Board Thread:Forum Roleplays/@comment-26210095-20150624141404/@comment-25975584-20150630124414

Elestan Larcalaite wrote: Eureka Enderborn wrote: Why would you ever do such a thing? That would, no offense, be a rather poor move. Engaging in a costly war with a heavily entrenched enemy to save a people both A: nearly dead to begin with and B: you never had good relationships with anyway. The enemy is more numerous then you and fortified. What you are doing makes no sense.

Furthermore, by the time this army gathered and actually made it all the way to Umbar, it would have already fallen. So what you did was unlikely in many ways. A: They wouldnt be nearly dead, Umbar is a huge city port, which would almost definitely have enough supplies, B: I was neutral with them and this would've made our relationship quite friendly and could've got me much trade and wealth or I could seize control over this very popular harbour. Also, I had knowing of this great siege and campaign to conquer Umbar just a week or so after it started, so I had much time to gather an army and travel there. The Tauredain forces are in very good co-ordination thanks to the system that Varan's father had employed in his kingdom.

There were about 25,000 Tauredain, they landed at the southern border of the fertile land after some stealth units worked inwards and took care of comunications, so that the southern defenses couldnt contact the rest and the stealth units also assasinated many generals and leaders when the attack forces arrived in ships, so the resisting army would be in chaos and would be relatively easy to take care of, as you couldnt've had more a quarter the amount of my troops in only about a 15 km radius. The resistance would be destroyed there and, using inside assasins, the army could make its way secretly through the land without the main northern forces of orcs and dwarves knowinganything of it. So, you see, this attack is very well co-ordinated and makes much sense. Tauredain are tribal savages, against dwarves... To put it mildly it would be a massacre.