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Old 04-25-2005, 09:52 AM   #17
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Siege Weapons against a horse charge...I don't think that would work too well. The accuracy would be greatly diminished and the rate of fire is too slow. If the Orcs had sufficient time and warning they could have dug ditches with pikes to slow them down and in the meantime taken out more of them with arrows. However that would require knowledge of the riders charging and from which direction they are coming both large problems but if they were truly prepared they would have taken the threat of the horsemen into their councils.

It just came to my mind of another possibility derived from the mumakil attack in the movie. If you were able to string some heavy gauged barbed wire that wouldn't give and break and the first onset would really slow them down...again problems are there but it's a possibility as well.
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