Act Two - Second assault on Cair Andros

Faramir is sent uplands, ambushing Southron and Easterling columns in the hope of delaying enemy reinforcements and distracting Sauron's gaze. One captain remains at Cair Andros with the orc host camping behind the palisade, and an attack during the night out of the question, due to their limited numbers, the captain set a watch and hoped that the attack would be long, so the walls could grind down the orc forces.
With little light left in the day, the orc host emerges through the gate and holes in the palisade, the defenders assemble with the orcs barely a stone's throw away.

Objectives: Get 10 models behind the ramparts before turn 12 / prevent this or break orc forces


 

 

One arrow flies over the siege bow, plucking an orc off his feet

Two more are felled to slow down the ladders

The ladders are hoisted up, only to be shoved back down

More ladder shoving as the ram hits the gate in a dull thud
Two more orcs fall prey to the archers

Orcs are ordered over to the siege bow assisting the
lone crew-member in firing at the gate

The defenders are preparing as the ladders are picked back up

The archers fire on the ram-crew downing two of them,
as they smash a small opening in the gate

The ladder is pushed back down squishing two of the orcs with it.
The orc archers volley into the tower, striking one of the rangers dead

Men moving to the gate preparing for any breach

Two ladders are pushed up, the other picked up

They form a battle line at the gatehouse

The captain guards the only ladder, while another ranger is felled

The ladders are mounted as the third is pushed down,
one orc is struck down, killing another unawares in the fall

The captain tumbles his opponents over each other with ease

One of the captains springs over the ramparts slicing through
both the defenders, who stab at another orc in the assault

The ram hits the gate to little effect and a ladder is cast down

More orcs join the captain on the ramparts

The other attacks are beaten back but the
captain reduces the defenders by one

One defender sacrifices himself, so the others can throw down a ladder

However an orc volley catches the last ranger, yet three orcs manage
to dash each others heads against the ground in their falling back

The siege bow finally lands a shot on target splitting the gate in half
the archers behind are prepared for this and an arrow slays an orc

Two ladders are cast down, while another is pushed up

The defenders at the gatehouse buckle under the orc line who cut
down two men while the ramparts are cleared of all but a captain

 

Gothmog sees the strength of the defenders being the wall

The Captain of Gondor held his sword aloft and cried "For Gondor!" which rallied a cry amongst his men, who were killing their way across the ramparts. 
The captain rushed down to the gatehouse where the fighting had become more balanced. That was until he arrived and tore through Gothmog's bodyguard. The orcs had had enough, so fled before the Gondorians swords leaving the injured for dead.
The gates were broken, and the next host would be much larger, there was no hope of defending the isle. So the captain gathered the men, and set out for the Rammas, where Faramir was gathering the remaining defenders of Osgiliath and Cair Andros.

Until then

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