Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-43783253-20200113174146/@comment-73.16.57.44-20200114002310

Honestly I don't think there is that much he could of done to win. His plan was pretty sound-proof, where send his armies to attack Minas Tirith with the help of Near Harad and the Corsairs of Umbar. At the same time he sent easterlings and more orcs to capture erabor and work there way down while the attack of Minas Tirith was happening. The big problem was he didn't acount for the resiliance of two to three people. He didn't expect Aragorn face the fact he was king and would bring an army of the dead. He also didn't excpect that the dwarves and the men of dale at erabor would fend of the attack (although if he lost this battle it wouldn't make much of a difference for his conquest if he still captured minas tirith). And since his ring has so much influence over people he knew nobody would be able to willingly cast it into the fire, even Frodo or Sam (In this sense he was right, Frodo couldn't give it up, the only reason it fell is he didnt' want gollum to have it.) So if you really think about it there was nothing Sauron could do to win because all of his losses were caused by random flukes that you couldn't predict, and also partially because of the resilance of man and hobbit, he probably wouldn't have been able to break their resilance no matter what he did.