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Bret Devereaux Talks Orc Battle Tactics

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The Battle of Elms Deep

Saramon has to disssemble the kingdom of rohan in something like a month. He then deploys his army, he forces a major river crossing and just about everything from there goes wrong. Saramon has done what many overly self confident dictators do: build a fancy, modern, professional army without investing in training and non commissioned officers. And so when it gets into actual difficulties, this army that looks fearsome on paper, falls apart. The orks disperse to pillagea they scatter to steel stuff and chase people that are running away. They don't fully concentrate until after he is already in the fortress. To get at him and to secure their position in rohon, they now

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