Minas Tirith: Zombie Survival

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Minas Tirith has to survive 5 waves of zombies each with ten times the last number of zombies, starting with 1000 zombies. They will be the Agile Runner type of zombies. They will start 100 miles from the citadel. Any defendable areas within the distance will be guarded with 150 soldiers.

There are 5000 soldiers in the citadel, as well as Aragon and his Elf-wife, although the Elf-wife probably will have no effect on the battle. There is however many civilians in the place as there was in canon. It will be the movie Minas Tirith, and have all the defenses that they would had.

What happens?

They survive the first four waves but the fifth wave of 10 million overruns them. Everyone gets their brains eaten.

It's all a matter of Levels. You only defend levels 1, 3, 5 and 7 (The Citadel). The abandoned levels will cause confusion among the zombies and act as firebreaks. Once they over-run a level and find an empty one, they will initially think that is all there is the party is over. Eventually enough will meander aimlessly over to the next inhabited level, but not before they have experienced a psychological effect known as False Party-is-Over Syndrome, leaving them unmotivated and suspicious of the zombie management.

And Gates. You fill in the gates with rubble and rocks, leaving only one small opening... just large enough for a zombie to poke his head through. But don't use every rock. Leave one rock loose and handy.

Lastly I would use a Deception and Misinformation Campaign. I would put travel posters up on all the walls and buildings, but cleverly have crossed out the original location names and instead written 'Mordor' on them. All over the Pelennor I would put up direction signs on poles with "That way to Mordor", etc on them.