Post by Alcorad on Dec 23, 2005 16:25:22 GMT
It is said that one of the largest orc camps in Mordor during the War of the Ring was built below the fortress of Cirith Ungol on the Plain of Gorgoroth just east of Mount Doom. From this place great armies of orcs could be raised for the battles in the West.
The Army of Mordor consists of 39,000 and is as follows:
9,500 Mordorian Orcs:
Orcs are the foulest creatures to walk Middle-earth. They are evil-hearted monsters that rejoice in slaughter and destruction. Orcs bear little loyalty even to their own kind and will readily fight amongst themselves over the spoils of their conquests.
-5,000 Morannon Guard:
Stout orc warriors, more powerful than the average breed. These creatures were the elites of Mordor, just a small level behind that of the Legion of Terror. They were the first line of defense if ever any enemy were to breech the Morannon (however unlikely) and weilded various weapons that suited their needs. They are masters of combats and not to be taken lightly by even the most skilled of men and elves.
- 2,000 Tracking Orcs of Mordor
Orcs of the Dark Lord, Alcorad who's overall physical characteristics were unimpressive yet their archery skills far surpassed the average orcs and rivalled those of the Dunedain. These small creatures were often used in skirmishes on the regions of Gondor below the Ephel Duath but also used as a factor of surprise in larger battles. These beasts are also armed with a dagger and adorned in chainmale.
-2,800 Snaga and Goblins of the Black Land
Beasts that are small and posess no real physical talent but are swift in movements and determined to defeat those enemies of their insidious lord, Alcorad. Used normally as a first wave in open seige, these beasts are excellent at evading enemy attacks and wearing down their foes for the next assult.
They are often adorned in a light iron plate armor and leather with pointed helms and jagged swords.
-3,300 Orc Warriors of Minas Morgul
Bow-legged orcs with a cuel temprament and feirce aggresion with blades. They are armed with jagged scimitars and leather, with dreadful helms that hold the skull of one of their victims. These harsh warriors are unleashed during the first wave of Snaga and Goblins after their skills have already begun to wear down the enemies. In large-scale combat they march alongside the goblins and snaga in the first ranks of Alcorad's insidious armies.
-500 Orc Command of Barad-dur
Orcs that are rivaled only by the Legion of Terror and the Morranon guard. They are the orcs that walk among the innermost ranks and command their legions from safety. Although they stray from the first lines, they are not inept to combat. They are skilled warriors that can contend with the finest warriors of elves and men.
-1,000 Orc Shamans of Mordor
Drawing their powers from that corrupted land in that ruined place, what the Shamans of Mordor lack in skill they make up for in fanatical dedication. Though they worship Alcorad without doubt or hesitation, his voice is but one of many that they heed. Many of them pay homage to the Dark Council as the heralds of Alcorad's coming and worship them as lesser gods in a dark and foreboding pantheon. Still more remember the tales of a shadow mightier even than the Dark Lord, a great evil lost in the mists of legend, a dark memory concealed by terror and shrouded by the depths of time.
500 Seige Technicians
200 Catapulters- 100 Catapults
50 Sappers- 50 Black Powder Bombs
180 Battering Rammers- 30 Battering Rams
3,500 Trolls of the Black Land
The Trolls of Mordor have been bred by Alcorad so that they can withstand the light of the sun without turning to stone like normal Trolls do. Even bigger and stronger than their subterranean kin, these monsters are among the most lethal troops of the armies of the Dark Lord.
- 500 Mountain Trolls of Mordor
It was creatures of this kind that wielded the great battering-ram, Grond, at the Battle of the Pelennor. As with many other types of trolls, there's very little information specific to the kind known as 'mountain-trolls'. In fact, they're only mentioned for their small part in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and never referred to again. These beasts are also in the service of the Dark Lord Alcorad and are heavily armed with plate armor to provide additional support to their rough hides.
They weild a variety of weapons as their troll kin that also fight in the Dark Lord's ranks. These weapos vary from spiked clubs to twin swords of Behemoth proportions.
-900 Hill Trolls of Mordor
In appearance they were man-like, but larger, and seem to have been covered with hard scales. They were fearsome and vicious, bellowing like beasts as they stormed into battle, and beating their enemies down with great hammers.
These creatures were also adorned in plate armor to grant additional support to their scaly hides and marched alongside their kin in Alcorad's wars.
Subfaction: 100 Drummer Trolls
These beasts enhanced the moral of the armies and severely decreased the moral of the enemy.
-2,000 Olog-hai of Mordor
A race of trolls bred by Sauron in the later years of the Third Age, seen among the trees of southern Mirkwood, and the mountain borders of Mordor. They were superior to other trolls in almost every way: stronger and more powerful, but also showing greater intelligence and skill. Many of their abilities they owed to being under the direct will of their new master, Alcorad, and while under his control they could exist in direct sunlight, unlike others of their kind.
In the battle before the Gates of Mordor, Aragorn and the Captains of the West encountered a company of large trolls, identified as 'hill-trolls out of Gorgoroth'. That battle took place in sunlight, and so it seems to follow that the hill-trolls must have been Olog-hai. They are described as being taller than a man, and covered in horny scales, carrying hammers and bucklers in their claws, though there is no way of knowing whether this description applies to all of the Olog-hai, or just to those in the battle.
Many of the Olog-hai were adorned in armor that was incredibaly menacing to those who mustered the courage to do battle with one of these terrifying creatures and great spiked clubs, behemoth blades, and hammers.
600 Grand Rammers- Alcresh the Terrible (Battering Ram)
84 Troll Tower Bearers- 42 Seige Towers
4,800 Dark Infantry of Mordor
A people of Numenorean origin, who returned to Middle Earth in the Second Age to follow Sauron. They survived to the end of the Third Age, during which they were often at war with Gondor. They returned to Mordor at Alcorad's coming and took up swords once more in his name.
These units were usually the second of the last to enter the fray and often changed the tide of battle entirely. These were no ordinary men for they had long since been taught dark sorceries and passed them down to their descendants in the solitude of their lives during the short times of peace after the war of the Ring. They weilded swords enhanced with Morgul spells and were adorned in the insidious armor that was only bestowed upon Alcorad's most loyal servants.
4,800 Dark Cavalry of Mordor
Black Numenoreans of Middle Earth who were once scattered until the coming of Alcorad when they gathered in Mordor once more to serve the new Dark Lord. Alcorad horsed them on Fell Steeds, behemoth horses who snorted fire from their nostrils and were corrupted with their foods of Morgul loam.
This unit usually travelled as their own body in war. The riders were armed with an insidious armor and given black blades enhanced with Morgul Spells and a round sheild with a spike at its center.
6,300 Black Warg Riders of Mordor
Wargs are gigantic evil wolves - massive and dangerous creatures with a cunning and carnivorous intelligence. A Warg is so large and strong that an Orc can ride upon the creature's back much like a horse. These Warg Riders scout far ahead of the main armies of Orcs and other Evil creatures, spying out the land and picking off stragglers for interrogation or some far worse fate.
Insidious Orcs of Mordor perched atop feirce warg of the Mordorian breed who far outsized their cousins in the Vales of the Anduin and Forest of Mirkwood. The Warg Riders themselves weilded scimitars and bows for long ranged attacks and additional support to their wargs as they tear apart the enemy infantries and cavalry.
4,000 Black Uruks of Mordor
If Orcs are the foulest creatures to walk Middle-earth then Uruk-hai are the most dangerous perversion of the breed. Where ordinary Orcs are crook limbed and timid, the Uruk-hai are strong, muscular, upright warriors of greater skill and courage, and they are no less evil-hearted than their smaller cousins however. Their capacity for evil is greater still.
1,000 Legion of Terror
The Black Uruks of Barad-dur were the most feared orcs in Middle Earth at the time of the War of the Ring. They numbered a full legion in size and were the elite guard of the Dark Tower. None could stand against them. Bred for size, speed, and aggression, they were also the most intelligent of the Orcs of Mordor, mixing cunning and ferocity. They were trained in all the fighting arts and could easily stand against the best warriors of men or elves.
They were descended from the great Uruks of Gorgoroth who fought in the Battle of the Last Alliance at the very foot of Mount Doom where Sauron fell. Those that survived fled to the Ash Mountains and hid in the dark tunnels near the remnants of the oce great tower of Barad-dur to await the return of their master.
As the days grew dark again and the Nazgul arose once more, they were the first to come forth and aid in the rebuilding of the Dark Tower. When Sauron returned and took his seat atop Barad-dur, he rewarded the Black Uruks of Gorgoroth and named them the Legion of Terror, the Black Uruks of Barad-dur.
Sauron bent his will upon them and elevated them from ordinary Orcs to the greatest fighting force that Mordor had ever known. Under the direct control of the Mouth of Sauron, it is said that even the Nazgul who hated all living things granted them a grudgin respect.
Under the will of Sauron they were bred to be huge in size, yet agile in movement and they were taught many of the Dark Arts of the enemy, with evil spells of Morgul to use in battle. The Uruk-hai of Saruman, though powerful in their own right, were but a shadow compared to the mighty Uruks of Barad-dur. It is said that deep in the Pits of the Dark Tower that Sauron bred these Orcs with the Wargs of the Black Land, giving his elite guard the sharpened senses and agility of the wolf, combined with the ferocity of the Uruks of Mordor. This pleased the Dark Lord immensely, for in times past he was able himself to take the shape of a great black wolf when it was his desire.
Clad in thick black armor that was etched in red with Morgul Spells and fitted with black leather from the hide of Mumakil, the Legion of Terror had the finest armor to be found in the Land of Shadow except that of the Nazgul themselves. In the center of the Dark Cuirass that covered their mighty chests was fastened a red orb that carried a liknes of the Dark Eye of Sauron and now the Dark Hand of Alcorad. It's rumored that much like the seeing stones, these Dark Orbs allowed the Dark Lord to see his Legion in battle. Upon their helms, like all the Uruks of Mordor, was etched likeness of Alcorad's hand as it had once been the likeness of Sauron's eye. The Black Uruks also had two horn tips, cut from a giant Mumak, that each Uruk of Barad-dur had to bring down and kill as part of the ritual rite in becoming a Black Uruk in the Legion of Terror.
The Uruks of Barad-dur carried a knife, scimitar and bow, however their most deadly weapon was a black flail whose head was shaped in the likeness of the Dark Hand of Alcorad surrounded in flames and shadow as it once had been Sauron's eye. It has been written that in the heat of battle it glowed red and a great fear fell on those who tried to stand against these great warriors.
The Mouth of Sauron often sent them down to the Plain of Gorgoroth to fight among the clans of orcs to sharpen their skills. Often they were outnumbered ten to one, however they never once experienced defeat.
This great force was to be the last defense if the war turned against Sauron and as it was Alcorad. They were stationed at the Gate of Adamant, the entrance to the Dark Tower. The Legion of Terror would never have suffered an enemy of their Master to cross the Iron Bridge that spanned the gulf around the Dark Tower. If Barad-dur had not fallen when the Ring was destroyed it's doubtful that the forces of the West would ever have had the strength to defeat them. It is said that when Sauron realized his folly and saw that the One Ring was at the very edge of the fires of Orodruin, he called out to the Nazgul in his greatest need and also sent forth the Legion of Terror on the Road to Mount Doom to try and save the Ring if they could. It was because of this that during the downfall of Barad-dur, the Legion of Terror survived and retreated into the dark crevices of the mountains. They reared up once more at the coming of Alcorad and the third uprising of Barad-dur to once again serve Mordor.
Bonuses:
Shelob-
A creature of spider-shape, of the spawn of Ungoliant, who dwelt in the mountains on the western borders of Mordor.
Nine Fell Beasts-
The Fell Beasts are huge, larger than any bird, and their wingspans are great. Their wings are made of hide stretched between bones like horned fingers and they have no feathers. They have beaks and long necks. The Fell Beasts smell foul and they shriek.
The Army of Mordor consists of 39,000 and is as follows:
9,500 Mordorian Orcs:
Orcs are the foulest creatures to walk Middle-earth. They are evil-hearted monsters that rejoice in slaughter and destruction. Orcs bear little loyalty even to their own kind and will readily fight amongst themselves over the spoils of their conquests.
-5,000 Morannon Guard:
Stout orc warriors, more powerful than the average breed. These creatures were the elites of Mordor, just a small level behind that of the Legion of Terror. They were the first line of defense if ever any enemy were to breech the Morannon (however unlikely) and weilded various weapons that suited their needs. They are masters of combats and not to be taken lightly by even the most skilled of men and elves.
- 2,000 Tracking Orcs of Mordor
Orcs of the Dark Lord, Alcorad who's overall physical characteristics were unimpressive yet their archery skills far surpassed the average orcs and rivalled those of the Dunedain. These small creatures were often used in skirmishes on the regions of Gondor below the Ephel Duath but also used as a factor of surprise in larger battles. These beasts are also armed with a dagger and adorned in chainmale.
-2,800 Snaga and Goblins of the Black Land
Beasts that are small and posess no real physical talent but are swift in movements and determined to defeat those enemies of their insidious lord, Alcorad. Used normally as a first wave in open seige, these beasts are excellent at evading enemy attacks and wearing down their foes for the next assult.
They are often adorned in a light iron plate armor and leather with pointed helms and jagged swords.
-3,300 Orc Warriors of Minas Morgul
Bow-legged orcs with a cuel temprament and feirce aggresion with blades. They are armed with jagged scimitars and leather, with dreadful helms that hold the skull of one of their victims. These harsh warriors are unleashed during the first wave of Snaga and Goblins after their skills have already begun to wear down the enemies. In large-scale combat they march alongside the goblins and snaga in the first ranks of Alcorad's insidious armies.
-500 Orc Command of Barad-dur
Orcs that are rivaled only by the Legion of Terror and the Morranon guard. They are the orcs that walk among the innermost ranks and command their legions from safety. Although they stray from the first lines, they are not inept to combat. They are skilled warriors that can contend with the finest warriors of elves and men.
-1,000 Orc Shamans of Mordor
Drawing their powers from that corrupted land in that ruined place, what the Shamans of Mordor lack in skill they make up for in fanatical dedication. Though they worship Alcorad without doubt or hesitation, his voice is but one of many that they heed. Many of them pay homage to the Dark Council as the heralds of Alcorad's coming and worship them as lesser gods in a dark and foreboding pantheon. Still more remember the tales of a shadow mightier even than the Dark Lord, a great evil lost in the mists of legend, a dark memory concealed by terror and shrouded by the depths of time.
500 Seige Technicians
200 Catapulters- 100 Catapults
50 Sappers- 50 Black Powder Bombs
180 Battering Rammers- 30 Battering Rams
3,500 Trolls of the Black Land
The Trolls of Mordor have been bred by Alcorad so that they can withstand the light of the sun without turning to stone like normal Trolls do. Even bigger and stronger than their subterranean kin, these monsters are among the most lethal troops of the armies of the Dark Lord.
- 500 Mountain Trolls of Mordor
It was creatures of this kind that wielded the great battering-ram, Grond, at the Battle of the Pelennor. As with many other types of trolls, there's very little information specific to the kind known as 'mountain-trolls'. In fact, they're only mentioned for their small part in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, and never referred to again. These beasts are also in the service of the Dark Lord Alcorad and are heavily armed with plate armor to provide additional support to their rough hides.
They weild a variety of weapons as their troll kin that also fight in the Dark Lord's ranks. These weapos vary from spiked clubs to twin swords of Behemoth proportions.
-900 Hill Trolls of Mordor
In appearance they were man-like, but larger, and seem to have been covered with hard scales. They were fearsome and vicious, bellowing like beasts as they stormed into battle, and beating their enemies down with great hammers.
These creatures were also adorned in plate armor to grant additional support to their scaly hides and marched alongside their kin in Alcorad's wars.
Subfaction: 100 Drummer Trolls
These beasts enhanced the moral of the armies and severely decreased the moral of the enemy.
-2,000 Olog-hai of Mordor
A race of trolls bred by Sauron in the later years of the Third Age, seen among the trees of southern Mirkwood, and the mountain borders of Mordor. They were superior to other trolls in almost every way: stronger and more powerful, but also showing greater intelligence and skill. Many of their abilities they owed to being under the direct will of their new master, Alcorad, and while under his control they could exist in direct sunlight, unlike others of their kind.
In the battle before the Gates of Mordor, Aragorn and the Captains of the West encountered a company of large trolls, identified as 'hill-trolls out of Gorgoroth'. That battle took place in sunlight, and so it seems to follow that the hill-trolls must have been Olog-hai. They are described as being taller than a man, and covered in horny scales, carrying hammers and bucklers in their claws, though there is no way of knowing whether this description applies to all of the Olog-hai, or just to those in the battle.
Many of the Olog-hai were adorned in armor that was incredibaly menacing to those who mustered the courage to do battle with one of these terrifying creatures and great spiked clubs, behemoth blades, and hammers.
600 Grand Rammers- Alcresh the Terrible (Battering Ram)
84 Troll Tower Bearers- 42 Seige Towers
4,800 Dark Infantry of Mordor
A people of Numenorean origin, who returned to Middle Earth in the Second Age to follow Sauron. They survived to the end of the Third Age, during which they were often at war with Gondor. They returned to Mordor at Alcorad's coming and took up swords once more in his name.
These units were usually the second of the last to enter the fray and often changed the tide of battle entirely. These were no ordinary men for they had long since been taught dark sorceries and passed them down to their descendants in the solitude of their lives during the short times of peace after the war of the Ring. They weilded swords enhanced with Morgul spells and were adorned in the insidious armor that was only bestowed upon Alcorad's most loyal servants.
4,800 Dark Cavalry of Mordor
Black Numenoreans of Middle Earth who were once scattered until the coming of Alcorad when they gathered in Mordor once more to serve the new Dark Lord. Alcorad horsed them on Fell Steeds, behemoth horses who snorted fire from their nostrils and were corrupted with their foods of Morgul loam.
This unit usually travelled as their own body in war. The riders were armed with an insidious armor and given black blades enhanced with Morgul Spells and a round sheild with a spike at its center.
6,300 Black Warg Riders of Mordor
Wargs are gigantic evil wolves - massive and dangerous creatures with a cunning and carnivorous intelligence. A Warg is so large and strong that an Orc can ride upon the creature's back much like a horse. These Warg Riders scout far ahead of the main armies of Orcs and other Evil creatures, spying out the land and picking off stragglers for interrogation or some far worse fate.
Insidious Orcs of Mordor perched atop feirce warg of the Mordorian breed who far outsized their cousins in the Vales of the Anduin and Forest of Mirkwood. The Warg Riders themselves weilded scimitars and bows for long ranged attacks and additional support to their wargs as they tear apart the enemy infantries and cavalry.
4,000 Black Uruks of Mordor
If Orcs are the foulest creatures to walk Middle-earth then Uruk-hai are the most dangerous perversion of the breed. Where ordinary Orcs are crook limbed and timid, the Uruk-hai are strong, muscular, upright warriors of greater skill and courage, and they are no less evil-hearted than their smaller cousins however. Their capacity for evil is greater still.
1,000 Legion of Terror
The Black Uruks of Barad-dur were the most feared orcs in Middle Earth at the time of the War of the Ring. They numbered a full legion in size and were the elite guard of the Dark Tower. None could stand against them. Bred for size, speed, and aggression, they were also the most intelligent of the Orcs of Mordor, mixing cunning and ferocity. They were trained in all the fighting arts and could easily stand against the best warriors of men or elves.
They were descended from the great Uruks of Gorgoroth who fought in the Battle of the Last Alliance at the very foot of Mount Doom where Sauron fell. Those that survived fled to the Ash Mountains and hid in the dark tunnels near the remnants of the oce great tower of Barad-dur to await the return of their master.
As the days grew dark again and the Nazgul arose once more, they were the first to come forth and aid in the rebuilding of the Dark Tower. When Sauron returned and took his seat atop Barad-dur, he rewarded the Black Uruks of Gorgoroth and named them the Legion of Terror, the Black Uruks of Barad-dur.
Sauron bent his will upon them and elevated them from ordinary Orcs to the greatest fighting force that Mordor had ever known. Under the direct control of the Mouth of Sauron, it is said that even the Nazgul who hated all living things granted them a grudgin respect.
Under the will of Sauron they were bred to be huge in size, yet agile in movement and they were taught many of the Dark Arts of the enemy, with evil spells of Morgul to use in battle. The Uruk-hai of Saruman, though powerful in their own right, were but a shadow compared to the mighty Uruks of Barad-dur. It is said that deep in the Pits of the Dark Tower that Sauron bred these Orcs with the Wargs of the Black Land, giving his elite guard the sharpened senses and agility of the wolf, combined with the ferocity of the Uruks of Mordor. This pleased the Dark Lord immensely, for in times past he was able himself to take the shape of a great black wolf when it was his desire.
Clad in thick black armor that was etched in red with Morgul Spells and fitted with black leather from the hide of Mumakil, the Legion of Terror had the finest armor to be found in the Land of Shadow except that of the Nazgul themselves. In the center of the Dark Cuirass that covered their mighty chests was fastened a red orb that carried a liknes of the Dark Eye of Sauron and now the Dark Hand of Alcorad. It's rumored that much like the seeing stones, these Dark Orbs allowed the Dark Lord to see his Legion in battle. Upon their helms, like all the Uruks of Mordor, was etched likeness of Alcorad's hand as it had once been the likeness of Sauron's eye. The Black Uruks also had two horn tips, cut from a giant Mumak, that each Uruk of Barad-dur had to bring down and kill as part of the ritual rite in becoming a Black Uruk in the Legion of Terror.
The Uruks of Barad-dur carried a knife, scimitar and bow, however their most deadly weapon was a black flail whose head was shaped in the likeness of the Dark Hand of Alcorad surrounded in flames and shadow as it once had been Sauron's eye. It has been written that in the heat of battle it glowed red and a great fear fell on those who tried to stand against these great warriors.
The Mouth of Sauron often sent them down to the Plain of Gorgoroth to fight among the clans of orcs to sharpen their skills. Often they were outnumbered ten to one, however they never once experienced defeat.
This great force was to be the last defense if the war turned against Sauron and as it was Alcorad. They were stationed at the Gate of Adamant, the entrance to the Dark Tower. The Legion of Terror would never have suffered an enemy of their Master to cross the Iron Bridge that spanned the gulf around the Dark Tower. If Barad-dur had not fallen when the Ring was destroyed it's doubtful that the forces of the West would ever have had the strength to defeat them. It is said that when Sauron realized his folly and saw that the One Ring was at the very edge of the fires of Orodruin, he called out to the Nazgul in his greatest need and also sent forth the Legion of Terror on the Road to Mount Doom to try and save the Ring if they could. It was because of this that during the downfall of Barad-dur, the Legion of Terror survived and retreated into the dark crevices of the mountains. They reared up once more at the coming of Alcorad and the third uprising of Barad-dur to once again serve Mordor.
Bonuses:
Shelob-
A creature of spider-shape, of the spawn of Ungoliant, who dwelt in the mountains on the western borders of Mordor.
Nine Fell Beasts-
The Fell Beasts are huge, larger than any bird, and their wingspans are great. Their wings are made of hide stretched between bones like horned fingers and they have no feathers. They have beaks and long necks. The Fell Beasts smell foul and they shriek.
