choose 3 x-men to defend helms deep

Melee fighters arent going to cut it guys. There are thousands of orcs, I'm sure Wolverine/Colossus could kill all of them eventually, but he aint going to stop them all from invading Helms Deep.

Energy projection is the only way... I mean you could take out hundreds, and maybe thousands (pyro's flame) at a time with energy blasts since they are all crowded together, its a no-brainer.

Originally posted by Placidity
Melee fighters arent going to cut it guys. There are thousands of orcs, I'm sure Wolverine/Colossus could kill all of them eventually, but he aint going to stop them all from invading Helms Deep.

Energy projection is the only way... I mean you could take out hundreds, and maybe thousands (pyro's flame) at a time with energy blasts since they are all crowded together, its a no-brainer.

But human flesh don't stop an arrow to enter your skull. And doesn't prevent the monstrous number of invaders at the door.

Cyclops and Havok stall while Nightcrawler retrieves Sauron to use as a hostage. Cake walk.

...the Uruk-Hai DO care about Sauron right??

sauron is just an eye..how could u use that as a hostage??

Gambit doesn't really need arrows to be pretty damn effective. Sand, rocks etc all work fine. Pouring oil and setting it ablaze to form a moat of sorts should be the first thing the three do, with Havok and Gambit killing orcs at range. Both have pretty good reflexes, especially the latter, so I don't expect an arrow to hit them easily. Colossus simply acts as a physical barrier to prevent them from breaching the main door.

I assume this is the movie version of the battle. The book version was nowhere as fleshed out, and I suspect the scale was smaller.

I'm going to go with Pyro, for the flame manipulation, and Colossus and Gambit. Colossus will find large objects, Gambit will charge them up, then they nuke the whole place to oblivion.

Definitely Cyclops and Havok for the reasons stated above. For the third one, Pyro.

You have to remember, the uruk hai were firing very few arrows, and I really don't think stray arrows and falling debris would be such a problem given the fact that the enemy forces would be annihilated in a matter of minutes...

Wolverine, Collosus and Cyke. I was gonna go for Pyro but he could get killed by a stray arrow or something, hes just physically not that tough if he gets killed its a liability for the other two.

Colossus to hold the Gate.

Cyclops or Havok on the Wall

Wolverine would be thrown into Sarumans army to kill as fast as possible.

All energy users would have some safety behind the walls. Plus, these orcs aren't exactly marksmen. There all pretty much cannon fodder. So Chances of getting hit arent that big, especially if you relocate after every few blasts.

I like to see night crawler and wolverine the battle the most, but there not the most effective.

havok, cyclopes and gambit would be more effective

Havok, Pyro/Colossus and Pyslocke/Gambit

To win without any trouble the Havok Pyro & Colossus

To make it fun I would pick Wolverine,Beast & X-23

Originally posted by Battlehammer
I like to see night crawler and wolverine the battle the most, but there not the most effective.

havok, cyclopes and gambit would be more effective

Good point, since time is not one their side, I'd pick Havok over Wolverine.

- Cyclops on ladder duty
- Havok on the bridge entance
- Colossus near the water entrance

Originally posted by psycho gundam
-wolverine obviously
-colossus obviously
-gambit, coupled with legolas's seemingly infinite supply of arrows...
air-raid any one 😉

Correct.

Colossus, Havok & Wolverine.

Originally posted by Placidity
All energy users would have some safety behind the walls. Plus, these orcs aren't exactly marksmen. There all pretty much cannon fodder. So Chances of getting hit arent that big, especially if you relocate after every few blasts.

...but there are 10,000 Uruk-hai as i recall from the movie. I dont think it'd be that easy to dodge arrows like that.

also, do the x-men get the human and elf forces that lego, ara and gimli had in the movie? if so, you can solve the pyro problem by sticking a few guard on him.

Originally posted by [EC] Icarus II
...but there are 10,000 Uruk-hai as i recall from the movie. I dont think it'd be that easy to dodge arrows like that.

also, do the x-men get the human and elf forces that lego, ara and gimli had in the movie? if so, you can solve the pyro problem by sticking a few guard on him.

Out of them I didn't see even one fifth being archers so...I doubt there were more than 1000 archers max.

Either way, with his visor off, cyke would destroy any arrow coming his way, same for havok with his blasts...

Pyro doesn't need to see what he's doing directly afaik so he could chill behind some wall.

Havok, Cyclops, and Psylocke.

Havok and Cyclops pick off the Urukai while Psylocke redirects every arrow the Urukai fire at them. Then relieves the Uruks of their weapons and uses them against the Urukai.