{"id":1264,"date":"2002-12-19T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2002-12-19T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-20T02:55:00","slug":"orc-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/12\/19\/22\/55\/orc-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Orc Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So having seen the new Two Towers Tolkien movie, I have to sympathise with the Orcs. They have all the coolest technology: crossbows, gunpowder, siege engines, metallurgy, remote surveillance, and airborne units. They use all the best tactics: defensive formations, scouts, flanking, diversions. And above all else they have a huge advantage in numbers. Against this Tolkien&#8217;s Whitefolk of the West seem to possess only badly made longbows and swords, virtually no military discipline, zero intelligence of their enemy&#8217;s numbers or deployment, and incredibly bad perms. And yet the Orcs keep losing. If I was them I&#8217;d get new leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So having seen the new Two Towers Tolkien movie, I have to sympathise with the Orcs. They have all the coolest technology: crossbows, gunpowder, siege engines, metallurgy, remote surveillance, and airborne units. They use&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}