Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-25344655-20160110220435/@comment-27097330-20160110233033

Patrick.vtap wrote: (Not really. Their ships would be very much inferior. They were in disarray, but when they were attacked it shocked them into unification against them. The regional governors assumed leadership, and your troops would have broken like water on rock against their stone fortresses. Almost all fortresses were on the coast, so when they started to fall, instead of making a last stand, they escaped on their ships to the darklands, taking the majority of the people there.)

The Umbarans send their fleet smashing into the Akali blockade, with their superior, maneuverable ships quickly routing the Akali. Historically that is unlikely to happen, especially in colonies.