An address will be forwarded later when I am settled into my new home. I am not in the mood for visitors yet.
For the time being I am happy to play a little hide and seek.
After I am gone you will have plenty of time on your hands, maybe your troops could start patroling the whole map looking for me?
Murazor The Travelling Salesman.
What a lack of respect. With the high body count at Barad Ungol I would have thought there would be some message of mourning.
It is not often that you get to hold mass funerals for what is it now 6 of your commanders and 4000 of your troops. In the words of the Bard “this was truly a royal fellowship of the dead.”
Two Regents dead both the Eothraim commanders dead, another Eothraim commander struck down at another site and this is just the beginning. Gondor aren’t you tired of throwing these sacrifices at us? Who is left from your original commanders? Vagaig at Minas Arnor? Finarfin at Minas Ithil well he’s new and not too much fun to smack. Thelor what pile of rubbish are you hiding in?
Now you guys are making the big push in the Northwest, and weight of numbers will tell, but Angmar and Rhudaur have done their duty.
Mordor welcomes all visitors, we hope your stay will be short.
Could someone from Mordor come and tidy up this dead body left in a Sinda village on the southern fringes of Greenwood the Great*. He’s an old chap, probably a wizard by the look of him, and frankly he’s beginning to smell. Looks like he’s had a few trinkets looted from his body as well - nasty business.
I mean, you Dark Servants have been very polite in staying in your little mountain fortress of Mordor and leaving the rest of Middle-Earth to decent folks (I do not include your southern pirate friends in this description), but if you are going to leave corpses of infirm mages lying around I’m afraid we’ll have to get cross.
(*Greenwood the Great - formerly known as Mirkwood, but returned to its older title since the fall of Dol Guldor and the expulsion of evil from its eaves).
Enough has happened that it demands an update of some sort…
LOST: Dark Servant nation, Rhudaur. Put up an annoyingly good fight (bankrupted turn 13, it appears) and had an obscene number of troops. Crushed under heel at last, apparently having bankrupted before he could disband all of his troops. My compliements to a skilled opponent. Fortunately your position is difficult as a dark, especially when we happily spotted your sneak attack (in part anyway, I didn’t expect the move to 1510 because I didn’t know about the second army. I took precautions, but it wasn’t enough because Valadan’s army was so large. Bah.) the turn before it hit. Still not sure how you managed to afford so many troops without raising taxes… I can only guess that Harad was funding you while neutral. I haven’t added up how many troops we fought, but I’m guessing it was 15,000+.
LOST: Dark Servant nation, Dragon Lord. Thrown out of Mirkwood relatively quickly; seems to have fallen shortly before his backup capital did. I don’t reccomend sending your primary army at the Eothraim (or were you after NG’s town/towers?); although you destroyed one of his HC forces sweeping down the road, it left you vulnerable at Dol Guldur, which we capitalized upon immediately. Nor did it help in Rhovannion, because we simply shifted another army or two to cover the gap, though it slowed things down somewhat in taking 3120. The Woodmen and Sinda were able to field more troops than they should have been able to because the early market was being propped up.
LOST: Urzahil, having wandered into one Free village too many with his pal Murazor. A complete fluke that we passed through there at the same time. Laugh. Certainly a nice opportunity for us, though.
LOST: Northern Harad. There’s a symmetry here since Southern Gondor lost a pile of his town/towers to Harad and the Corsairs.
Cardolan Free Press, turn 14
Well done Free
Incidentally did Elrohir refuse challenge this turn?
Brad
Yes. Better safe than sorry.
Bradford