The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
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Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#2Next up: How Gondor won despite a complete lack of air support (see: winged wraiths) and superior enemy armor (see: Mumakil).
Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#3Next up: How Gondor won despite a complete lack of air support (see: winged wraiths) and superior enemy armor (see: Mumakil).
There's a lot of military SF (and, I guess, fantasy that I've never read as much of) that wants to mostly restrict the action to ground forces. The result is that they have to either just ignore the decisive power of air support or just come up with hand-wavy explanations for why air powerisn't effective in the hypothetical scenario.
Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#4Next up: How Gondor won despite a complete lack of air support (see: winged wraiths) and superior enemy armor (see: Mumakil).
There's a lot of military SF (and, I guess, fantasy that I've never read as much of) that wants to mostly restrict the action to ground forces. The result is that they have to either just ignore the decisive power of air support or just come up with hand-wavy explanations for why air powerisn't effective in the hypothetical scenario.
Sounds a bit like things rendering Enterprise's transporters inoperative just when beaming up the away-team would have been the easiest solution.
Oh, and to make it less obvious, you better announce a few minutes earlier that a plasma storm is forming in the upper atmosphere.
Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#5Next up: How Gondor won despite a complete lack of air support (see: winged wraiths) and superior enemy armor (see: Mumakil).
Flying wraiths lack firepower, so they provide no real air support. Just fast transportation/communication.
Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#6Next up: How Gondor won despite a complete lack of air support (see: winged wraiths) and superior enemy armor (see: Mumakil).
Flying wraiths lack firepower, so they provide no real air support. Just fast transportation/communication.
Strafing runs in WW2 were almost completely ineffective but all infantry were reporting huge morale loss when they were happening.
Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#7Jut in case anyone doesn't do the date-math/scroll down past the comments, all 5 of the following blog posts are finished and linked to half way through the comments (ctrl+f: pingback).
Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#8Next up: How Gondor won despite a complete lack of air support (see: winged wraiths) and superior enemy armor (see: Mumakil).
Flying wraiths lack firepower, so they provide no real air support. Just fast transportation/communication.
The film does show them mowing down soldiers with their claws and inspiring terror in others: https://youtu.be/HX4KKkSKZAY?t=197
Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#9Jut in case anyone doesn't do the date-math/scroll down past the comments, all 5 of the following blog posts are finished and linked to half way through the comments (ctrl+f: pingback).
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Re: The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
#10It seems the author also missed the fact orcs are perfectly alright with cannibalism, which further alleviates the supply problem, perhaps even to the point of not requiring the supplies at all (a few thousand orcs eaten along the way wont make much difference). I doubt this has much precedent in history.