Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26210095-20170505112915/@comment-26347028-20170514214350

The Morgul Lord wrote: ChazmanianDevil wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: ChazmanianDevil wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: ChazmanianDevil wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: The Morgul Lord wrote: Osgiliath just broke away, I doubt they'd want the royal armies there. There's no "want" about this. They find the east quadrant of the city is demolished, and easy for troops to be allowed in, but the only inhabitants are the sick, and the bridge between the two quadrants is broken. The locals are held away at a good distance, and avoided, though a few attempts to yell for a "local leader" are made.

The army gets to work surrounding the area around the bridge, and fixing the thing to the extent that it's safe to carry the entire army over. For the sake of clarity for you response can you give Jc ore detail into how they're rebuilding? Similar to Caesar's Rhine bridges right? Pretty much identical. Okay. At first they're efforts are unhindered, but one night as things are progressing, well, clumps of arrows take out any guards or remaining workers near the bridge. And it's lit on fire. On the same night, the army designed to keep loyalist Osgiliath at bay traps the enemy soldiers within the bounds of the city.

(Really, the only reason I did this is to show that they're still around, they might've just been near old Minas Morgul when that royal army arrived, or something similar. To tell you the truth I never brought them up because I never expected them to go through Osgiliath.) The army arranges itself into one large area, with a medium-sized (for the army) encampment in the centre, surrounding the west side of the bridge, which is, itself, still under repairs. The bridge, while damaged, was still largely still intact - supports, etc. - in terms of what was required to rebuild, at least in a sense of being enough to get an army across it, and not necessarily stay up, it's not a whole lot.