Tarondor hated Mordor. It was cold, it was grimy, and the locals were smelly and ugly. Still it came as a complete surprise when he leaned forward on his horse to sound the charge, and his head fell off…
Well an interesting turn 5. Good for the CL - Tarondor joined Celdrahil and Teldumeir in the great flush-a-matic in the sky. He gave up a command arty and what we thought was an odd prosthetic until someone worked out it was a palantir 
Elatar remains with the surviving NG forces at Barad Ungol looking rather nervous.
At Minas Ithil yet another charge of Duinhir was splattered from under her nose. Tharudan has moved on to better pastures. Vinyaran is looking distinctly nervous as well
An IK army cut the lines knocking out the recruit at Osgiliath leaving what started as an impressive combined Gondors attack distinctly small and sad. Over two turns now the CL agents have removed two regents and a M50, not too shabby so far.
Nothing at the north gate so for now the Freep look like they’ve been dealt with.
In the far south the Harad advanced on 2436 drawing the interceptor while Araudagul and the CL cav zipped in unopposed to 2437. Another moment of joy for the CL
The SG super fleet failed to land in the north (no harbours remain in S.Harad, but did pick 3533 to land at which happens to still have a harbour - doh! (You’ll pay for that Mr Frankenhoff All in all the far south is turning into a freep nightmare, only 2430 has fallen to date, the harbours are pretty much gone, and the Harad has icons in number. They’re also on the move in the south…
The back door has largely bogged down. The remaining dog and dklt’s cav marginally won another conflict. There’s a few icons out there but not a lot going on for now, and nothing in Eoplex (it all chuffed off to Dol Guldur which this turn entertains 8 Freep armies
The last of Rhu will disappear this turn and 1806 and 1907 will disappear for the WK. Will’s gone hard in the NW and left Gixxx with few options. However the WK took out 2405 this turn and looks set to start something beautiful in Mirkwood
The theme continued then this turn with the CL agents successful against solid targets early in the game, stripping the Gondors major push up the Ithil pass. 3 assassination attempts successful, and 3 times guards were wounded. In the far south the DS continue to consolidate fast and are now on the attack, in the north the freep have gone heavy and are overwhelming the defences. May turn into a classic north versus south yet…
Still we’ll let Will act like a ball buster for a day or two and then we’ll ho slap him around turn 10 
got the tech people ringing up somewhere today to sort it out. Not seeing a SG huge army at Barad Ungol is a definite bonus though - hoping my boys sorted that little problem out in the best DS traditions