The War Engines are swift to come into action, bringing buildings around the levelled area crashing down. All sighted enemies are swiftly turned into pincushions by Orc Archers.
The Orcs cannot locate which buildings the Rangers are in because it's fairly hard to see where an unknown arrow is coming from. The other Rangers are hiding behind piles of rubble that the trebuchets can't accurately hit. Any buildings that are hit collapse, but only a few Rangers are in them.
OOC: You really think that Orcs have enough accuracy to hit trained stealth troops hiding behind piles of rock? If each of your archers are Orcish Legolas clones, they need to be worth more.
The War Engines are swift to come into action, bringing buildings around the levelled area crashing down. All sighted enemies are swiftly turned into pincushions by Orc Archers.
The Orcs cannot locate which buildings the Rangers are in because it's fairly hard to see where an unknown arrow is coming from. The other Rangers are hiding behind piles of rubble that the trebuchets can't accurately hit. Any buildings that are hit collapse, but only a few Rangers are in them.
OOC: You really think that Orcs have enough accuracy to hit trained stealth troops hiding behind piles of rock? If each of your archers are Orcish Legolas clones, they need to be worth more.
Also, I finished answering the questions.
OOC: They can raise the alarm that they're their, and then you have a large force firing at a small force. and the large force, due to it's size, can probably just do plunging arrows in a large area and hit most of your small team. And the sentries would already know where the Rangers are. Oh, and isn't the area with buildings out of range of just about everything? Minus siege weapons?
Tul Generas of the Orcs, Darthraxx of the dragon Knights. I RP, and have lots of fun.
OOC: They'd see that it wasn't an orc, and sound the alarm.
I doubt that they're the stealthiest. The men of Numenor are widely accredited to be the best at everything. I'm pretty sure they'd have been stealthier.
OOC: The men of Harad, Rhun and Khand serve the Eye. What if they alerted the guards and shot the Haradrim commander in the city, making victory impossible because their greatest strategist was smashed?
Those men aren't around anymore. Although, the Dunedain are probably stealthier.
OOC: The men of Harad, Rhun and Khand should know better than to walk around stealthily further from the Orcish sentries without letting said Orcish Sentries know. Because of the nature of orcs, it actually makes them for efficient because of their kill first, ask questions later policy. They need to be warned if humans are their allies, they don't need to wait.
Tul Generas of the Orcs, Darthraxx of the dragon Knights. I RP, and have lots of fun.
The War Engines are swift to come into action, bringing buildings around the levelled area crashing down. All sighted enemies are swiftly turned into pincushions by Orc Archers.
The Orcs cannot locate which buildings the Rangers are in because it's fairly hard to see where an unknown arrow is coming from. The other Rangers are hiding behind piles of rubble that the trebuchets can't accurately hit. Any buildings that are hit collapse, but only a few Rangers are in them.
OOC: You really think that Orcs have enough accuracy to hit trained stealth troops hiding behind piles of rock? If each of your archers are Orcish Legolas clones, they need to be worth more.
Also, I finished answering the questions.
They cannot, but they can bring down everything in a rough area. Orc Swordsmen move from pile to pile, smashing any Rangers they find.
OOC: The Rangers may have good eyesight, but they're still human and would have to come quite close to target the orcs properly. There are enough orcs that they'd be able to locate quite a few of the Rangers.
OOC: I was fully aware you'd try something like this. The problem is, Kirkwood elves have eyesight even better than an orc's, and they are extremely skilled at stealth. I haven't entered the levelled zone,either, so there is no way they would know. Your sentries are only so good, and they've met their match.
OOC: You're the one that's trying stuff. Would you expect your elves to be able to approach a human army unnoticed, taking out sentries, in broad daylight?
OOC: True, I suppose. Under these exact same circumstances, I'd say they'd be able to get to a certain point before being noticed, which is no more than I'm doing here. Also, I'd like to question the position of these sentries of yours. First off, you never mentioned placing sentries around your position. I believe you have to make a move saying you're doing that given it's a movement of some of your troops. Second, it seems awfully convenient that these supposed sentries are in such a radius that they happen to see this stealth team's easily. While I don't deny my troops would be discovered eventually, this seems rather ridiculous.
The War Engines are swift to come into action, bringing buildings around the levelled area crashing down. All sighted enemies are swiftly turned into pincushions by Orc Archers.
*While then other events occurred, the elven trebuchets had quietly been moved into range. Now, as the enemy siege engines are directed away from them, the trebuchets open fire on them, smashing several and then reloading.*
*The elven force continuously shifts their position, avoiding the enemy projectiles as best they can. The superior elven archers make quick work of groups of orc archers they face, while the Maethyr I-Thewair take out any close-range combatants.*
The Orcs cannot locate which buildings the Rangers are in because it's fairly hard to see where an unknown arrow is coming from. The other Rangers are hiding behind piles of rubble that the trebuchets can't accurately hit. Any buildings that are hit collapse, but only a few Rangers are in them.
OOC: You really think that Orcs have enough accuracy to hit trained stealth troops hiding behind piles of rock? If each of your archers are Orcish Legolas clones, they need to be worth more.
Also, I finished answering the questions.
They cannot, but they can bring down everything in a rough area. Orc Swordsmen move from pile to pile, smashing any Rangers they find.
OOC: The Rangers may have good eyesight, but they're still human and would have to come quite close to target the orcs properly. There are enough orcs that they'd be able to locate quite a few of the Rangers.
Great.
As the Orc swordsmen round corners, they are cut to pieces the Rangers, who are waiting with their swords drawn. They make a fighting retreat, running from cover to cover fast enough that the Orcs can't track them and cutting down any Orcs (.8 MWE vs 5 MWE) in their way.
The Orcs cannot locate which buildings the Rangers are in because it's fairly hard to see where an unknown arrow is coming from. The other Rangers are hiding behind piles of rubble that the trebuchets can't accurately hit. Any buildings that are hit collapse, but only a few Rangers are in them.
OOC: You really think that Orcs have enough accuracy to hit trained stealth troops hiding behind piles of rock? If each of your archers are Orcish Legolas clones, they need to be worth more.
Also, I finished answering the questions.
OOC: They can raise the alarm that they're their, and then you have a large force firing at a small force. and the large force, due to it's size, can probably just do plunging arrows in a large area and hit most of your small team. And the sentries would already know where the Rangers are. Oh, and isn't the area with buildings out of range of just about everything? Minus siege weapons?
The Rangers are approaching from the side of the army, where the siege engines haven't fired. The Sentries would have an arrow in their throat before they could raise an alarm, and his companions would fall before they realized what was happening.
{JAMMERS! -GOOD- ONLY!} LegoBuilder, get ready to move your main force in. Your Gondorians will take the center and right wing, while my elves will be the left wing. You'll probably want swordsmen in front, spearmen/melee behind them, and archers behind. And bring all your scorpions along as well. It's time to send these orcs across the river for good.
{JAMMERS! -GOOD- ONLY!}LegoBuilder , get ready to move your main force in. Your Gondorians will take the center and right wing, while my elves will be the left wing. You'll probably want swordsmen in front, spearmen/melee behind them, and archers behind. And bring all your scorpions along as well. It's time to send these orcs across the river for good.
{JAMMERS! -Good- ONLY!}Got it. I have 250 shock troops for the first charge, and 750 axemen behind them. I also have a lot of Pikemen that I'll organize into Phalanxes before the charge. I also have 2,000 Archers, which should be useful.
Where should the Scorpions go?
Explain to him how he can't possibly see my Rangers with so much ease.
OOC: You're the one that's trying stuff. Would you expect your elves to be able to approach a human army unnoticed, taking out sentries, in broad daylight?
OOC: True, I suppose. Under these exact same circumstances, I'd say they'd be able to get to a certain point before being noticed, which is no more than I'm doing here. Also, I'd like to question the position of these sentries of yours. First off, you never mentioned placing sentries around your position. I believe you have to make a move saying you're doing that given it's a movement of some of your troops. Second, it seems awfully convenient that these supposed sentries are in such a radius that they happen to see this stealth team's easily. While I don't deny my troops would be discovered eventually, this seems rather ridiculous.
OOC: True, but the sentries could see them coming.
Sentries are one of the obvious things that go without saying. I don't have to say that there are sentries, just as we don't mention the large force of cooks, smiths, supply carts, etc. that accompany every army. My troops going to the eating area, the sleeping area and the toilets every day is a movement, yet we don't say those. It's just so obvious that it doesn't need to be said.
The sentries are positioned is such a manner that they can keep an eye on the edges of the leveled area and and a few buildings out. You said your forces were on the outskirts of it.
The War Engines are swift to come into action, bringing buildings around the levelled area crashing down. All sighted enemies are swiftly turned into pincushions by Orc Archers.
*While then other events occurred, the elven trebuchets had quietly been moved into range. Now, as the enemy siege engines are directed away from them, the trebuchets open fire on them, smashing several and then reloading.*
*The elven force continuously shifts their position, avoiding the enemy projectiles as best they can. The superior elven archers make quick work of groups of orc archers they face, while the Maethyr I-Thewair take out any close-range combatants.*
OOC: Everything in range of the war engines has been leveled; it order to have a chance of hitting them, you'd need to move yours into the open, which would involve being seen.
Also, your trebuchets cannot move about much. They're very hard to move, as are their projectiles. It takes long enough to reload them without moving them through rubble; you'd only have gotten one shot from each at this point it they're moving much. If you want to make sitting ducks out your trebuchets by having them crawl along, unable to fire, that's fine by me, though.
IC: The Mordor War Engines turn to face them. Because of how long it takes to move the elven trebuchets, this would probably be before the trebuchets finish moving from their first positions and reload. They open fire, doing heavy damage to the elves.
They cannot, but they can bring down everything in a rough area. Orc Swordsmen move from pile to pile, smashing any Rangers they find.
OOC: The Rangers may have good eyesight, but they're still human and would have to come quite close to target the orcs properly. There are enough orcs that they'd be able to locate quite a few of the Rangers.
Great.
As the Orc swordsmen round corners, they are cut to pieces the Rangers, who are waiting with their swords drawn. They make a fighting retreat, running from cover to cover fast enough that the Orcs can't track them and cutting down any Orcs (.8 MWE vs 5 MWE) in their way.
The Orcs drive them out of the leveled area and out of range of the main host in this manner, Orc Archers felling some of the Rangers with arrows to the back. They continue patrolling.
OOC: True, I suppose. Under these exact same circumstances, I'd say they'd be able to get to a certain point before being noticed, which is no more than I'm doing here. Also, I'd like to question the position of these sentries of yours. First off, you never mentioned placing sentries around your position. I believe you have to make a move saying you're doing that given it's a movement of some of your troops. Second, it seems awfully convenient that these supposed sentries are in such a radius that they happen to see this stealth team's easily. While I don't deny my troops would be discovered eventually, this seems rather ridiculous.
OOC: True, but the sentries could see them coming.
Sentries are one of the obvious things that go without saying. I don't have to say that there are sentries, just as we don't mention the large force of cooks, smiths, supply carts, etc. that accompany every army. My troops going to the eating area, the sleeping area and the toilets every day is a movement, yet we don't say those. It's just so obvious that it doesn't need to be said.
The sentries are positioned is such a manner that they can keep an eye on the edges of the leveled area and and a few buildings out. You said your forces were on the outskirts of it.
OOC: Eventually, but only when they were close enough - there are still lots of buildings standing, you know.
Alright, fair enough.
The outskirts but I figured it went without saying that they would be avoiding sentries. When I said they dispatched any orcs in their way, I meant small groups of orcs, not sentries. They're trying to go unnoticed for as long as possible. Shall we just say they got to their position north of your forces, and then when they moved towards the levelled area the sentries spotted them?
{JAMMERS! -GOOD- ONLY!}LegoBuilder , get ready to move your main force in. Your Gondorians will take the center and right wing, while my elves will be the left wing. You'll probably want swordsmen in front, spearmen/melee behind them, and archers behind. And bring all your scorpions along as well. It's time to send these orcs across the river for good.
{JAMMERS! -Good- ONLY!}Got it. I have 250 shock troops for the first charge, and 750 axemen behind them. I also have a lot of Pikemen that I'll organize into Phalanxes before the charge. I also have 2,000 Archers, which should be useful.
Where should the Scorpions go?
Explain to him how he can't possibly see my Rangers with so much ease.
If each of your archers are Orcish Legolas clones, they need to be worth more.
