The season was cold and damp but not so , the incredibly fluid warfare between the Isengard and Rohan factions , as the rohan main force stormed into the town of Duneard which was the provincial capital of Dunland , as the horselords hoped to flush out the dunlending threat in the northwest of isengards terrority. The town of Duneard was held by some of the dunlending veterans , but against the full weight of the one of the two complete army groups which ravaged the northwestern lands there was little hope , but they resisted the best they could, making good against overwhelming odds as the roharrim axemen forced the gate , and hammering the wildmen into submission. The town being captured the roharrim held a slight celebration whilst they considered what to do next....
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Saruman rubbed his lengthy wizardly beard , considering his options of the current struggle of Rohan and Isengard . The Horselords had thrown the majority of their weight against Orthanc and pursued his personal army into dunland , in the northwest of rohan lands, whilst two of his battlegroups had been sent out around the edge of rohan lands, striking at the southwest and northeast of Rohan, receiving some successes as they broke the weakly held garrison towns on the edge of the conflict. In the southwest , one of these battlegroups had headed eastwards , nearing the currently empty fortress of the Hornburg , causing Erkenbrand's battlegroup, to stop trying to meet up with the main forces of the king in dunland , and sending it rapidly heading southeast-wards, to resist isengards new attacks.
Whilst in the east , the other group had taken the town of Entwade on the Entwash, heading south nearing the barely defended capital of Rohan , Edoras, causing a flurry of activity , from a cavalry force [which had probably taken fangorn outpost] of two squadrons and another scratch battlegroup, rapidly heading southeast to confront it and block it from taking the rohan capital . Everything seemed to be in flux, Saruman of many colour's mused, and looked at the palantir that stood packed away in the camp , wondering if he dared take another gaze at it , as his mind seemed a lot clearer since he had stopped his exploration of the lands from it.
{Rohan v Isengard map - rohan moves{green} Isengard moves{black} }
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Meanwhile Saruman sent a small force of uruks lead by Maudush to confront roharrim riders, who had rode ahead of one of the rohan main army groups which had taken Duneard , and in the forest of Dunland, it was not sure who ambushed who , but it was clear , after a full hour of fighting in the closely packed trees where the uruks and wildmen had a advantage , that the vanguard of the roharrim force had been blunted and been sent reeling back with more than a few empty horses amongst them.
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In the county of Westmarch , one of the flanking uruk and dunlending army groups took the town of Adorn by surprise, in the dark , having a snaga slip over the thinly defended wooden walls and releasing the catch keeping the gate closed. The clang -clang of the alarm bell rang out in the night calling the militia to arms , but the swarm of wildmen in there righteous fury and the bitter hate of the uruks , pushed them ever faster and faster into the town , and the sounds of the settlement was filled with shouts of pain and alarm , with the many sounds of weapons clashing in the dark , with the odd thatch cottage being set alight. After a hour or so , the clang of the bell ringing out the alarm , ceased , never to ring again , as the boot of a uruk crushed it underfoot..
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