Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25981649-20170810161238/@comment-25012056-20170816114330

KingTotalWar wrote: While Isengard was a powerful military state, it was also a very young one, barely lasting the extent of two books (which took place over the span of just a few months) Isengard, though ransacking and slaughtering large swaths of land, wouldn't have many semi-permanent structures such as forts. Simply because they wouldn't have had the time to contsruct them.

Take the German blitzkrieg for instance, moves hard and fast, that's mainly what isengard did because they were trying to reach specific objectives. They weren't stopping along the way to construct bases, they were pumping out an army and sending it to waylay Rohan.

Even before that, the main forces of Isengard wouldn't be deployed across the lands because Saruman was trying to hide his armies from the forces of good. Setting up forts far from home doesn't help with subterfuge. Nan Curunir could certainly do some with some decent structures, however that should be the extent of it. The highlands wouldn't really even exist until Saruman deployed his armies to invade Rohan, so they certainly wouldn't have had a presence there long enough to build any form of major structures.

Except this is a game. Factions cannot function properly that way.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 11:43, August 16, 2017 (UTC)