Yes! Heads of dwarves clans just loves the idea of meeting in small fortress on suburbia, while bigger and better protected stronghold is near. :x
Simply continue if you wish, really don't have intention to say any more word about this. After all, I am not main creator of this idea.
Yes, during War of the Ring they were in GREAT war with themselves. But little war on borders never stopped.
... Are you trolling me? I am not kidding.
So don't tell me about siege of Erebor or Dale or Esgaroth.
And really, what did I tell you about Dale or Esgaroth or Erebor?
I just wrote Lore facts about why I think you preposition is bad and anti logical!
And there was propably more cities and villages, to take mercenaries from.
I hope, that you don't think that at south and east of this three settlments, Tolkien's world was just empty?
Are you telling us that your idea about mercenaries is based on this? And you find "security" reasons like main obstacle in this idea for IRON HILLS outpost building... No comment.
P.S. Maybe this human mercenaries could have Harradrim horse riders model.
And remember that Dale was known mostly of it's trade. If you think, that was only trade between Erebor, Dale, Elven kingdom of Mirkwood and Esgaroth, your'e wrong. There's has to be more settlements!
What indicate that I think Dale is only trade center? When did I write this? And please don't presume what I think.
Settlements? That problem is not part of this topic! This is topic about main Outpost, what about settlements?Start new topic about number of avaliable settlements...
Give preposition/reasons/lore, or without that idea means nothing.
Edit.
Oh, and if we are strictly into LotR games, there was siege od Erebor in original battle for middle earth campaing. It was during WotR, but still.
I was thinking about Edain Team not EA.
Simply team reaspects Lore above almost everyting. If you don't trust me PM them.
And yes, we are speaking here about WotR timeline.
That is Lore fact, pal. You need something similar from Lore so you can properly defend your idea. I simply can't find anything in Lore about your idea, because of that I think it is bad.
P.S. Again, I think you simply didn't try to read carefully topic from start and you simply don't have intention to understand idea. That is my opinion. Anyway, have you complete idea about new Outpost you propose? Look of Outpost, expansions, properties, and above all lore facts about your preposition. You express your opinion about our idea, can you be detailed with your idea so we can give you some proper feedback? I really don't have intention to read some elementary ideas and write huge texts like answers on them.