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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GwydapLlew" data-source="post: 3356329" data-attributes="member: 40373">Molonel, the problem with your position is that anything posted contradicting the Eagle Debate is shot down by you without consideration. If someone mentions anti-air defenses (whether archers or catapults), you mention range - disregarding that the Eagles have to land to drop off their cargo.If somone mentions Sauron's air units, you state that they are limited in scopre and incapable of handling Eagles - disregarding that there are no hard numbers (that I can find) on the Giant Eagles, just as there are no hard numbers on the Fell Beasts.If someone mentions Sauron acting directly against an incoming Eagle, you state that the reaction time would be too slow - disregarding that we have almost no information on Sauron's powers in Mordor during the ending of the Third Age.I personally would have loved if there was a paragraph in the Council of Elrond detailing the reason why the Eagles would not be used. There wasn't, but that doesn't meaning flying an Eagle into Mordor would automatically succeed. Assuming capabilities on the side of the PCs but not allowing the same on the side of the NPCs isn't a fair fight, and I know you know it.Effectively, LotR stinks as an RPG. It's 'railroady' (although I don't have a problem with that) and there's a lot of background fluff that the PCs never know that impact the game (although I don't have a problem with that) and there is an enormous disparity between PC levels (although I don't have a problem with that). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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