Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26210095-20170505112915/@comment-26863727-20170521212519

TheShade6 wrote: "The lord of Anorien presented me with the same plan. I told him I saw too much risk and too little reward for it. Too many men on the mission and they'll be caught, too few and they won't make it past the guards. Even with about five of the best of the best, the chances they even get to the Queen are doubtful. And in any case, success or not, those men will die. All this for what result? The effect on their mentality will undoubtedly be useful but, past that it does little. It will show Arnor and Rohan that we are radicals that cannot be trusted with the kingdom, the loyalists will keep fighting against us, and the throne will go to her brat or some power hungry regent. Eradan and I were discussing a similar alternative, taking small cannons up the mountain and flushing them out of the city with bombardment from above. I see as well as you do that they don't have any defenses against the mountain and it will flush them into territory preferable to our forces" "We need allies to recognize us and support us. The Arnorian swine think us barbarians for having had the audacity to look a tyrant with a certain ancestry square in the face and say 'no, you back down'. Rohan's king is essentially a courier for Ioreth's word. That leaves us the Dunlendings, Northmen, and Haradrim, the Dwarves, and what handful of Elves might still remain. The Dunlendings can easily be prodded into fighting Rohan, it's been done before. The Northmen will need some convincing, and I would suspect it would be politically inadvisable to associate with this Haradrim warlord. The Dwarves or Easterlings could be powerful allies, but I doubt they could be convinced that it would benefit them. IF any Elves remain at all, they'd be too few to actually be useful, so we can safely rule them out."