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How would you defend Helm's Deep until Gandalf The White arrives with help?

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Bonus points if you have less casualties on your side.

Bonus points if you can win the battle without Gandalf's help.

You have a very limited time to prepare for battle. I believe there were a few days to prepare. Use whatever resources you have with you.
 
I'd cover the earth around Helm's Deep in paste, so whenever they step close to it, their feet are caught in paste and they can't go anywhere. Also the paste has oil mixed into it, so then you set those fuckers on fire.

It'll smell bad but oh well.
 
Helms Deep is surrounded by an unusually steep mountainous bottle-neck sort of valley.

Wait for the Orcs to turn up in numbers, and then initiate an artificial landslide, killing many, and trapping whatever is left.
 
assuming you start with the same conditions that the Rohirrim in the movie had, there's not much else you can do but what they did. Fight hard and hope.

The Uruk-Hai had much larger numbers, better equipment, and explosives. It's kind of impressive the Rohirrim at Helm's Deep lasted as long as they did.

Plug up that stupid water gate hole.
They plugged it with stone in the books, didn't help much.
 
Building a moat would help a bit I'm sure
 
Wall spikes and drain closure. Dig some kind of moat if possible. Archers, archers, archers. They can be all Crecy-like and shit on the arrowheads to promote death and disease among the enemy.
 
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Shitton of traps starting at least two miles away from the wall. Pull a braveheart and douse the field with oil, then light it with flaming arrow, though the rain might ruin that idea.

If there are no rules then a Davy Crockett.
 
Send the hero units to the front of Helms Deep, and have them occupy the enemy forces by their lonesome. Bonus points if Legolas and Gimli have a Hobbit trilogy stile power up for hero elves and dwarves. Seriously, this hero unit shit was ridiculous in the Hobbit trilogy.
 
Get Erkenbrand, the guy from the book. And Huorns, also from the book.

Also, attack earlier from more than one side. Thats the best strategy against an enemy bigger in numbers.
 
Dig trenches outside the walls. The enemy pretty much had an easy walk to the walls. It's really odd that the walls did not have any sort of dry moat as this was a very standard feature.

Demolish the stone bridge. Why let them have a bridge in are they worried about the real estate value or something. Stones from the bridge could be tossed from the walls.
 
Tesla coils. A LOT of em. 3 or 4 rows of Tesla Coils

That's how I won command and conquer games in the past.

Tesla coil everything. God I love tesla coils.
 
Did the Orcs have cavalry? If not, keep your horse behind and give them to the Elvish help since they are better archers. While the Orcs march assault them over and over again from the side, keeping out of their range while thinning the numbers before they reach the castle.

When they are there, keep attacking and retreating over and over since you have the speed advantage, while you have the men in the castle holding the wall.
 
shoot fire arrows at the explosives before they reached the wall

Yep, this is the one. Keep Legolas on scouting duty for the spiky balls, then nail every one with fire arrows, fire bottles, Molotovs, torches, matches, flint and tinder, that guy with a little too much static build up, birthday cakes--anything that burns really. Repeat until no spiky balls remain. Then standard siege protocols. Should hold til morning.
 
Why did noone invite the orc army in for a nice cup of tea and some biscuits. Maybe chatting about their differences would have made them realise that they arent so different after all. Why all the need for all that violence over a stupid piece of tiny jewellery. I mean, the lettering on it is cool and I especially love the fire trigger for it but come on folks, he made one ring, maybe he could make one million and everyone could have 1.
 
Why did noone invite the orc army in for a nice cup of tea and some biscuits. Maybe chatting about their differences would have made them realise that they arent so different after all. Why all the need for all that violence over a stupid piece of tiny jewellery. I mean, the lettering on it is cool and I especially love the fire trigger for it but come on folks, he made one ring, maybe he could make one million and everyone could have 1.
They should have had the eagles drop leaflets into Mordor and then march naked towards Mount doom.
 
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