Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26486187-20160909065732/@comment-25841881-20160910163412

Catfishperson wrote: Recneps wrote: Nah.. Elves are archers. In a siege, which many of the battles in LotR are, then good archers are quite useful.. And the longevity, dain, is why I said 15 elves and a couple buckets of arrows. And also, catfish, I think zombie and I were both thinking of a siege scenario, like Helm's Deep, where the Dwarf and Elf came in direct competition. Even so, the elves would be outnumbered more then thirty to one. Orcs can use bows to, and although not nearly as well as elves, when you outnumber your enemy thirty to one, you don't really need to... .. You're forgetting about things called fortifications. You don't really need to be better than your enemy when you have a spot to hide, and a huge height advantage. And they are better, still.. Also, I'm not just going by my awkward logic for the battle. I'm using what actually happened in the book. Legolas killed a large amount of Orcs at the battle of the Hornburg, and would've killed quite a few more if he hadn't run out of arrows.