Inheritance Cycle Battles Tactical Analysis Part 3 - The Battle of the Burning Plains

[kris_norge]

Battle walkthrough

This battle occurs at the end of the second book and pits the Varden with their Surdan allies, a tribe of Urgals, and the dwarves against the empire's bloated army. Now before I begin the battle itself, I must go to where they find out about the coming army. Apparently Orrin's men misplaced the Empire's army. They thought it was

Comments

[anonymous]

The Varden has basically the worst strategy possible. Open battle is when outnumbered forces lose, especially when they are made up of four different groups with different commanders, many of whom lack the experience and training of the professional officers in the enemy army. The rebels probably lack the training, weapons, and discipline of the professional army. Assuming many of the Empire soldiers are in fact professional, the Varden should have a ridiculous disadvantage. Professional armies were revolutionary in warfare. They had more discipline, more training, and better commanders

[anonymous]

I'd imagine the imperial magicians are protecting the soldiers from suffocating, though the Twins should've shown up earlier with Murtagh providing death from above. Also, I would have ships in the river to box the Varden in and prevent any reinforcements from coming.

-Dragonturtle Monk

[kris_norge]

Boy. . . If you had to read this in paragraph chunks, wait till you read the asinine battle of Aroughs. You won't be able to get past one sentence. just be careful not to break your computer :)

[kris_norge]

It's got to be the worst of the lot.

[darth_gojira]

Yeah, the numbers are ridiculous. Reminds me of the Bible where you have millions of men dying in the span of a few battles in an area that only supports 100,000

[immortal_drayk]

Actually, at least the Orcs had Wargs to ride. Or maybe that was the Harad or Uruk'hai, I can't remember exactly.