>Watch Lord of the Rings
>Spend the rest of the day thinking about how you would defend Minas Tirith better
Post your strategy
>Watch Lord of the Rings. >Spend the rest of the day thinking about how you would defend Minas Tirith better
>Watch Lord of the Rings
>Spend the rest of the day thinking about how you would defend Minas Tirith better
Post your strategy
Turn the city into a giant booby-trap labyrinth and try to bait the orcs into ascending through the most heavily booby-trapped streets and gates.
Pour pitch in a long line and set fire to it when the Orcs gets near so they can't cross without getting burnt, then keep raining down arrows.
I would use invincible dead guys. Shrimple as.
>t. haven’t read the books
The invincible ghost army is a movie only thing.
Now have a nice day
Sir, this is Cinemaphile.
OP said he watched Lord of The Rings
The book is irrelevant to this thread.
You are profoundly stupid.
I would have everyone shoot at GROND maybe a bit sooner than right before it starts battering the gate down.
I want to know what words they were chanting in this scene, it sounds so cool.
>ZAH GUR ZAH
>ZAH GUR ZAH
or something
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Not sure if they just made this translation up or got it from somewhere else. Jackson went to cricket stadiums and got the crowd to chant orc words though.
Trenches. Won't last forever but at least least they can't just roll siege towers up towards your walls. Anything that slows them down enough is pretty good because I think they'll start eating eachother once the hunger sets in.
Osgiliath is the ideal place to stop invading armies. If you can't hold them there, I'd pack my passport.
This seems like an obvious idea...in modern warfare. But orcs are natural-born trench fighters, excelling in dirty close quarters combat. Knights less so. They couldn't pull out from the trenches in their heavy armors. Then the field would be unusable for cavalry too.
A better solution is "anti-tank" obstacles. Czech hedgehogs and dragon's teeth. They allow troops to pass around but make things difficult for siege towers. They can also be arranged to funnel the enemy to approaching from desired directions, with surprises set up on the way.
I don't think he meant trenches to man and defend
hunger wont set in. Pelennor is a gigantic breadbasket, and even if we dont see it in the movies, its interior inside the gigantic territory walls is all orchards, farmyards, and granaries ripe for forage. The real hold out point is supposed to be that territory wall that gondor ceded with basically no resistance
dig a moat around the wall so the dude with the bomb cant reach
that was helms deep not minas tirith you fricking dumbass imbecile moron have a nice day
>i wouldve pre carved massive smoothed ramps up the mountain with an armory of boulders at the top ready roll
>also the obvious like trenches to stop the towers
>would also mine the frick out of the plains with bombs made from that shit the orcs use to blow the wall a helms deep
>id use bombs on my mountain ramps
>and id have built artillery positions all over the mountain too for op range
basically under me the battle wouldve been little more than an orc massacre
This is the most moronic idea I have ever read.
name a flaw
>made from that shit the orcs use to blow the wall
I think only saruman had the skill to make saltpetre.
I wouldn't do anything. I would listen to the orcs, which is what nobody else did.
>trebuchets from the top levels
>burn/damage their giant towers
>destroy as much of the terrain leading to the city as you can to make it hard for them to stay organized/lined up
>burn/destroy their giant towers
>oil traps at the second wall
>once the invading armies start penetrating the second wall, drench everything below with oil and light it up
>eternal fire to stop the next waves while you take out the farthest along wave
>booby trap the middle areas so bad that wouldn't want your own men to fight in there
>if they make it to the upper floors then its a few good fighters versus all of your best, leading to a massacre for them
ill get eagles to drop bombs
have a fricking portcullis instead of a hinged gate, for a start
Blackmail the American government into helping using a global pedophile network that records powerful people raping kids.
I play LOTR to make the army fall asleep from boredom
I exploit the orc's tendency for infighting
dig a trench around the city and fill it with nitroglycerine
Trenches would work well against the Mumakil I think, no way the orcs could quickly build something sturdy enough to support their weights, they'd have to fill the holes by hand and really stomp the dirt down, otherwise the first beast that step on it will just be buried to its knees and roll to its death.
However that wouldn't stop the actual assaut on the city
>ID
Dig ditches
Unevenly dug trenches of different depths and lengths starting miles out and leading all the way to the front gates.
Have flammable liquid piped out through every trench, once they manage to maneuver through the trenches maze set all the trenches aflame at the same time leaving them in and surrounded throughout a miles long and miles wide flame maze.
Calvary charges around the edges of the maze as well paired with trebuchet and archers
minas tirith:
abandon the first level right away (creates a forced path up to the second level where you can shoot safely from above, renders the siege towers useless and concentrates all the defenses in a single point, rolling up rams to the second level is near impossible)
the only argument against this is that
1. they could mine the second level (would take weeks without gunpowder)
2. they could set it on fire (minas tirith is big / well ventilated enough that this wouldn't force abandonment of the second level)
also give all archers priority orders to fire at the nazgul
same thing with helms deep abandon the lower wall
both movies present a very inefficient distribution of limited defensive resources
I integrate the orcs into human society to counteract the low gondorian birthrates removing the need for conflict in the process
Take everyone to the top two levels. Win because the enemy times out every time before they reach the top and can actually fight me.
trenches would've been dug centuries before, especially in the shit film adaption where there aren't arms immediately bordering the city walls