Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26813300-20151201020655/@comment-26444332-20151204033813

I have a war story... The battle for the Vales. This took place a few months back, on the Awakening server.

The sides were set. Gundabad, Mordor, Angmar, and Dôl Guldur had decided to try and overrun the Vales of Anduin to cut off Moria's eastern supply lines. Standing against them was a coalition of Dwarves, Elves, and the Rohirrim. Ten players to a side, with Evil bringing more troops to this faction-armored confrontation. Non lead evil, but on the side of good there were commanders, royal warriors all. In overall command was Thorin Stonehelm, with Faenor the wanderer as his tactical advisor. When the battle began Evil had the upper hand, Black Uruks and Olog-hai braking through the thin barrier of Good's front line.

Then a hail of arrows came upon them from both sides, Faenor bringing many Elves of the Woodland Realm and Lóriën to the fight. He himself, being a wanderer and factionless at the time, was armed with unhelmed and unensorcelled Mithril, as well as the trusty blade Ringil and the elder bow Rhîwrûth.

There he slew four of the ten Evil players, and fully half their forces, coming upon them unawares and from behind as he had advised Thorin. In the end Thorin and Faenor together crushed the enemy, meeting in the midst of battle and scattering the most powerful leaders of the enemy. Both nearly died when an enemy loosed a Warg Bombardier pack on them, but Faenor shot them down before they could come close enough to active the Fires of Orthanc they bore. With that the battle came to a close, the two surviving Evil players scattering with what remained of their shattered forces, amounting to three Black Uruks and a single Olog-hai, later slain by Faenor as the enemy player had forgotten to turn their location off like some noob fresh out of Single Player.

And with that ended the battle for the vales of Anduin, the war later culminating in the battle for Edoras and the second Dagor Dagorlad.