As the winter snow closes in around the wastes which lie between Angmar and Arnor, the Witch King decides to send out his armies - but wait! Where’s the enemy? And why has that small cavalry army stopped just short of Gundabad? Could it be the Elves have infiltrated Carn Dum and discovered Murazor’s plans? But no, surely the Elves would be more interested in raiding the wine cellars!
Further south the Ice King has fallen on Osgiliath like an avalanche. But does he have enough troops? Just how many men are on board those Gondorian ships?
In Lorien, the generals at the War Council receive spy reports that the Enemy is in confusion.
“If they are kept guessing already”, Elendar grinned to himself, “they are certainly in for a hell of a ride…”. Then he looked around, seeing the confused looks of his superiors pointing at a map of the Misty Mountains and his face darkened.
And in Imladris fair, the tidings of war are close as well…
for the Witch King of accursed Angmar and his slaves would bring their legions of death before the ancient strongholds of the Elves. And in Great Greenwood the shadows were looming and the Necromancer defiled the sacred groves of the Sindar. And the City of Stars, lay besieged by the vile forces of frozen death. And all, Men and Elves and Dwarves could only wait the coming of the tides of darkness.
Yet, let darkness be no longer. For are we not children of the Valar and have we not shed tears unnumbered in the plains of lost Beleriand? And have we not fought against the very Lord of Darkness, Dark Foe of the World to whom the current shadow was but a lieutenant?
Awaken my brethren, and embrace the glory that is our destiny. No longer shall darkness prevail in our hearts and the light of blessed Aman shall shine once again…
A message was sent from Lorien to the Free People of Middle Earth. It read as follows:
<<Allies and friends, we have lost Nimrodel to the knife of the enemy. She was valued in our home at Lothlorien as a mistress and a ruler and a lady fair. Her loss will fill our hearts with sorrow for ages to come. Our laments will not stop after she is avenged, for the sorrow runs deeper.>>
Don’t worry, you’ll be seeing Nimrodel again, next summer in…
The Necromancer Part III : Dead Elves in Heat
Heheh but seriously, nice job with Argaleb; it totally caught us flat-footed. This game is going down much different avenues than our last one… fun fun fun!!!
Now that all the orders are straightened out Vinyaran served his purpose and wasn’t needed.
NW Rhudaur area. Took a gamble and guessed wrong hehe. Damn blocking I seem to be still functioning though. Wonder what happened to those armies a couple turns ago :evil:
Still interesting turns very interesting. Nice snag with Elladan. That wasn’t very nice
More interesting things to come I would definitely guess.
It appears like the three Dark Servant Mirkwood nations (that would be the Dragon Lord, the Witch King and the Cloud Lord) had everything going their way this time…
Amroth was kidnapped by the Cloud Lord after failing to double him (I thing I easily had a 1-in-20 chance of success - can’t blame me for trying, eh?
The Dragon Lord army was lucky to move before the Sinda intercepting army from Caras Galadhon. So Wodurishak escaped with his army — and his life.
Orduclax had his lucky charm on him.
Duran managed to capture the Major Town - I have not yet seen the details from that battle but our first guess was that it would be decided on the very small details… Still he did a fine maneuvre through the woods to get there, so he deserved some luck.
And up north… well… let us only say that a few Free People moves did not materialise as we planned them (or ordered them).
So we will count this as a victory for the servants of Sauron in Mirkwood this turn. It is a pity that this is actulally the only front on the map where the Servants don’t see their outposts fall one after the other…
Still, I salute you for a good fight - albeit one destined to fail.
Heh. Well I guess you had to try something if you knew I was there That is one of the fun things about playing the Cloud Lord. Trying to figure out if you actually know where I am at the time and if you know how many active Agents I actually got going at any given time.
That’s twice you’ve had Agents injured doing stuff Better get some better training on them eh?
I did fail one order last turn…so far doesn’t look like it was a big impact so that’s ok
I will say its definitely an interesting game and I’m enjoying it so far. Lots more fun stuff to be coming down the pipes I’m sure.
As for destined to Fail? We shall see…we shall see. Those are some very bold words.
I’ll tell you this… we sure didn’t count on 2k worth of Dunlending calvary charging up the Ithil pass! :o … plus you guys are doing a great job of manoevering your troops north of Mordor… every time we think we see a hole, a stinky FP icon shows up there heh
El Gringo,
Executive Producer
Nastytroll Films
(Coming soon to a theatre near you: “Amroth and Nimrodel: Dead Elves in Heat”)
I seem to be still functioning though. Wonder what happened to those armies a couple turns ago :evil: