Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-25344655-20160110220435/@comment-27097330-20160111024943

Patrick.vtap wrote: ChazmanianDevil wrote: 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 from a volatile nation like Umbar.

Volatile? EX-PLAIN! Umabr is a nation of freedom loving and independent spirited pirates. They follow an emperor because he has power, but anything that disrupts this careful balance could easily give them the push to rebel. The colonies would likely be in civil war.