Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26122855-20160303222240/@comment-26298013-20160305133027

That list is interesting....however there is one thing to note. All races could get siege equipment, and indeed would have needed some form of it. Though Elves may have only used ladders, they do NOT, in fact, defy gravity like a certain blond killing machine we may or may not have seen in a movie where he doesn't belong. Therefore, they need some method to get up and over walls.

Orcish siege engines were VASTLY superior to Gondorian machines---the Gondorian defenses that Tolkien states were on the wall could not reach the trenches of fire the Orcs were digging, while the Orcish engines, without the advantage of height, could reach at least the first level of the City.