The GREAT BATTLE of our time

The turn began with a small victory for the dark army… the escalade finally had arrived to the fortified walls of the city!!!!

Well… the remains of the escalade…

Because only TWO of the ladders arrived to the objective.

On the right flank, some uruk-hai made the ascension to the battlements, after going across the fallen body of the mûmak. The problem with that band was that in previous turns they had been decimated by elven archers, and they only began with one ladder and 8 uruks… so the force (that now consisted in 4 uruk-hai) was not, in theory, enough to conquer the right side of the fortress. The original plan was to bring them after the initial attack of the haradrim over the mûmak, but that attack had terribly failed, so when the 4 uruks arrived, none of my haradrim soldiers were over the walls, and so it became obvious I couldn’t take the wall with them…

Or perhaps… was it possible?

Let’s not forget two of them were Captains…

On next turns, even some of the rohirrim warriors (a captain and his Rohan guards escort) walked pass the uruks! Perhaps it was simply a matter of my cousin not considering 4 soldiers something to  take care of…

It was not a matter of ignoring four uruks… the Rohan guards had another mission, they were going straight to counter-attack the left flank, where some goblins had been able to get near the wall and the siege tower was about to reach the fortress!!

Luckily, I had some trolls to place between them and their prey…

On the left flank, the goblin escalade had been wiped out, but the fantasy football match (see previous entry: TURNS 12 and 13.) had allowed one ladder to reach the walls. On that side of the battle, things were getting better for me and my dark minions, because the siege tower was finally getting there!!