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Old 09-01-2004, 05:03 AM   #1
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Alright, obviously there is onle 1 week left in the game (or a little more). I should be fully available for this week. I do suggest that we should skip to the next important day. Remember, on Battle's Eve, Thrakmazh and Herding are still going to try and overthrow Cenbryt, so that should been done before the actual battle. What day should we fast-forward to, then? It is just my personal opinion that we don't really have time to post for each of the three-four 'racing' days.

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Old 09-01-2004, 05:13 AM   #2
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My thoughts were that we could scan over the next few days with a general post and bring them to the eve of battle or something. Fordim's idea could work, since that would get us to the end quicker.
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Old 09-01-2004, 09:26 AM   #3
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For the sake of the game's very title, I think it would be more fitting for the battle to be carried out on Lorien turf - and also, it would allow some old feuds to be faced (Fordim, didn't you say Ambarturion would like one last shot at Thrakmazh? ). But if you look on the map, just so we're all on the same ground here: say the main force is crossing the Anduin, say, four squares South of the word 'Galadhon', and the special force is sneaking in, say, at the brown square (guessing this is the bridge - I am using this map because I have mislaid my LotR). Where would you suggest the forces meet?

A thought: if we come to the point where the forces are splitting- Koran and his group have just been dismissed to head North and cross, while the main force is struggling to get those pesky trolls across. The trolls are wading across, stuck in the water and very bad tempered, and the smaller group of Easterlings are not far away from the main force - when the elves strike the special force in a lightning attack. They are caught relatively unaware, the elves having been subtle, and the easterlings distracted by the chaos in the Anduin, and battle ensues. The elves have managed to pick up a few more of the other scouts from around the Mirkwood borders, but their numbers are still small.

Herding maybe holds back on the main force, saying they need to get the trolls across, ignore the small force, it is a small sacrifice etc - while secretly thinking this is a very clean way to kill off Koran - when the second force of elves arrives, from Lorien, archers taking out one of the trolls and some orcs from the trees across the Anduin. The rest attack, and so a full scale battle ensues - giving everyone a fair chance to have a good brawl and hold their own against whomsoever they wish to fight - and some debts can be repaid.

Does this work? It is only a bit more than an elaboration, I suppose, but just so's we're on the same track and all.
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Old 09-01-2004, 02:41 PM   #4
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Ok, to keep things moving here, because I need to make a post anyway, and because three people have said the same sort of plan works, I shall post the start of the landslide, so to speak - I shall make a post from Koran's point of view, about trying to cross the Anduin, and the special force splitting off. I will give an inkling of the elves, but not bring them in, in case anyone objects to the current plan as it lies.
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