Pelennor Fields: Battlefield survey

Middle-earth fieldScene: Pelennor_Fields1

The great plain before the White City, here a 600-metre square of fields cut by walls, bridges and platforms, with trebuchets and supply carts standing in the open. The flattest of the Middle-earth maps: about 30 metres between its lowest and highest ground.

On the field

  • Stone walls, bridges and wooden platforms
  • Trebuchets and supply carts on the field
Night survey of Pelennor Fields: gold contour lines on dark ground, with water in blue.
Alliance baseYour campTheir camp52 spawn pointsShadow baseTheir campYour camp48 spawn pointsABC

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Under the lampMove the lamp to read the ground.Tap the survey to read the ground.

The field report: Surveyed figures

Survey frame
600 m square
Height of land
−6.1 to 23.8 m
Spawn points
Alliance 52 · Shadow 48
Base to base
384 m · ≈ 65 s at a run
In the module since
1.0.1.1 · Read the dispatch

From each base to each flag

Straight-line distance and running time; the shorter walk is marked.
FlagAllianceShadowCloser
A277 m≈ 46 s264 m≈ 44 sShadow by 13 m
B209 m≈ 35 s175 m≈ 29 sShadow by 33 m
C306 m≈ 51 s298 m≈ 50 seven

Running times at 6 m/s, the pace measured on ValleyBattle: 318 m in 53 s. Real paths bend around walls, water and woods.

The line of march

3 m10 m0100200300mHigh point 10 mC233 m off the lineA190 m off the lineB3 m10 m0100200300mHigh point 10 mBA190 m off the lineC233 m off the line
Alliance baseShadow baseShadow baseAlliance baseThe ground under the straight line from one base to the other, heights to scale against each other (vertical scale ×2.8).

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