So no matter what, the Zul'Aman trolls had to do everything they could to capture Farstriders Camp, freeing every force that would march north to attack Silvermoon City from any worries about its rear.
Without taking Farstriders Camp, the Zul'Aman trolls would never dare march east or north unchecked, because doing so would leave all their attacking armies constantly exposed to danger.
But why hadn't the orcs stopped in front of Farstriders Camp to help the Zul'Aman trolls capture it first? Why had they bypassed Farstriders Camp and marched west instead?
Weren't they afraid of having their Supply Route cut off? Were these orcs really so confident that their two cavalry legions alone could take Silvermoon City?
The orcs' behavior made little sense. After dealing with them for so long, Alleria knew them too well to believe they would be that arrogant, much less that foolish.
On the contrary, Alleria thought the orcs might be somewhat arrogant, but they were certainly not a stupid race. She considered the senior commanders in their armies particularly cunning and intelligent, and they learned very quickly in war.
After every battle, whenever the orcs suffered a setback, their senior commanders always came up with remarkably clever countermeasures in short order.
For example, in the fighting against Proudmoore, the orcs had learned from their lack of ranged firepower during the First War against the Alliance at Loch Danmor. To suppress the Alliance's ranged attacks, they had quickly mastered the Iron Shield Fortress Square Formation most commonly used by human heavy infantry legions.
The Iron Shield Fortress Square Formation had originally been nothing more than a defensive formation for human heavy infantry legions, yet these orcs had managed to turn it into an offensive formation on the battlefield.
More importantly, this formation had indeed shut down