*Chokes on iced tea she was drinking when she read the line: "Pio, do you want to give this discussion till tomorrow afternoon, and then take a stab at summing up the ideas you think will work best. Logistics isn't my strong point!" - and is now wiping it off the monitor!
I'll look at it more closely tonight - when la famille is bedded down.
*shakes her head and laughs
Logistics and me! I don't believe we've been used in the same sentence before - or even in the same paragraph!
One point: Mith says -
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Having not found the dragon, our Dark friend would send out a few more, probably not enough to contest 20 Elven ships. Maybe they are seen going in and a greater force meets them coming out. Maybe all but the foremost are outrun.
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I has not thought about sailing back out from the caves to the bay. It seemed it would be hard enough to get the Teleri ships to the caves, so I had planned to time transport once we had secured the prisoners immediately to approximately one year later in time.
I am not too familiar with sailing a ship - but once we have them up the river, how are we to turn 20 of them around and sail back out?
Another idea - I was toying with the idea of Tuor and Idril coming along as a surprise with the 20 ships. What if Tuor has understood the tactical problems we might have and a couple of more heavily armed fighting ships come with him? (Where is that catamaran from the former story when we need it?)
[ September 21, 2002: Message edited by: piosenniel ]