USH'S LORD OF THE RINGS GAME PART 4- The Hunt in the Hills

It's never going to support a long trek through the hills. The horse option would appear to be non-existent.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Actually, I Cherdir o Levain is bloody handy for this job...

(A Ranger would have been the best of course)

Oooh. Well that could be quite handy then!

Sure a Ranger would be best, but an Animist isn't bad...😄

Well, Kitty boosts the handy skills, for sure.

Talin hates horses anyway. They are too tall.

In any case, it means we will have to do the scouting job on foot aside from of those of us with horses.

Maybe some combination of foot scouting and horses?
Ride horses to a base camp of sorts, and then fan out and do foot-based scouting from the camp?

Ellothiel, you'd object to even trying anything with these horses. You'd cause them great pain.

This is no way to run a war, Menelacar!

Alright, well first order of business then is diplomacy for new horses!

We're not using these horses, there's no way.

Why do they only have horses that are not trained for military use and unsuited for such things anyway? That can't be all they have left...

A fair question!

Well they arn't exactly supportive of this scouting mission right? So we were probably given the crappy horses.

Ah, so speaks the wisdom of the Noldor!

Yes, there is a lot of political opposition to Farael's leadership- and not many believe him. He could be on the receiving end of a deliberately poor supply.

Menelacar will approach Lord Farael. "My Lord, is there no way we can acquire better horses for the party? These animals are under fed, untrained, and to be frank would be a hindrance."

Farael, in a green tent by the hills' edge, is with a council of some of his senior knights, discussing their next move, but Farael is as ever informal and does not mind visitors- especially a man of some note like Menelacar.

Farael says the supply situation is a disaster all over. The decent supplies are all going to Lord Morsire's Northern army. True, the greater need is there, but this is far beyond that; Farael's enemies must be shutting him out. They want him to fail.

"But it could take weeks just to get fresh horses, let alone solve the other problems," he says.

"well as it stands, without proper horses or supplies, then this expedition is pretty doomed anyhow. Is there any way we can send a smaller advance properly resourced scouting party whilst the rest get properly equipped?"

Can I go address the court to ask for better horses?

Other than 'no' (obviously horses have been asked for, and you have no political power to change the subsequent decision), the time involved does not change from what Farael said.

"I need many, many scouting parties," says Farael. "One would be useless. I'll be asking for volunteers to do the work on foot."

So I guess we are going to have to obtain horses in the field. Take them from Orcs, if they have them or whatnot.
Yay Scavanging!

There are no horses in the hills- and you certainly wouldn't want to try riding what an Orc does, as it would try to eat you.

Well then, I guess we're boned.
And probably going to go as one Player-based scouting group.

Doesn't that work out amazingly well?