Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26149161-20150701162024/@comment-26149161-20150702131053

This occurs on a plain. It is just a huge battle. Personally, here is how I think it would go down.

The ranger forces skirmish for a while. The Arnor rangers are equal to the Araluens, who are better than Ithilien. Both sides lose many, but the ME rangers can spare the losses. The heavy Araluen cav charges foreward, attemting to use the Hammerblows strategy. Hollow Steel Marksmen rip up some of the wedges, focusing on one formation at a time. The reduced knights are met by Arnor Pikesmen, backed up by a Arnorian Thangail. The 120 pound minimum ME longbow draw weight outshoots the smaller Araluen bows. The Araluen Archers have to move up to attack, and take losses. They fire at the Gondorian force, causing many deaths among the Rangers of Ithilien and a few among the plated soldiers.

Next, the Arnor and Gondor swordsmen and Gondorian spearmen surge foreward in a dirnaith. The mailed men of Araluen are no match for the towering Numenoreans, revealed in all their wrath. Araluen Archers slay a few of the Dunedain, but not enough. The Araluens win local victories agains the mailed provincial soldiers of Gondor, but they are faltering. Luckily, a Skandian shieldwall holds back the tide of ME soldiers, with the ranger company flanking the Gondorians and aiming for chinks in their armor. The Numenoreans pull back. As said in the books, a Kikori tortoise (what the Skandians are using) is no makch against pikes. Fountain Guard and Arnor Pikesmen advance and hold back the Skandians and remaining Araluen knights. Rangers of Arnor engage the Rangers and slay most of them, though they get as good as they give. Gondorian and Hollow Steel bowmen engage the Araluen Archers, who still outnumber them. The majority of the Gondor and Araluen arrows ping off the armor of their foe, but the Hollow Steel arrows kill with every shot.

The Skandian Berserkers charge foreward, engaging the Fountain Guard and Arnor Swordsmen while the other RA soldiers retreat. It seems like an even fight, until the Hollow Steel Bowman start shooting over their men's heads and into the Skandians. The screaming, red-eyed northmen go down against the elite of the Men of the West in Feathered Mithril helms. They fight to the death, slaying many Fountain guardsmen, but not enough. The archers pick off the remainder of the fleeing Araluens ans Skandians.

Arnor Losses: 200 Pikemen, 800 Swordsmen, 150 Rangers, 30 Hollow Steel Marksmen. 3820 remain.

Gondor Losses: 25 Fountain Guard, 900 Swordsmen, 1000 Spearmen, 50 Archers, 400 Provincial Troops, 100 Rangers. 2925 remain.

Araluen Losses: 3500 Archers, 2700 Swordsmen, 1900 Knights, 35 Rangers. 885 remain.

Skandian Losses: 4500 raiders, 3000 Berserkers. 500 remain.