Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-27168578-20151209134728/@comment-27097330-20151220210743

Heartgold1234 wrote: Morgoth the first dark lord wrote: Only he, the elites of Arnor, some of his normal cavalry and quite a few of the Tauredain cavalry remain. The others have been destroyed by the pikes of the shadow guards. If anyone were to survive it would be the Avari. Firstly, the Tauredain don't have cavalry anyway - let alone any form of decent armour compared to the lamellar armour of the Avari and the high skill from their many years. Also, animals from the jungles cannot go very fast, at all. They wouldn't even have deer, so even if they did ride they'd be completely inept and they'd die. Cenior would die ages before even 100 of the Avari died, these are no idiots charging into pikes - they'd take their bows out and release volleys until there were few left, then charge them. If you are thinking of the Tauredain from the mod you are quite off. These are fourth age Tauredain from a different tribe. Secondly, animals from jungle can be extremely fast. Also over fifty percent of deer species live in tropical areas, especially jungles. Finally, these Tauredain soldiers have been training for years on deer, they can ride well enough. Also when upon a mount armor is less important as you are elevated above enemies. Also, there were 50,000 Tauredain at the start! You can't say Cenior would die quickly, because in every LOTR book ever written heroes trump soldiers, no matter their race. Plus there are simply far too many orcs for the Avari to fell them all before they could reach them.