Act Three - The Rammas

With Cair Andros and Osgiliath overrun, Faramir prepares a small desperate defence upon the walls of the Rammas to stall the assault on Minas Tirith. Along with Damrod and a handful of rangers that are fleeing from the enemy attack which had been formed hastily by Gothmog, although more of the Mordorian vanguard enter the field as the fighting progresses. One of the Gondorian captains takes to his horse with a contingent of knights, to rescue Faramir from the clutches of the orcs. If Faramir falls, Minas Tirith is doomed.
 

The Knights file out

 

Faramirs company is catch by the warg riders

 


With Damrod getting cleaved to the ground and a warg paling



More orcs enter the field as the ladders draw closer,
several of the bearers are tactically killed

 

The Knights enter the fray, as Gothmog and one of the captains
charge into the melee

 

More orcs are cut but bolts and arrows, yet they can only kill one of the rangers

 

The Knights charge, breaks up the attack on the southern flank

 

A ladder is abandoned to kill the knight, while Faramir makes it
closer to the gate, and to safety

 


The Knights charge takes more orcs out of the ladder carrying picture



But one makes it to the wall, where a number of the defenders have gathered

 

The ram finally starts moving closer to the gate, as more of the knights
and rangers are surrounded and cut down by the reinforcements

 

The knights and rangers are almost eradicated, Gothmog orders his
minions into the full assault with a clear stream of orcs coming to the field



Ladders are pushed down and up, while the other orcs are shot at



The captain holding the ladders on the southern flank back



But in the northern section the orcs make a foothold



More heroics from the captain

The foothold is lost, while more orcs are felled to arrows

The captain caves in, as another ladder is pushed up

One orc is shoved off the southern ladder, the siege bow
 cuts a hole in the gate and more orcs are cut from the ram



Another foothold established on the ramparts



But two of the ladders are thrown off the walls, while the
captain tries to secure the position



One more ladder is shoved from the wall, as another is picked up

The orc captains make their mark in central wall section, carving through four men



And the ram smashes through the gate, leaving the defenders flondering



But two more ladders are thrown down encouraging
the defenders



Gothmog issues through the gate and the company of orcs cut
down one of defenders



More orcs climb atop the ramparts, while the men behind hurry to
intercept them



Man and orc are surrounded by each other

More orcs pour through the gateway, the defenders struggling to hold them

Either side taking casualties

One viscous melee leaves two more corpses for either side



But the bolt thrower gets the last kill

Gothmog sees defeat glinting in the eyes of the men as they hurry from the ramparts and gatehouse, he orders a small contingent of orcs to kill the routers. The Gondorians had inflicted a heavy wounds on the orc vanguard, too many of the orcs lie prone on the floor and half as many men. It would take another day to set up the attack on the walls of Minas Tirith. The Nazgul would not be pleased.

Until then

Fish