War for Gondor

The **War for Gondor** was **Bossninja**'s first and only war in charge of Mordor, the war lasted a few weeks and saw Gondor win eventually. The war was mostly defensive Gondor, having launched only 2 attacks.

## Events

When Mordor first declared war on Gondor, the leaders of Gondor met and decided for quick action against Mordor seeing as Mordor would need time to summon their minions. The decision was made to siege Minas Morgul as quickly as possible, seeing as Minas Morgul's defenses would need updating and were not adequate for a lengthy war. The siege went quite badly for the Good forces, after a short skirmish with Good troops, Mordor and their allies hid in the main tower of Minas Morgul, Good stormed up but lost many of its forces to the spiral structure of the tower. Mordor won this defense but failed to seize the initiative. 0-1

The war was quiet for a few days until Mordor declared a siege on Pinnath-Gelin, according to **Valaglar** his capital had never been sieged and thus was brand new and untested, this showed as the Good players were decimated by arrow fire and close quarters combat in the lower half of the city, both side's numbers dwindled until a few remained, **Thormung** of the Red Mountains and **Arvasil** of Angmar would prove crucial for both Good and Evil respectively. The siege slowed down as both sides prepared for the final assault, Good has 3 players left: **Thormung**, **SiDeus** and **LikeAWalnut**. Evil had a solid force of nearly 6 players (this number is debated due to the appearance of spectators mid-siege) The assault began when Evil burst through the first gate of the Citadel, Good mustered their forces and attempted to stem the tide, **SiDeus** and **Thormung** perished in battle (presumably to **Arvasil**) **LikeAWalnut**, also referred to as Harold began a tactic of hit and run, the enemy forces are estimated to be at 4, **Arvasil**, **Calbieus**, **ShadowEmissary** and **Bossninja**. Harold fought a weakened **Arvasil** as he was looting **SiDeus**'s body, which resulted in **Arvasil**'s death. **Bossninja** foolishly attack **Harold** in a Hammer v. Pike battle, the balance of power was still in Evil's favor as they had 2 players left and Good 1. **ShadowEmissary** managed to ladder up the side of the Citadel but **Harold** surprised him with an attack from above and killed him. **Calbieus** meanwhile had managed to get onto the walled entrance to the Main Hall but, anticlimactically lagged out and froze which enabled **Harold** to kill and win the siege for Gondor. 1-1

The next siege Gondor declared was at Minas Morgul, only a handful of Evil players were on after their loss at Pinnath-Gelin, there was no strategy to this siege, rush up, use the Dwarves of the Red Mountains as walking walls and kill anyone in sight, which is what happened. 2-1

The following week, **Bossninja**, aided by Dunland declared yet another siege on Pinnath-Gelin, this siege destroyed Evil's morale and lead Dunland to leave the war effort against Mordor. Evil charged through the opening gate at the lower city but Good had stiffened Pinnath-Gelin's defences and killed the Evil players one after another, **Telwa** and his dunlendings surrendered following **Bossninja**'s death at the hand of **Harold**. 3-1

Gondor declared another siege on Minas Morgul, yet this time, the defenders abandoned their fortress and fled. 4-1

The last siege of this war happened at Nargroth, Mordor's capital. The siege was launched and through sheer luck, Mordor surrendered and Good won. Had Evil not surrendered, it would have won the siege due to Good's inability to cross the NPC stricken lands of Mordor.

## Aftermath

Gondor obtained Mordor and lived in peace for a few weeks, until **Hoknath** of Gundabad declared war on Gondor as to reclaim the land of Mordor. That war would end inconclusively with **Hoknath**'s banishment.

P.S: This summary was written from Harold's account of the war, any inaccuracies should be taken lightly as this war happened a few months ago.