<<you are telling us we’ll have a bad turn? >>
- Yep.
<<we’re supposed to have a bad turn? >>
- Must I answer again? YEP.
-Ovatharuss
Harbinger of your Bad Turn
We have hit, and will continue to hit the pop. centers you have off our maps. Our mages and palantir wielders give us lots of good information. And the Woodmen have not really been challenged this game, so their scouts are undoubtedly among the best in Middle-earth, along with the Quiet Avenger.
I like our chances. But like I said, it will take you many months for you to mount a counter-attack even if the assault on Morannon is turned back. We’ll just bring another wave since your agents have failed to assassinate our commanders recruiting in our homelands.
– Gildring
Giving up on Gondor already, eh? Not surprising.
- Ben
Dark Lts.
You know you won’t be able to keep Gondor. SGondor, Rohan, the White Wizard and Dunadan Rangers will be enough to retake whatever you get. We’ve already taken back Pelargir so it’s obvious you won’t be able to hold on to anything for long.
– Gildring
Have no fear, the Cloud Lord is here!!
Zaken was a loss but like all good Dark Servants he knew his place and gladly went to his rest. Dont worry, he will take form again in the east and return in a new and improved wraith form.
As for Lairathin…I think that makes twice he has been captured this game. Please execute him for I tire of his failures. Its so hard to get good help in Mordor these days…
However, the servants of the Cloud Lord wait, as always, in the shadows, ready to strike. Much blood will be spilled…all Free blood. You cannot assail the walls of fortress Mordor by force and your deviant Elvish ways will prove to be just as futile.
Have your peoples make peace with thier Gods, Gildring, while they still can!!!
Shoglic
For Ji Indur
You fool, Shoglic! I am riding on to glory! The Eldar will kill 2300 orcs outside the Black Gate this fortnight-- that is certain. And we will lose perhaps 300 brave elves. But the DS must now focus upon our 2800 heavy cavalry with warmachines or lose NW Mordor. Our efforts to put you on the defensive have succeeded.
The maximum number of troops Dendra can muster at Morannon is a palrty 600. Shame on you, Dendra Dwar. That is a rather weak counter offensive. You will have to explain your incompetence to your Master. So no matter what happens after this battle, the Elves’ campaign will be victorious. But if you make a mistake or have fortune turn against you (army movement), the Dog Lord’s only MTown/City will crumble under our mithril boot-heels!
Add our success onto that of Imrahil and the Khand offensive, and I would say the DS are losing this contest.
How do you expect to conquer Lothlorien, which has improved size and fortifications, if you cannot possibly bring 2000 troops there by mid winter?
Before the end I’ll have your skull’s head on my table-top!
– Lord Gildring
You brag about Lothlorien, yet you fail to defend Tirith and Gondor. The horse fools of Rohan shall die next followed by the treacherous Saruman. The elves have abandoned their allies which is not surprising.
- Lord Urzahil
Why defend Minas Tirith? If we put too many armies on the western shore of the Anduin you might be scared and run home to papa Sauron. We don’t want them there. We want them where they are, so we can go about our business in Mordor in peace. Armies in Mordor is a major annoyance, please continue sending them to Gondor instead. Your armies in the west have nowhere to go, pose no threat, and cost you a hefty amount of gold every turn, so please continue your little stroll in Rohan! We can mop up your wandering orcs and kill them any time.
Rohan? Saruman? You aren’t coming to visit me Urzahil? I’m so disappointed. Maybe after your mighty armies have conquered the rest of the West, you’ll come to Arnor? Or maybe I should send a delegation to visit you instead? An army? Or two? Or maybe my ambassador will bring you a nice little gift? A shiny blade of mithril that will fit perfectly between your spectral ribs!
/Aragorn
Gildring,
With every brag you post here, I anticipate the coming turn more and more and more. I feel like a child just before Christmas . . . aside from the fact that I’m an ADULT just AFTER Christmas . . . but still . . you get the picture. This extra week between turns is killing me.
-Ovatharuss
Well, it’s sooo obvious to me that we are going to win, and conquer all of Mordor, and be named honorary Valar, that I just can’t refrain from bragging a bit. Since Sauron is so tough and mean and all…
Gildring
Well Gelding,
You’ll have to march into Morannon over top of Duran and that just ain’t happening.
You guys are soooo busy yapping your gums you can’t run much more of a strategy than a predictable charge down the road to 3221.
Pshaw… a mewlip could do better than that!
Duran
So I finally meet the demon of Dol Guldur. Sadly, there is no drama to this battle. Compared with the Elven forces, your army is rather pitiful, as are the rest of the rot opposing me.
I may not propose or accept challenge before the battle, since I know the cowardice of Sauron’s slaves. But I will enjoy hunting you down myself after the rout. With Glorfindel’s blade I will cleave your head in two.
As for our strategy, it seems to be working. All those turns killing commanders in Mordor has thinned your ranks a bit, and there is not much to oppose the combined might of Imrahil at Minas Morgul and the Elves at the ruins of Thuringwahost.
Meanwhile, another part of our strategy is unfolding as planned, despite the best efforts of the DS in Khand. Every turn we sack villages and towns there, and soon Strulutsu Khand will fall.
Too bad Khamul is not around to see the fall of one of his chief lieutenants.
– Gildring
Ah, Khamul is glad he’s dead. After being killed by a cowardly cursed and no seeing the feeble FP attempts, he’d be too busy laughing to attempt many orders.
Of course we only need a few troops to stip your wimpy elf pansies. There are no flowers to pick in mordor, send your girly boys back to lorien to molest the squirrels!
Duran
I don’t know where the game will go over the next 10 turns, but all should agree that the FP have the current advantage.
N.
An advantage? Perhaps an advantage in delusional psychosis!
Besides, don’t you have something more profitable to do than babbling on the board, like stalking squirrels or hamsters? Perhaps you should be plotting a more effective strategy?
Duran
Advantage? You guys are down two nations, soon to be three, and you have an advantage? Boy, can I have some of what you’re smoking?
- Ben
Dark Lts.
Ben, precious, silence, silence. Let Gildring’s “hope” grow and grow!! It shall make it all the more fun to SQUASH him in the end!
-Ovatharuss
Hopeslayer
The Rhun Easterlings and Dragon Lord still count as nations?
Yes, they do.
But the Northmen and Corsairs don’t.
- Ben
Dark Lts.
<<The Rhun Easterlings and Dragon Lord still count as nations?>>
- Prediction: You will eat those words come turn day.
-Ovatharuss
Harbinger of your Doom