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Oct 12, 2026
Rob DaviauGUEST
I kind of need him back here." Um, so you can have some between them, and there are cards that will let you activate units on multiple battlefields, right? So you can sort of have a combined attack.
Rob DaviauGUEST
But the big thing is that, uh, in the Great Port, there are sort of the heavier troops, the Haradrim and the Corsairs, who are much better than orcs.
Rob DaviauGUEST
And evil is trying to remove them to the docks and get them into Minas Tirith or Pelennor Fields to help.
Rob DaviauGUEST
And, uh, the free people, Aragorn, Legolas, or Gimli, are trying to kill them to prevent them from doing that because once they've wiped that board clean, they can come over to either battlefield they want.
Rob DaviauGUEST
You disappeared for a sec.
Rob DaviauGUEST
Um, uh, that if all three of those heroes come over in full strength, uh, shadow forces are probably not winning a military victory.
Rob DaviauGUEST
But if one or two are wounded, then there's something to talk about, and if the free people aren't playing any cards over there and they just let all the Corsairs and Haradrim go over and support either Pelennor Fields or Minas Tirith, it's gonna be real tough for the good guys to be winning over there.
Rob DaviauGUEST
So you're sort of influencing in different ways.
Matthias AustinHOST
And we talked about Saruman's human allies, the Dunlendings, and their history.
Matthias AustinHOST
And prior to all of that, we had answered a question sent in by Robin from Kent in England, who asked, "Who are the Haradrim, and why did they serve Sauron in the Third Age?" And so today, we're going to conclude this trilogy of the allies of evil and talk about the history of the Easterlings.
Matthias AustinHOST
Now, much like the Haradrim, but unlike the Dunlendings, who were related to the people of Haleth in the First Age, the Easterlings were descended from the men of Hildorian in the days following the rising of the sun that chose to worship Melkor when he came among them as a god.
Matthias AustinHOST
And we talked more in detail about that in our two-part episode about Melkor.
Matthias AustinHOST
So I'm not gonna go into a lot more detail other than to say that the people known as Easterlings were allied with the forces of evil pretty much right from the start of humanity.
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Matthias AustinHOST
Sauron used his influence over them to attack the west.
Matthias AustinHOST
In another part of Of Dwarves and Men, we read, "Sauron had acquired dominion over many savage tribes in the east, of old corrupted by Morgoth, and he now urged them to seek land and booty in the west." We also learn in the same section that this, along with the events in Eregion, disrupted the alliance of dwarves and men that had existed since the First Age in Rhovanion and the lands east of the Misty Mountains.
Matthias AustinHOST
And as we discussed in our episode on the Haradrim, one of Sauron's greatest tools was the Rings of Power.
XanthHOST
The one secret I was curious if you guys have done yet.
XanthHOST
Have you done the secret Haradrim fight?
NerdwordsHOST
uh no not yet my list yeah
XanthHOST
and how if we if we are talking about complex setups how do you figure this one out
RobertHOST
A small change, but an important one if their ruse were to work.
RobertHOST
Once they had reached the Black Gate and dealt with the Mouth of Sauron, Aragorn's army found itself arrayed against Sauron's hordes of orcs, trolls and mannish allies such as the Easterlings and Haradrim.
RobertHOST
An exact count is not given of the number of Sauron's forces, and though they numbered in the tens of thousands at least, the army of the West was hugely outnumbered.
RobertHOST
It's a testament to the faith Aragorn had in Imrahil that he was placed with his troops where the fighting was likely to be fiercest.
NateHOST
Like they, they're in the South.
NateHOST
So the population that was once like mostly Numenorean slowly becomes a mix of probably like Haradrim and Numenorean.
NateHOST
And they wind up not being as long lived as the people in the North, but they, They still are reasonably high-tech, still pretty good sailors, and they're a force to be reckoned with, and they hate these faithful.
NateHOST
They don't like Elendil and his sons.
CrudeHOST
We can give them that.
CrudeHOST
And we can give that somebody who works, who's part of the Haradrim has some type of whatever longevity.
CrudeHOST
But let's just say at a conservative estimate, let's say that he's 60 during the events of D2.
CrudeHOST
He's an older guy, white hair.
TylerHOST
Sorry, they're halberds.
TylerHOST
Um, then he has second hero, he has the Golden King, um, with some fatty boys, Abhorgen Merchant Guard, few, uh, spears, and three Haradrim Raiders with bow and war spear, 'cause you can take both, which I think is awesome.
TylerHOST
Give him a cav unit, and then he has the Great Beast of Gorgoroth, uh, with some looks like couple orcs, couple Morannuns just sprinkled in for flavor.
TylerHOST
But 40 models, so not terrible model count, and I like it 'cause it, he has different...
David DiazGUEST
And if you ignore the War Beast, it's also gonna kill you.
TylerHOST
So yeah, I like it 'cause it ha- it essentially is two scalpels with the other two heroes.
TylerHOST
It has a hammer with the Great Beast, and it has a fantastic anvil with the mix of, you know, Easterlings, Haradrim, and, uh, Morannuns.
TylerHOST
So I think it'll do good.
Matthias AustinHOST
James asked about the human allies of Sauron and Sauron, and you've only been talking about the allies of Sauron.
Matthias AustinHOST
What about Sauron's allies? Now, in fairness, we did have an entire episode on the Haradrim and how they worshipped Sauron as a god, how they became intertwined with first the Black Numenoreans in the Second Age and later with the Corsairs of Umbar, enemies of Gondor in the Third Age.
Matthias AustinHOST
But what about the Easterlings, or the Variogs of Cond? Well, for that, you're going to need to come back next week.
Matthias AustinHOST
That's right, this has only been part one in my answer to James' question.
JohnHOST
Uh, like you said, Rena, we've got four from Dream Tracer.
JohnHOST
We got four from Haradrim, which is cool.
JohnHOST
We've only got three.
JohnHOST
We only have the one from Ered Mithran? Yeah.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
What is itself a kind of alliance? Because obviously Sauron's got the orcs, his kind of trained servants.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
He's got the Haradrim, who are a kind of eastern caliphate.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
He's got the Corsairs of Umbar, who are this kind of mercenary sea-bound army.
D.J. TaylorGUEST
Mordor-Warsaw pact.
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