Amroth, with Celebran at their head.
"Amroth for Rohan!" the cried, "Amroth for Edoras!"
The lances of the Knights fell level as one. Amidst the vast host in the green livery of Rohan the Knights shone like the sun in their burnished armor. The swan fether plumes of their helmets flew in the wind and the blue pennants on their lances stood straight as their grey steeds thundered down toward the enemy.

OOC: Okay new one
IC: Captain Fallar stood in the front of the ship prepared to board when he heard the sound of bows from the blockade. A cloud of fire arrows rained dow on his ships.A ship went down in full flames ."Prepare the fire arrows!".
"Return fire!" The cloud was returned. The crew started turning the ships around to flee. "Keep going! storm the ships!" The ships went against the arrows

Hallas waited for the Corsairs to come closer and commanded the fire ships to open fire. The long tubes projecting from the bows spewed liquid fire at the enemy ships. Archers sitting among the rigging continued to rain arrows down on the enemy ships. Meanwhile, the marines armed themselves and prepared to face the enemy when they came close. The balistae fired their flaming bolts into the oncomming fleet.
Just before the Corsairs came into contact, the galleys lept forward to ram the enemy. The swan prowed ships struck the Corsairs with a tremendous crash.

Edoras, Commanders office.

Prince Taras of Rhun says to his advisors:
"So.. where are the rohirrim now? As far as i see theres nothing much else we can do than wait for theyr reaction and wait for help from mordor."

His advisor replies: "Your higness, the rohirrim are closing in fast. Can't tell the precise timing but theyll be here soon. But i have other news. Our men have dug a 1-2 meters deep *cant remember word* in front of the stockade. We have built it so that it will be filled with water from snowbourne. It and the stockade together should prevent the enemy cavalry from charging down the harrowdale."

"Good to hear this, so now well just wait for the rohirrim and dwarves to come."

The tundering horses of the mark charged towards the first lines of rhun defense. Mounted archers rode ahead and shot several safts at anyone they could see. Eomer sent a signal to the elfs to join those archers in skirmish. Then he ordered the rest of the Rohirrim into battle square jsut outside of bow shot.

OOC: Slight perplexion on my part. Are we assaulting Edoras or Dunharrow?

Edoras. Dunharrow will come second

OOC: Btw. are we playing Edoras with wooden walls like in the movie or what?

IC: As soon as the rohirrim got in sight, there were alarm bells ringing all over Estholad. Men hurried to theyre posts or gathering points. By the time rohans horse archers rode closer, everything was all quiet again. Rohans horse archers still could see figures of Rhun's soldiers trying to hide on/behind the wall, and opened fire on them. For about 10 seconds the rohirrim could ride about freely, but then Rhun's archers stood up to counter and fired a cloud of arrows on the skirmishing rohirrim. Quickly they lowered again just to rise and fire again in couple of seconds. Simultaneously 10 catapults deeper in the city fired theyr whirling shots at the rohirrims main force staying further away. Some of the ammos still missed, becouse of the catapults were built in great haste. Few seconds later 5 ballistae that were stationed on the wall fired theyr huge arrows at the rohirrim further away.

OOC: wood, i didnt bring any seige weapons, so id still like to bash open the walls some how.


Ic: The achers began to break, makin haste towards the main host. Eomers troops lost a dozen or more to the fire. Eomer ordered a pull back to replan the attack.


sorry this is short, im in class.

ooc. Waiting one more day for Gondor

West of the river Anduin

Come on, maggots, move on! The white men are in an hurry to kill our allies! They won't expect us but move quick!
"Arrrr! Why don't we just turn south and attack Gondor from the North!?!"
"Probably the high ones who decided things."
Stop talking! SPare your breath for the fighting!"

Meanwhile, near the m,ouths of the Anduin. The four Nazgûl approached the naval battle, sensing ships burning. They swooped down on Gondors ships to terrorize the sailors.

The ligth infantery borderd in the same mengths as they were slayed. But as soon one was cut down another one was in his place. The citadel holded place slaugthering their way to the rudder. (sorry if its not the rigth word but a dictionary on the internet said so.) The backer ships had now came inside range for bording. A group of heavy infantry took stand at the middle of the blockade ships.

OOC: If Gondor doesnt turn up do you want me to take his/her place?? Im not going to have much to do with the Elves for the mo as they are mostly getting over the assualt on Lothlorien?? If Gondor did come back I could always hand back ovr to them??

OOC: If Gondor doesnt turn up do you want me to take his/her place?? Im not going to have much to do with the Elves for the mo as they are mostly getting over the assualt on Lothlorien?? If Gondor did come back I could always hand back ovr to them??

I don't got a problem with that, but I don't know how the others think about it. I hope I'll get a Gondor now!

I don't got a problem with that, but I don't know how the others think about it. I hope I'll get a Gondor now!

Sorry. I have been very busy lately and will not have time for this RP. Sorry 'bout that. I was Gondor.

The men of Dol Amroth stood their ground, hewing into the enemy as they leaped onto the Swan ships. Those of the archers who had the courage turned their fire on the hideous beast swooping down among them. The marines were taking losses, but so far were holding their own. The fire ships continued to pour their deadly payload into the enemy ships, now in easy range.
The armada began to pull closer together, preventing the enemy from separating them from one another. Hallas had anchored his flank just outside the mouth of the river so that they could escape if things went south. Two of the proud, Swan ships went down as they were rammed, but they others held.

OOC: Out of curiousity, are we going to account for the Grey Company?

OOC: I hope so, or else Minas Tirith could be a little screwed!

OOC2: So shall I be Gondor then??

OOC: I hope so, or else Minas Tirith could be a little screwed!

OOC2: So shall I be Gondor then??

No problemo, welcome in LOTR RP!

No problemo, welcome in LOTR RP!

OOC: Ive been the Wood Elves since this started matey :P. Just havnt had much to do though so I thought id go for Gondor if nobody else wanted it.

I can still do my limited Elf role if Helms Deep comes out of its Time Vortex.

yah..granted u ppl have covered a vast number of guys, but u forgot the Rangers of the North (Dunedain),the Army of the Dead and the Eagles..Now granted in the trilogy, all 3 participated in just one battle, so perhaps one person would control all 3.

OOC: This is going to sound angry. It's not. The army of the dead were NOT at Pelennor Fields. That was done in the movie because it was graphically stunning. In the book, the Army of the Dead helped Aragorn stop the Corsairs. When he arrived at Pelennor, it was with an army of men from the Southern Fiefdoms who had been left there to fight the Corsairs, and with the Dunedain. So the Army of the Dead would be controlled by Aragorn naturally, but if Pelennor Fields occurs, they should not make an appearance.

OOC: I have read the books. Just I like the films better (partly because ive seen them a lot more recently than i read the books, and partly because i cant see them taking down soo many oiliphants without some uber dead dudes! Hehehe cant believe one little comment got two ppl annoyed.

IC: Edoras, Prince Taras of Rhun's command post

"Your highness, the rohirrim are retreating, and we haven't seen a sight of the dwarves."

"Well good. The rohirrim surely just retreated to plan for the battle, but if the dwarves don't show up we should be able to beat up 10 000 rohirrim. After all, we are defending a city."

"Well yes your highness, i agree. Lets just hope that the dwarves don't show up. Anyways we should be able to beat them when the reinforcements from mordor arrive."

"this is not good, they have artillery! (sp?) We cant charge them now, not with their weapons....Celebran...what do you think we should do?" The rohirrim had lost several men, but where not demoralised by the loss.

"Dismount a few brigades and form them into phalanxes. Have them move in close with their shields locked above their heads as protection. Have the elves picking off their archers. The infantry can set fire to the gates. Once that is accomplished, ride in a few cavalry and throw hooks over the gate and pull them down. Then charge in an slaughter them. It's not perfect, but without siege equipment we're not going to get anywhere on horseback."

"Good, Gamling, tell the elves of our new plan. Hama, i want eight thousand of our men on foot, box formations, shield wall. Grimbold, take the remaing troops and act as our escort, then charge in when the order is said.


The Rohirrim split up into boxs, spears out front and the rear troops covering the rest with their shields. "Forward!"

The Orcs got a bit excited when they neared edoras to join battle. The ran at full speed to don't miss a bitt of the battle.

"Keep in order maggots! Melkor company, to me! KEEP IN ORDER!!!"
*cracking of whips*
"Keep in order, or I'll roll some heads!"
The orcs now ran a bit more orderly and soon, they were a bit exhausted, they slowed down and formed into proper formations.

"They are coming again. Every man to your post!" shouts were heard all over Edoras. Every man hurried to get to his proper place. Soon the catapults started firing to get a accurate aim to the rohirrim. First shots ofcourse missed quite much, but by every shot the catapult crews were getting a better aim. And as the rohirrim were packed in tight even one hit would be rather devastating. As the rohirrim got a little more closer the 5 ballistae on the walls opened fire. The walls were full of bowmen waiting for the rohirrim to get in range.

The Golden plated Elven Warriors were on the flank nearest to the arriving orcs.

Sharp Elven eyes soon spotted the dust on the horizon, and the company formed up on their mounts to protect the Rohirrum's flank.




---Meanwhile in the Throne Room of Minas Tirith---

Denethor sat at his chair looking over the battle maps. These mainly showed the river, and then the main front of the city of Osgilieth (sp i know).

With him were a Captain of the guard and Faramir, who had pulled his forces out of the city jsut before the giant orc assualt had started.

"Faramir, send a rider to Dol Amroth and call for the Southern Armies to return here. Prepare the Defences of the White City, and pull our troops back to the Pelennor wall. Instruct them to fight until their position becomes completely unattainable."

He leaned back and sighed

"Call for all men and boys to report to the armouries and draw out weapons and armour. The city must be held."

He turned to the Captain of the Guard as Faramir departed.

"What news of Rohan?"

"My Lord scouts report that Edoras is now under siege by the Rohirrum trying to retake the city. Dunharrow has fallen, and Theoden is still in some kind of time vortex at Helms Deep"

"Very Well. Send a messenger, you know what he will say."

"Yes my Lord"

OOC: Umm im not sure but it should take the orcs some mroe time to get from mordor through the undeeps of anduin to Rohan?

And Independent Hitman about Gondor, remember that you have the pelennor wall (wich isn't in the movies.). Ofcourse it will be hard to defend it against huge enemy, but i just wanted to remind you in case you want to think of something to do with it :).

ooc. Well, I've sent them away 16 RL days ago, I can't imagine that just were 2 or 3 days in game. I would rather think of about 5 in game days. The rohirrim have mounted an attack, Rhûn builded a defence meanwhile. It's quite logical that mu orcs can march that distance in 5 days.

edit: yeah, Faramir delayed the attack by one day in the books on the Pellenor wall. And don't forget the causeway forts, they can be quite a nuisance to me if used well :)

OOC: yeah forgot about them, its a long time since ive read the books. I suppose id better go dig them up. hehe. i might edit that post a little then, im assuming you guys wont mind :P

ooC: Warta Endor ok. I just didn't realize you sent them that much time ago :D.

OOC: Finally!

Imrahil sat down on the seat of polished wood, the arms shaped like swan heads. He looked down at the rider from Minas Tirith, kneeling before him... He was grizzled and rather unkempt.
"You are one of Faramir's Rangers?"
"I am my lord."
"How does my nephew?"
"Well, my lord. He holds Osgiliath against the enemy. Things are desperate. I am bidden to summon the armies of the Southern Fiefdoms."
Imrahil smiled.

Three days later the army marched out. 5,000 Knights and 6,500 infantry from Dol Amroth, Lamedon, Lebinnen, Belfalas and Pelargir. The southern forts were stripped to their minimum. They made their way up the Anduin in transports, but would land some miles south of Minas Tirith, due to the contest over Osgiliath.

---Minas Tirith Throne Room---

A messenger arrived, having riden fast and light ahead of the Southern Armies.

"My Lord, Prince Imrahil sends greetings and marches North with some 11,000 men. They will arrive to our South within a week. (timeframe gd enough?)"

"Excellent. How many Knights does he bring?"

"I am told that a host of 5,000 is being assembled."

"Good, good. It is a pleasant sound to hear good news for a change."

He returned to his maps.

"I shall to glad to have Imrahil here to advise me."

ooc. Could come there faster, the connections were very good. Probably 2 or 3 days is good enough. I got not really much time to make a decent post, I'll probably do it tomarrow.

OOC: Especially since I still hold the river and can use it for transportation. Here it is. If parts of this looks familiar, it's cause no one could put it better than Tolkien.

Citizens of Minas Tirith crowded the gates excitedly as the Host of the South approached. As the lead companies came into view they broke into cheers, crying the names of captains and fiefdoms as they marched into the city.

So the companies came and passed through the gate, men of the outlands marching to defend the City of Gondor in a dark hour. The men of Ringlo Vale behind the son of their lord, Dervroin striding on foot; From the uplands of Morthond, the great Blackroot Vale, tall Duinhir with his sons, Duilin and Derufin and a large company of expert archers; From Anfalas and Langstrand far away, a long line of men; From Lamedon, grim hillmen without a captain; Hirluin the Fair of the Green Hills from Pinnath Gelin with a company of gallant green-clad men. And last and proudest, Imrahil, Prince of Dol Amroth, kinsman of the Steward, with gilded banners bearing his token of the Ship and Silver Swan, and 5,000 Knights in full harness riding grey horses and behind them, a company of men at arms, tall as lords, grey-eyed, dark-haired, singing as they came.

Imrahil, having made the parade for the benefit of the frightened citizens, now departed from the army and rode straight to the citidal with several captains from the South. The clattered into the Fountain Court and dismounted. Imrahil knelt a moment before the White Tree, then rose and entered the Throne room.
"Hail, Steward of Gondor!" he cried as he entered.

"Imrahil. You have come, your arrival is good news indeed for the White City."

The Steward motioned him forward

"Orcs gather in Osgilieth in untold numbers. We let them come across the water front as we could not possibly defend it. Faramir and his men guard the Pelennor forts and the wall, although they do not have the manpower to hold for long if attacked by the full force of the enemy armies. We have no news from Rohan, and so it would seem that we are alone. For the moment anyway. What counsel can you offer your Steward?"

"Forward men, forward! " The Rohirrim marched through the hail of catapult fire, running forward inbetween shots to delay the Rhun troops firing. The Mounted srceen had seen the orcs, and they and the elves moved to intercept them. Now the Rohirrim where within a few hundred yards of the city, moving ever closer. Stiil, with the catapults raining chaos down on them, it would be hard.

Dain saw the orcs from afar and knew it could end in disaster for the Rohirrim, his dwarves could change the situation in favor of the free peoples and he ordered them to assault Edoras alongside the Rohirrim.
Within minutes the Dwarven host moved towards the city while Dwarven bowmen opened fire at the Rhun archers on the wall.

Edoras
Celebran saw the dwarves begin their approach and loosed a lound whoope, tossing his sword into the air and catching it. He cried to Eomer, pointing at the dwarven host moving in to charge the gates alongside the Rohirrim. He and his Knights then moved to help the Riders of Rohan with the new threat from the ocs.

Minas Tirith
Imrahil looked over the map for some time.
"I would not put too much of your strength on the Pelennor walls. One breach could prove desastrous for the entire force, but neither would I yield it or the forts unfought. Light the beacons. Even if Rohan cannot come, we must call for all the aid we can get."

Edoras:

The catapults and ballistas were still firing as fast as they were able to the rohirrim troops. As the troops got within range, all archers jumped up and fired a cloud of arrows in the dwarvish troops. After that they kept on firing steadily. Even as the dwarvish bowmen caused some casualties, the archers were rather well protected by the wall.

"Your highness! I have good news and bad news. The dwarves have arrived and have joined the battle alongside with the rohirrim. Most of rohirrim and dwarf forces are charging towards our gates, but the weird thing is that neither have any siege equipment like ladders or battering rams. Therefore we should easily hold the walls. Good news is that the orcs have finally arrived. A couple of thousand rohirrim went to intercept them."

"Damn. I should've known that those orcs don't have any tactical sense. They should've remained silent and wait until the rohirrim and dwarves are all tied up by theyre assault on Edoras, and then attack theyre back together with my troops from Harrowdale. Now this could go bad if they are able to destroy the orcs first and then change theyre target to me."

"Your Highness, what should we do?"

"Ah.. but i do not know."

"Throw down the gates" Dain yelled at his fellow dwarves.
Quickly the strongest of them moved to the front of the group and charged the gates, trying to force them open.
Once they had gotten close enough to the citywalls, the dwarves focussed on the enemyforces on the wall, a job for their throwing axes.

Glaurung, the leader of the Orcs in Rohan, quickly saw the danger of the cavalry charge.

"Pikes and spears to the front, when they're close, open ranks to let them through. We will turn and cut them down. Archers, give support! Quickly, maggots!!!"

One of the Nazgûl, wich flew high over Minas Tirith, saw the army of the south entering the city. He flew back to Osgilliath to alarm Ancalagon, the commander of the army there. By now there were about 30000 orcs and Uruks in Osgilliath. There also were 500 trolls and 50 Olog Hai in Osgilliath, for "heavy" support. The troops were currently attacking the Pelenor walls with siege engines and battering rams.

"The beacons were lit when the Southern Armies were called, although the host of Rohan is in battle with the armies of Rhun and we can expect little aid from them in the near future."

"With regards to the Pelennor forts I agree, the men there have orders to hold until their positions become unattainable, and I have a Company of Knights awaiting to escort them back to the city walls. Civilians are being moved to the third level and up from there, and the first two will be entirely for troops to ease their movement if siege is brought to bear on us."

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Edoras, Commanders post:

"Your highness, The Dwarves have managed to advance to our walls despite our heavy archer and catapultfire. Now a large force of them is swarming in front of the gate. We get strange reports that some strong looking dwarves are trying to bash themselfs at the gates to open them. However they seem to have no succes becouse of the addition's our engineer's have made to the gates."

"Good enough. I hope the orcs can survive the cavalrycharge from rohirrim. If that is the case then we can win this battle rather easily, as our mainforce is still in Harrowdale. However for now send the 1st batallion of Royal Foot Guards (600 crack heavy infantry) to hold position behind the gates in case they somehow get to open the gates.Also arm them with spears in case they try to cavalrycharge in."

"Aye your highness."

---Edoras, The Gates-------

The situation at the gates was rather chaotic. On the walls many Rhun's soldiers were dead from the arrows and throwing axes, but as one man died, his corpse was pulled back and another man climbed to the wall. Rhun had still many reserves. Outside the gates were the dwarves throwing theyre axes at the men on wall, and some dwarves still trying to bash themseves at the gates without succes. However at them was aimed an constant rain of throwing spears, small rocks and arrows from the wall. If the dwarves could see through the gates they could see the 600 strong Royal Foot Guard's Batallion form a phalanx with theyr long spears right behind the gates. In case the gates were torn down, the attacker's would have to run through a wall of spears to get to the enemy.

"Hear me now men of Rohan! Our Allies have come! Mantain order , now charge the gates! Burn them down! The host charged forward, rushing the wall and gates to held their dwarven allies. The Rohirrim Reach the dwarves, and began to fire arrows to aid them. The rohirrim took many loss's from catapults and balistas, but this was their city, they would not stop.


As the mounted host charged towards the orcs, the front rank threw their javelins into the horde, then wheeled around. The second rank comprised of The mounted archers fired two volleys into the mass, then wheeled again. The final rank charged forward with enlonggated spears of the royal guard. With the other lines behind them, they rushed the orcs.

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The dwarves suffered casualties but their army was still great. They focused on breaching the gates with their axes, under the cover of the Rohirrim archers that would be feasable.
Through the gates Thorin saw the heavily armed Rhun guards with their spears, but he did not fear them. He made his way to Dain to consult him
"How will we get past those spearmen?"
Dain had the answer ready "Once the gates are thrown down, the attack will be spearheaded by the Khazad Guard. I will lead them myself"
The Khazad Guard slowly made its way through the Dwarven ranks and prepared for the attack. These warriors were handpicked from the strongest and best of the Dwarfwarriors, each wore a terrifying mask. They were armed with the best weapons and protected by the finest armor available. If these veterans couldnt do it, then none could.

When the riders were in range the archers opened fire. The orcs were nervous as Glaurung screamed:
"Remember my orders you maggots! OPEN RANKS WHEN THEY ARE CLOSE!!!"
The orcs tried to execute the orders as told, but some didn't manage to open the ranks and were run down. The orcs hacked and slashed at the passing riders as the archers fired on the new oncoming ranks of riders.

Meanwhile, teh Eye was restless and unsure

Troops of the south reinforce Minas Tirith and the Ramas Echor still holds. *The eye swerves to Rohan* Ahhh, the peasants resist fiercly and the dwarves fight like devils. Fool of a Glaurung! He had to keep secrecy! If he survives he will pay for that! But the dwarves...*Eye swerves northward towards Erebor* Their strength in Rohan is great, their lands in the north must be weakened. If I mount an attack on the Lonely Mountain, it will fall. If I can tempt on of the dragons of the north to help in an attack, the dwarves and Thranduil's will perish and the road to Imlandris and Lorien is open. But Gondor still holds. Lets see *The eye swerves back to Gondor* I got 30000 orcs in Osgilliath and the Ramas Echor, 12000 in Rohan and I mustn't forsake Mordor which must be defended with about 35000 orcs. If I can assemble a force of 8000 Uruk-Hai, let the orcs from the Grey mountains and the Misty mountains attack from the north and west, it could be the end of Dwarves and Elves in the north! I must also reinforce the assault on Gondor. I will send 7500 orcs now and another 10000 later on. If my plan works...

The Royal guard of Rohan ripped into the orcs, hewing down many. The orcs mowed down many, but in turn where struck down. As the Royal guard stopped in the middle of the orcs, they began to wheel around hacking in all direction with their long swords. The Second rank smashed into the orc mass, and used they same tatic. The third rank skirmished with the orcs then charged into them.

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The rohirrim began to smash at the gates as well, and also used spears to to stab at the rhun men on the walls.

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Edoras, the Gates------------

As the rohirrim and dwarves were trying to break through the gates, right inside them was a group of Rhun's engineers trying to reinforce and barricade the gates so that they would hold out for longer. Lucky enough for them that even as the walls were wooden, they were well built and from strong wood. Still it seemed impossible to hold the gates together for much longer. But behind the engineer's stood the 600 men of Rhun's Royal Guard in phalanx formation with theyre long spears and large shields, and swords hanging on theyre sides, blocking off the entire gate. No matter how tough warriors the dwarves and rohirrim be, it would be hard to break through this kind of defense.

The wall top's were still full of Rhun's men hurling javelin's, stones and arrows at the troop's swarming in front of the walls. Now as the rohirrim archer's joined the combat against them they were starting to suffer some real losses, however the rohirrim spears that were trying to stab the men on the wall were quickly cut of theyre tips. However keeping the wall's full of men was starting to drain Rhun's reserves, and the question was would they have enough troops left to block the assault when the gates would be torn down.

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"ARGH!!! SPEAR THEM, YOU MAGGOTS! SPEAR THEM!!! Move in to make their moving space smaller!!!"

The orcs quickly moved closer, but with heavy casualties. Luckely their numbers were great (12000 total in the begining, with now some 1500 dead). The Uruk guard, heavily armoured and 750 strong, moved in now. They wre armed with shields, long swords, pikes, bows (200) and crossbows (50). when the crossbow men were close, they started firing. Due to their great power they pierced the though armour of the Royal guard, but because the space was cramped they also had some "friendly fire" accidents. The battle continued...

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One of the Greatest Royal Guard, Eeodien was making quite the mess of all the orcs around him. He had killed at least two dozen allready, and now used his massive long sword to cleave and smash his way into the orcs around him. As he tore another orc apart, a crossbow bolt ripped into him. Turning around he destroyed the orc that shot him, only to shot five more times. Falling to the ground he saw his men battling around him. "The Glory will be eternal. " and with that he died.


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At The gates


Several of the rohirrim ran up to the gates, and began to chop massive holes into them. Using their greeat axes they pounded the gate along side the dwarves.

Celebran cursed as he saw the assault on the gate begin to falter. He gathered his knights and road back to the camp. The quickly gathered torches, and gallopped back toward the battle.
As they neared, the dismounted and sent their horses back toward their own lines. Holding their shields above them, the Knights made their way to the gate and knelt beneath the shield roof. Celebran quickly drew a flint stone from a pouch in his belt and struck it against his sword to kindle the pitch that had been soaked on the torches.
"Burn it!" he cried and his Knights began to heap the flaming brands against the base of the gate.

"Hack them, you filth! ARGH! Guards, follow me!!! Lets kill the white haired bastards!"
The Uruk guards now pressed their attack on the Royal guard, motivating other orcs to renew the attack. They fought ferociously, tiring the riders and bringing down many, but at a great cost. Meanwhile, in Osgilliath, the forces were reinforced with another 15000 orcs, bringing the total to 45000 orcs. Almost all the forces were now attacking the wall. The Nazgûl swooped down and attacked anyone who tried to retreat and two Nazgûl even swooped down on the walls, terrorrizing the defenders.

OOC: Whats happening with regards to the fellowship? I mean do i still have Boromir or is it assumed he died at Amon Hen?? IC Post in a few mins, just eating.

OOC: Well this is just my opinion, but i think that fellowship didn't exist, so boromir would still be in gondor. Ofcourse that is still up to you good guys, and i as a baddy cannot decide it.

IC: Edoras, commander's post.

In his post Prinse Taras of Rhun and his Advisor's were watching as the gate slowly cought fire, and soon was in full flames.

Taras: "Shit. The gate is soon down. What troop's do we still have in reserve?"

Advisor: "On the walls we have 2nd Volunteer brigade, 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st and 2nd Rhunion brigades and the remnant's of the abdly suffered 1st ligth brigade. However these troop's are in very little danger and need to reserves other than theyr own, so we can use all our remaining troop's to defend the gate and inner city.

Ready to move we have the heavy 1st Infantry brigade and the elite light infantry of 1st border batallion and 1st volunteer brigade. In addition to that we have the 1st Royal Guard batallino right behind the gates, and the HQ's reserves."

Taras:"Ok. We should be able to make it. Pull the 2nd Infantry down from the wall's and let the other unit's spread theyre lines, as the only part of wall under attack is the gate. The 1st Royal foot guard's will keep the gate as long as possible. If theyre overrun well let them deeper into the city, but not too far. When they've got hold of the gate and before they can advance to the wall's or deeper into the city we throw all our troop's to combat and hope to keep them still so long that King Wudaran is able to proceed with the plan.Now the rest is just up to the soldier's"

Advisor: "Aye. Also it is possible that we can get help from the orcs, it seems that the rohirrim propably left too few men to fight them."

Soon after this conversation was held the gates fell burning down. The road to the city was open. Directly after the gates fell, a loud sound of horn's was heard from Edoras. As King Wudaran and his men heard it in Harrowdale, he passed on the order.

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"Men of Rohan, Dwarves of the mountains! The gates are down! Charge! The Rohirrim in front of force charged in, only to be met by a unit of rhun troops, with long spears. "Box formation! Achers in the core, pikes allround!" rohirrim axe men charged up the stairs nearest to wall, and began to fight their way up them.

Glaurung saw that the gate was breached. The riders who attacked them were completly surrounded by now and many littered the floor. The orcs had also paid high for this. Some 4500 lay dead but the orcs kept attacking.

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Bump!!! Come On People!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OOC: Sorry forgot about this thread!!

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As the rohirrim smashed into the rhun troops they fought with a unheard of fury. Rhun trooper and Rohan soldier smashed and battled their way into the city. Rhun fought hard, rohan harder. Each time a rhun trooper was felled, one would take his place. same with the rohirrim. The battle for the walls was bloody and fearsome fight, with axe men hewing their way to the walls above the spear men of rohan.

bump, please don't let this thread die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will be posting as Gondor tomorrow evening, cant until then sorry.

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Sry i was on vacation for a week. Too bad this rp seems dead, i really liked it. Lets just try one last time:

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dead...:( we could try again, in a new thread.

Yeah i would go for that, alto preferably not start until the weekend.

I'm still here. I just think we died when Helm's Deep bogged down. I'm up for restarting. I'll watch for it, but I'd appreciate a TG when it starts again.

OK, I'll start a new thread saturday.